Sooo his wife is accomplished? Aside from the dean job there’s nothing wrong here
OMG you’ve got him!
What magazine was this published in?
Some posts in Private Eye bang but really nothing in this.
It’s objectively pretty common for universities to award positions to non-Fellows in certain instances eg William Hague just became Chancellor of Oxford University. And generally I’d say they are better for it – having met a number of ‘pure’ academics in my time, you often learn more from life.
Seems like filler content
I hope Sadiq sees this one mate
Source?
I understand it’s not uncommon for solicitor and barristers to teach at university without a PhD. I don’t see that as a big deal.
What seems at the very least questionable bad form is that the associate dean job was published on a Friday with Sunday as the closing date.
Love all the people here playing this down because it’s Khan. I’m a leftie, voted labour all my life, but if we can’t hold people accountable for shady behaviour on both sides of the aisle then we are failing as a nation.
This is Private Eye people, not some tabloid rag carrying out a hit piece for the Tories. If this was a conservative politician, the same people commenting “no big deal” here would be outraged and rightly so.
Another ‘WhEn wIlL tHiS mOsLem BrOwN KaNT FaK OrFf , HoW Is HE MaYoR, StAbBings gOnE Up CuZ oV ‘im’ type article.
What’s the issue here? He married an accomplished woman, no issues there
Isn’t UEL a place where you can buy your degree like sausage roll in greggs?
I wonder who is using who. UEL for a bit of prestige and access or Ahmad for a bit of academic gravitas. I suspect it’s a bit of both.
The reason no one is bothered is because UEL is a crap university and if that’s the most corruption they can manage well… Good luck to em. I’m personally expecting tenure just for saying crap not shit.
So she was hired to lead the “legal advice centre” but probably needed to be a teacher at the school to get that job, so they gave her probably the lowest level teaching title and no classes. That’s actually pretty common… she was hired to lead the legal advice centre, and that’s what she was there to do, but there’s some sort of rule that the centre needs to be run by someone who is a teacher there. Very common for this to happen.
A year later, she got a promotion, to run the legal careers program. Okay, and?
Two years after that, she was made an associate dean, and her basically honorary teaching title was promoted to a better teaching title, to go along with being a dean.
Also, a really basic Google search shows that UEL has a number of Associate Deans.
And I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the University of East London is getting more out of this deal than she is.
Wow! What a meteoric career!
If you ever worked in higher education, you’d know how many bs positions and honours are actually made up and meaningless, especially from less prestigious universities like UEL
Another day another bit of cronyism in British politics.
“Jobs for the *girls*”
For those that can see beyond their political bias, this is blatant corruption. It’s the political elite using their power to denigrate the academic system and indulge their influence even further. It’s abuse of power.
Isn’t UEL shite?
Cue Mr Khan’s inexhaustible army of devotees and defenders from Reddit telling you ‘nothing to see here’.
I guess this is a very law-ranked university that nobody cares about so they are profiting from the connection. With the lack of experience she’s probably doesn’t do much and people tell her what to think, say and do — she feels like an important person and UEL feels like an important place. Of course, this makes both the uni and her look like they are desperate for some attention and recognition. I don’t know anything about her but maybe her job was very basic and unbecoming a mayor’s wife so they needed to find something more meaningful for her to do. It’s all of course your basic corruption and nepotism but it’s also kinda really sad and cringy. I imagine that UEL is mostly run by competent people who are more aware of how unprepared she is for the role than us, and she knows she got there just because she’s the mayor’s wife, so it’s probably a very cringe vibe all of the time. I once worked with someone who was there just because of nepotism. We all knew it, they knew it but they were still egomaniacs and wanted to be there. However, the connection of enough insight to know you’re there just because of nepotism in combination with narcassism to still want to be there wrack havoc on people’s mental health. Edit: I guess that’s why a lot of rich people who got positions purely through nepotism and corruption need to be assholes to protext their sense of self. Because if they face reality they also have to face how lame and unskilled they are and how everyone knows it.
UEL traditionally bottom ranked (Shiksha), but foreign student revenue up £20m last year and same in the year before that. Go figure.
What it fails to mention is that prior to this she’s been a solicitor’s for 20 years specialising in criminal defence law. So her wealth of experience probably qualifies her to be a director or deal at UEL. Which isn’t uncommon to have people without PHDs to be on the board. I even had lecturers who didn’t do degrees, mind blowing I know but the guy had 40+ years in Oil and Gas. Think they are qualified enough to lecture on deep water pressure systems.
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Sooo his wife is accomplished? Aside from the dean job there’s nothing wrong here
OMG you’ve got him!
What magazine was this published in?
Some posts in Private Eye bang but really nothing in this.
It’s objectively pretty common for universities to award positions to non-Fellows in certain instances eg William Hague just became Chancellor of Oxford University. And generally I’d say they are better for it – having met a number of ‘pure’ academics in my time, you often learn more from life.
Seems like filler content
I hope Sadiq sees this one mate
Source?
I understand it’s not uncommon for solicitor and barristers to teach at university without a PhD. I don’t see that as a big deal.
What seems at the very least questionable bad form is that the associate dean job was published on a Friday with Sunday as the closing date.
Love all the people here playing this down because it’s Khan. I’m a leftie, voted labour all my life, but if we can’t hold people accountable for shady behaviour on both sides of the aisle then we are failing as a nation.
This is Private Eye people, not some tabloid rag carrying out a hit piece for the Tories. If this was a conservative politician, the same people commenting “no big deal” here would be outraged and rightly so.
Another ‘WhEn wIlL tHiS mOsLem BrOwN KaNT FaK OrFf , HoW Is HE MaYoR, StAbBings gOnE Up CuZ oV ‘im’ type article.
What’s the issue here? He married an accomplished woman, no issues there
Isn’t UEL a place where you can buy your degree like sausage roll in greggs?
I wonder who is using who. UEL for a bit of prestige and access or Ahmad for a bit of academic gravitas. I suspect it’s a bit of both.
The reason no one is bothered is because UEL is a crap university and if that’s the most corruption they can manage well… Good luck to em. I’m personally expecting tenure just for saying crap not shit.
So she was hired to lead the “legal advice centre” but probably needed to be a teacher at the school to get that job, so they gave her probably the lowest level teaching title and no classes. That’s actually pretty common… she was hired to lead the legal advice centre, and that’s what she was there to do, but there’s some sort of rule that the centre needs to be run by someone who is a teacher there. Very common for this to happen.
A year later, she got a promotion, to run the legal careers program. Okay, and?
Two years after that, she was made an associate dean, and her basically honorary teaching title was promoted to a better teaching title, to go along with being a dean.
Also, a really basic Google search shows that UEL has a number of Associate Deans.
And I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the University of East London is getting more out of this deal than she is.
Wow! What a meteoric career!
If you ever worked in higher education, you’d know how many bs positions and honours are actually made up and meaningless, especially from less prestigious universities like UEL
Another day another bit of cronyism in British politics.
“Jobs for the *girls*”
For those that can see beyond their political bias, this is blatant corruption. It’s the political elite using their power to denigrate the academic system and indulge their influence even further. It’s abuse of power.
Isn’t UEL shite?
Cue Mr Khan’s inexhaustible army of devotees and defenders from Reddit telling you ‘nothing to see here’.
I guess this is a very law-ranked university that nobody cares about so they are profiting from the connection. With the lack of experience she’s probably doesn’t do much and people tell her what to think, say and do — she feels like an important person and UEL feels like an important place. Of course, this makes both the uni and her look like they are desperate for some attention and recognition. I don’t know anything about her but maybe her job was very basic and unbecoming a mayor’s wife so they needed to find something more meaningful for her to do. It’s all of course your basic corruption and nepotism but it’s also kinda really sad and cringy. I imagine that UEL is mostly run by competent people who are more aware of how unprepared she is for the role than us, and she knows she got there just because she’s the mayor’s wife, so it’s probably a very cringe vibe all of the time. I once worked with someone who was there just because of nepotism. We all knew it, they knew it but they were still egomaniacs and wanted to be there. However, the connection of enough insight to know you’re there just because of nepotism in combination with narcassism to still want to be there wrack havoc on people’s mental health. Edit: I guess that’s why a lot of rich people who got positions purely through nepotism and corruption need to be assholes to protext their sense of self. Because if they face reality they also have to face how lame and unskilled they are and how everyone knows it.
UEL traditionally bottom ranked (Shiksha), but foreign student revenue up £20m last year and same in the year before that. Go figure.
What it fails to mention is that prior to this she’s been a solicitor’s for 20 years specialising in criminal defence law. So her wealth of experience probably qualifies her to be a director or deal at UEL. Which isn’t uncommon to have people without PHDs to be on the board. I even had lecturers who didn’t do degrees, mind blowing I know but the guy had 40+ years in Oil and Gas. Think they are qualified enough to lecture on deep water pressure systems.
Snouts in the trough!
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