Welsh Government accused of 'dereliction of duty' over university cuts

Rightly so and not just over this issue, polite people would say 'asleep at the wheel'...

While the organ grinder and part-time Chancellor of the Exchequer is ultimately to blame for the silly economic model they've inherited from the Tories, the monkey and part-time Welsh Government is complicit, especially the Welsh Labour Party. It's becoming blindingly clear that England/'the UK' cannot afford to meet the expectations of their own country, let alone ours, their marginalised colony. I don't expect Reform to do other than join the Tory-labour cabal and deprive us, the people, of a fair share of the wealth of Cymru. Notice how the extraction of the latter has been stepped up in recent times... It's become blindingly clear that the freedom and equity of independence is the only option for Cymru. Let's vote that way in 2026 and rid ourselves of the unionists for good!

I work at the University and their communication on the cuts has been abominable. I feel so desperately for our amazing students and academics, whose futures are ins turmoil whilst umpteen overpaid middle managers make these kind of sweeping decisions with carelessness.

Would Hefin David making a personal attack on Cardiff vice chancellor on social media recently be seen as a conflict of interest, given his partner is the Minister for Higher Education, or are conflicts of interest only applicable to other Senedd parties not Labour. It seems Wales Labour are now waiting for UK government party although in past have tried to say there needs to be a Welsh solution for a Welsh problem.

It's is incredibly frustrating when WG goes to ground when there's bad news and waits it to blow over. Not the first time. But not sure what they can do, and opposition aren't providing any ideas either. Brexit caused a sizeable decrease in students, and that can't be reversed. The 'hostile environment' has played it's part. They can increase tuition fees but they can't do it unilaterally as students will just go to England instead. A cash injection would be helpful, but they need to find £80m for all unis across Wales- this year,and more next year as things are unlikely to get better. The sort of things they could do is work with unis to make sure cuts limit the damage to potentially grow back in the future. Buying out loans which have onerous debt demands maybe an option too

Our Welsh N H S is short of Nurses this Uni runs courses to train nurses for our the Welsh N H S and they the Uni want to cut the courses has the penny dropped for the Welsh government do people need to SPELL IT OUT TO THEM the word TWP comes to mind like Drakeford wanted to shut our A and E in the Royal Glamorgan hospital and if it had not been for the Rhondda M P Chris Bryant fighting to stop it Drakeford Welsh Labour would have and the same Drakeford saying Welsh N H S has to many BEDS when People where sleeping in Corridors at the same time come 2026 Welsh Government elections i hope the people of Wales give Plaid a chance

Rarely have I seen a WG Minister give a worse interview than this morning. There is little point in having higher education devolved if that is the best she can do. At least Plaid appears to have done some serious research.

After seeing how Cardiff university works on the inside, I'm surprised people aren't shouting at them for dereliction of duty. Their business model relied on so many foreign students with no way to diversify. They also have so many redundant roles with people really not working. For some at the university, it's just free money. It's on the the university to make their business model work and considering there are many universities in the UK doing alright why are we not complaining at the vice chancellor? When I was studying there, we had protests for how much the vice chancellor and other high members of the university were earning and how poor the classes were (2013-2016).

I have two friends at Cardiff University - one who is an academic and one who works in Professional Services. Both have spent the last few days looking for other jobs, mostly outside Wales. We are invariably going to see a brain drain in the coming months and years; not that Welsh Government will worry one jot as they are scared of their own shadows and they are only really interested in attracting 'green' micro businesses who want to plant trees across Ceredigion and Powys. We are heading downhill at a rate of knots.