Imperial Covid-19 researchers criticise plans to cut 75 ICT jobs

Nick, no surprise there. I was made redundant from Imperial in 2006, which happened to be good for me, but as I understand that process didn't result in any savings.

Never going to happen, Uni IT needs always start with control, who can buy, what they can install, and active tracking, not just the GCHQ active interception stuff, tracking of activity on and of Uni owned machines, tracking of content moving over Uni networks on personal devices, and tracking of keystrokes, virtually every contract of employment Uni staff have signed, especially when updated versions are demanded to be signed allows all of this. Trades Union officials in some Uni's have such intrusive tracking and interception being used against them, and their members, they have to use on-line e-mail providers and VPN services just to maintain basic confidentiality, this became very clear for some with parallel e-mails taking several hours to arrive into their Uni account inboxes, due to manual reading interception, yet virtually instantly into on-line accounts and non-intercepted Uni accounts. The CCP virus has however taught us one thing, obstructive IT departments can be bypassed, machines can be wiped and reloaded, the authoritarian IT dept backlash is yet to come...