Cardiff Uni job cuts ‘threatened to supply nurses’

Cardiff Uni job cuts ‘threatened to supply nurses’

Paul Pigot
BBC News
Bethan Lewis
Education and Family Correspondent, BBC Wells News
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Helen Whaili of Royal College of Nursing says that Cardiff University has a “important pipeline” in the supply of nurses to health boards in South Wales.

Job cut in Cardiff University threatened to supply nurses in Welsh Health Boards, warning a union leader.

university Funding has confirmed plans to cut 400 full -time jobs between shortfallL, with proposals associated with the course closure, and the merger of the department, the nursing, music and the subjects facing cuts with modern languages.

Royal College of Nursing Wales Executive Director Helen Whaily told BBC Radio Wells Breakfast The offers were “worrying”.

The Cardiff University stated that no “final decision” was made in relation to the proposals, and the nursing students would “no immediate effect”.

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The lecturer has started receiving the letter, who are advising them that their post is at risk and is offering the link for support – although the university has said that it is “compulsory excesses only if necessary” Will give

Ms. Whaily said that the university is a “important pipeline” in distributing nurses to health boards in South Wales, describing more than 1,000 students as “one of our biggest providers” with more than 1,000 students.

“It does not take a mathematician that students coming through Cardiff University have a very important contribution to the pipeline to work,” he said.

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“I hope I graduate here at Cardiff University, but certainly uncertainty is still around us,” the student says FFLur James

Ms. Whaili said that the hospitals in Wales were less than 2,000 nurses, and when the number was decreasing, the hospital is still “in a very difficult situation”.

A spokesperson of the Cardiff University stated that “a lot of work was done in detail to work through any decision”.

He said, “In short term, nursing students or their ability to complete their studies would not have any immediate effect,” he said that it was “fully aware” about his role in distributing healthcare professionals in Wales in Wales. And “actively consulted” all stakeholders “.

This is also a worrying time for the possible students of the university because today’s signs are UCAS equal view time frame.

However, UCAS’s Courtney Shepard said that the students can still apply to the university or college “until the courses will remain open.

He urged the students to talk directly to the university, if they were concerned about a particular course.

A spokesperson of the Cardiff University also stated that the program for 2025/2026 would continue and was “committed to an intake for the coming academic year”.

Which courses are at risk of cuts?

  • Ancient history and religion
  • Dharmasra
  • Nursing
  • music
  • modern languages

Which courses are in danger of merging?

  • Chemistry, Earth Science and Physics merged to create a natural science school
  • Computer science and mathematics merged
  • Social science, geography and planning were merged to become schools of human and social sciences
  • English, communication and philosophy, welsh and history, archeology and the remaining elements of religion and modern languages ​​merged into the school of global humanities

FFLER James, a second year student studying French and Welsh, said that he and his classmates in the modern language department faced “uncertainty”.

“I was in a French category and the teacher said he had to leave early to go to a meeting that would determine the school’s death,” he said.

“Everyone in my class wondered each other.

“Uncertainty is the biggest thing and the thing that makes me worried.

“I am not sure where it leaves me. I hope I will graduate at Cardiff University here, but certainly uncertainty is still around us.”

Cadi, one year 13 student Ysgol Bro Myrddin, in CarmarthenShire, was expecting to study child nursing in Cardif.

He said that the situation made him feel “really disappointed” at the university.

“I am hurt that they have left it till the last minute. It is not appropriate on us, as an applicant,” he said.

Caddy said that she is now looking at the option to study outside Wales, which means that she would not have the opportunity to use Welsh language outside Wales.

‘Uni job cuts bothers me about my future’

Area -union Universities UK Said that the universities are “more than the years” than the years.

A statement said in a statement, “The region needs a funding reeink, which is starting with the government’s guarantee.

On Tuesday, Vice Chancellor Professor Wendy Larner said that the university would be “unstable” without strict reforms.

He said that there was only a proposal in the role of job role, but insisted that the university had to take “difficult decisions” between the decline in international student applications and increasing cost pressure, and most UK University was to take a “broken” funding system of a “broken” funding system Were struggling together

Students coming through Cardiff University are a very important contribution to nursing, RCN’s Helen Whaili says

In recent years, most eight institutions in Wales have been voluntary excesses and cuts citing similar challenges for institutions in the rest of the UK.

Since September 2023, Swanasi University has confirmed that 342 employees have left or leaving under their voluntary plan.

To make it up to £ 30m by 2026-27, the level of savings required will have to be increased, but a spokesman said Newydion S4C It is believed that it can avoid compulsory excesses.

Aberystwyth University has confirmed that 101 employees have left through voluntary excesses, while Bangor says it can not confirm how many employees will leave under their plan, but more than 100 vacancies has been discontinued.

More than 100 employees at the University of South Wales voluntarily left, but it is currently consulting proposals to cut 160 jobs in the roles of non-educational professional services.

Cardiff Metropolitan University says that 60 employees have so far left with another scheme under voluntary dissection.

The figures for employees leaving the University of Wales Trinity St. David are currently about 26 years old, but the recent decision to stop graduation in its lampator campus was another example of pressure in the region.

The politicians were about to speak about the cut in Sendd on Wednesday.

Tory Education spokesperson Natasha Asghar said, “I have specially concerned that his nursing course is being proposed.”

Welsh Liberal Democrat Westminster spokesman David Chadwick said Britain government The “increase in national insurance” is impacting the loss of the proposed job.

Cefin Campbell, a spokesman for Pland Cymru Education, said that the news of cardif job cuts was reported by the Welsh government with “deaf silence”.

A spokesperson of the Welsh government said that it was “very disappointed that nursing courses are part of these proposals” and that in Wales was “working immediately” to train the same number of nurses in Wales.

Additional Reporting by Maria Cassidi

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