The vice chancellor of Cardiff Metropolitan University is standing down. Professor Cara Aitchison, who is also president of the university which has more than 25,000 students, will retire with effect from next January.
She joined the university as its vice chancellor in 2016 from Plymouth Marjon University where she was vice chancellor and chief executive.
At the time of joining the university it had around 17,00 students. Under her leadership it has grown revenues from £100m to over £150m with healthy surpluses. In 2018 the university launched its Cardiff School of Technologies.
