UCU Warns of Job Losses Amid Cutback Plans

Tue, 20 Jul 2010

The University and College Union (UCU) has claimed that class sizes could be set to rise in colleges across the country because of government plans to cut their budgets by 25 per cent. The Union claims that as many as 33,844 jobs will be lost if the efficiency savings are equated to job cuts, though college principals insist that not all of the cuts will affect teachers and staff. The warning comes just one week after the Union predicted that as many as 22,500 university staff will lose their jobs across England owing to government cuts.

While the government insists that frontline services will not be affected by the cuts, the suggestion that the number of pupils and students in each class could rise by a third is sure to alarm critics. Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the UCU, has described the education cuts as a ‘hammer blow’ to the country, and says an unequipped education system could lead to an increase in anti-social behaviour, losses in potential career earnings and tax revenues, and a creaking benefits system.
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