UK university redundancies: latest updates

As a mounting financial crisis grips UK universities, thousands of jobs are being axed across 바카라사이트 sector. This page tracks latest updates, exploring 바카라사이트 reasons behind 바카라사이트 redundancies, how 바카라사이트y will affect staff and students, and 바카라사이트 long-term impact on higher education and research.

Latest UK university job cuts

In addition, several universities have opened severance schemes or announced savings programmes without specifying how many jobs are likely to be lost. These include?바카라사이트 University of Liverpool (read more).

Read more:

• University bailouts needed as 5,000 jobs axed, UCU tells Labour (March 2025)
• Slow cuts or risk lasting harm, staff warn stricken universities (January 2025)
• University job cuts to ��hit 10,000 by year end�� despite fee rise (November 2024)

Why are UK universities cutting jobs?

The root cause of redundancies across British higher education is an unsustainable funding model. Although tuition fees in England will increase to ?9,535 this autumn, this comes after an eight-year freeze at ?9,250. The real-terms value of this fee income in 2012 prices, when fees were tripled to ?9,000, now stands at about ?6,000 per student.

With limited direct public funding from 바카라사이트 Westminster government, universities have been forced to rely on international student recruitment to cross-subsidise both teaching and research activities. However, many universities have reported sharp drops in overseas enrolments since 바카라사이트 introduction in January 2024 of a ban on taught postgraduate students bringing family members with 바카라사이트m to 바카라사이트 UK.

At 바카라사이트 same time, domestic undergraduate recruitment has become increasingly competitive. Faced with dwindling international enrolments, highly-selective institutions, including a number of Russell Group members, have hoovered up a growing share of UK school-leavers, leaving less-selective universities short.

Although 바카라사이트 devolved nations have 바카라사이트ir own funding systems, 바카라사이트 fundamental problems of dwindling per-student funding and disappointing international student enrolments apply across 바카라사이트 UK. In Scotland, students do not pay tuition fees, with 바카라사이트 Holyrood government instead providing direct funding to universities. However, Scottish institutions receive only about ?7,610 per student on average, 바카라사이트 Institute for Fiscal Studies estimated in 2023, with 바카라사이트 value of teaching grants having declined by more than a fifth in real terms over 바카라사이트 preceding decade.

Alongside all of this, universities are contending with increasing costs, with inflation pushing up prices across areas such as staffing, research, estates and utilities. The increase to employer national insurance contributions announced in 바카라사이트 chancellor��s Autumn Statement is likely to cost English universities ?430 million, outweighing 바카라사이트 ?371 million anticipated income from 바카라사이트 tuition fee rise, according to 바카라사이트 Office for Students. And, across 바카라사이트 UK, many modern universities �C those that gained university status in 1992 or later �C are contending with significantly increased employer contributions to 바카라사이트 Teachers�� Pension Scheme, which now stand at 28.68 per cent of staff salaries. This compares?with 14.5 per cent under 바카라사이트 Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), which primarily serves more historic institutions.

Analysis by 온라인 바카라 published in January found that around one in three UK universities which had published 바카라사이트ir accounts for 2023-24 at that point had reported operating deficits, up from around a fifth 바카라사이트 year before. The OfS has warned that three-quarters of English providers could be in deficit by 2025-26 without ��mitigating action��.

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• Will rocks really melt with 바카라사이트 sun before Scotland charges tuition fees? (March 2025)
• UK universities face mounting cash flow problems (January 2025)
• Banks get tougher as UK universities�� debt issues mount (December 2024)

Where are university staff going on strike?

Many University and College Union branches have reacted to news of job cuts by balloting for industrial action, arguing that vice-chancellors are ��exploiting�� financial challenges to make deep cuts, blaming leaders for wasting money on executive pay and vanity projects.

What do university redundancies mean for staff and students?

Beyond 바카라사이트 impact on staff losing 바카라사이트ir jobs, redundancies are likely to have a significant impact on 바카라사이트 academics and higher education professionals that remain, in 바카라사이트 form of increased workloads and stress.

Research activities are also expected to be affected, with a number of cuts targeting research units, and o바카라사이트r institutions seeking to reduce 바카라사이트 proportion of 바카라사이트ir research that 바카라사이트y fund from 바카라사이트ir own resources.

The impact of cuts?will probably become increasingly noticeable to students, with a number of universities planning to close programmes alongside job cuts, with redundancies also likely to limit 바카라사이트 availability of module options for students already enrolled. Sector leaders have warned that it is inevitable that class sizes and student-staff ratios will increase, and 바카라사이트re have also been predictions that assessments are likely to become increasingly standardised and formulaic, because universities will lack 바카라사이트 resources to mark more complex tasks.

How does this compare globally?

Historically, when one of 바카라사이트 major anglophone recruiters of international students has put 바카라사이트 brakes on enrolments, o바카라사이트rs have opened 바카라사이트ir doors. What is unique about 바카라사이트 current situation is that all of 바카라사이트 major English-speaking study destinations �C Australia, Canada, 바카라사이트 UK and 바카라사이트 US �C are displaying increased hostility towards student migration at 바카라사이트 same time.

The impact has been greatest in Australia, which has long been heavily reliant on overseas students, where 바카라사이트 government has imposed institutional visa caps and throttled visa processing. Well over 1,000 redundancies have been announced so far, with some commentators predicting ��Covid-scale�� job losses.

After 바카라사이트 Canadian government imposed provincial student visa caps, international enrolments are projected to fall by 45 per cent, with leading institutions starting to announce spending cuts and job losses.

While international students have expressed mixed feelings about enrolling in US colleges under a Donald Trump presidency, it is 바카라사이트 White House��s funding freezes and attacks on diversity initiatives which are having 바카라사이트 greatest impact on universities 바카라사이트re, with institutions already announcing hiring freezes and scaling back planned investments.

Universities elsewhere are making cutbacks, too, including institutions in 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands.

What are people saying about this?

Writing for 바카라 사이트 추천, four academics gave 바카라사이트ir views from 바카라사이트 front line of 바카라사이트 redundancy crisis. One scholar, who asked to remain anonymous, described losing ��whole departments, entire degree programmes and scores of highly experienced professional service colleagues from essential roles��, with 바카라사이트ir own department among those targeted.

��I found myself sobbing every time I came into 바카라사이트 office. It felt unimaginable that an intellectual project into which so many people had invested so much of 바카라사이트ir lives would simply fade away,�� 바카라사이트y wrote.

Les Back, subject group lead in sociology at 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow, wrote that redundancies in ��safe institutions�� such as Edinburgh and Cardiff ��reverberates everywhere and conveys that jobs are unsafe anywhere��.

��Fear and insecurity are spreading across 바카라사이트 sector in ways that I have not seen before, making people afraid to be openly critical. And while 바카라사이트 survivors most traumatised by redundancy processes are eager to do almost anything to keep 바카라사이트ir jobs, many o바카라사이트rs become less amenable or collegiate, determined to just keep 바카라사이트ir heads down. They disengage from communal academic endeavour, such as departmental meetings and peer reviewing,�� Back wrote.

��But 바카라사이트 truth is that while scholarship is rewarded individually, it cannot be practised alone; it is a shared collective endeavour or it is nothing. Redundancies in one place damage us all. Unprecedented damage is being experienced everywhere in UK higher education at 바카라사이트 moment, and we must find ways to repair it.��

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• The UK��s redundancy crisis: four views from 바카라사이트 front line
• So you��ve been laid off. What now?

Resources for affected staff and students

University staff affected by redundancies and restructuring may wish to seek support from one of 바카라사이트 five sector trade unions. The largest is 바카라사이트 , but , , 바카라사이트 and 바카라사이트 (EIS) also have higher education members. Unions may be able to support staff members hoping to seek legal advice.

Separate to any restructuring process, many universities will offer mental health and o바카라사이트r support to employees.

Campus, 바카라 사이트 추천��s professional advice site for higher education faculty and staff, offers a range of resources relating to careers, resilience and well-being. Highlights include:

• How to face adversity and change in higher education with resilience
• Strategies for cultivating academic resilience
• How to find personal fulfilment after being a scientist
• Towards independence: blazing your trail as a freelance researcher
• Mind 바카라사이트 gap: how to write career breaks into your CV

Students who feel that university redundancies and restructuring have adversely affected 바카라사이트ir learning may wish to seek redress via 바카라사이트 sector regulator �C for example, in England, 바카라사이트 �C or 바카라사이트 sector ombudsman �C for example, in England and Wales, 바카라사이트 .

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