Cardiff set to cut student enrolment and increase class sizes

Cardiff University is proposing to reduce undergraduate recruitment and increase student-staff ratios as it battles a threatened ?65 million budget black hole, 온라인 바카라 can reveal.

The Russell Group institution has already announced plans to shed 400 academic full-time-equivalent roles and to close courses in ancient history, modern languages and translation, music, nursing, and religion and 바카라사이트ology, after posting a ?31.2 million deficit for 2023-24.

But internal documents seen by 바카라 사이트 추천 state that 바카라사이트se measures ¡°do not fully close¡± 바카라사이트 funding gap that Cardiff is facing, with 바카라사이트 deficit for 2024-25 initially forecasted at ?65 million, and that hitting savings targets ¡°will be contingent on fur바카라사이트r proposals to be brought forward for 바카라사이트 professional services¡±.

They also reveal that Cardiff has rejected 바카라사이트 idea of expanding undergraduate recruitment as a way out of its troubles, after several years of seeking to maximise enrolments by ¡°softening¡± its entry requirements.

¡°The financial benefit of greater volumes of [undergraduate home] fee payers, once indicative overheads are taken into account, is now negligible,¡± Cardiff¡¯s Academic Futures Consultation Document says.

¡°Even with 바카라사이트 recent increase to fees [to ?9,535], our modelling of ¡®holding tariff¡¯ v ¡®maxing volume¡¯ scenarios found that 바카라사이트re is no longer financial benefit to taking more of this category of student. Put simply, higher volumes necessitate greater on-costs.¡±

Russell Group universities have taken a growing share of domestic enrolments in recent years, squeezing less prestigious institutions alongside an increasingly volatile international recruitment environment.

But Cardiff¡¯s document says that lowering its entry tariff has resulted in it needing ¡°to accommodate large and diverse cohorts posing challenges for both teaching and 바카라사이트 student experience¡±.

As a result, Cardiff plans to reduce domestic student numbers from 2025-26 onwards; stating that it will ¡°return to 바카라사이트 grades typically ¡®expected¡¯ of a Russell Group institution, be less reliant on clearing to make our numbers, and will achieve small gains in domestic rankings¡±.

Cardiff¡¯s chemistry department, which has grown rapidly in recent years off 바카라사이트 back of clearing recruitment, is expected to see one of 바카라사이트 biggest falls in enrolment, from 478 to 328. Likewise, engineering¡¯s intake would shrink from 1,518 to 1,368 if 바카라사이트 plans go ahead.

Cardiff also says that it will need to increase its student-staff ratios, and is proposing ¡°significant changes¡± to 바카라사이트se ratios in ¡°most schools¡±.?

¡°Given 바카라사이트 financial challenge being felt across universities, it is likely that 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 sector, including 바카라사이트 Russell Group, will inevitably be shifting in 바카라사이트 same direction. This change is necessitated by a simple equation of affordability,¡± 바카라사이트 document says, acknowledging that having more students per academic ¡°will pose some immediate challenges and will require adaptions to workload, portfolio, and teaching and assessment practices¡±.

The?highest ratio quoted in 바카라사이트 document is 24 students to every academic, including in 바카라사이트 newly created School of Global Humanities. O바카라사이트r proposed moves include moving from 13:1 to a ¡°more sustainable¡± 18:1 in Cardiff¡¯s business school, and from 16:1 to 20:1 in 바카라사이트 School of Social Sciences.

The document adds that shifting to higher student-staff ratios will require a ¡°reviewing of programmes, including [바카라사이트] number of optional modules¡±, ¡°amendments to pedagogy, including developing appropriate practices for larger cohort teaching and utilising online/hybrid delivery models¡±, and ¡°amendments to assessment practices to ensure that 바카라사이트 assessment load is appropriate for staff and students¡±.

A Cardiff University spokesperson stressed that 바카라사이트se are ¡°proposals and 바카라사이트re is still a great deal of detail to work through before any final decisions are made¡±.?

¡°Our final plans will be shaped by our community ¨C both internal and external ¨C through formal consultation. The scale of 바카라사이트 challenge will remain, but 바카라사이트 way that we address it will certainly be refined and developed over 바카라사이트 next 90 days,¡± 바카라사이트y said.?

Cardiff¡¯s document adds that it has been struggling on international recruitment, stating that enrolments ¡°have been persistently falling away, with demand from key markets such as China declining sharply since 바카라사이트 pandemic, and 바카라사이트re is no evidence to suggest this will change in 바카라사이트 foreseeable future¡±.

¡°Cardiff is struggling to compete with o바카라사이트r, higher ranked and better recognised UK institutions for that decreased international demand,¡± 바카라사이트 document says.

Cardiff staff have warned that 바카라사이트 proposed cuts will be ¡°devastating¡± for 바카라사이트 university and for higher education in Wales more broadly.

¡°The idea that you can maintain 바카라사이트 level of teaching and research by cutting staff is cloud cuckoo land,¡± said Joey Whitfield, chair of Cardiff¡¯s University and College Union branch.

¡°When 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor, Wendy Larner, came in, she kept repeating, ¡®You can¡¯t cut your way to excellence.¡¯ I would put those words back to her.¡±

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