Petition to re-introduce targeted funding for lesser taught languages at cultures at Scottish Universities

[Jan Culik]

Dear Colleagues,

Czech, Polish and Russian Studies at universities, are, in the long term,
under constant threat in this age of commercialisation and managerialisation
of universities.

As you know, some five days ago we raised a petition on the Scottish
parliament website, asking the Scottish government to re-introduce targeted
funding for lesser taught languages and cultures at Scottish universities.
This primarily concerns East European Studies and Baltic Studies. 

Since the petition was raised on Friday 3rd June, it has been signed by more
than 1500 individuals. Some of them are university professors of world reknown. 

This is a remarkable response. The e-petition is now the largest petition
presented to the Scottish parliament recently.

However, we need more. As we have discovered with our  earlier petition in
support of Modern Languages and Cultures, signed by more than 8000
individuals,  which was presented to the President of the University of
Glasgow in April, petitions do work.

I am writing to appeal to those colleagues who have not yet signed our
petition to join in.

Thank you very much.

The petition is here:

http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=455

Background inf here

http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_backgroundinfo.asp?PetitionID=%20455

THANK YOU

Jan Culik
University of Glasgow

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