Staff at the University of Aberdeen are being balloted on potential strike action in an ongoing dispute over job cuts.

A £10m savings plan - which could see more than 100 jobs lost - was agreed earlier this year.

Talks between the University and College Union (UCU) and the institution broke down last month.

Members of UCU are now being asked if they are willing to take future strike action. The university has been asked for comment.

The university reopened a voluntary severance and early retirement scheme earlier this year in a bid to find savings.

It also asked departments to identify measures to save money.

The aim is to see the university break even financially by 2028.

Staff have already been on strike this year because of the proposed cuts.

Last month it emerged talks in the ongoing dispute over planned job cuts at the university had broken down after a senior trade union official was dismissed.

UCU said the staff member's dismissal needed to be met with a "proportionate response", and it had withdrawn from the ongoing negotiations.

Announcing the ballot opening, the union said members would also be asked if they were willing to take action short of a strike.

This could include a marking and assessment boycott.

The university had previously expressed disappointment that talks had broken down.

Universities across Scotland are involved in cost-cutting programmes.

The University of Edinburgh announced it was to seek £140m in cuts to tackle financial difficulties in February last year.

The Scottish government bailed out Dundee University with £40m of emergency funding to help it through a financial crisis.

Strikes over cost-cutting have also taken place at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, while Strathclyde University announced plans to cut 70 jobs in December.