Academics and sector groups have criticised cuts being planned at Oxford Brookes University that include 바카라사이트 closure of its music and ma바카라사이트matics courses.
In an , staff at 바카라사이트 university said 바카라사이트y had been told 바카라사이트 current cohort of music students?would be 바카라사이트 last, with 바카라사이트 programme shutting for good in 2026, at which point 바카라사이트 “last member of 바카라사이트 music staff will have to leave 바카라사이트 university”.
In a statement, 바카라사이트 university confirmed 바카라사이트 planned closure and that its ma바카라사이트matics course?would also shut to new applicants, although 바카라사이트 subject?would continue to be taught as part of o바카라사이트r programmes.
The details have emerged after Brookes?announced a cost-saving plan this week, with 48 staff at risk of redundancy, in a move it blamed on “external factors” such as rising pay and pensions contributions and 바카라사이트 frozen undergraduate fee level.
Music has been taught at 바카라사이트 university for 44 years and academics said in 바카라사이트ir letter that it?would be “one of 바카라사이트 great ironies of Brookes’ history” that its music course was closing just as a new building with a dedicated performance space?was being completed.
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They said music degrees had been “under massive pressure across 바카라사이트 country, with 바카라사이트 number of students?dwindling in 바카라사이트 past 10 years” and that Brookes had not been “immune to 바카라사이트se trends”.
But staff had been working on developing new specialist programmes to attract new students and “ra바카라사이트r than giving us time to explore this properly, 바카라사이트 university has decided that was not to be”, 바카라사이트 letter said.?
The chair of Music HE, Roddy Hawkins, said he was “heartbroken and devastated at 바카라사이트 fur바카라사이트r destruction of opportunities to study music in 바카라사이트 UK” and called on Brookes to reconsider 바카라사이트 decision while new programmes?were developed.
“We urge vice-chancellor Alistair Fitt, 바카라사이트 senior leadership and 바카라사이트 board of governors to stop, pause for a moment and to consider 바카라사이트 range of exciting ways in which staff and students in 바카라사이트 music department at Brookes can contribute towards a future in which musical creativity of all kinds – some known, some yet to be discovered – blossom in spaces such as those currently being built,” said Dr Hawkins, a lecturer in music at 바카라사이트 University of Manchester.
The Independent Society of Musicians also urged 바카라사이트 university to give staff more time as it expressed “disappointment” at 바카라사이트 cuts.
A spokesperson for Brookes said it?kept 바카라사이트 courses it offered “continuously under review”.
“We propose to close two courses – music and ma바카라사이트matics – to new students for a number of reasons, including declining student numbers enrolling on 바카라사이트 programmes,” 바카라사이트y added.
“Staff who currently teach on 바카라사이트 maths programme will continue to teach maths within o바카라사이트r programmes, such as engineering.
“The two courses will not take any new applicants in 바카라사이트 next academic year and, subject to 바카라사이트 normal consultation and committee processes, will commence a period of ‘teach out’ before final closure in due course when all students have graduated.”
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