Can anyone tell me how much the typical university age population has declined since tuition fees have come in?
What are the Senedd going to do? Cardiff Uni isn’t a public body, is it?
While it’s no joke that people are losing their jobs here, Universities in the UK have been riding a gravy train of hundreds of thousands of overseas students being charged significantly more than their UK counterparts. The bubble is bursting for them now – countries don’t want to send their students here because of cost and immigration controls are starting to take effect.
Before anyone jumps on the “But we need immigration” bus – how did record immigration help our economic growth, housing costs and cost of living?
But don’t worry boys and girls, you might struggle to get a job after graduating, but your University Chancellor is still getting their £400K+
>The university confirmed a figure of £506m in “unrestricted reserves” quoted in the document was correct, but said it would be incorrect to assume that it equated to cash that was ready to be spent.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye3gnk15go](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye3gnk15go)
It has been revealed that CU sits on a pile of money. I understand that burning this reserves to cover tens of millions of deficit would be a very stupid and unsustainable idea. Mind that this years deficit of £31.2m will be doubled next year due to declining numbers of international students, NI hike and still creeping inflation. If nothing is done, these reserves will be burned in 5-7 years.
So some cuts and restructuring is inevitable. But I would suggest – cut only what’s absolutely necessary. Negotiate with the government support for money draining (too expensive to run) disciplines, such as nursing. Ride out the storm. Then restore, when things get better.
The problem is that the VC and other members of Executive Board have their own agendas and vision of the future (not necessarily good in the long run). The cuts they propose are absolutely extreme, But it’s not just the cuts, it’s also a huge restructuring of the Schools and Departments which will inevitably kill a number of important established disciplines. I’m afraid that some of them might see this as an opportunity to add a “huge success” item on their CV and move on to another place, and hence they don’t care about the long term damage their actions will inflict.
Why are you sooo defensive ? You are confusing fact and feelings aint’cha !! It’s got nothing to do with ‘self loathing’ …I’m certainly not ‘perpetuating’ myths ‘just pointing out facts – now pop off to the history section and the ONS for the contemporary socio economic data on who does what,when,where etc. and I suspect you’ll come to find your argument is without merit – ‘innit 🤭🙄
And here’s my answer …
A capital city of a country – a country struggling to retain the nurses it does have – getting rid of one of very few of its existing nursing courses and one of the biggest at taht, is horrible news for government which handles a devolved NHS.
NHS Wales covers nursing tuition fees if you then stick to working with thmem after graduating for two years. It’s things like these the government can influence and use its leverage to retain such a vital course.
It’s not a question of whether anybody can do anything to not close the course; the closure must be averted!
I’m loathe to play straw-man arguments arguments versus straw-man arguments but please explain how our record immigration during 2023 gave us the worst economic growth in the G7 – 0.1%. The details are irrelevant when the headline figures are so terrible. A 1930’s style collapse could drag us into the politics of Germany in the 1930’s – that is not a good place for anyone to go, British Nationals or immigrants.
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Can anyone tell me how much the typical university age population has declined since tuition fees have come in?
What are the Senedd going to do? Cardiff Uni isn’t a public body, is it?
While it’s no joke that people are losing their jobs here, Universities in the UK have been riding a gravy train of hundreds of thousands of overseas students being charged significantly more than their UK counterparts. The bubble is bursting for them now – countries don’t want to send their students here because of cost and immigration controls are starting to take effect.
Before anyone jumps on the “But we need immigration” bus – how did record immigration help our economic growth, housing costs and cost of living?
But don’t worry boys and girls, you might struggle to get a job after graduating, but your University Chancellor is still getting their £400K+
>The university confirmed a figure of £506m in “unrestricted reserves” quoted in the document was correct, but said it would be incorrect to assume that it equated to cash that was ready to be spent.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye3gnk15go](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye3gnk15go)
It has been revealed that CU sits on a pile of money. I understand that burning this reserves to cover tens of millions of deficit would be a very stupid and unsustainable idea. Mind that this years deficit of £31.2m will be doubled next year due to declining numbers of international students, NI hike and still creeping inflation. If nothing is done, these reserves will be burned in 5-7 years.
So some cuts and restructuring is inevitable. But I would suggest – cut only what’s absolutely necessary. Negotiate with the government support for money draining (too expensive to run) disciplines, such as nursing. Ride out the storm. Then restore, when things get better.
The problem is that the VC and other members of Executive Board have their own agendas and vision of the future (not necessarily good in the long run). The cuts they propose are absolutely extreme, But it’s not just the cuts, it’s also a huge restructuring of the Schools and Departments which will inevitably kill a number of important established disciplines. I’m afraid that some of them might see this as an opportunity to add a “huge success” item on their CV and move on to another place, and hence they don’t care about the long term damage their actions will inflict.
Why are you sooo defensive ? You are confusing fact and feelings aint’cha !! It’s got nothing to do with ‘self loathing’ …I’m certainly not ‘perpetuating’ myths ‘just pointing out facts – now pop off to the history section and the ONS for the contemporary socio economic data on who does what,when,where etc. and I suspect you’ll come to find your argument is without merit – ‘innit 🤭🙄
And here’s my answer …
A capital city of a country – a country struggling to retain the nurses it does have – getting rid of one of very few of its existing nursing courses and one of the biggest at taht, is horrible news for government which handles a devolved NHS.
NHS Wales covers nursing tuition fees if you then stick to working with thmem after graduating for two years. It’s things like these the government can influence and use its leverage to retain such a vital course.
It’s not a question of whether anybody can do anything to not close the course; the closure must be averted!
I’m loathe to play straw-man arguments arguments versus straw-man arguments but please explain how our record immigration during 2023 gave us the worst economic growth in the G7 – 0.1%. The details are irrelevant when the headline figures are so terrible. A 1930’s style collapse could drag us into the politics of Germany in the 1930’s – that is not a good place for anyone to go, British Nationals or immigrants.
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