r/dundee • u/Kagedeah • 6d ago

Dundee university cuts to be 'worse than expected'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dep4522w8o
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u/Kiss_It_Goodbyeee 6d ago

The number was always 632 FTE.

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u/Asconodo 5d ago

Closer to 1,000 by the end of I hear…

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u/No-Biscotti-9439 5d ago

Staff finding out about stuff in the news (see comments on courier) shows just how bad this is. It's going to cause serious consequences for the city. I just wonder how long it needs to be before someone removes the management, including those who deputised during this mess.

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u/FroggyWinky 6d ago

The letter also revealed a total of £7.8m was spent by the university between 2016/2017 and 2023/204 on "aborted software implementation projects" - a total of 38% of the university's total expenditure on software projects in that time.

Assuming these were really "aborted" projects and not just prototypes that were shelved, then that's a very high rate of failure. Were these external contractors or in-house development?

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u/Mediocre_Profile5576 5d ago

It will have been the big “Business Transformation” programme that was supposed to implement an all-singing-all-dancing integrated computer system.

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u/enmity4 5d ago

Got to be outside contractors who mucked it up eh? That figure seems way too high for in-house devs. Waste of money.