Edinburgh University has warned staff it expects to make job cuts in response to “unsustainable” funding. In a message to staff, principal and vice-chancellor Sir Peter Mathieson said the institution was struggling to meet its £120m-per-month running costs after a fall in student numbers and the UK government’s National Insurance rise.

The University of Edinburgh has blamed Labour’s National Insurance increase for a move to cut hundreds of jobs.Sir Peter Mathieson, the university’s principal and vice-chancellor, said Rachel Reeves’s decision to raise rates for employers meant the institution would now open a voluntary redundancy scheme,

In an official message to all staff, Sir Peter Mathieson, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, says the change by the new Labour administration has created "a multi-million pound increase to our salary bill".

Edinburgh University has warned students from privileged backgrounds not to be "snobs" towards their peers from Scottish and working-class backgrounds. The institution admitted class-related prejudice was a problem on campus.

Edinburgh University has warned privileged students not to be ‘snobs’ towards their working-class peers. The university has admitted there is a problem with class-related prejudice on campus, with poorer students “inadvertently or deliberately shamed by more privileged students”.