00:00It's a little bit representative of how universities are around the UK and the dependency that
00:08we have on sources of income that are supposedly like we're really dependent on foreign students
00:16but there's a big drive for them to go to places like Australia and so on instead.
00:21So it's just sort of, this is happening, it's a bit worrying about the future.
00:25What is the university going to be in 30 odd years, yeah.
00:29I think it's endemic of the situation as a whole under capitalism, I mean marketisation
00:33of education, it's an inevitability under the system and frankly the only thing that
00:39we can do as students and workers is to unite against that really.
00:43These 400 people serve families and they have homes, children, so I don't think it was a
00:49good decision.
00:50Yeah I was just going to say the same thing, I think it's a bit unfair you know to district
00:53cuts in jobs like this out of nowhere for people who have, like you said, to sustain
00:57families, they probably have kids, they have to send to school, things like that.
01:00I don't think it's really a fair choice that they've made but what is there really that
01:04they can do to bring their jobs back?
01:06I kind of saw it coming with some decisions they've been making to refuse to hire new
01:11staff and I know that a lot of kind of the officers have been spread thin but I don't
01:16think, I don't think anyone was expecting 400 jobs to go, you know.
01:23They want to like completely gut the School of Music, they want to get rid of nursing,
01:27I just, it's ridiculous really, I don't, yeah I don't think, I don't think anyone really
01:32expected it.
01:33Cardiff University says they need to ensure the future of the establishment and Vice-Chancellor
01:38Professor Wendy Larner says securing that future in the context of tightening finances
01:42means that they need to take difficult decisions to realise their ambitions and enhance the
01:47education and research and improve the staff and student experience.
01:51They stress that the proposals are not final plans and they will be shaped by the community
01:55both internally and externally through formal consultation.
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