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Dateline: 22nd January, 2008
Job Losses at RSAMD Up to twenty teaching jobs could go at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) because of a funding shortfall, it was announced today. Savings of £600,000 need to be made and so staff are being offered a voluntary severance scheme but principal John Wallace added that, if this did not make sufficient savings, there would have to be compulsory redundnacies. "We are not given the levels of funding required to pay for drama teaching," John Wallce told the Glasgow Herald. "That means that we have to subsidise the teaching of drama from the money we get for teaching music and that is not sustainable in the long term. "We would urge the funding council and the Scottish Government to look again at our case for extra funding." The Scottish Funding Council pays the college £13,000 a year per music student but only £7,000 a year for those studying drama. By comparison, RADA receives £12,000. A spokesperson for the Scottoish Funding Council told the Herald, "We compared our funding of drama with other funding councils in the UK in 2005 and found our unit of resource is above that of the other funding councils." One of the reasons for the problem is the pay award for lecturers in the UK in 2006 worth 13.1% over three years, which universities had described as being at the "limits of affordability".
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