坎大要裁人了

TheSuede

Canterbury University is calling for staff to consider taking voluntary redundancy as it struggles to balance the books after losing students because of the earthquakes.
In a letter emailed to the university's 3000 staff yesterday, Vice-Chancellor Rod Carr said the university was facing significant financial challenges after a 13 per cent drop in student numbers compared with last year.
The university has lost 25 per cent of its first-year students, 30 per cent of its international students and 8 per cent of continuing students.
About 15,500 students are enrolled at the university.
Carr told The Press yesterday that no figure had been put on expected redundancies at this stage.
He told staff that he was calling for voluntary redundancies to try to minimise the number of possible compulsory redundancies.
"While this announcement may not come as a surprise, I know it may be very unsettling, and it is our intention to offer as much support as we can," he said.
In the letter to staff, Carr said it was likely to take several years before the university's annual revenue covered its annual operating costs.
The university was probably going to have to reduce its planned capital investment and borrow to meet uninsured costs of building remediation and code compliance, Carr said.
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said last month that Christchurch's tertiary institutions would receive the same funding next year despite an expected drop in enrolments.
Carr said the university needed further government money to reduce the risk and to enable it to become a sustainable operation over the next five to seven years.
"It is deeply regrettable that a force of nature has brought this upon us," he said.
Tertiary Education Union national president Sandra Grey said staff were disappointed at the announcement, but they knew it was going to happen.
"There was no doubt in anyone's mind that there was going to be some job cuts. While they're disappointed, they are realistic."
She said calling for voluntary redundancies was preferable to other options, including compulsory redun-dancies.
The union held a stopwork meeting at the university yesterday that was attended by 250 of its 1000 members.
Staff have until October 25 to apply for voluntary redundancy, which would be granted only if the staff member's role was surplus to the university's requirements.
The university intends to notify staff of any decisions by the end of November or early December.
Staff who take voluntary redundancy will receive compensation based on their collective agreement.

They will be offered career planning, and the university will pay for a consultation with a financial adviser.



今天下午就开会说这个事情了。。其实大学和城市的成长都是息息相关的，城市建设能带动大学入学，大学生们又能促进城市的各种消费和发展。。

总体说来就是基督城现在完蛋了。。。

大蛋

深表同情,.....

呼啸寒风

早该弃城而走～～～

nz人少地多，而且都是适合居住的环境，不是沙漠戈壁。。。

按照nz的效率本世纪末chc也重建不出个所以然，树活死人挪活的道理岛民不懂

萨米

如果chch完蛋，那么nz也差不多到头了。

TheSuede

我就是基督城的，在这里的自然知道是个什么样子

米虫宝宝

到处都在裁，不光chch，一片萧条阿。

雪梨樱桃

据说坎大裁员30%哦，晕死了，不过应该大部分都是academic staff吧？

TheSuede

academic裁，相应的support staff也会裁
我们就是support staff

puppypapaya

楼主上次不是又份工作在考虑？？ 后来没选那份哦？

TheSuede

puppypapaya 发表于 2011-10-4 10:59
楼主上次不是又份工作在考虑？？ 后来没选那份哦？

美，工资不理想。。。。

移木花道

已阅。。。。。

陌生的香港人

Been to Christchurch twice a few years ago, it was quite dead already (esp. at nights)... ~ so it is not too surprising...

Come to Auckland then...

Jackpot

总体说来就是基督城现在完蛋了。。。

flowerinlost

别太消极　不过要积极面对现实。。。　不知道ｃｈｃｈ周边经济怎么样，有很多学ＩＴ　通信的还是留在那里了，不在ＣＢＤ而已啊

lynettez

哎~ 整个NZ都不咋地呀~

武夫的眉笔

今年只是开始，明年更糟糕，