Talking leadership 35: Susan Lea on securing financial sustainability

This looks like a major success for Hull and a possible blueprint for other institutions in similar positions to Hull in 2016. I wonder what role the University Governors / trustees played in the transformation? As indicated above, it is essential that Vice Chancellors have the right financial skills as well as an academic background. It is interesting to see that Hull has been awarded considerable funding for 2022 / 3, including over £8 million for high subject cost support and £1.6 million for Student Access.

It is easy to simply engage in extreme cost cutting measures through policies such as redundancies, closing departments/programmes, and then leaving the place in a sort of train wreck of poor employee satisfaction and high turnover rates before exiting from the university. Did the author of this article bother to even research on the significant damage this VC had done to the workplace of this university in the name of financial sustainability before leaving it? Senior management like herself always wish to take credit for things that they have little involvement in. For example student satisfaction - the primary drivers of student satisfaction are frontline staff (e.g., administrators and teaching staff who handle students), not people like the VC.