No mechanisms to address unethical management practices. - Anonymous employee Keele University Employee Review

- Very much a top-down institution. Management has no interest in listening to what teachers and lecturers have to say about problems or areas for improvement. Raising these issues will have you labelled as problem. Culture of silence. - Bullying and harassment by management is a norm. Mechanisms to address it do not work. No confidentiality or will to actually create healthy working environments. - Foreign students are treated with contempt. Keele is happy to take their money but then brief teachers working with masters students the day before on what they should be teaching, sometimes even the morning. - Teachers not given freedom to plan their own lessons creatively thanks to last minute communication of course aims/content. - Insufficient planning time. - Focus on quantity and just 'getting through the course' as opposed to quality of teaching and learning and the fact that students have paid thousands of pounds to study at Keele and have travelled from another continent in many cases. Is a covert form of racism. Very cynical. - No concept of work/life balance. - A chancellor with an interest in ecology is great, but on the ground, issues of white supremacy and patriarchy are unresolved and unspoken of at Keele.