I'm glad to hear things are less horrific at DU. You've been connected with them for so long -- even a vagabond like me gets attached to their organisation, so I can't imagine what it's like for you with eight times the maximum I've served in any one place.
At another institution (not looking at Cardiff here), I might have suspected that senior management had deliberately overstated the expected cuts, so that later announcements would be waved through without as much opposition from the unions as might have otherwise been the case.
But it sounds as if DU was nearing implosion, plus its finances will likely be getting more governmental scrutiny than any other university in the UK is likely to receive ... In those circumstances, I think even the most cynical leadership group would hesitate to try that.
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Date: 2025-04-29 08:00 pm (UTC)At another institution (not looking at Cardiff here), I might have suspected that senior management had deliberately overstated the expected cuts, so that later announcements would be waved through without as much opposition from the unions as might have otherwise been the case.
But it sounds as if DU was nearing implosion, plus its finances will likely be getting more governmental scrutiny than any other university in the UK is likely to receive ... In those circumstances, I think even the most cynical leadership group would hesitate to try that.