How serious is the crisis in the UK university sector?
Across the sector university managers are (perhaps perversely) cutting staff as a way of trying to resolve budgetary problems, reflecting an abiding British management problem that sees staff as a cost rather than an resource that needs to be nurtured & invested in.
QMUL-UCU have been tracking announcements of staff reductions & their list suggests universities are shedding staff at an alarming rate!
#universities
https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/
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