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by Nicolas Stathopoulos
May 28, 2012
Every single day hundreds of additional documents, affidavits, reports, news articles, videos, social media postings along with comments are added to the internet's archive. These uploads seem to continually expose social services, child protection services (CPS), social workers incompetence and testify to much evidence of abuse perpetually practiced against children, their families and individuals targeted for profit, through questionable means.
Today, if we enter the term CPS fraud or a similar request into our search engine, we are likely to receive anywhere between 4 to 13 million webpages on the subject. This is an unprecedented amount of information against any given discipline.
The University of Southampton (UK) with a student population of 17,000 undergraduate and 7,000 postgraduate students announced on February 21, through the University Executive Group that, it will close all major social work courses and related programs by mid-2013, as the last of the current students complete their studies.
The school is internationally recognized with a reputation in research and innovation, it is a member of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) with ties to MIT in the US and Mcgill University in Canada.
In a letter to stakeholders, originally dated December 9, 2011 professor Judith Petts first announced that the University Executive Group intends to close two postgraduate social care programs.
MSc in social work.
MSc in professional studies.
The decision to close the programs came after three years of considerable debate, analysis and investigation on the practicality and viability of the research material presently available to schools for teaching.
"Southampton is committed to ensuring that internationally excellent research can be found in all our academic disciplines, and that our teaching is strongly informed by this research."
"However, despite a series of initiatives by the University, we have not been able to reach a position where we can meet our overall strategic commitment in this area. We are therefore now entering a period of consultation about managing the necessary changes and their consequences, for both staff and students."
The university went on to cite they have realized after careful consideration there is a “lack of credible and excellent international research available regarding social work studies in existence" and for that apparent reason, it was decided the courses will no longer be taught at their university. (This, despite the high yield of return in profit the courses continue to produce for both the institution and their shareholders.)
The true origin of social services originated from one source and that one source is suspect to promoting an agenda that is in place to secure profit and control over the family unit, as opposed to strengthening it. Eugenics, became the objective thus, sociology through academia was used to create "experts" to perpetuate that control.
Congratulations, to the administration at Southampton for having the courage to go through with this decision.
The American and Canadian social workers associations were contacted for their reaction to the news. Neither association was willing to provide a comment on the story. However, there are quotes from various news outlets throughout the internet indicating that many within the industry are indeed fearful of job cuts and are coming to terms to the realization that the public are not very supportive of their discipline or the agencies that employ them.
A story as paramount as this has not garnished much attention in mainstream news for obvious reasons. Both the public and many social work related professionals are becoming increasingly aware that this system is not capable of acting in the interest of the family unit, in as much as existing to secure a profit at the expense of those families, it has already harmed.
Southampton made the right choice, let us hope that other universities and colleges throughout the rest of the western world can now follow suit.
Updated: May 28, 2012
Originally published: April 23, 2012
Copyright © 2012
___________________________
The following is a copy of the written communication the university posted for their stakeholders to reference on 13th December 2011.
9 December 2011
Social Work Studies postgraduate programmes
I am writing to you as a valued stakeholder in the University of Southampton’s Social Work Studies activities to provide you with some important information and to seek any comments you may have.
Following extensive review and analysis of Social Work Studies activities at Southampton over the past three years, the University has taken a decision to consider closure of its postgraduate programmes – the MSc in Social Work and the MSc in Professional Studies.
This would occur when our current students have completed their studies. Southampton is committed to ensuring that internationally excellent research can be found in all our academic disciplines, and that our teaching is strongly informed by this research.
We are therefore channelling our resources into the University’s greatest research strengths and reviewing activities within our portfolio of programmes that align with these strategic objectives.
The reputation and quality of the University of Southampton’s Social Work Studies programme and graduates is well recognised, reflecting the high calibre of teaching being undertaken.
However, despite a series of initiatives by the University, we have not been able to reach a position where we can meet our overall strategic commitment in this area. We are therefore now entering a period of consultation about managing the necessary changes and their consequences, for both staff and students.
The University is committed to ensuring that our current students will continue to be taught to our established high standards, be enabled to complete successfully all elements of their programmes and that the value of their Southampton qualification continues to be recognised. As valued stakeholders, the University recognises you may wish to contribute to the consultation process and would welcome any comments from you.These can be directed to us by email – swreview@soton.ac.uk. The consultation period runs from today, 9 December 2011, through to 1 February 2012.
If you have any questions at all or would like to discuss this situation in more detail with the University, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Judith Petts
Dean, Faculty of Social & Human Sciences
University of Southampton
Highfield Campus
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 5663
Email: swreview@southampton.ac.uk
www.southampton.ac.uk
by Nicolas Stathopoulos
May 28, 2012
Every single day hundreds of additional documents, affidavits, reports, news articles, videos, social media postings along with comments are added to the internet's archive. These uploads seem to continually expose social services, child protection services (CPS), social workers incompetence and testify to much evidence of abuse perpetually practiced against children, their families and individuals targeted for profit, through questionable means.
Today, if we enter the term CPS fraud or a similar request into our search engine, we are likely to receive anywhere between 4 to 13 million webpages on the subject. This is an unprecedented amount of information against any given discipline.
The University of Southampton (UK) with a student population of 17,000 undergraduate and 7,000 postgraduate students announced on February 21, through the University Executive Group that, it will close all major social work courses and related programs by mid-2013, as the last of the current students complete their studies.
The school is internationally recognized with a reputation in research and innovation, it is a member of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) with ties to MIT in the US and Mcgill University in Canada.
In a letter to stakeholders, originally dated December 9, 2011 professor Judith Petts first announced that the University Executive Group intends to close two postgraduate social care programs.
MSc in social work.
MSc in professional studies.
The decision to close the programs came after three years of considerable debate, analysis and investigation on the practicality and viability of the research material presently available to schools for teaching.
"Southampton is committed to ensuring that internationally excellent research can be found in all our academic disciplines, and that our teaching is strongly informed by this research."
"However, despite a series of initiatives by the University, we have not been able to reach a position where we can meet our overall strategic commitment in this area. We are therefore now entering a period of consultation about managing the necessary changes and their consequences, for both staff and students."
The university went on to cite they have realized after careful consideration there is a “lack of credible and excellent international research available regarding social work studies in existence" and for that apparent reason, it was decided the courses will no longer be taught at their university. (This, despite the high yield of return in profit the courses continue to produce for both the institution and their shareholders.)
The true origin of social services originated from one source and that one source is suspect to promoting an agenda that is in place to secure profit and control over the family unit, as opposed to strengthening it. Eugenics, became the objective thus, sociology through academia was used to create "experts" to perpetuate that control.
Congratulations, to the administration at Southampton for having the courage to go through with this decision.
The American and Canadian social workers associations were contacted for their reaction to the news. Neither association was willing to provide a comment on the story. However, there are quotes from various news outlets throughout the internet indicating that many within the industry are indeed fearful of job cuts and are coming to terms to the realization that the public are not very supportive of their discipline or the agencies that employ them.
A story as paramount as this has not garnished much attention in mainstream news for obvious reasons. Both the public and many social work related professionals are becoming increasingly aware that this system is not capable of acting in the interest of the family unit, in as much as existing to secure a profit at the expense of those families, it has already harmed.
Southampton made the right choice, let us hope that other universities and colleges throughout the rest of the western world can now follow suit.
Updated: May 28, 2012
Originally published: April 23, 2012
Copyright © 2012
___________________________
The following is a copy of the written communication the university posted for their stakeholders to reference on 13th December 2011.
9 December 2011
Social Work Studies postgraduate programmes
I am writing to you as a valued stakeholder in the University of Southampton’s Social Work Studies activities to provide you with some important information and to seek any comments you may have.
Following extensive review and analysis of Social Work Studies activities at Southampton over the past three years, the University has taken a decision to consider closure of its postgraduate programmes – the MSc in Social Work and the MSc in Professional Studies.
This would occur when our current students have completed their studies. Southampton is committed to ensuring that internationally excellent research can be found in all our academic disciplines, and that our teaching is strongly informed by this research.
We are therefore channelling our resources into the University’s greatest research strengths and reviewing activities within our portfolio of programmes that align with these strategic objectives.
The reputation and quality of the University of Southampton’s Social Work Studies programme and graduates is well recognised, reflecting the high calibre of teaching being undertaken.
However, despite a series of initiatives by the University, we have not been able to reach a position where we can meet our overall strategic commitment in this area. We are therefore now entering a period of consultation about managing the necessary changes and their consequences, for both staff and students.
The University is committed to ensuring that our current students will continue to be taught to our established high standards, be enabled to complete successfully all elements of their programmes and that the value of their Southampton qualification continues to be recognised. As valued stakeholders, the University recognises you may wish to contribute to the consultation process and would welcome any comments from you.These can be directed to us by email – swreview@soton.ac.uk. The consultation period runs from today, 9 December 2011, through to 1 February 2012.
If you have any questions at all or would like to discuss this situation in more detail with the University, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Judith Petts
Dean, Faculty of Social & Human Sciences
University of Southampton
Highfield Campus
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 5663
Email: swreview@southampton.ac.uk
www.southampton.ac.uk