KYOTO (Kyodo) Kyoto University will not renew five-year employment contracts for about 100 part-time workers when they expire in fiscal 2010, university officials said Friday.
The step apparently reflects the elite state-run university’s severe finances amid the deepening recession, the officials said, citing a reduction of about ¥1 billion in annual state subsidies to the school.
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