Higher Education Under Pressure: Provision Tracker
One of our top priorities is ensuring that the UK has healthy maths degree provision at all tariff-levels and across the country. This must be a crucial part of any strategy to improve economic growth and productivity, or to strengthen the maths teacher workforce.
However, following several cuts or closures at university maths department in recent years, the start of 2025 has seen a series of university-wide announcements on voluntary redundancy processes, potentially affecting mathematics.
Therefore, in January 2025, CaMS launched our Provision Tracker, through which we will proactively monitor the health of university maths departments. We will do this by collating public data on provision, including through official university communications and other published content, such as news articles and research reports.
We want to work with university maths departments to prevent further downsizing or closures. We will support our colleagues in the maths community wherever possible.
If you would like to discuss a particular issue in strictest confidence, please contact Professor Jens Marklof, President of the London Mathematical Society, at J.Marklof@lms.ac.uk.
Public Announcements Around University Cuts and Closures
Dundee University
BBC News: Dundee University to cut 632 jobs to plug £35m deficit
11 March 2025
BBC News: Job cuts 'inevitable' over £30m Dundee University deficit
November 2024
Edinburgh University
BBC News: Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings
25 February 2025
Liverpool University
Times Higher Education: Liverpool and Edge Hill universities both plan staff cuts
14 February 2025
Edge Hill University
Edge Hill University: Financial update - Edge Hill University - Edge Hill University
10 February 2025
Edinburgh University
BBC News: Edinburgh University warns staff over funds gap - BBC News
12 February 2025
University of Wolverhampton
BBC News: University closures 'unsettling and worrying'
6 February 2025
BBC News: University to shut buildings as 'estate too big'
Aberystwyth University
Cambrian News: Aberystwyth University £8.1m in the red, situation 'will get worse before it gets better'
4 February 2025
Cambrian News: Union warns up to 200 jobs will be axed at Aberystwyth University
9 May 2024
Queen’s University Belfast
The Irish Times: Queen’s University Belfast launches voluntary job cuts amid €15m deficit
3 February 2025
Cardiff University
BBC Radio 4, Today Programme, Interview with the VC of Cardiff University: BBC Radio 4 - Today, 31/01/2025 (Listen at 2:42:20)
31 January 2025
BBC News: Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs and axe courses
28 January 2025
Durham University
ITV News: Staff jobs at risk as Durham University sets out £20m cuts over next two years
29 January 2025
University of Kent
University of Kent seeks more job cuts to save £19.5m
27 January 2025
Newcastle University
Times Higher Education: Newcastle set to axe around 300 jobs in £20 million staffing cuts
22 January 2025
University of Reading
University of Reading: Voluntary Redundancy Scheme
20 January 2025
Sussex University
BBC News: Sussex University: Hundreds of jobs up for voluntary redundancy
December 2024
University of York
York Vision: "Difficult and Painful": 272 Staff Members Cut as the University Tackles Financial Crisis
December 2024
Birkbeck, University of London
Campaign for Mathematical Sciences: Professor Jens Marklof on the closure of maths degree courses at Birkbeck
25 Nov 2024
University of Sheffield
The Star: High-ranking courses targeted in Sheffield Uni redundancies
24 November 2024
University of East Anglia (UEA)
BBC News: Cash-strapped UEA to shed 170 full-time jobs
20 November 2024
University of Birmingham
Birmingham UCU: Voluntary Leaver Scheme (VLS) update
November 2024
University of Essex
BBC News: University of Essex to cut 200 jobs amid £29m shortfall
November 2024
Northampton University
BBC News: University of Northampton to consider curriculum cuts in 2025
November 2024
University of East Anglia
BBC News: Cash-strapped UEA to shed 170 full-time jobs
November 2024
Brunel University
Brunel UCU Statement on Redundancies
October 2024
University of Nottingham
Nottinghamshire Live: University of Nottingham facing 500 job cuts as union says there is no cash for library books or coffee
June 2024
University of Hull
BBC News: Up to 150 jobs at risk at University of Hull in £23m savings plan
June 2024
Sheffield Hallam University
BBC News: Sheffield Hallam University confirms jobs at risk
May 2024
University of Huddersfield
BBC News: University of Huddersfield to cut 200 jobs and axe courses
26 April 2024
University of Central Lancashire
BBC News: University of Central Lancashire to cut 165 jobs to save money
April 11, 2024
Swansea University
BBC News: Swansea University cuts nearly 200 jobs amid financial difficulties
April 2024
Aston University
Letter to Aston University Staff: Announcement of Voluntary Severance
March 2024
Oxford Brookes University
Times Higher Education: Oxford Brookes inks music and maths closures
2 Feb 2024
Campaign for Mathematical Sciences: Statement on the closure of mathematics degree courses at Oxford Brookes University
23 November 2023
University of Brighton
Campaign for Mathematical Sciences: Open Letter to VC of Brighton University
2 March 2023
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