The union said strikes would take place on:

Staff will also take continuous action short of strike from 4 March.

Industrial action follows the university also saying it was in the “very early stages” of opening a new campus in India.

A spokesperson said it was working to “address financial pressures” like other universities across the UK.

“[This] is why our senior management have been exploring opportunities overseas including a possible campus in India,” they said.

Prof Perry said: “Gambling on the international student market and expansion through new buildings is going to cost our jobs unless we do something about it.”

He said planned cuts at Newcastle University, as well as those planned at Sunderland and Durham, were a “recipe for recession” in north-east England.

“We need more young people in our universities not less,” he said.