Why even a physicist like me should shudder at Goldsmiths’ predicament

This needed to be said but I do not think many politicians are listening even though many of them benefited from the system as it was!

We need to cut the managerial bloat in UK universities and use technology to reduce the admin burden. The senior management teams are often full of incompetents that have negative value added. Each member of the senior management team then has a load of supporting admin that could also be cut out again saving a fortune. The money is there it is just wasted on an epic scale.

Can only second the main article and the comments especially on what is parasitic administrative bloat. Every institution needs efficient administration, but Universities are rife with non job creations with made up positions to serve the latest imaginary zeitgeisty roles. Its as though the primary academic role of the UKHE institutions have been reversed so that they have a secondary supporting role to administration. I am aware of senior administrators being involved in making decisions about what degree subjects should be supported or not. You couldn't make it up. I am afraid like the lights over Europe going out in 1914, the canaries alluded to here are dropping off their perches across the sector.