(24 Apr 2014, 1:58 pm)NEBCD Malarkey wrote All the Redundancies happened just after I left in the Summer of 2012, Basically if you didn't get sack, you got moved to a Different College in the Sunderland Area. All the Tutors I had in my 2nd/3rd Year moved over to Bede or Hylton College.
What was daft about it was, the fact they all got replaced by staff who were at Shiney Row College, from what I was told when I went back in to get some Maths Revison for a Test I had for Job I applied for at the time.
It would seem after 2 Years that there is still a lot of Problems with City of Sunderland as a whole, what those problem are I don't know, but take a guess and say it was to do with Money and/or Government Funding.
There were big cuts in 2009 too, with all of the sites affected, including Usworth.
There have been funding cuts, but the finance and budget depts, should be able to forecast and plan for these events.
However, if sickness levels are high, then moral is obviously low and management need to resolve it.
If they don't, then Ofsted will have a field day and the downward spiral will continue.