Steven Schwartz

The Vice Chancellor of Brunel University is Steven Schwartz.He is famous not only for heading New Labour's task force looking into broadening access to universities, but also for the vote of no confidence against him by staff at Murdoch University, Australia.He has also managed to alienate and demoralise staff in a short period of time at Brunel.

If Schwartz and the clique of senior managers at Brunel are able to get away with compulsory redundancies, it will make a mockery of tenure and allow a hire-and-fire mentality to develop.