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University organisations have voiced fears about the scale of spending cuts being imposed in England by the governmentThey would cut budgets by more than 130m on top of nearly 200m ordered earlierthis year.
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Longer term cuts of 600m were unveiled last month.And next year will see the loss of 10, 000 additional student places that werebrought in this year.
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One union official said the cuts would do longterm damage to the economy.Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said in his annual grant letter to the HigherEducation Funding Council for England that the cuts were needed to pay for the"higher than expected"costs of funding grants record numbers of students during the recession.
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The government said it remained committed to ensuring that 50% of school leavers went on to university,which is a central plank of Labour's education policy.
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