Due to financial challenges in the higher education sector, the University has been focussed on ensuring its long-term fiscal sustainability. As part of this, a voluntary severance scheme ran in 2025. Circa 345 colleagues were accepted for voluntary severance, leading to £18 million of recurring savings. On behalf of the Senior Leadership Team, we would like to extend our sincere thanks to colleagues who took voluntary severance for their valued contributions to the University.We continue to review and improve our financial sustainability and have run a subsequent voluntary redundancy scheme in 2025/26. This article was published on 2025-01-23
