Three staff at the college have been redeployed

Three members of staff were facing compulsory redundancy at the further education college and lecturers had passed a vote of no confidence in three senior managers there, threatening industrial action.

But Kevin Brown, a lecturer at the college and branch secretary of the teaching union NATHFE, said the college has now managed to negotiate voluntary redundancies.

It means that the three who had been facing compulsory redundancy have now been re-deployed.

However, there are still some issues to be resolved over the working practice contracts of around 30 part-time staff at the college.

Negotiations are still continuing and the next round of talks should be held in the new year.

Union officials have put forward several alternatives to college management with a view to saving the jobs.

However, Wil Edmund, the college principal, has previously said that with 800 people working at the institute, seven redundancies was a small number.