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University of Westminster

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Number of students: 
24710
Management Plans
budgetcut: 
11.00
Job Losses: 
285
notes: 

Redundancies to save more than £8-million have been announced at the University of Westminster. Approximately 285 staff will go, a number the university says will be "broadly split" between 195 academic staff, who are represented by UCU, and 90 support staff, whose union is Unison. Consultation with the unions ends on April 22.(Feb 2010 source)
 

Fears of jobs cull on Harrow campus - Harrow Observer

Redundancies to save more than £8-million have been announced at the University of Westminster. Approximately 285 staff will go, a number the university says will be "broadly split" between 195 academic staff, who are represented by UCU, and 90 support staff, whose union is Unison. Consultation with the unions ends on April 22.
 

Morale plunges as London universities target academics - Times Higher Education

University College London could make "unprecedented" compulsory academic redundancies, a move that follows dozens of job cuts at Imperial College London. As part of a drive to find £3 million in savings in its faculty of life sciences, UCL has set up a "redundancy committee", as required by its governing statutes if it is considering forcing academics out.

At Imperial, 21 academic and 27 non-academic posts have been cut in the faculty of medicine. Both UCL and Imperial are members of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities, which this month warned that UK higher education faced "meltdown" as a result of government budget cuts.

This week the University of Westminster told staff that it will cut 285 jobs by the end of July, equal to 156 full-time equivalent posts. The reductions initially will be delivered through a voluntary scheme. Westminster wants to break even and reduce staff costs to less than 60 per cent of its budget.


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