Eggens

One of the targets of the foreseen cutbacks is the Eggens Institute. This ‘extra’ establishment’s main focus is to provide refresher courses that Nollkaemper believes are no longer necessary. ‘Refresher courses are offered at law offices. We aim to reduce the Eggens Institute in size and to instead provide immersion courses.’

The Leibniz Institute of Law Informatics and the Bonger Institute of Criminology are also to be re-evaluated in the shake up. Measures aimed at these so called ‘faculty outskirts’ are thought to add up to an estimated saving of 600.000.

Another 600.000 is expected to be found in costs incurred by support and management staff. There is a high volume of double work being performed in the faculty’s administrative offices with students regularly complaining about the inconstancies in the information received by the different administrative bureaus.

Having one central Education Information Centre would change this. ‘Unfortunately I cannot guarantee there won’t be any forced redundancies,’ Nollkaemper says about the matter.

The remaining 1.4 million euros will be found using money in the faculty’s reserves.

In February the Works Council will take a decision on the matter.