In a statement, the university says that to continue funding the festival would “expose itself to an unacceptable level of financial risk”.
Universities in the province are facing a cash crisis as budgets are squeezed as part of cutbacks in funding by the Department of Education and Learning.
Queen’s University Belfast is being
QUEENS University of Belfast has pulled the plugs on funding a festival in its own name.
Profs at the south Belfast seat of learning said they had decided “with great reluctance” to withdraw its annual funding for the Belfast Festival at Queens.