Salford City College has announced plans to cut 30 more teaching jobs as it seeks to balance its budget.
A spokesperson for the college – which has five centres across the city, at Eccles, Walkden, Pendleton, MediaCityUK and CitySkills on Frederick Road – said the cuts were necessary to “end duplication” and to ensure its financial future.
It added that it was hoping to avoid compulsory redundancies and was now consulting with unions.
As a whole the college is rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted.
Last year the college announced it would have to make 57 job cuts after Skills Funding budget cuts totalling £3 million.
Proposals to balance the books included making a push for students to use online learning ‘e-hubs’ with a drops in teaching hours.
In Walkden the college is seeking to demolish two buildings and sell off the land to a housing developer to raise around £2 million.
CEO & Principal, John Spindler said: “The Annual Business Review at Salford City College has outlined proposals to reduce teaching staff by up to 30 posts to meet the delivery needs for 2016/17.
“The reduction is required to address the decrease in school leavers through demography, the reduction in duplicate provision over the 5 college centres and to ensure that the College remains in good financial health.
“Previously, the College has been successful in dealing with such redundancies on a voluntary basis and it is the hope that this will be the case this time around. The College has started a 30 day consultation process with Unions.”
By September 2016 Salford City College want to turn each of their five campuses into ‘Centres of Excellence’ for specific subjects.
Walkden would be a centre for hospitality and catering, hair and beauty and health and social care, including the NHS Cadets programme.
Eccles would focus on sports, animal management, business, travel and work skills; Pendleton would become the college’s A-Level centre, home to performing arts, creative arts and sciences; City Skills would be a centre for construction and engineering; and the college’s newest addition FutureSkills, near MediaCityUK, would be a centre for media, media makeup, IT, coding, music technology and games design.
