Cardiff university is one of the most well established in the country. It’s been going since the 1880s and has had thousand of students come and go including government leaders, celebrities and world-changing scientists. The recent news though, that 400 jobs could be cut will be a shock for many, so we’re asking students for their thoughts.
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00:00It's a little bit representative of how universities are around the UK and the dependency that
00:08we have on sources of income that are supposedly like we're really dependent on foreign students
00:16but there's a big drive for them to go to places like Australia and so on instead.
00:21So it's just sort of, this is happening, it's a bit worrying about the future.
00:25What is the university going to be in 30 odd years, yeah.
00:29I think it's endemic of the situation as a whole under capitalism, I mean marketisation
00:33of education, it's an inevitability under the system and frankly the only thing that
00:39we can do as students and workers is to unite against that really.
00:43These 400 people serve families and they have homes, children, so I don't think it was a
00:49good decision.
00:50Yeah I was just going to say the same thing, I think it's a bit unfair you know to district
00:53cuts in jobs like this out of nowhere for people who have, like you said, to sustain
00:57families, they probably have kids, they have to send to school, things like that.
01:00I don't think it's really a fair choice that they've made but what is there really that
01:04they can do to bring their jobs back?
01:06I kind of saw it coming with some decisions they've been making to refuse to hire new
01:11staff and I know that a lot of kind of the officers have been spread thin but I don't
01:16think, I don't think anyone was expecting 400 jobs to go, you know.
01:23They want to like completely gut the School of Music, they want to get rid of nursing,
01:27I just, it's ridiculous really, I don't, yeah I don't think, I don't think anyone really
01:32expected it.
01:33Cardiff University says they need to ensure the future of the establishment and Vice-Chancellor
01:38Professor Wendy Larner says securing that future in the context of tightening finances
01:42means that they need to take difficult decisions to realise their ambitions and enhance the
01:47education and research and improve the staff and student experience.
01:51They stress that the proposals are not final plans and they will be shaped by the community
01:55both internally and externally through formal consultation.