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Zac de Silva

Top university backtracks on controversial job cuts

Officials at the ANU have been reviewing plans to slash dozens of academic positions. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

A program of drastic job cuts at one of the nation's most prestigious universities has been canned after backlash from staff and students, but its chancellor is still under pressure to resign.

Officials at the Australian National University have been reviewing plans to slash dozens of academic positions after the Canberra institution's vice-chancellor Professor Genevieve Bell quit her post following a months-long public relations saga.

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