Update on the proposals for our Academic Future
17 February 2025
Read a message from Professor Nicola Innes, Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor, Education and Student Experience sent to students on 17 February.
As this is a copy of an email sent to students, the links within are on the student intranet and require logging in to access.
Dear student,
On Wednesday our Vice-Chancellor Professor Wendy Larner and I attended the first of many student consultation events to talk through the proposals for ‘Our Academic Future’ with you.
Where the proposals directly affect your school, they will share details of opportunities to discuss the consultation with you shortly. In the meantime, we’ve started listing all the consultation meetings and events organised for you so far.
I made a note of all the questions you asked and am committed to answering as many of these as possible over the coming weeks. We’ve started adding the questions you’ve asked the most, and our answers, to the student intranet. A few of the main ones are below.
If you are unable to attend these events, you can also feedback by emailing newid-change@cardiff.ac.uk.
Supporting you remains a priority. If you need help, contact Student Connect, or the Student Advice Centre at the Students’ Union.
Best wishes,
Professor Nicola Innes
Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor, Education and Student Experience
Can you explain simply what ‘Our Academic Future’ is?
‘Our Academic Future’ is a university project looking at what disciplines and subjects we teach and research, to understand where we can grow, where we need to improve, and what we need to rethink. We’re doing this to make sure the university offers the best possible student experience across its degree programme portfolio and is sustainable for future generations.
Are the decisions already made?
No. We’re in a consultation period until 6 May. What we’re sharing are proposals, and everyone – students, staff and the wider community - can contribute, either by providing feedback or by submitting alternative proposals.
Is this a Cardiff University ‘thing’?
No. The problems we face are the same ones lots of universities in the UK and abroad are facing because of political, financial and other external factors. Some other UK Universities have already been in the press making similar changes. Although many haven’t yet said how they’re going to deal with these issues, they will need to at some point. No university can live beyond its means forever. We made the decision to face these challenges now.
