MSPs told further job losses could be required at Dundee University

Further job losses could be required at crisis-hit Dundee University, MSPs have been warned, with a senior figure from the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) saying the institution may have to “restructure”.

Richard Maconachie, the director lead of SFC’s Dundee recovery team, said while bosses at the university were looking at how to raise more money he believed it will “need to restructure” going forward.

He told MSPs on Holyrood’s Education Committee: “I have not said that there are not more job losses to come.”

However, with regard to these, Maconachie stressed the importance of ensuring any job losses are “in the right place”, adding: “That is why you need a strategy and a vision to ensure any losses are properly rationalised and justified.”

His comments came in the wake of reports thi