Cardiff Uni job cuts ‘threatened to supply nurses’

Jobs cut at Cardiff University Welsh “threatens nursing supplies” in Welsh health boards, a union leader warned.

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 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. Whaili said that the university has a “important pipeline” in distributing nurses to health boards in South Wales.

“Welsh government gives money to Wales Nursing Education Commissions and Universities to do so through health education reform, and it is one of our greatest providers,” he said.

“It has a school of over 1,000 students, so it is a significant number that comes up every year.

“At a time where we have a significant number of nursing vacancies, it does not take a mathematician to work for students coming through Cardiff University, there is a very important contribution in that pipeline,” he said.

Ms. Whaili said that the cuts will also have an impact on the future of nursing academics.

He said that the hospitals in Wales were less than 2,000 nurses and while the number started decreasing “Hospitals are still in a very difficult situation”.

After Tuesday’s announcement, Cardiff Lecturers began to inform them about planned changes to receive letters from the university.

They read in part: “Please see that attach a copy of your notification of the consultation paper, recommending that your post is a risk of excess and providing a link to the support available to you during this time of change. There are also proposals for change in your school.

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

Somewhere else, the University of Swansi said that despite more than 300 staff members from September 2023, it would have to be cut by £ 30 meters by 2026/27 financial year.

The university’s annual report published this week said that it had created £ 8.5M in savings through voluntary excesses in this financial year.

But he said that he would expand his current financial savings program for another year and the level of expenditure savings will increase by £ 30 million.

Swanasi University Told Newydion S4C: “Keeping even additional savings in mind, we are confident that we will complete our educational salary savings goals this year through vacancy management and our voluntary exit scheme (VES) and compulsory related to our financial situation Can avoid excesses. “

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

He challenged the Welsh government to “what they knew and when” about Cardiff’s plans and called the university to reconsider their proposals immediately.

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.

A statement shared by Madison Hachinson, president of the student union of Cardiff University, states: “We want to express our unwavering support with all the students, and to express solidarity to the employees that may be affected.”