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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Dundee University faces ‘hammer blow’ amid plans to cut 635 jobs

Five-storey university building in fading light
Dundee University is facing a ‘financial crisis’. Photograph: Sandy Young/Alamy

Dundee University has announced plans to cut more than 600 jobs and reduce its teaching by a fifth to help cope with a £35m deficit in its accounts.

The university’s interim principal, Prof Shane O’Neill, said that nearly 200 academic staff and 435 support staff would be made redundant, with every department hit by the cuts.

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