The University of Canberra has announced a series of measures to rein in costs after recent cuts in the Federal Budget.
It is proposing changes to language courses and additional measures which will save about $8.3 million over the next three years.
The National Tertiary Education Union says about six jobs will be lost when the university shuts down three language programs: Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish.
University management says it will stop its own teaching of elective majors in Chinese, Japanese and Spanish, all of which are available at the Australian National University (ANU) but are too small at UC to be viable.
Paid parking will also be introduced across the entire campus at Bruce from January 2014.
The hourly charge for parking is still to be determined.
Plans to establish a civil engineering program will be abandoned to save money.
The cost saving measures will also include a senior management pay freeze and a reduction in the number of senior management positions.
In the past week the ANU has announced its frozen all new recruitment for non-academic positions as it copes with a $50 million budget cut over the next two years
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