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University of Leeds

General Info
workforce: 
8000
Number of students: 
33315
Management Plans
budgetcut: 
35.00
totalbudget: 
485.00
Job Losses: 
700
notes: 

Though management have not specified how many jobs will go, UCU has warned cuts will lead to 700 job losses. Plans are to make annual savings of £35 million by 2011, with total spending in 2008-09 at £485 million.(Jan 2010 source.) October 09: An estimated 187 jobs are at risk in the university as part of a restructuring exercise, 60 in Biological Sciences and 20 in Healthcare (source).

Information accurate as of: 
Jan 2009
  • By no1 at 2009-12-26 14:31

Redundancy row at Leeds University given fresh twist - The Grapevine Online

Peter Mandelson, instructed Leeds university to halt its programme of cuts and redundancies, following a complaint that their implementation has broken internal regulations. The First Secretary of State acts in his capacity as Lord President of the Council overseeing 16 universities. UCU confirmed a rolling programme of industrial action at Leeds University including strikes on Thursday 25 February, Tuesday 2 and Thursday 4 March.
 

Leeds lecturers vote to strike - The Guardian

in the face of 54 job losses and the threat of 700 more, UCU members voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action. The turnout was 66% – the highest figure UCU has ever had in a ballot, and signalling the strength of feeling about savage funding cuts and damaging job losses. Almost two-thirds (64%) who voted supported strike action and over three-quarters (78%) agreed to action short of a strike.
 

Leeds university student union says scab on strike

After Leeds UCU launched a ballot for industrial action last week, the student union launched a campaign to stop their lecturers going on strike. It said it would be encouraging staff to vote "no" to industrial action, contacting their departments, gathering names on petitions, and lobbying at the highest levels of the university.

Jak Codd, communications and internal affairs officer at the university, said: "Industrial action is not good for students, and we implore UCU to not go down this route. Students are paying more than £3,000 a year to be at university, and they deserve better."
Education officer Mike Gladstone added: "We hope that UCU and the university management can sit down together and discuss their grievances without students getting caught in the middle. Industrial action by academics almost always impacts upon students the most, and this is not fair

Leeds strike on cards if arbitration fails - Times Higher Education

Academics at the University of Leeds will be balloting for strike if last-minute arbitration fail. UCU demand that management rule out compulsory redundancies. Negotiations through ACAS are scheduled for 5. and 11. of January. Management have not specified how many jobs will go, but vice-chancellor Michael Arthur has refused to rule out compulsory redundancies.

Exclusive: £20m error hits coffers at job-threat university - Yorkshire Post

Leeds university made an accounting blunder which left it with £20m less than it expected at the end of the last financial year. The mistakes were also carried forward in financial forecasts over a five-year planning period up to 2013, meaning a miscalculation of around £100m. However university bosses insist the mistakes are not responsible for cuts worth £35m that Leeds university is now planning.

Strike threat at university over fears for jobs - Yorkshire Post

UCU members at Leeds university overwhelmingly to ballot for strike action and passed a motion of no confidence in vice-chancellor, Professor Michael Arthur at an emergency general meeting. Plans to save £35m might see academics slashed by 10 per cent, sending the university to the bottom of a national league table for student to staff ratios with 17.6 students to each member of academic staff.

Leeds University staff warned of "significant" job losses - Yorkshire Post

UCU University of Leeds branch president, Malcolm Povey, warned that proposed cuts at the University of Leeds "could lead to hundreds of valuable staff being made redundant at time when the city, and the country, needs a strong higher education sector. We will defend every job and oppose any threat of compulsory redundancies. Staff are the most important resource at any university and getting rid of huge numbers is not in the interests of the university, its students or the local community. Management needs to work with us during these tough economic times."


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