The University of Nottingham has proposed severe cuts to staffing in the School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies (CLAS) at the University of Nottingham, as a result of a Portfolio Review in the Faculty of Arts. The Review proposes a savage reduction in staffing levels in CLAS. The department of German - currently staffed with 13.3 staff - is required to lose four staff, a figure that is bound to result in compulsory redundancies. Russian & Slavonic Studies have been asked to lose three staff; Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, two staff. French lost five staff over the last two years without replacement.

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