England's university budgets are being cut by £449m, leading student places to be reduced by an estimated 6,000 in the next academic year.
Teaching budgets are being reduced by £215m, a cut in real terms of 1.6% on 2009-10 levels, says the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
Reeta Chakrabarti reports.
One-Minute World News 
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