The EST Board has expressed its grave concern about the plans recently announced by Cardiff University about the School of Modern Languages and in particular at the prospect of the whole translation section being discontinued. Closing the MA in Translation Studies as well as the underlying undergraduate programmes in modern languages and translation, and also the highly popular online course in translation, would be severely detrimental to the international reputation of Cardiff University, not least having grave consequences for the viability of maintaining communication in languages other than English in multilingual Wales.
The EST statement can be read here.