Black Christmas for the academy - Times Higher Education

Cuts to the higher education budget will leave universities struggling to meet student expectations and on the brink of “serious decay”, the Government has been warned.

University mission groups have criticised the £135 million cut to the Higher Education Funding Council for England budget, announced in the annual grant letter yesterday.

Some £84 million is to be switched from capital baselines, with £51 million cut from the teaching grant – down to £5.027 billion in 2010-11.

However, the mission groups had differing takes on the detail of the letter.

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24 decembrie 2009 | Categoria Revista presei