Coventry set to cut nearly £100 million as sector crisis bites

Yep poor management to blame here, too rapid expansion, too much on buildings and excessive management/bureaucracy and also the better universities are lowering their standards to recruit many of their students.

Definitely mismanagement at Coventry, far too much unnecessary bureaucracy which appears to be generated to justify the salaries of a very bloated class of highly paid non-academic managers. Add to this the moving of staff from academic and support functions to for-profit subsidiaries on terrible pensions, no progression or pay rise ability and much higher workloads that has driven a rapid mass-exodus of competent staff leaving inexperienced, inadequate or new staff to try and pick up the pieces and overloading those who haven't left. Not forgetting of course the bloated salary of the ever-growing senior executive team, as well as their hefty annual bonuses (regardless of poor performance), most of whom have no prior experience in HE. Meanwhile staff are denied any pay progression or role progression ability. Finally, as is common to most UK universities, the rapid over-expansion and investment in vanity buildings and loss-making overseas campuses. The fees and international recruitment issue is only part of the story, Coventry university has been grossly mismanaged. I'm leaving very soon and am so relieved.