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Colin Riordan

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Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – September 2020

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – September 2020

Posted on 30 September 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague, First of all may I thank everybody who joined last week’s all-staff webinar, and for the questions you posed. Given the volume of the latter and the time […]

Further local coronavirus restrictions

Further local coronavirus restrictions

Posted on 25 September 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague, We have been advised by Welsh Government that Cardiff will be subject to further coronavirus restrictions. As a result, new measures will come into force from 18.00 on […]

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Posted on 10 September 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague, As we approach the new term I thought I would share with you some thoughts about our approach to accommodating students on campus, and to the blended learning […]

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Posted on 25 August 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague, As one colleague observed to me earlier this month, ‘2020 is the gift that keeps on giving’. The dramatic u-turn on A-level grades that took place just as […]

Message from the Vice-Chancellor

Message from the Vice-Chancellor

Posted on 22 July 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague, Almost as surprising as the dramatic changes wrought by COVID-19 have been the ways in which many aspects of academic life have proceeded as they would in any […]

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Posted on 30 June 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague, Universities exist to create and disseminate knowledge for the benefit of all. That is at once a clear statement of our purpose and an excessively simplified description of […]

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Posted on 18 June 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague, I devoted most of my email of 7 May 2020 to the coronavirus crisis, which is what you would expect, but I also made the point that the […]

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Posted on 4 June 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague, In previous emails and videos I have explained that we are in the unfortunate position of having to plan for a large budget deficit in the academic and […]

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Posted on 29 May 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague, As we approach the end of another month of lockdown there is at least the prospect of the regulations we presently operate under being somewhat relaxed, although it […]

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Message from the Vice-Chancellor to staff

Posted on 21 May 2020 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague In a shorter email this week (I didn’t think you would mind) I would like to update you on three interrelated matters. Firstly, at its meeting on Monday […]