University of Canterbury Employee Reviews about "earthquakes"

Pros

Small university in a lovely setting

Cons

Earthquake prone, slow rebuilding, unfriendly administration.

Pros

Reasonably high salary, depending on exchange rate. Good students at the top end. Lovely environment and surroundings. Reasonable international ranking.

Cons

Not much research money. They have gotten tighter since the earthquake. Management appears to be almost completely focused on increasing STEM presence. No reward for being a good program unless you are in engineering and the sciences.

Pros

The facilities are very good and the staff and students make it a good work environment. The university is a strong university on the global scale.

Cons

The university is in recovery from the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, and so the student numbers are down and there is little funding to support new initiatives. It will take several more years before the university is back to the same number of students and level of funding from pre-2011.

Pros

Beautiful campus, lovely people, nice climate, relaxed work environment, opportunities for professional contacts with colleagues.

Cons

Managerialism and earthquakes have reduced most support staff to grim determination to survive the next round of cuts. Loss of professional support devalues staff skills and knowledge. Saving money is ruining the place.

Pros

The city this university is in has a good public arts initiative called 'Gap Filler'.

Cons

This is a small and insignificant university that has worked very hard for nearly a decade now to make itself even smaller and more insignificant. And it has achieved this outcome. The place suffered a bunch of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 that drove away some students. So UC responded by publicly attacking a bunch of their own departments, which drove away many of their best academics and a lot more students a few years after the earthquakes. Don’t waste any time on this place.

Pros

It used to be lovely before Roy Sharp and Rod Carr

Cons

rampant managerialism gone mad in a city destroyed by an earthquake, good scholars leaving in droves