350 jobs at UC on the line
Budget shortfalls could create significant cuts
350 academic, general, and technical staff positions at the University of Canterbury may be lost over the next three years as a result of budget shortfalls.
The shortfalls, projected at the start of August, are likely to be in the order of $12 - $18 million.
In a message to staff on Thursday, Vice-Chancellor Dr. Rod Carr said there were no plans to "make reductions of the magnitude suggested", but a 13 percent drop in student numbers meant "some redundancies are inevitable".
In a message to staff last month, Dr. Carr said the budgetary challenges facing the University came from a number of areas. "Some of these challenges are earthquake-related, others are issues the senior management team has previously identified such as the impact of Government imposed fee caps on our ability to recover costs, the need to ensure the effective use of teaching time by looking at small enrolled taught courses and the number of students each academic staff member teaches, the overheads we carry in underutilised built infrastructure, the costs we incur in relatively low value manual transactional activity that can be reduced, eliminated or automated through change in work practices."
The final budget, which will determine the number of jobs to go, will be determined in November after consultation with the University's academic board.
See Canta next week for more details
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