Scotland’s Education Secretary said she had been “surprised” by news that 700 jobs are to go at Dundee University – saying ministers had not been told that figure in advance before it was revealed in a letter to MSPs.
Jenny Gilruth insisted while she and higher education minister Graeme Dey had “interrogated” senior figures at the university over the scale of job losses, there had been “no movement” from the initial figure provided that 632 full-time equivalent posts would go.
