Dundee University has announced it will cut up to 120 jobs across the university in order to make a larger surplus. However UCU Dundee do not believe such drastic financial measures are required, or fair and do not believe that university management will achieve the job cuts they are anticipating without resorting to compulsory redundancies
University management have said they need to reduce staffing to deal with financial pressures, however the Scottish Funding Council, which distributes public money to universities and colleges, has told Dundee University its likely funding package for the 2014-15 academic year will be £65.8 million, made up of £40.8m in teaching grants and £24.9m for research. The total is about £3.5m more than this academic year and the University is expected to have a total budget including research grants, tuition fees and other income, of about £220m. We believe the job cuts are unnecessary, will damage the university and it’s staff and students
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