FIFTY jobs will go as Kirklees College looks to make £3 million savings.

And college bosses described it as “year one of a series of cuts”.

They’ve said a government funding squeeze had led them to make decisions to centralise services.

But the cuts mean that the equivalent of 50 full time jobs will be lost from a 1,400-strong workforce of both full and part-time staff.

Among the cuts are:

A reduction in childcare places offered at main centres and the withdrawal from all community crèches where the college provides courses.

Jobs to go among administrative, nursery and crèche staff.

All services, mainly adult courses, at the college’s Holmfirth Centre axed once classes finish in July.

Services to be centralised at fewer locations.

Asked about future cuts, principal Chris Sadler said: “There will be more changes to the way we deliver in line with what the government signals in terms of funding.

“This is year one of a series of cuts.

“What we are trying to do is soften that over a period of years.”

Bosses hope to find the 50 posts through voluntary redundancy and are in talks with the unions. Other jobs lost are expected to be among business support.

Some of the services and courses to be cut were promoted in the college’s bid for a new £73 million campus off Chapel Hill, which opens in September 2012.