Cash-strapped university to make another 150 job cuts

Losses ‘will secure its long-term future’

- Phil Corrigan

KEELE University is set to make another 150 job cuts as its financial situation worsens.

The university is facing a further £5 million deficit in 2025/26, in addition to a previously announced £6 million annual savings target.

There are now plans to cut 100 more academic roles along with about 50 professional services jobs. University leaders say the higher education sector is facing ‘unprecedented financial challenges’ and insist job cuts are necessary to secure Keele’s long-term future.

But the University and College Union has condemned the job cuts as an ‘ill-conceived solution,’ claiming they will only make Keele’s financial problems worse.

UCU members recently carried out five days of strike action as part of their dispute over plans to cut 24 academic jobs within the schools of humanities and social sciences. Keele was expected to approve up to 11 compulsory redundancies on Tuesday.