Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy | University of Nottingham

Submission statement: A Russel Group university is struggling as international students numbers fall (as domestic students are net deficit to the university and subsidised by international students), leading to major cuts including to physics, medicine and health sciences.[](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/18/university-of-nottingham-considers-axing-language-and-music-degrees)

Funding per domestic student has eroded since 2010 and the loss of EU students doing lower cost arts degrees to subsidise more expensive science and engineering degrees coupled with public research funding in the UK being poor and the recent push to cut foreign student numbers has put a financial noose around universities, especially those like Nottingham which have huge liabilities due to the new campus. 

The government need to hike student fees to at least £14k per annum, it’s not like they can get anymore unpopular and it’s the right thing to do. They can offset it by addressing fiscal drag on the repayment threshold and going back to Plan 2 repayment terms. But they’ve spent the last 2 years ignoring this so I highly doubt they’ll do that.