Cardiff University announces in email that modern languages and music courses will be saved

An email from Professor Nicola Innes, the Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University, was sent to students informing them that previous plans to discard modern languages and music programmes will no longer go ahead as planned.

This plan comes after the previous confirmation of the teaching of nursing at Cardiff University to continue earlier on in this process of  the university’s strategy and consultation due to the uni’s financial deficit and pending job cuts of staff.

The email said: “I want to recognise how worrying this news was for some of you. I also want to thank those of you, who along with our staff, submitted alternative proposals over the last the last few months. These were incredibly helpful in shaping our thinking – and agreeing what we should do.”

The university also informed students of a proposal for a new School of Global Humanities by the University Executive Board (UEB), which will be put in place in 2026-27 academic year.

The email further stated: “All students who’ve already started degrees with us, and will start them next year, will complete them as originally planned.

“This new school, part of our College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, means we will continue to offer modern languages and music research and education at Cardiff.”

As a result of the introduction of this new school, Professor Innes confirmed the continuation of the teaching of modern languages, including French, Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese. There is no information on the continuation of  Italian, German, Mandarin and Portuguese as degree programmes.

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However, Professor Innes explained that some degrees at the university will still be cut: “Having considered things carefully, we will continue with the proposal to no longer offer degrees in ancient history, and religion and theology.

“This will be very disappointing news for some, I know. Again, I want to stress that this will not affect you if you are currently on these programmes.”

These changes come after the established 400 job cuts being revised down to 138 earlier this month due to changing plans to savings and the voluntary redundancy of staff.

Previous plans to discontinue these programmes were met with sever resistance from Cardiff University students and the public. A petition to save Cardiff University’s School of Music reached over 23,000 signatures. Alongside high profile support from A-list celebrates such as Stormzy, Sir Elton John and Ed Sheeran.

A final University Council meeting will be held on 17th June for final approval.

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