The vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia (UEA) has resigned with immediate effect after staff indicated that they had no confidence in the leadership of the financially stricken institution.
David Richardson announced that he was leaving the Norwich-based university after 32 years, the last nine of which were spent in the top job.
Staff at UEA had grown increasingly concerned about the direction of the university, which announced earlier this year that it had built up a deficit of £13.9 million, which was expected to treble in the coming years.
Cuts to departments of between 10 per cent and 25 per cent were expected, but the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) said it had received few details since the announcement and had not been given access to the institution’s accounts.
