{"id":294834,"date":"2025-10-02T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=294834"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:45:00","slug":"the-university-of-technology-sydney-says-it-needs-to-cut-400-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=294834","title":{"rendered":"The University of Technology Sydney says it needs to cut 400 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UTS spent hundreds of millions on buildings, only to go broke funding the staff in such buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Universities in Australia are underfunded but is this because they are not offering the courses people wish to undertake in 2025?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They don&#8217;t even have the money to build a wall straight. (that said this criticism looks weak, even without an opinion on the issue. Are they supposed to be in mud huts? It&#8217;s good to have beautiful buildings).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"685\" data-id=\"294835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-0awAEu5bn.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-0awAEu5bn.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-0awAEu5bn-300x257.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-0awAEu5bn-768x658.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"294837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-waIAIdcDe-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-waIAIdcDe-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-waIAIdcDe-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-waIAIdcDe-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-waIAIdcDe-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-waIAIdcDe.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" data-id=\"294836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-yaIAES-bq-1024x685.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-yaIAES-bq-1024x685.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-yaIAES-bq-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-yaIAES-bq-768x514.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-yaIAES-bq.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"827\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"294838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-2asAAKP_c-827x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-2asAAKP_c-827x1024.jpeg 827w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-2asAAKP_c-242x300.jpeg 242w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-2asAAKP_c-768x951.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-2asAAKP_c-1240x1536.jpeg 1240w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-2asAAKP_c-1654x2048.jpeg 1654w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2JqS-2asAAKP_c.jpeg 1748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The University of Technology Sydney says it needs to cut 400 jobs, roughly 10 per cent of the workforce, as part of a cost-cutting initiative to save $100 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After ABC News revealed high levels of psychological distress among staff facing the axe, UTS rolled out advice to support their wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staff say the health advice, which includes making time to wash delicates and brush their teeth, &#8220;de-legitimised&#8221; their concerns.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re a money wasting machine, you&#8217;re always underfunded. How come they have historical high revenues but historical low outcomes at the same time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities in Australia are underfunded but is this because they are not offering the courses people wish to undertake in 2025?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":294839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5026,2139,18342],"class_list":["post-294834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-nsw","tag-sydney","tag-university-of-technology-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294840,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294834\/revisions\/294840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}