That this House welcomes the setting up of a quasi-judicial inquiry by the University of Wales into the allegations of substantial irregularities in the conduct of end of year examinations in the summer of 1993 at the European Business School, Parma, under the academic supervision of the Cardiff Business School, a faculty of the University College of Wales at Cardiff, and for degrees to be validated by the University of Wales, involving the attempted bribing of a language teacher to award a favourable mark in the presence of the Academic Dean, Dr Patrick O'Sullivan, a member of staff of the Cardiff Business School, who is also alleged to have insisted on early submission of examination papers by the staff, for the purpose of an organised racket of selling those examination papers in advance to less academically interested students, via a chain of command involving the Academic Secretary Toral Petal, the Languages Co-ordinator, Clive McGowan and two student intermediaries, Fabiano Valentino and Emily Marinelli; and trusts that the inquiry will establish the truth speedily to minimise any further damage to the good name of the College and the Unversity.

That this House welcomes the setting up of a quasi-judicial inquiry by the University of Wales into the allegations of substantial irregularities in the conduct of end of year examinations in the summer of 1993 at the European Business School, Parma, under the academic supervision of the Cardiff Business School,...

That this House calls on the University of Wales to set up an urgent inquiry into the conduct of the European Business School at Parma, a higher education institution offering university degrees in business studies under academic supervision from the Cardiff Business School, following the allegations that two members of staff were selling advance copies of the examination papers to the students, who were in turn selling them on to other students; and recognises that this is potentially the worst scandal in the century-long history of the University of Wales and infinitely more serious that the University College Swansea plagiarism scandal, which itself took five years to clear up.

That this House calls on the University of Wales to set up an urgent inquiry into the conduct of the European Business School at Parma, a higher education institution offering university degrees in business studies under academic supervision from the Cardiff Business School, following the allegations that two members of...

That this House deplores the ??250,000 grant made over five years by the Cardiff Business School to Professor Patrick Minford of the University of Liverpool to study the Welsh economy; considers that these resources would be far better spent in building up real expertise in regional economic forecasting, than in bailing out a failed monetarist who has lost his ??100,000 a year Economic and Social Research Council funding and whose main function in the 1980s was to give a cloak of academic respectability to Thatcherism as a system of monetarist political economy, which did such devastating damage to the Welsh economy in that decade; and finds totally ludicrous the Cardiff Business School's assertion that Professor Minford's research work in Cardiff 'should provide a major input into policy decisions relating to the Welsh economy', an area of policy-making in which Professor Minford is singularly unqualified and from which he should be kept at a safe distance.

That this House deplores the ??250,000 grant made over five years by the Cardiff Business School to Professor Patrick Minford of the University of Liverpool to study the Welsh economy; considers that these resources would be far better spent in building up real expertise in regional economic forecasting, than in...