Universities lose out over cutbacks
All of the UK’s universities are set to lose a total of £65m of funding from the government. The loss will be shared among them on a student population basis, with the Open University set to lose £2.5m and the University of Manchester £1.4m.
The government agency, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has claimed that it is all part of a cut-back on expenditure due to the current economic climate. This is latest in a long line of damaging events to occur in the higher education sector, with more people applying for courses while the number of positions isn’t rising quickly enough to cope with them. This is added to by the increasing costs of university education for students and paints a bad picture for those hoping to get a degree.
The increases in places which are occurring are not being supported by funding from the government, whilst some courses are not actually being classified as ‘high priority’ and so are suffering more than others.
Unions and tutors are saying this is the beginning and that further cuts are sure to follow.
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