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- Identifies more than £40 million of recurring annual savings and income opportunities, exceeding the savings currently being sought through redundancies.
- Shows how substantial savings can be achieved through attrition, workforce planning, consultancy reductions, procurement efficiencies and tighter control of discretionary spending.
- Proposes measures to protect and grow income through recruitment, retention, degree apprenticeships, CPD and other high-margin educational activity.
- Challenges the University’s assumptions around surplus targets, strategic spending and capital investment, arguing that alternative choices are available.
- Sets out a more federated model of governance, returning greater decision-making power to Schools and local units.
This is not simply a critique of management’s plans. It is a detailed and financially credible alternative vision for the University, that could end this death spiral.
This covers area by area counterproposals