Alarm raised over modern language cuts at Manchester University

Senior academics warn about impact of cuts to the numbers of linguists and cross-cultural experts employed at Britain’s largest universityPlanned staffing cuts that will hit modern languages teaching and research at Britain’s largest university should be scrapped, a group of senior academics have warned in a letter to the Guardian.The plan to shed as many as 35 jobs from the University of Manchester’s school of arts – a third of its strength – would do harm to the U