Experts from Cardiff University to give evidence to committee inquiry

Senior academics from Cardiff University will this week give evidence to the Assembly Enterprise and Learning Committee’s inquiry into the economic contribution of higher education.

The terms of reference for the Committee’s inquiry are:

• To consider the nature of the strategic engagement of Higher Education Institutes with businesses in Wales and beyond and their impact on their local and regional economies

• The success of HEIs in accessing funding from a range of sources

• The extent to which entrepreneurial education has been embedded in Welsh HEIs

• The contribution that HEIs can make to the skills agenda

• The wider contributions of universities to their localities

Dr David Grant, Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University, Professor Ken Woodhouse, the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dylan Jones-Evans, Deputy Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies, Professor Max Munday of the Welsh Economy Research Unit at Cardiff Business School and Geraint Jones, Director of Research and Commercial Development, will all give evidence at the Committee’s meeting next meeting on Wednesday January 23 at 9am in Committee Room 1, Senedd, Cardiff Bay.

More information about the committee