“The University of Wales should be wound down and closed if other plans for its future fail, a report has concluded. The review, commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government, said the institution should ‘change radically’ …” (more)
[BBC News, 22 March]
“The University of Wales is under investigation by the higher education standards watchdog over one of its collaborative centres in Singapore …” (more)
[BBC News, 21 March]
“Lecturers at five Welsh universities are taking strike action in a UK-wide dispute over changes to their pensions …” (more)
[BBC News, 18 March]
“After a very successful rally and march at the university Aber Students Against Cuts have occupied A12 lecture theatre (Hugh Owen) …” (more)
[Parar Bolonha, 23 February]
“Basic university tuition fees will be £2,000 (US$3,234) lower in Wales than in England, it has been announced. Education Minister Leighton Andrews has opted for a basic fee level of £4,000 in Wales, rather than the £6,000 which will apply over the border …” (more)
[University World News, 20 February]
“Basic university tuition fees will be £2,000 lower in Wales than in England, it has been announced. Education Minister Leighton Andrews has opted for a basic fee level of £4,000 in Wales, rather than the £6,000 which will apply over the border …” (more)
[BBC News, 15 February]
“A new ‘super university’ could be created under plans to merge at least three Welsh universities, BBC Wales has learned. Talks are planned between the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (Uwic), Swansea Metropolitan University and Trinity Saint David in Carmarthen …” (more)
[BBC News, 10 February]
“Just another quick post to pass on the news just out that the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) has announced that the number of universities in Wales must reduce by a half over the next two years …” (more)
[In the Dark, 22 December]
“As the argument about increased tuition fees for English universities intensifies in the run-up to Thursday’s debate in the House of Commons, the Welsh Assembly Government last week announced that fees for students in Wales would rise to a basic level of £6000 per year …” (more)
[In the Dark, 5 December]
“As protests continue to be organised around England by students angry at the planned almost threefold rises in university tuition fees, the Welsh last week announced that they would not be falling in behind Westminster’s proposals …” (more)
[Tracy McVeigh, Observer, 5 December]
“Education Minister Leighton Andrews has told universities and further education colleges in Wales that there will be fewer of them by 2013 …” (more)
[BBC News, 3 December]
“Students across Wales have joined in protests at increased tuition fees and education cuts …” (more)
[BBC News, 24 November]
“The body that funds Welsh universities has concerns about the financial sustainability of almost half of them …” (more)
[BBC News, 24 November]
“The University of Wales has suspended relations with a Malaysian business college, pending an inquiry. The action, the university says, is due to a controversy relating to the personal academic qualifications of the head of the institution …” (more)
[BBC News, 6 November]
“A teaching union wants the Welsh Assembly to investigate the appointment of a university boss’s wife to a highly-paid new job at the same institution. Professor John Hughes has just taken up the post of vice chancellor at Bangor University, north Wales …” (more)
[The Workers United, 22 October]
“Universities in Wales have been urged to ‘clamp down’ on their high earners as spending cuts loom. Assembly members have demanded assurances that lower-paid staff will not pay for a slashed budget while several university vice-chancellors’ salaries continue to dwarf that of the Prime Minister …” (more)
[Gareth Evans, University World News, 5 September]
“Some Welsh universities are to face closure, Education Minister Leighton Andrews has announced. He indicated smaller bodies will be forced into mergers, meaning a smaller number of larger and stronger ones …” (more)
[BBC News, 29 June]
“Thousands of applicants are facing unemployment this summer because of a shortage of university places, says the vice chancellor of Swansea Metropolitan University …” (more)
[BBC News, 6 June]
“Welsh universities lack leadership and are not lifting the nation up the UK prosperity table, says the education minister. Speaking at Cardiff University, Leighton Andrews said the governance of higher education had become ‘the last resting place of the crachach’ …” (more)
[BBC News, 26 May]
“Academics have accused Cardiff University of adopting bullying tactics in its treatment of 16 members of staff facing redundancy. The Welsh Centre of Pharmacy Professional Education (WCPPE) at Cardiff employs 17 people …” (more)
[Hannah Fearn, Times Higher Education, 6 April]
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