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Wed 06 Jun 2009Queen's University to shed 100 jobs in cost-cutting plan
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Belfast is to shed over 100 of its academic staff as part of a controversial cost-saving exercise aimed at bringing the college into the table of the top 100 universities in the world.
Vice-chancellor Prof Peter Gregson said yesterday that the university’s governing body, its senate, voted in favour of the new plan which will see the loss of 103 posts by Christmas. Fifteen members voted for the proposals, six against and 4 abstained.
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