Mandelson defends university spending cuts
Date posted: 18 Feb 2010
Business secretary Lord Mandelson has defended plans to cut university spending and hit back at critics resistant to belt tightening.
He said that those who are against government plans to slash budgets by £449 million in 2010-11 do not want reform and their criticisms have little to do with spending cuts.
Business secretary Lord Mandelson has defended plans to cut university spending and hit back at critics resistant to belt tightening.
He said that those who are against government plans to slash budgets by £449 million in 2010-11 do not want reform and their criticisms have little to do with spending cuts.
"I have heard recently from some who have joined the debate about public funding, making claims about lost jobs and redundancies which on closer examination are ... not to do with spending reductions or cuts, they are to do with reforms," said Lord Mandelson.
He went on to say that the proposed cuts are being resisted because university staff do not want resources redeployed in a different way than they are at the moment.
Last week, Universities UK called for rising demand for university places to be matched with an increase in public investment and warned that there may not be enough places available for eligible students in the summer of 2010.
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