Sixteen tutors are to lose their jobs at the Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology as part of a restructuring.
The institute is seeking savings of $2.5 million next year after a reduction in Government funding to the polytech sector.
It had planned to drop its popular adventure tourism programme, but has given it a reprieve after strong protests and will drop a creative writing course.
Institute chief executive Tony Gray says the teacher cuts are across all courses, although the Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology will continue to offer a full range of programmes.
