8:10am Tuesday 9th February 2010
GOVERNMENT cuts to university funding are bad news for thousands of prospective students and bad news for growing university cities like Worcester.
More than 570,000 people have applied to start university this autumn but with fewer places available than last year as many as 100,000 may miss out on a place.
Some will not have won a place anyway. But many more will be defeated by money rather than ability.
At the same time the University of Worcester has to put on hold parts of its ambitious plans for a £100m city centre campus on the former Royal Infirmary site. The university needs increased student numbers to fuel its expansion.
Government action is putting the brake on the university’s spectacular growth, albeit temporarily. The sooner it is all systems go again for the university the better it will be for the future prosperity of Worcester.
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