Martin Shipton Cardiff University has spent more than £10m on consultants over the last two years, according to figures released in a Freedom of Information Act disclosure. A critic of the university’...

Martin Shipton Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing. Academic sources have ...

One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away

Reading Time: 3 minutesCover image: Cardiff University humanities library was recently threatened with closure but plans were shelved…

Martin Shipton The financial crisis facing Higher Education in Wales has struck another blow, with the University of Wales Trinity St David launching a voluntary severance scheme. Staff were told in m...

A panel discussion with Wendy Brown (IAS, Princeton), Margot Finn (UCL), Eva von Redecker (H-U, Berlin), Sasha Roseneil (Sussex). Convened by Paul Gilroy & John Sabapathy

Academics at institutions implementing job cuts warn of “more work falling on fewer shoulders”

Martin Shipton The Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University has been criticised for attending a property conference in Cannes while staff at the university are facing job cuts. In the past the MIPIM conf...

Figures revealed that the number of staff earning more than £100,000 has risen to 185

These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

Formal approval given for new university group to operate from August, with both institutions keeping their names

UCU members at Swansea University pass a vote of no confidence in its vice chancellor due to job cuts.

Hundreds of students have started lectures at the new campus, which is 3,712 miles from Cardiff.

Cardiff University confirmed it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies as it also apologised to students for problems with a new timetabling system as the academic year begins

Martin Shipton A senior academic manager at Cardiff University has apologised to staff for major disruption caused by the introduction of a new computer timetabling system before the start of the new ...

Reading Time: 3 minutesMonths since bosses at Wales’ biggest university imposed dramatic cuts, an anonymous academic reveals what…

UCU union members at Bangor University passed a motion of no confidence due to staff and budget cuts.

Hefin David had been Member of the Senedd (MS) for Caerphilly since 2016.

The prediction comes as one university Vice Chancellor described the current funding situation to MPs as 'like tumbling around in a washing machine'

Martin Shipton A distinguished archaeologist and academic who publicly opposed Cardiff University’s cuts programme has been “spitefully” denied a status often given to retired professors. James Whitle...