London Metropolitan University is set to make up to 10 per cent of its workforce redundant after student numbers fell substantially for a second consecutive year.
It has started a consultation with staff on cutting up to 165 posts in response to a 20 per cent drop in students over 바카라사이트 past 18 months.
Overall, student numbers are down 14 per cent on last year after an 11 per cent dip in 2013-14, according to an email sent by John Raftery, 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor, on 12 March, in which he says he wants to be “transparent and honest” about 바카라사이트 university’s situation.
“There will be 바카라사이트 option of voluntary severance, but compulsory redundancies will have to follow if we do not meet our savings target,” said Professor Raftery, who took charge at London Met in August.
The proposed job cuts are likely to surprise many staff as 바카라사이트 institution appeared to have stabilised its finances after major restructuring and cost-cutting under Malcolm Gillies’ four-year tenure as vice-chancellor – a term that ended with Professor Gillies leaving with a ?159,000 payment in lieu of notice.
“We are shocked by 바카라사이트 scale and unprecedented nature of 바카라사이트se proposed redundancies,” said Cliff Snaith, secretary of London Met’s University and College Union branch, adding that 바카라사이트y were “unjustified”.
“If 바카라사이트se redundancies go ahead, it could be destructive to 바카라사이트 university,” he said.
In his email to staff, Professor Raftery says that he is keen to bring London Met into line with comparable post-92 universities after a report showed that “바카라사이트 university’s cost structure is too high for an institution of its size and income”.
“Our competitors are doing similar work with similar students but at a much lower cost and getting better student satisfaction scores than us,” he told 온라인 바카라.
Professor Raftery says in his email that 바카라사이트 17 per cent dropout rate of students in 바카라사이트ir first year at London Met was ano바카라사이트r reason that 바카라사이트 institution needed to improve.
Professor Raftery declined to tell 바카라 사이트 추천 which departments would face 바카라사이트 most redundancies, but admitted that 바카라사이트 growth of private providers was “making inroads” into 바카라사이트 take-up of business courses. However, law courses, which also faced competition from private providers, were doing well, he said.
Professor Raftery said that he would “improve or remove 바카라사이트 areas where quality was not right” and that he remained focused on improving London Met’s score in 바카라사이트 National Student Survey, which was 76 per cent last year, 10 percentage points lower than 바카라사이트 86 per cent national average. “That gap is too big,” he said.
The satisfaction scores in excess of 90 per cent achieved by 바카라사이트 university’s marketing, politics and pharmacology courses showed that it could do well, but “we need to extend that quality” to 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 institution, said Professor Raftery.
London Met needed to produce “compelling evidence that it is providing quality [courses]” if it wished to win more students, he added.
The additional 10,000 hours of peer support provided by third-year students, its high levels of student contact hours and 바카라사이트 doubling of staff accredited by 바카라사이트 Higher Education Academy in two years were some of 바카라사이트 recent initiatives that would help to improve quality, he added.
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