Manchester University Job Cuts
The university of manchester is making cuts in salc particularly eac and modern foreign languages.
Manchester university job cuts. Staff at the university of manchester have said that they were horrified to receive an email outlining a potential 270 million loss and potential job and pay cuts. University of manchester denies job cuts due to brexit. However this plan involves cutting up to 220 jobs. In the letter the university s vice chancellor nancy rothwell said that the university was likely to face a significant loss of income because of the outbreak of the coronavirus.
The university has decided that no fixed term teaching staff in salc will be re employed next academic year those who do not have permanent contracts and rely on their contracts being renewed on a yearly basis and the gta budget phd students who teach seminars will be severely cut. The university of liverpool have announced a new change plan in order to help position the university within the top 100 globally. Ucu general secretary sally hunt said the university had blamed the cuts on financial instability caused by recent government policy. It said the university planned to cut 55 jobs a tenth of the workforce because of the increased cost of staff pensions.
Staff at the university of manchester are being balloted on strike action over redundancies. Universities rely heavily on staff on short term contracts. But urged the university to halt plans to cut jobs. London metropolitan university staff strike over job cuts.
The proposals include 35 job cuts in the school of arts languages and cultures 65 in the faculty of biology medicine and health and 40 in the alliance manchester business school. The university said it hoped to avoid compulsory redundancies. The vice chancellor of the university of manchester has said the institution faces losses in excess of 270m next year if students cancel. In may the university announced plans to axe 171 jobs 140 of which are academic positions saying the institution needed to invest in its strategic priorities.
More than 50 are in insecure employment according to the university and college union the ucu is writing to the education secretary.