@nprofile1q... I think SLT is just too incompetent and can’t identify where in the system the ‘unnecessary’ expenditure is. As a result, they default to staff costs (again, without identifying areas where duplication exists or efficiencies achieved). Then, because they are spineless, they put the onus on staff to leave ‘voluntarily’. The end result will be experienced staff going, from areas they are needed in. Will they allow any profs with research funding in ag disciplines to leave? Unlikely. Faculties like mine will be seen as superfluous to requirements so they will use any who ‘choose’ to leave to push their narrative and it will be the thin end of the wedge, enabling them to justify course cuts and dept closures…