Editing Middlesex University (section)

=== Restructuring ===
[[File:Middlesex University old logo.jpg|thumb|Middlesex's old logo]]
In May 2001 the university appointed C Eye, a branding consultancy, to design a new logo.<ref name="DesignWeek">{{cite news|last=Cheevers|first=Brandon|url=http://www.designweek.co.uk/news/middlesex-university-to-consider-total-rebrand/1128075.article|title=Middlesex University to consider total rebrand|work=Design Week|date=7 June 2001|access-date=26 July 2009}}</ref> In 2003, the previous "M" logo was replaced with a new red-coloured wavy line intended to express a flexible and responsive approach to the needs of students.<ref name="TEducation2">{{cite news|last=Lipsett|first=Anthea|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=191548&sectioncode=26|title='Dull' Birmingham recruits troops for market battle|work=Times Higher Education|date=1 October 2004|access-date=27 July 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/GLOFIG.HTM |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215014946/http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/GLOFIG.HTM |archive-date=15 December 2013 |title=Pictures, shape and design |publisher=Middlesex University |access-date=22 January 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2009}}

Following the review of the sustainability of its academic programmes, the university implemented a series of cuts over 2005–2006. In late 2005 it decided to stop offering history courses in an attempt to reduce a £10&nbsp;million deficit.<ref name="guardianHE1">{{cite news|last=Ford|first=Liz|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/jan/13/highereducation.cutsandclosures|title=History is history at the university|work=The Guardian|date=13 January 2006|access-date=22 January 2014|location=London}}</ref> The decision was met with hostility from Middlesex's student union as well as from the [[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students]].<ref name=guardianHE1/> In other moves to save costs, the university made 175 voluntary redundancies, including 33 academic staff, a measure that was intended to save £5&nbsp;million.<ref name="guardianHE2">{{cite news|last=Demopoulos|first=Katherine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/dec/15/highereducation.cutsandclosures|title=Ailing Middlesex University makes 175 staff redundant|work=The Guardian|date=15 December 2005|access-date=22 January 2014|location=London}}</ref>

Since 2000, Middlesex has embarked on a strategy to achieve "fewer, better campuses" to reduce costs and improve its long-term sustainability.<ref name="SpecialProjects">{{cite web|url=http://alumni.mdx.ac.uk/Page.aspx?pid=227|title=Special Projects|publisher=Middlesex University|access-date=14 August 2009}}</ref><ref name="CorpPlan0914"/> The strategy translated into the disposal of several small arts campuses in Bedford, Hampstead and [[Wood Green]] and the larger, but still uneconomic and unattractive campuses at [[Bounds Green]], Enfield and Tottenham.<ref name="CorpPlan0914">{{cite web|url=http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/corp_plan_09_14.pdf|title=Corporate Plan 2009–2014|publisher=Middlesex University|access-date=22 January 2014}}</ref> The university also closed the Corporate Services building at the [[Barnet College|North London Business Park]] and consolidated most of the functions carried out on these sites at Hendon, where it aims to accommodate nearly all its London-based teaching.<ref name="CorpPlan0914"/><ref name="CorpPlan0813">{{cite web|url=http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/strategy/docs/Corporate_Plan_2008_.pdf|title=Corporate Plan 2008–2013|publisher=Middlesex University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207092605/http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/strategy/docs/Corporate_Plan_2008_.pdf|archive-date=7 February 2009|access-date=22 January 2014}}</ref>

In 2010, Middlesex announced the closure of its Philosophy department, because it was judged to be not financially sustainable. This was despite the fact that it had been the highest ranking department in the university's latest [[Research Assessment Exercise]] (RAE) in 2008,<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/table/2008/dec/18/rae-middlesexuniversity/|title=RAE 2008 Middlesex University|date=18 December 2008|access-date=22 January 2014 | work=The Guardian | location=London}}</ref> building on its grade of 5 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bruce Nelson |url=http://www.planning.ed.ac.uk/research/rae2001/RAE2001UOA62.htm |title=RAE 2001 – results for unit of assessment 62 Philosophy |publisher=University of Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2010}}{{Dead link|date=January 2014}}</ref> An international campaign of support was quickly organised, with figures such as [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]], [[Jean-Luc Nancy]], [[Slavoj Žižek]], [[Étienne Balibar]], [[David Harvey (geographer)|David Harvey]], [[Isabelle Stengers]] expressing their strong disapproval. Articles condemning the decision appeared in the national press<ref name="guardianHE4">{{cite news|last=Power|first=Nina|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/apr/29/philosophy-minorities-middleqsex-university-logic|title=A blow to philosophy, and minorities|work=The Guardian|date=29 April 2010|access-date=22 January 2014|location=London}}</ref> and students protested on campus and elsewhere for its restitution.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10185329|title=Rally over Middlesex University protesters' suspension|publisher=BBC News|date=28 May 2010|access-date=22 January 2014}}</ref> In early June 2010 it was announced that the postgraduate component, the CRMEP, was to be transferred to [[Kingston University]], but the undergraduate programme was still to be phased out.<ref name="guardianHE5"/>