London Metropolitan University to outsource most services to private firm

By Jeevan Vasagar. Contract valued at £74m includes handing over IT, library facilities, student counselling and careers advice.
A London university has drawn up an ambitious outsourcing programme in which a swath of services, from managing its estates to marketing and finance, will be carried out by a private firm.
London Metropolitan University, which has more than 16,000 undergraduate students, has produced a tendering document under which all services except teaching and the vice-chancellor's office will be outsourced. The contract is valued at £74m over five years, according to the Exaro News website.