Extra jobs might be reduce on the College of Kent in a bid to avoid wasting just about £20 million, the establishment has introduced.
The college has opened a voluntary redundancy scheme and won’t fill some vacant roles to chop prices after posting a deficit of £12m in its most up-to-date monetary statements.
A college spokesperson mentioned the scheme was once a reaction to falling numbers of global scholars throughout the United Kingdom, which had led to bigger pageant for house scholars.
It added the scheme aimed to “give a boost to with important pay value financial savings”, however that it remained “on target” with a revised curriculum after up to now pronouncing it might “segment out” a number of topics.
“We stay on target with bold adjustments being offered from September to raised meet scholar and employer wishes, together with a revised curriculum, new educational yr construction and greater employability and trade hyperlinks constructed into our lessons,” the college mentioned.
A number of vacancies would even be held again to check out and make financial savings, it added.
The college up to now introduced it might prevent recruiting scholars in artwork historical past, anthropology, well being and social care, journalism, song and audio generation and philosophy and spiritual research, and proposed to chop 58 jobs in February remaining yr to reply to its “monetary demanding situations”.
In its most up-to-date monetary statements, for 2022/23, the college posted a deficit of £12m.
Group of workers on the college voted to strike in April 2024 because the College and Faculty Union (UCU) mentioned the route cuts would have “devastating penalties”.
The college says it teaches just about 19,000 scholars and employs greater than 4,500 body of workers – together with 1,200 educational body of workers.
