A university has confirmed plans to cut nearly 70 jobs as it battles financial pressures.<\/p>\n
The University of Staffordshire said it was proposing to cut 31.2 academic and 35.5 professional service full-time equivalent (FTE) roles – a total of 66.7.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said it was part of a drive to make “pay savings” of about \u00a36.4m, with the reductions made through staff cuts, not replacing vacant roles and reducing some casual contracts.<\/p>\n
“Like many universities, we are facing financial pressures due to the challenging higher education environment,” they said.<\/p>\n
A full consultation process began on 9 October, the spokesperson added, and 95% of the 1,248 staff members would be unaffected.<\/p>\n
They said: “Throughout this period, the student experience will remain paramount, and we are committed to full consultation with our recognised trade unions and to providing support to colleagues affected.”<\/p>\n
It is the third consecutive year the university has announced job cuts, having confirmed a reduction of 40 roles in October 2024<\/a> and 100 in November 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A university has confirmed plans to cut nearly 70 jobs as it battles financial pressures. The University of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[79,18,19,17,227],"class_list":{"0":"post-121243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jobs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}