Staff at the University of Lincoln fear they could lose their job as early as next month after the institution announced dozens of redundancies across its academic departments.
The University and College Union (UCU) said 140 staff have been told their jobs are at risk in the East Midlands university’s latest cost-cutting exercise, with 34 posts eventually being lost.
Redundancies will be concentrated in the schools of humanities and heritage; engineering and physical sciences; social and political sciences; chemistry; geography; and design and architecture, as well as the Lincoln International Business School, the union said.
It is understood that the whole team teaching politics and international relations is at risk, although the university stressed it has no plans to close these subject areas entirely.
The university said it needed to adapt given changing student demand, demographic change and competitive pressures.
