Government spending cuts were announced yesterday, and for the first time since Labour came in to power, universities are being forced to cut back.
University funding body Hefce, have revealed that the overall funds have been reduced by over half a billion pounds to £7.3 billion.
Students are in uproar over the reduced budgets, many are protesting and staging sit-ins in an attempt to sway the decision.
Unions are predicting that hundreds of university lecturing jobs will be lost, which will inevitably mean a reduction in the courses that universities offer.
Not only this, but the spending cuts will also result in less spaces for future students hoping to apply for places this academic year.
With smaller departmental budgets, courses are expected to seriously suffer and deteriorate in standard.
You may expect it to be the less known universities which are going to suffer, but even prestigious institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge are being forced to tighten their belts, having a restoration grant of £40 million withdrawn.
Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the academics' trade union, the University and College Union, said: "Anyone who thinks this won't massively impact on the quality of education in this country is living in a dream world."
As the country is being forced to ‘dumb down’ Britain continues to spiral uncontrollably into economic downturn, which looks like it might be here to stay for quite some time. Students should prepare for the possibility of unemployment when leaving University, as unemployment rates are currently at their highest of the past 30 years.
Melissa Green
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