It is with much regret that I have to announce that, despite the hard work of many people, the University is to continue with its closure of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Programme.
Despite figures showing the programme to be profitable to the University, the Finance Department has given the following feedback:
(1) They originally based their figures on 80 students. We used 77 being the average of the last 5 years.
(2) They have come back and changed their figures to 60 students – being this year’s intake, which has been lower than for any previous year (probably the effect of centralising admissions).
(3) Further they have now decided that 15% students are ELQ (equivalent and lower qualifications), and therefore are further reducing the number of students from their original 80 to 50.
(4) As a consequence, the programme which made a small surplus on 14th October 2008 now makes a substantial loss.
(5) The programme will therefore be closed.
The Programme Leader, Mei Xing, has commented:
At this disheartened moment, what I would like to say is Thank You all for your effort to save this programme, but at the end of the day, it is a loss of the university!
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