Scores of academic and professional service staff are facing redundancy after three UK universities announced their intention to shut courses and close departments.
In recent days, the University of Wolverhampton, De Montfort University and the University of Roehampton have all unveiled major cost-cutting programmes with job losses concentrated mostly in arts, humanities and social science subjects.
At Roehampton, 226 academics have been notified that their jobs are at risk in what the university called a “strategic realignment” that will see cuts to its philosophy, anthropology, Classics and creative writing programmes.
