With talk of cuts drowning out all other kinds of discourse, I thought it would be interesting to canvass opinions in the universities as to the outlook for employment over the next year or two.  Now, I certainly wouldn’t pretend that what I did was to conduct a scientific survey amongst Advancement professionals at the more than 20 institutions I spoke to, but nonetheless the results were interesting.

Firstly, the bad news. At least a couple of institutions are facing compulsory redundancies, and half were anticipating voluntary redundancies/natural wastage etc, the majority of which were expected to primarily impact administrative staff.  Most universities had at least a freeze on recruitment, and many had put in place very strict rules governing the filling of posts which become vacant.

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