Queen's University agree to cut 103 members of staff

From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

United Kingdom

Other stories from The United Kingdom

• 7 November 2009: BBC's Strictly Come Dancing to be broadcast from Blackpool Tower
• 6 November 2009: Four people die after contracting H1N1 swine flu virus in West Midlands, England
• 5 November 2009: Lord Burns confirmed as new chairman of Channel 4
• 5 November 2009: Political fallout from the sacking of Professor David Nutt gathers momentum
• 5 November 2009: British singer Robbie Williams announces his return to boyband Take That

...More articles here

Location of the United Kingdom

---

To write, edit, start or view other articles on the United Kingdom, see the United Kingdom Portal

Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland has agreed to cut 103 members of staff and to close its German department. The ruling body agreed with the cuts claiming that it would save money and also increase the school's chances of entering the world’s top 100 universities.

Originally announced as a staffing reduction of 150 positions, the number was lowered. The lecturers' union has commented, saying it is the "wrong decision"; they intend to “fight the job losses” despite the fact that the number is lower than expected.

According to the BBC, the university wishes to ensure that most of the academic staff takes part in "high quality" research, so those who just teach students are most at risk of losing their jobs.

Both the university management, and the union are to appear before the Employment and Learning Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly at a later date. They were summoned after reports of job and subject cuts.

Sources

• "Queen's University to shed 100 jobs in cost-cutting plan". The Irish Times, June 24, 2009
• "Queen's agrees 103 job cuts plan". BBC News Online, June 23, 2009
  

Share this:

This page is archived, and is no longer publicly editable. Got a correction? Add the template {{editprotected}} to the talk page along with your corrections, and it will be brought to the attention of the administrators. Please note that due to our archival policy, we will not alter or update the content of articles that are archived, but will only accept requests to make grammatical and formatting corrections. Note that some listed sources or external links may no longer be available online due to age.