With staff pay squeezed in real terms since 2009, university managers have little room for manoeuvre. Oct 29th, 2019 by manchester. Posted 47 m minutes ago Sun Sunday 12 Jul July 2020 at 8:39pm / Updated 16 m minutes ago Sun Sunday 12 Jul July 2020 at 9:10pm Five-month-old girl dies in house fire south-west of Sydney The University of the Sunshine Coast is offering staff voluntary redundancies and has not ruled out forced job cuts as it tries to deal with $29 million budget blackhole from the COVID-19 pandemic. Sunderland University has asked staff to take voluntary redundancy after they revealed they the "difficulties" universities are experiencing due to Covid-19. The University of Surrey has offered voluntary redundancy to all staff as it seeks to make £15m cuts. The University of Cambridge, the UK’s wealthiest university, has said it may have to resort to redundancies as a “last resort” in a “worst-case scenario’ if the financial impact of the coronavirus cannot be mitigated.. However, when the economy recovers, …
In an email sent to staff on 21 May, seen by Times Higher Education, vice-chancellor Stephen Toope said that the university “can expect a significant financial detriment” … It is clear, moreover, that the government is unlikely to intervene if things go wrong. My research on downsizing (Dobbins and Wilkinson, 2020) indicates many UK employers often historically respond to crises by short-term cost-cutting, shedding labour and enacting compulsory redundancies (including firing people on contingent casual contracts and externalising the employment relationship); encouraging by prevailing corporate governance. More mass redundancies threatened in 2020? As you may have seen from the Registrar & Secretary’s update about the Student Experience Programme in Staffnet, the University is embarking on another major restructuring exercise that is likely to lead to job losses in 2020: Patrick Hackett – An update on the Student Experience Programme ; Student Experience Programme Themes; …