GOLDSMITHS has abandoned plans for compulsory redundancies after 10 months of determined resistance by lecturers.

Senior management at the London university declared 46 compulsory redundancies in a financial deal with Natwest and Lloyds Bank, but members of the University & College Union (UCU) responded with industrial action.

Lecturers boycotted marking and assessments and appealed to overseas universities to impose an academic embargo.