University lecturer initially enraged after 50% cut in school education programme (8)
I believe the answer is:
schedule
'programme' is the definition.
(I know that programme is a more specific form of schedule)
'university lecturer initially enraged after 50%' is the wordplay.
'university' becomes 'U' (abbreviation for university).
'lecturer' becomes 'l' (abbreviation for lecturer).
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'd0%' becomes 'sched' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'enraged' is 'e'.
'u'+'l'+'e'='ule'
'ule' put after 'sched' is 'SCHEDULE'.
'cut in school education' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for schedule that I've seen before include "Syllabus" , "Plan of activities" , "Timetable for activities" , "Agenda" , "List of duties, etc" .)