Coronavirus: Manchester staff ‘horrified’ by prospect of job cuts

This is the ideal time for a savage cut in bureaucratic bloat in UK universities. The first thing is to abolish the useless Quality Assurance Agency as this agency single-handedly creates an awful lot of useless meetings, reports, paperwork and costs in UK Universities hundreds of millions of pounds in employing administration to keep this useless organisation happy. Next we need to cut out tons of the overpaid bureaucrats and senior managers that are overpaid and really not doing anything useful at all. Finally there should be a big move to the cloud so we can cut a lot of administrators out of universities who are doing very basic tasks that can be done a lot better in the cloud. So yes keep frontline course officers, keep the academics and slash the rest and cut out once and for all as much of the useless bureaucracy from UK Universities.