Management is not mucking around with its proposed academic restructure (CMM Tuesday)

Consultations are underway, closing on December 12, with recruitment for new positions to start then. “Full implementation” is proposed for January 3.

The university is reducing HE discipline colleges from six to two new ones. The mergers also involve moving some disciplines.

The planned new colleges are Health, Sport and Built Environment and Arts, Business Law Education.

Four student learning support units will be integrated into a new learning and teaching support service.

The restructure involves 17 “impacted positions” one vacant and creates 12.6 FTE new ones.