#DundeeUni in the news again - another 190 FTE job cuts coming in another round of voluntary redundancies https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/education/5517948/live-blog-dundee-university-job-cuts/

"The total headcount at the university fell from 3,432 in August 2024 to 2,757 in May this year – a reduction of 675 jobs.

The bulk of these are due to two previous voluntary severance schemes."

More news on #DundeeUni latest cut plans, including:

"Our academic provision will stay broadly the same, but there are proposals to suspend degrees to varying levels in some subjects, most notably Mathematics, Languages and Philosophy."

"There is no change to our undergraduate course provision for September 2026 entry, and any student who starts in September will be able to finish their degree at Dundee."

#Dundee #Mathematics #languageEducation #Philosophy https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/5520326/dundee-university-suspend-degrees-merge-departments/

@pjacock I would have thought physics was going to be cut before maths. This is a weird development...
@CCochard indeed - both are suffering with weak staff/student ratio, and running physics department has experimental costs that maths doesn’t.
@pjacock with all the "turn over" in the physics department and the age of the people, I would have assumed they would have gone for them first...
(I was a R&T lecturer half in physics and half in mech. eng. not so long ago)