Cuts will deprive thousands of university place, academics warn
Thousands of young people will be stripped of the chance to study for a degree because of savage government cuts to higher education in England, universities warned today.
University funders at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) will outline where the cuts of nearly £315m will be made today. They are expected to announce that teaching budgets will be reduced for the first time since Labour came to power.
Before Christmas, Lord Mandelson, the business secretary who is in charge of universities, said university budgets will be slashed by £135m between 2010 and 2011. This is on top of “efficiency savings” of £180m for the same period …