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The University of Liverpool plans to reduce its academic staff by more than 220 so that it can achieve its ambition to become a global top 100 university by 2026.
In a statement, the university said it had launched a “voluntary severance scheme for academic staff” to enable it to invest in teaching and research priorities.
The university, which is one of the institutions hit by strikes as part of the pension dispute over recent weeks, said it was launching a project to “increase the pace of improvements” which included “reshaping” its academic profile.
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