Class sizes threat as UK cuts bite at universities - Laura Clark, daily Mail

Students will suffer bigger classes and crumbling facilities it was claimed last night after universities learned how the first cuts to their budgets for 13 years would affect them. The squeeze will hit 100 universities - three-quarters of the total - and will mean 6,000 fewer degree course places are available to first-year undergraduates than last year, prompting an unprecedented scramble to get in. As well as warning of larger class sizes, lecturers' leaders also said universities will be forced to shed jobs and put building projects on hold.