Cardiff UCU in the Media

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

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

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.CymruCardiff 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.CymruCardiff 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

On BBC Radio Wales Breakfast from 42:50

14 February 2023

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

March 2021

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6 February 2020

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

September 2019