The University of Exeter has made redundancy payments of almost £19 million to around 450 staff who have left under a voluntary scheme over the past two years.
Its 2024-25 annual report says that first round of the scheme, which ran from April to August 2024, was taken up by around 180 employees with around 270 employees then leaving during a second redundancy round held the following year.
The university says this was prompted by “the acknowledgement of the impact of continued international student recruitment challenges”.
