{"id":532442,"date":"2026-04-15T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532442\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:56:13","slug":"ulster-university-to-cut-up-to-450-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532442\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster University to cut up to 450 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chair of the UU branch of the University and College Union (UCU), which represents a large number of staff employed by the university, said the cuts represent &#8220;a direct threat to the quality of education&#8221; students receive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norman Hagan described the announcement as &#8220;deeply alarming and unsustainable&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Removing hundreds of staff will fundamentally damage the student experience and weaken academic provision,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hagan argued that decisions of this magnitude &#8220;if forced through would have far-reaching detrimental consequences for students, local communities, and the wider regional economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that the union will &#8220;strongly resist&#8221; compulsory redundancies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our members deserve full transparency, genuine consultation, in line with legal obligations, as well as the opportunity to challenge the assumptions underpinning these decisions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Any process that falls short of this will be robustly contested and our members will not be afraid to take action to challenge these decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will not stand idly by and let our university flounder through government or university neglect,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chair of the UU branch of the University and College Union (UCU), which represents a large number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-532442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}