• Text size
  • Send this article to a friend
  • Print this article

Dumfries campus is too valuable to be sacrificed

Glasgow University Court is on the brink of deciding to withdraw from the Dumfries campus. The government quango, the Scottish Funding Council, isn't prepared to continue funding its arts faculty courses here. This disastrous policy will cost up to 40 jobs locally. Worse still, the victims of this cut will be young people from less well-off backgrounds and older mature students whose financial and family circumstances prevent them studying away from home.

Glasgow University Court is on the brink of deciding to withdraw from the Dumfries campus. The government quango, the Scottish Funding Council, isn't prepared to continue funding its arts faculty courses here. This disastrous policy will cost up to 40 jobs locally.