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Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – October 2015

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – October 2015

Posted on 29 October 2015 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague Let me start with the issue that has received worldwide media attention over the last week or two: our invitation to Germaine Greer to deliver the annual Hadyn […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – September 2015

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – September 2015

Posted on 30 September 2015 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague I’d like to start this first email of the new academic year by warmly congratulating Professor Karen Holford on her election as a Fellow of the Royal Academy […]

Vice-Chancellor’s July all-staff email

Vice-Chancellor’s July all-staff email

Posted on 31 July 2015 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague We’re almost at the end of another academic year, and what a year it’s been. We had a fantastic result in the Research Excellence Framework and have scored […]

Vice-Chancellor’s June all-staff email

Vice-Chancellor’s June all-staff email

Posted on 30 June 2015 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague You may have seen a recent article in Times Higher Education in which Mr Rob Behrens, chief executive of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, […]

Going Global 2015

Going Global 2015

Posted on 2 June 2015 by Colin Riordan

On 1 June I attended Going Global 2015, which is the British Council's high-profile annual conference, attracting higher education delegates from all over the world. I spoke myself at a […]

Vice-Chancellor’s May all-staff email

Vice-Chancellor’s May all-staff email

Posted on 29 May 2015 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague The General Election result has given us a good deal more clarity than anybody expected. For one thing, we now know that there will be a referendum on […]

Have we turned the corner on languages?

Have we turned the corner on languages?

Posted on 22 May 2015 by Colin Riordan

That was the thought running through my head when I attended the launch of the Cardiff University Languages for All scheme in the Students' Union on Thursday 21 May. The […]

Vice-Chancellor’s April all-staff email

Vice-Chancellor’s April all-staff email

Posted on 30 April 2015 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague When I arrived as Vice-Chancellor in 2012 I felt it was important to visit all the academic Schools and Professional Services sections to try to meet as many […]

Vice-Chancellor’s March all-staff email

Vice-Chancellor’s March all-staff email

Posted on 31 March 2015 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague Yesterday I took part in a photo shoot for the Students’ Union’s joint campaign with the University to persuade students to register to vote.  This involved giving away […]

Vice-Chancellor’s February all-staff email

Vice-Chancellor’s February all-staff email

Posted on 27 February 2015 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague I'd like to start with an update on the matter I reported on last month concerning the cuts to the Horizon 2020 Programme proposed by the new European […]