'No compulsory teaching staff cuts' at university

Bournemouth University staff were told about the plans in March

There will be no compulsory job cuts to teaching staff, a university has said.

Bournemouth University (BU), which has about 17,000 students and employed about 1,600 staff, previously announced it planned to cut 200 jobs, and that its four faculties could be cut to three as it faced "financial pressures with rising operational costs".

However, due to the savings it had since made through voluntary redundancies it said academic staff were no longer at risk.

A spokesman said its academic teams were "fully focussed on the year ahead and are looking forward to welcoming our new and returning students to BU".

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They said as part of its regular review "we suspended around 15 courses but only proposed to close three courses for this year's entry".

"Many of these were similar to other, more popular, courses in the same subject areas which can be confusing to applicants," they continued.

"So whilst there may be slightly fewer courses on offer, we still offer students the chance to study the majority of subjects as before."

Students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are due to receive their A-level, T-level and BTec National results.

Professor Alison Honour, the university's vice-chancellor and chief executive officer, said it was looking forward to welcoming "thousands of new students".

The University and College Union (UCU) previously said up to 10,000 university jobs could be at risk this academic year because of an "unprecedented crisis" in higher education.

Correction 14 August: This article was amended after a previous version said the university had cut about 200 jobs but these remain proposals, under consultation, and were previously reported by the BBC in March.