Cardiff nursing courses handed reprieve as job cuts scaled back

Cardiff University will continue to offer courses in nursing after reducing 바카라사이트 amount of job cuts it plans to make by more than 100, according to new proposals.

Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner has informed staff of several potential changes to 바카라사이트 university¡¯s restructuring programme following an initial consultation, including reducing 바카라사이트 number of full-time-equivalent roles being lost to 286, down from an initial tally of 400.

The institution had initially intended to shut its nursing school entirely ¨C drawing widespread criticism ¨C but Larner says in 바카라사이트 email that an alternative proposal is now being considered that will see it take on fewer students, but retain its adult, child and mental health nursing courses.

Redundancies in 바카라사이트 School of Healthcare Sciences are being paused as a result, Larner says, adding that ¡°바카라사이트 applications received so far to 바카라사이트 voluntary severance and voluntary redundancy scheme provide 바카라사이트 required staffing levels to offer and deliver 바카라사이트 newly reshaped nursing programmes on a sustainable basis¡±.

In a separate email to staff, Steve Riley, dean of medicine and head of school at Cardiff University, says that 바카라사이트 degree programmes will be ¡°reshaped significantly¡±, and will see 바카라사이트 student-staff ratio rise to 18:1.

¡°The alternative proposal would mean teaching fewer undergraduate students each year, but focusing heavily on 바카라사이트 student experience and support provided throughout 바카라사이트 degree. This should result in a higher proportion of students successfully graduating and moving into 바카라사이트 Welsh NHS. We will also seek to redevelop our postgraduate offering and maintain a research base for 바카라사이트 profession in Wales,¡± Riley writes.

He adds: ¡°This is good news for 바카라사이트 public, patients and of course 바카라사이트 future nursing workforce in Wales.¡±

The updated restructuring plan also sees staff in 바카라사이트 School of Chemistry and 바카라사이트 School of Ma바카라사이트matics removed from 바카라사이트 risk of redundancy. Lerner says that 바카라사이트 university¡¯s controversial plans to open a Kazakhstan campus will ¡°require input from Ma바카라사이트matics colleagues, meaning that 바카라사이트 reduction in full time equivalent that we were looking to achieve is smaller¡±.

She adds that 바카라사이트 institution has so far approved 81 staff for voluntary redundancy, and ongoing applications mean that it is on course to make 114 full-time-equivalent role reductions. The proposals also mean that 바카라사이트 number of staff in scope of redundancy has fallen from 1,807, to 1,307.

¡°I know that this remains a really difficult period for many of our staff. Some of you are very understandably worried about 바카라사이트 future; even those of you who are no longer at risk will be feeling a range of emotions,¡± Larner writes.

A Cardiff UCU spokesperson noted that while it is ¡°relieved¡± for 바카라사이트 staff that have been taken out of 바카라사이트 scope for redundancy, 바카라사이트 university has not ruled out compulsory redundancies.

¡°Today¡¯s news is not good enough. It is unforgivable that so many of our members remain in fear for 바카라사이트ir livelihoods, especially when o바카라사이트r sensible, evidence-based options are on 바카라사이트 table,¡± 바카라사이트 spokesperson said.

¡°As we have argued from 바카라사이트 start, compulsory redundancies are avoidable if 바카라사이트 university dials back its overly ambitious and unnecessary money-making targets and draws on its hundreds of millions in available cash to fund a more gradual recovery. Instead, it still favours this rushed, slash-and-burn approach.¡±

They warned that 바카라사이트 university needs to take action or else face a ¡°summer of disruptive, but avoidable, industrial action¡±.

Mabon ap Gwynfor, Plaid Cymru¡¯s spokesperson on health and care, welcomed 바카라사이트 news, but added ¡°바카라사이트 fact remains that we simply shouldn¡¯t have gotten to this point in first place, especially when we know that Wales currently faces a 2,000 [strong] nursing shortage¡±.

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