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The Royal College of Nursing Wales executive director, Helen Whyley, has raised warnings that proposed job cuts at Cardiff University could reduce the supply of nurses in Welsh health boards. Cardiff University plans to cut 400 full-time jobs due to a funding shortfall, which would involve course closures and department mergers. Nursing, modern languages and music courses are among the subjects facing the cuts. The university has said it will only make compulsory redundancies “if absolutely necessary”.
Whyley said that the institution is a critical pipeline in supplying nurses to health boards in south Wales. She said, “At a time where we have a significant number of nursing vacancies, it doesn’t take a mathematician to work out the students that come through Cardiff University are a very important contribution to that pipeline”. Whyley added that hospitals in Wales are short of 2,000 nurses, and while the number was starting to decrease “hospitals are still in a very difficult position”.
Cardiff University lecturers have begun receiving letters informing them that their posts are at risk of redundancy and offering links to support. The courses facing the cuts are ancient history and religion, nursing, modern languages, music and theology. Chemistry, earth sciences and physics would be merged to create the School of Natural Sciences, while social sciences, geography, and planning would be amalgamated to become the School of Human and Social Sciences, and computer science and maths to become the School of Data Science.
Cardiff’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Wendy Larner, stated that the proposed job cuts are only a proposal but stressed that the university had to “take difficult decisions” due to more costs and fewer international students as well as challenging funding systems. Meanwhile, Swansea University said it will need to make £30m of cuts by the 2026/27 financial year and have already made £8.5m savings through voluntary redundancies this financial year
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