‘Cultural and social vandalism’: mass redundancy plans at Goldsmiths attacked

Union claims up to a quarter of all academic roles at financially pressed London institution face the axe

Plans for mass redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, have been called a “horrifying act of cultural and social vandalism” and the “biggest assault on jobs at any UK university in recent years”.

The job cuts, which are now subject to a consultation, are the latest in a series of redundancies at Goldsmiths and elsewhere in the higher education sector, as universities struggle with financial pressures.