Announcement comes less than a year after UHI Perth revealed scheme for similar cuts which included closure of campus nursery.
Bosses at Perth’s university have been condemned over plans to make savage cuts of around 70 jobs and close the campus nursery.
The cuts are aimed at making savings of £3m in staff costs and to increase income by around £1m to reach a break-even point by July 31 next year. “The staff cuts proposed would see UHI Perth stripped to the bone, resulting in untold damage to Perth’s standing as a university city, and leaving more than 70 staff without jobs in the midst of a cost of living crisis.
Unison Scotland FE branch education and lifelong leaning co-ordinator, Jane Edwards, said: “Around this time in 2023, a similar announcement was made, then describing a deficit of £3m. And Perthshire South and Kinross-shire MSP, Jim Fairlie, said: “We need to be doing all that we can to widen access to further and higher education, and these proposals seem to put more stumbling blocks in the way for people to be able to access courses.”
“Alongside reductions in funding and the cost of living crisis, we have rising staff and utility costs, leaving us with significant economic concerns and the requirement to create a financially stable future.
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