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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy Education reporter

UTS’s teacher education program set to close as university reveals plan to slash more than 1,000 subjects

University of Technology Sydney tower building
Several UTS faculties and schools will be discontinued or combined as part of its strategy to reduce annual expenditure by $100m. Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images

The University of Technology Sydney will close its teacher education program and public health school as part of a sweeping restructure that would remove more than 1,100 subjects to return the institution to surplus.

The proposed cuts, released on Wednesday, are part of the debt-ridden university’s strategy to reduce expenditure by $100m annually, including previously announcing the cutting of about 400 jobs.

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