Southampton plans job losses within chemistry department

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The university says 50–75 posts across six academic areas, including chemistry, are to go in voluntary severance programme

As part of its long-term strategy, the University of Southampton in the UK has announced plans to reorganise its existing eight faculties into five, and make cuts of 50–75 employees through voluntary severance schemes in six academic areas. The areas facing job losses have not yet been publicly announced due to an ongoing internal consultation, but the university has confirmed to Chemistry World that chemistry will be one of them.