Up to 140 jobs are feared to be at risk at Birkbeck, University of London after the institution announced plans to make staff redundant due to a fall in student numbers.
The University and College Union said the specialist provider of evening higher education courses had emailed all staff outlining how it intended to fill a “multimillion-pound deficit”.
Cuts on the table included 84 academic and 56 administrative staff positions, who would all be made redundant by July 2023, UCU said. This would include up to 11 staff members in the department of English, theatre and creative writing, 10 in geography; seven in politics; seven in film, media and cultural studies; six in philosophy; and six in language, cultures and applied linguistics.
