Created on: 05 Nov 2025
In 2022 City of Glasgow College management embarked on a programme of cost-cutting measures that reduced the numbers of permanent and temporary lecturers in post, cut the amount of class contact time across FE and HN courses and stripped back learning support provision.
The implementation of timetabled breaks and cuts to global hours manufactured so-called ‘lecturer underutilisation’ leading to more classes being placed on lecturers’ timetables with less time to prepare and deliver teaching and assessment.
Furthermore, the cuts to learning support services, along with the decision to outsource specialist one-to-one learning support, placed additional pressure on subject lecturers and academic advisors to provide high-level learning support to a larger student population.
Curriculum Managers also face greater pressure from Faculty Management to deliver on KPIs whilst struggling to manage their curriculum teams with limited time, support and resources available to them.
It is concerning that college management did not conduct staff Equality Impact Assessments (EQIAs) before implementing these policy changes. Additionally, there has been no monitoring of the effects of these changes on staff and students and on the provision of learning and teaching within the college.
