Manchester 'blames Brexit' for 'enormous' job cuts

UCU needs to come up with the goods here. With the increasing use of metrics to judge staff performance, and the financialization of universities, there is now a lot of data with which to judge the fairness and legitimacy of redundancy processes. As a graduate, and former employee of Manchester Business School, it is troubling too that it is making 40 of 90 odd staff redundant, while at the same time building a 4* Hotel on its campus. I will take a lot of persuading there is not a serious strategic distortion here.

'Enormous cuts' does not seem to be the right phrase considering that 171 job losses being reported and overall 12,000 employees at UoM - that's .01425 percent of the faculty/professional services workforce?!

Time for academics to refuse to particiape in the REF it is just a tool of management to go after academics and either sack them or stop giving them pay rises. There needs to be a MEF that is a management excellence framework whereby managers are appraised by the academic staff / professional staff and sacked if they do not perform to the required standard.