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News Talks podcast: The human cost of UK university job cuts

We discuss the fallout from tens of thousands of layoffs across UK higher education after a THE survey exposed the anger, fear and stress that pervade the sector

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The devastating human impact of the redundancies across UK universities was laid bare in a Times Higher Education survey which painted a picture of a demoralised, exhausted and fragmented sector.

In this week’s podcast, the author of the UK University Redundancy Survey, THE features editor Paul Jump, talks Miranda Prynne through the results and what they reveal about the human stories behind the cuts.

They discuss the strength of feeling among respondents, who and what is blamed for the sector’s financial woes, the impact of the redundancies on those remaining as well as lessons for university senior managers and how institutions might move forward from such a bruising few years.

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