Compliance with the Welsh Language Standards

The University works in various ways to comply with the Welsh Language Standards. This includes promoting students' and the public's rights to use Welsh, making the most of staff Welsh skills and establishing internal procedures for monitoring compliance. 

The material below explains how the University intends to comply, and its progress against the aims.

How does the University comply with the Welsh Language Standards?

In line with the Welsh Language Standards, the University is expected to take certain steps to outline how it will promote the use of the Welsh language at the University and how it will comply with the Welsh Language Standards. This is done through internal monitoring procedures and by publishing:  

• A Welsh Language Standards Action Plan that outlines how the University promotes the Welsh language and monitors compliance
  
  
• Annual reports to the Welsh Language Commissioner:
  • Welsh Language Standards Annual Report 2021-22
  • Welsh Language Standards Annual Report 2020-21
  • Welsh Language Standards Annual Report 2019-20 
  • Welsh Language Standards Annual Report 2018-19
  • Welsh Language Standards Monitoring Report April-July 2018 
  • Welsh Language Scheme Monitoring Report 2016-17
  • Welsh Language Scheme Monitoring Report 2015-16
  • Welsh Language Scheme Monitoring Report 2014-15
    
    

• Learning Opportunities - assessing the need for learning opportunities through the medium of Welsh.
  
  
• Policy on awarding grants/providing financial assistance (Welsh language). The following matters must be taken into account when the University makes decisions in relation to awarding a grant or providing financial assistance: (a) what effects, if any (and whether positive or negative), the awarding of a grant or providing financial assistance would have on— (i) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and (ii) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language; (b) how the decision could be taken or implemented (for example, by imposing conditions ) so that it would have positive effects, or increased positive effects, on— (i) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and (ii) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language; (c) how the decision could be taken or implemented (for example, by imposing conditions) so that it would not have adverse effects, or so that it would have decreased adverse effects on— (i) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and (ii) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language; (ch) whether you need to ask the applicant for any additional information in order to assist you in assessing the effects of awarding a grant or providing financial assistance on— (i) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and (ii) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.