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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

‘Cultural and social vandalism’: job cut plans at Goldsmiths attacked

Ben Pimlott Building at Goldsmiths
Cuts affecting 11 of Goldsmiths’ 19 departments are due to be implemented by September 2024. Photograph: Virginia Fitzherbert/The Guardian

Plans for mass redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, have been called a “horrifying act of cultural and social vandalism” and the “biggest assault on jobs at any UK university in recent years”.

The job cuts, which are now subject to a consultation, are the latest in a series of redundancies at Goldsmiths and elsewhere in the higher education sector, as universities struggle with financial pressures.

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