Look at the state of you! Scruffy lot...

[sensaes]

'Lecturers have been told they will be sent home to change if they come to work in jeans or scruffy trousers. The UCU lecturers' union is protesting against Birmingham Metropolitan College acting like the "fashion police". The dress code for staff requires tidy hair, business suits and skirts, no visible tattoos, no slogans on T-shirts or "

Comments

[poldyb]

'professionalism' claims more victims.

[knut_hamson]

Another volunteer for my "Teaching without Pants" campaign?

[poldyb]

If it helps wipe out that invidious bureaucratic tool of small minds (aka 'professionalism'), I'm all for it.

[the_lady_lily]

I do hope you are using that in the American sense. And if not, then surely it should be a "Teaching in Kilts" campaign, for full effect?

[annieover]

Obviously college staff should spend their meager salaries on expensive clothing.

[dynamicsymmetry]

And be treated like unruly high school students when they don't. Things like this are just what make the grad school grind and navigating a shitty job market seem worthwhile.

[sensaes]

Having your career potentially stymied by ostentatious ear-rings, though.

Serious stuff.

[annieover]

And they should be obligated to reinforce a value system that states that a person's appearance is more significant than a person's skills.

[inkmark]

Lecturers are being told to wear a "business suit; smart jacket and co-ordinating trousers or skirt; smart shirt/blouse/top and trousers or skirt; smart dress".

One more example of equating money with intelligence.

[sensaes]

Smart clothing is so 1990s.

It's all stealth suits and lecture-ready exo-skeletons these days...

[inkmark]

All the better to sneak up behind and bash the skulls in of slackers in the class.

[vlion]

That icon is very awesome.

[max_ambiguity]

Ha ha. I won't be working there.

Working where?

[oxyrhynchite]

I live and work in Birmingham and I'd never even heard of 'Birmingham Metropolitan College'.

Looking at the website, it appears they're in the vocational-training market, so maybe that's why the fuss.

Re: Working where?

[sensaes]

*Nods.* They're essentially a 16-19 vocational training institution, spread over four locations in the city, but with partnership links for further study at the local unis - http://www.bmetc.ac.uk/about-the-college/partner-universities.aspx

[dreadpirateange]

Ostentatious ear-rings??? *pictures something akin to those penis earrings groups of women sometimes wear to bachelorette parties*

[gobsmacked]

those penis earrings groups of women sometimes wear to bachelorette parties
Does no one think to wear bollock earrings to match?

[dreadpirateange]

Would that be more, or less ostentatious?

[gobsmacked]

That depends on the size, doesn't it?