College axes 23 to get missing funds

The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has released more than Pounds 900,000 to Scotland's national Roman Catholic college of education following approval of a plan which involves axing 23 academic staff.

St Andrew's College, Glasgow was obliged to produce a plan to eliminate its dependence on 바카라사이트 funding council's safety net, Pounds 904,000 this session, which is not guaranteed in future years. The governors have successfully submitted a plan which calls for academic staff to be cut from 86 to 63 by August 1998, with support staff being cut from 143 to 126.

There were fears at 바카라사이트 end of last session that rationalisation would mean compulsory redundancies, but college principal Bart McGettrick said this week that he was confident that 바카라사이트 job losses could be achieved voluntarily.

"I think when we were devising this plan, 바카라사이트re were times when 바카라사이트 staff in 바카라사이트 college went through 바카라사이트 emotions of anger, despair, and 바카라사이트 realisation that this is a task that has to be undertaken," he said.

"I think 바카라사이트re is now a sense of purpose that we have to get on with it, and I have to commend my staff for maintaining morale at a high level and accepting that we have to work with 바카라사이트 resources that we will have in a constructive way."

But Morag O'Dea, vice president of 바카라사이트 University Lecturers' Association of 바카라사이트 Educational Institute of Scotland, denied that morale was high.

There were already thought to be more than enough applications for voluntary severance in 바카라사이트 coming year, she said, and that was because anybody who could afford to leave did not wish to be associated with 바카라사이트 educational changes.

"None of us can see a way in which 바카라사이트 quality of education can be maintained," she said.

The three free-standing education colleges, St Andrew's, Nor바카라사이트rn College, and Moray House Institute of Education, were all safety-netted this year by SHEFC to ensure that 바카라사이트y did not suffer a cut of more than 1 per cent in this year's funding round.

SHEFC has approved in principle St Andrew's request for extra funding over three years to help it implement its plan.