After his earlier reassurances that the TCM Report exonerated staff appointments within Salford Business School, we are getting unconfirmed reports that Professor Hall's claims to staff in his letter of 6th July are, to coin a much used phrase, questionable.
The report apparently contains no less than 13 irregularities in the appointments process, some of which directly relate to the supposedly 'suspicious' appointments.
One of the alleged findings of the report is that 'Project Headroom' (remember that?) made two Accountants redundant, following which two accountancy jobs were advertised (!!).
The report is bound to leak eventually, and if it doesn't, it will certainly be disclosed under FoI before too long.
As soon as it becomes available, expect a full analysis on here.
But the bigger question has to be - why commission an independent report only to prevent wider analysis of its findings? This speaks to Professor Hall's character almost as much does threatening to sue his own students.
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Justification has since been offered by the University that the composition of this report is predicated upon the notion of confidentiality - i.e. that those whose testimony informed it have a right to retain their anonymity.
The Information Commissioner will have to judge the veracity of that defence. Rest assured, we are not accepting it at face value.
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