The governing body of the University of West of Scotland met last week,with members voting 19 to 1 in favour of closing the nurseries inHamilton, Lanarkshire, and Paisley, Renfrewshire in August.
A university spokesperson said that the nurseries would be replaced witha new funding scheme which could be used to provide childcare supportfor double the number of students across all of the university's fourcampuses, including those in Ayr and Dumfries.
He added, 'The university has developed a detailed action plan to assistnursery staff as well as parents of children currently using thenurseries through the transition to the new arrangement. All staffcurrently employed in university nurseries will be considered forredeployment and the university will also seek to identify suitablealternative childcare for the children of students currently using theon-site facilities who require nursery facilities for the next academicyear.'
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