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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by d.m.... on May 19, 2023 - 12:50pm

Though I appreciate someone has to take on the great burden of balancing budgets and make difficult decisions, I am not confident with how the first place this VCs mind went to when considering cuts was student mental health provision. And during mental health awareness week.

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