ucl academics: All university leaders encounter hostility, but few can have attracted quite as much as Arthur, according to The Guardian. Some UCL academics feel such a frenzy of hatred against him that they would prefer a blind, three-legged elephant as provost and that judgment, in a privately circulated note last year, came from his press officer since departed . He's been a disaster, one academic tells me. For the past six years, Michael Arthur, the softly spoken son of a cabinet-maker and a probation service assistant, who went to a state comprehensive in Harlow, Essex, has presided over this success story as UCL's provost vice-chancellor . But he has not achieved Bentham's goal of the greatest happiness among UCL's 6,500 academic and research staff. This was once an egalitarian, collaborative place. The whole ethos has changed. It has become a Stalinist institution.
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