Cardiff UCU in the Media

12 June – BBC News: Cardiff uni defends job cuts amid crisis claims

12 June – Caerphilly Observer: Cardiff University cuts ‘could be repeated year on year’

12 June – Times Higher Education: Cardiff vice-chancellor grilled over ‘backtracking’ on job cuts

12 June – Nation.Cymru: Most stress felt by academics after huge job cuts proposal was personal and not work-related, says Cardiff University Vice Chancellor

12 June – Wales Online: Cardiff University ‘has no God-given right to exist’, bosses say

11 June – BBC News: Cardiff University job cuts a health and safety crisis, says UCU – BBC News

11 June – BBC Radio Wales: Cardiff UCU on BBC Radio Wales over cuts-related mental health crisis @ Cardiff University, 11/06/25

11 June – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University academics ‘have considered suicide and abortion because of cruel cuts programme’

9 June – Nation.Cymru: ‘Macho’ approach criticised by union as Cardiff University pushes modified cuts programme

9 June – Wales Online: Cardiff University issues update on job losses and warns more cuts are needed | Wales Online

4 June – Big Issue: What Cardiff University’s Kazakhstan campus says about British education – Big Issue

27 May – ITV News Wales: Cardiff University set to scale down music and languages degrees but scrap two others | ITV News Wales

27 May – Wales Online: Cardiff University U-turn as plans to cut music and languages are scrapped | Wales Online

27 May – BBC News: Cardiff University backtracks on plans to cut music and languages – BBC News

27 May 2025 – ITV Wales News: ITV Wales News covers Cardiff Uni’s announcement about the future of Music & Languages, 27/05/25

27 May 2025 – Newyddion S4C: Cyrsiau Ieithoedd Modern a Cherddoriaeth i barhau ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd | NS4C | Newyddion S4C

22 May 2025 – Twitter: Cardiff UCU✊🌱 on X: “Hundreds of staff protested outside @cardiffmet today against job cuts. Full solidarity to our colleagues @UCUCardiffMet. Compulsory redundancies are a red line. We stand by you in your fight for jobs. ✊🔥💖 @ucu https://t.co/ddRvtcDQem” / X

15 May 2025 – Times Higher Education: Cardiff University scales back redundancies target to 138

15 May 2025 – Morning Star: Cardiff University reduces number of job cuts | Morning Star

15 May 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University keeps 650 ‘in scope’ for redundancy despite no compulsory job losses pledge

15 May 2025 – WalesOnline: More Cardiff University staff told jobs are no longer at risk but 650 remain under threat – Wales Online

15 May 2025 – BBC News: Cardiff University jobs cuts: New plan lowers redundancies to 138 – BBC News

13 May 2025 – ITV Cymru Wales: ITVCymruWales | Faced with funding shortfalls of around £70 million, Welsh universities are faced with drastic cost cutting measures. From course cuts and… | Instagram

7 May 2025 – Voice.Cymru: Three Months Into Cardiff University’s Death Spiral – An Anonymous Academic Reports

5 May 2025 – Morning Star: Cardiff university unions’ celebrate no compulsory redundancies pledge | Morning Star

3 May 2025 – The Tab: Cardiff University strikes cancelled following UCU vote

3 May 2025 – S4C Newyddion: S4C Newyddion covers the Cardiff UCU jobs win at Cardiff University

2 May 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University strikes called off – but doubts remain in the workforce

2 May 2025 – Times Higher Education: Cardiff University strikes cancelled after job cuts promise

1 May 2025 – BBC Radio Wales: Cardiff UCU on union win over job losses

1 May 2025 – YouTube: Dr Andy Williams, Cardiff UCU, at the Mayday International Workers’ Day Rally in Cardiff, 2025 – YouTube

1 May 2025 – BBC News: Cardiff university strikes dropped as job cuts paused

1 May 2025 – ITV News: UCU calls off strike at Cardiff University as job cuts on hold

1 May 2025 – Music Teacher Magazine: Music Teacher – Saving Cardiff University’s School of Music

1 May 2025 – BBC Wales Today: BBC Wales Today on deal done to save jobs & avoid industrial action at Cardiff University, 01/05/25

1 May 2026 – WalesOnline: Strike action at Cardiff University called off – Wales Online

30 April 2025 – Nation.Cymru: University’s plan to shut down Nursing School ‘could have led to £5m fine’

28 April 2025 – Nation.Cymru: First day of strike action called off at Cardiff University as talks over proposed cuts take place

28 April 2025 – WalesOnline: Cardiff University staff suspend first day of strike action over cuts and agree to talks | Wales Online

22 April 2025 – BBC Cymru Fyw: Nifer o fyfyrwyr Caerdydd yn cefnogi streic staff er ‘effaith fawr’ – BBC Cymru Fyw

18 April 2025: S4C Newyddion: Siaradodd llefarydd UCU Caerdydd Sion Jones neithiwr am y toriadau arfaethedig i swyddi ym Prifysgol

17 April 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University Vice Chancellor cut jobs in New Zealand before moving to Wales

15 April 2025 – Times Higher Education: UK staff and course cuts ‘putting off prospective students’

14 April 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University admits no vote was taken on controversial project in Kazakhstan

11 April 2025 – BBC News: UCU strikes & assessment boycott at Cardiff University in defence of jobs

11 April 2025 – BBC Radio Wales: Cardiff UCU’s Andy Williams on BBC Wales Drive & the Cardiff University marking & assessment boycott

11 April 2025 – BBC News: Cardiff University union announces strike days and marking boycott – BBC News

11 April 2025 – Times Higher Education: Cardiff University faces marking boycott plus strikes over job cuts

11 April 2025 – Nation.Cymru: University and College Union announces details of strike action at Cardiff University

11 April 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Union calls for no compulsory redundancies as Cardiff University scales back ‘cruel and unnecessary cuts’

11 April 2025 – WalesOnline: Cardiff University staff threaten ‘summer of chaos’ in protest of ‘cruel’ cuts – Wales Online

11 April 2025 – The Tab: Marking boycott and strike will be going ahead at Cardiff University

10 April 2025 – Newyddion S4C: Diswyddadau Prifysgol Caerdydd

10 April 2025 – Times Higher Education: New Cardiff University job cuts plan continues nursing courses

10 April 2025 – Ivors Academy: Calling on Cardiff University to rethink plans to close its School of Music

10 April 2025 – WalesOnline: Six key points after huge announcement on Cardiff University’s future – Wales Online

9 April 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Ex-Deputy First Minister’s friendship with Kazakh Minister led to Cardiff University’s involvement in controversial project

8 April 2025 – BBC Radio Wales: Former Education Minister’s call for HE funding review in Wales

1 April 2025 – WalesOnline: Two top Cardiff University staff claim more than £116,000 expenses

25 March 2025 – BBC Cymru: Staff Prifysgol Caerdydd yn pleidleisio o blaid gweithredu diwydiannol

25 March 2025 – golwg360: Staff Prifysgol Caerdydd yn pleidleisio o blaid gweithredu’n ddiwydiannol

25 March 2025 – ITV News: Cardiff University staff vote for strike action over proposed job losses

25 March 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University academics vote overwhelmingly for strike action

25 March 2025 – BBC News: University staff back strikes amid job cut plans

25 March 2025 – WalesOnline: Cardiff University warned of ‘spiral of decline’ risk over job cuts plan

25 March 2025 – Morning Star: UCU Cardiff members vote for strike action to fight job cuts | Morning Star

23 March 2025 – golwg360: ‘Prifysgol Caerdydd yn bygwth sensro undeb’

21 March 2025 – Morning Star: UCU promises strike action unless compulsory redundancy threat is removed | Morning Star

20 March 2025 – S4C: Prifysgol Caerdydd: Holl swyddi academaidd yn Ysgol y Gymraeg yn ddiogel

20 March 2025 – WalesOnline: More than 1,000 academic staff at Cardiff University warned their jobs are still at risk

18 March 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University ‘may have broken the law’ by threatening union

18 March 2025 – The Tab: Revealed: More than 650 Cardiff University students affected by course changes

14 March 2025 – The Tab: UCU calls for the suspension of Cardiff University’s two most senior academics

13 March 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University urged to rethink cuts

13 March 2025 – WalesOnline: Lord Kinnock hits out at Cardiff University planned cuts claiming they will “diminish” institution

12 March 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University releases breakdown of academics ‘in scope’ for redundancy

12 March 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Union takes campaign against Cardiff University cuts to the House of Lords

10 March 2025 – BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: Dr Andy Williams from Cardiff UCU on the struggle to save 400+ jobs at Cardiff Uni

10 March 2025 – S4C: Sefyllfa ieithoedd modern yng Nghymru yn ‘drychinebus’ (Facebook)

10 March 2025 – BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: Dr Andy Williams from Cardiff UCU on the struggle to save 400+ jobs at Cardiff Uni

9 March 2025 – BBC Radio Wales: Leighton Andrews Radio Wales ON Cardiff Uni Cuts Short 09 03 25 – YouTube 

9 March 2025 – BBC News: Plans to cut uni jobs and courses lead to ‘toxic culture’

9 March 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Prof Leighton Andrews: “How to trash a University’s reputation And demotivate the people you need to help you succeed”

9 March 2025 – BBC Wales: Prof Leighton Andrews on the ‘2-year slash and burn programme’ at Cardiff University

7 March 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University sparks row after falsely accusing Nation.Cymru of publishing ‘fake news’

5 March 2025 – whatsoccurincutv: UCU VPs Message to Cardiff Uni on Job Cut Proposals

5 March 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University Vice Chancellor ‘implied poverty is caused by genetics’

5 March 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Churches condemn ‘tragic’ cuts to religious studies

5 March 2025: The Marginalia: Does Wales Deserve an ‘Elite’ University?

25 February 2025 – BBC News: Wendy Larner and Cardiff UCU Chair Renata Medeiros Mirra

25 February 2025: efSyn [Greek]: Awaiting staff cuts

21 February 2025: Voice.Cymru: Two weeks in the death spiral of Cardiff University

21 February 2025: Musician’s Union: Join Mass Demo to Protest Proposed Axing of Cardiff University’s School of Music

20 February 2025: Times Higher Education: Maths cuts ‘will cause lasting damage’ to Cardiff, warn Nobelists

20 February 2025: Nation.Cymru: Union fighting job cuts at Cardiff University calls for top academics to have fellowships suspended

19 February 2025 – BBC News: Universities should consider using reserves to save jobs – minister – BBC News

19 February 2025 – The Tab: ‘We are worthy of a good education’: Students and staff protest against Cardiff Uni cuts

19 February 2025 – ITV News: Wales’ Culture Minister Jack Sargeant hits back at criticism amid claims the sector is in ‘crisis’ | ITV News Wales

18 February 2025: WalesOnline: Senedd calls on Cardiff University vice-chancellor to explain proposed cuts of courses and jobs

18 February 2025 – Newyddion S4C: Llywodraeth Cymru’n rhoi £19 miliwn i brifysgolion | NS4C | Newyddion S4C

15 February 2025 – WalesOnline: Opera legend Dame Kiri Te Kanawa calls on Cardiff University to abandon plans to shut the School of Music

14 February 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University cuts “will make Wales’ poor Higher Education participation rate even worse”

14 February 2025 – The Tab: ‘It’s an enormous act of vandalism’: Cardiff UCU president speaks out about proposed cuts

14 February 2025 – MSM.com: Calls for ‘urgent action’ as fewer people from Wales apply for university

13 February 2025 – BBC News: Call for major review of Welsh higher education

13 February 2025 – MSM.com: Young people warned about getting into Cardiff University in future

6 February 2025 – Nation.Cymru: University’s Kazakhstan plans under fire amid funding crisis

5 February 2025 – Times Higher Education: Cardiff University cuts to ‘devastate’ Welsh higher education

5 February 2025 – ITV News Wales: ITV Wales News covers cruel cuts at Cardiff University, & calls for Welsh Government intervention

5 February 2025 – BBC Wales: BBC Wales Today cover a lobby of the Senedd/Welsh Government calling for money to save Universities

5 February 2025 – Archive.Today: Cardiff University cuts to ‘devastate’ Welsh higher education

5 February 2025 – Stephen Doughty MP: Cardiff MPs Statement on Cardiff University | Datganiad am Brifysgol Caerdydd — Stephen Doughty MP

4 February 2025 – Counterfire: Cardiff University’s cuts are ‘cruel and callous’ – Interview | Counterfire

4 February 2025 – WalesOnline: Hundreds attend Senedd protest over 400 planned job cuts at Cardiff University – Wales Online

4 February 2025 – BBC News: Cardiff University: Protestors call on Senedd to step in to save jobs – BBC News

31 January 2025 – ITV News: Cardiff University: Job losses and course cuts?

31 January 2025 – BBC Sounds: Today program (Available until 1 March 2025)

31 January 2025 – BBC News: Use £500m reserves to avoid uni job cuts, union says

30 January 2025 – WalesOnline: Cardiff University staff set to hold public protest with hundreds of jobs at risk

29 January 2025 – The Independent: Cardiff University job losses deeply concerning, says Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens

29 January 2025 – YouTube: Destroying the Humanities at Cardiff University. My First Thoughts – Archaeology with Flint Dibble

29 January 2025 – Nation.Cymru: Cardiff University cuts: When education serves the market, society pays the price

29 January 2025 – Nation.Cymru: University imposing massive job cuts and School closures has £0.5bn in unrestricted reserves

29 January 2025 – WalesOnline: The key questions that remain unanswered after shellshock cuts announced at Cardiff University

29 January 2025 – WalesOnline: Mass walkout of Cardiff University staff over planned cuts likely this term says union

28 January 2025 – The Pembrokeshire Herald: Wales’ ‘best’ nursing college earmarked for closure in sweeping cuts – The Pembrokeshire Herald

Cardiff University staff told up to 100% of pay could be withheld if they take part in assessment boycott

Cardiff University threatens staff with salary deductions for marking boycott

Confirmed: UCU marking boycott going ahead at Cardiff University

“Bullying Behaviour” – Cardiff University Email Threatens Union Members With Full Pay Deductions

“Something Has To Change” – What Is Driving Public Sector Strikes?

4 March 2023

“System’s At Breaking Point” – Public Sector Workers Strike Against Government. Short documentary released on 1 March 2023 about the mass strikes and rally on 1 February 2023

“I Could Relate To That Struggle” – Student Poverty Drives Solidarity With University Strikes

16 February 2023

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14 February 2023

Broken by not silenced: workers reveal the shocking use of casual labour at Wales’ top university

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Cardiff UCU talking to Voice.Wales on the commercialisation of universities:
1 December 2019

#UCUSTRIKE TAKES OFF WITH MOOD OF RESISTANCE AND HOPE:
25 November 2019

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