Looking for the full story? This is the short version. Our main report, The Changing Academic Record, covers far more ground and is the one we keep up to date. It sets out every claim and document in date order, including the certificates posted in September 2026.
This fact-check was first published on 20 June 2025 and updated in October 2026 with what she has said since. Every quote links to our archive copy.
At the start of 2026, the education line on her Facebook profile read “Studied BA Hons Nursing at Cardiff University”. By 6 September 2026 the same profile said “Former Student Nurse at Cardiff University”.
In between, she told her followers that she “got my degree”, that she was “studying to be a nurse”, and that she “studied Adult Nursing at Cardiff University for 3 years”. This is what each claim says, and what the record shows.
The short version
- The degree changed name three times. Her profile said “BA Hons Nursing”, then “BSC Hons Adult Nursing”, then “Former Student Nurse”. Cardiff’s course is neither a BA nor a BSc. It is a Bachelor of Nursing, which is what her own portfolio cover says.
- A degree, or a student? In July 2023 she “got my degree”. Nine days later she was “studying to be a nurse”. No degree certificate has been published, and she was not on the nursing register when we checked.
- The biochemistry diploma. In June 2025 it “took the A&P out of the studying”. After our article, it meant she did not need to revise “the night before the exam”. No certificate has been shown and no college named.
- The offers. “I actually put the unconditional offers on Facebook.” None has been produced.
- Her answer to all of it: “You don’t have to be registered with the NMC to be a nurse”.
In this report
BA, then BSc, then “Former Student Nurse”
Three captures of her Facebook profile, saved on archive.ph, show the line changing:
- 13 January 2026: “Studied BA Hons Nursing at Cardiff University”
- 30 January 2026: “Studied BSC Hons Adult Nursing at Cardiff University”
- 6 September 2026: “Bsc nursing at NHS”, “Former Student Nurse at Cardiff University” and “Studied Adult Nursing at Cardiff University”
January 2026: “Studied BA Hons Nursing at Cardiff University”.
Later in January 2026: “Studied BSC Hons Adult Nursing at Cardiff University”.
September 2026: “Bsc nursing at NHS” and “Former Student Nurse at Cardiff University”. Every role on the profile now begins “Former”, apart from the baby bank.
Cardiff University does not award a BA in nursing, and its adult nursing degree is not a BSc either. It is a Bachelor of Nursing, BN (Hons), with adult nursing as a “field of practice” inside it. It was the same in 2016, the year she says she started. The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s 2015 monitoring report on Cardiff names the course “BN (Hons) Nursing (Cardiff Nursing Futures)”, running since September 2012.
Her own photograph agrees. The cover of the Cardiff student portfolio she published reads “Bachelor of Nursing (Hons)” and “Adult Nursing Field of Practice”.
The portfolio cover she published. A portfolio shows that a course was started. It does not show that one was finished.
Where it stands: the degree named on her profile was wrong twice. The current wording, “Former Student Nurse”, does not claim a degree at all.
A degree, or a student nurse?
- 18 July 2023: “I went to Uni at 39 and got my degree and diploma in nursing and bio chem!” In the same post: “and now I’m doing a PHD and running a charity.”
- 27 July 2023: “I was working two jobs and studying to be a nurse and then next thing I knew I’d collapsed on a ward on placement.”
- January 2026, in a comment under her live video of 14 January: “I did my nursing degree in 2016”.
- 2 April 2026: “I also studied Adult Nursing at Cardiff University for 3 years”.
- 10 June 2026: “I was accepted to Cardiff University 2016 to study adult nursing”.
- 6 September 2026, her profile: “Former Student Nurse at Cardiff University”.
No degree certificate, transcript or award letter from Cardiff has been published. On 17 September 2026 her CIC page posted a screenshot of an email headed “Your Replacement Certificate is on its way”, captioned “Awkward for the haters”. It names a “BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult)”, which is not the name of Cardiff’s course, and Facebook labelled the post as AI content. The Changing Academic Record examines it.
Anyone who qualifies as a nurse in the UK and wants to practise must join the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register. When we checked in May 2025, she was not on it under either name. Her answer came on 6 June 2025: “You don’t have to be registered with the NMC to be a nurse, okay? You have to be registered with the NMC to practice as a nurse in the UK.”
Where it stands: “got my degree” has become “Former Student Nurse”. No award has been shown.
The biochemistry diploma
- 22 January 2025: “I also have a diploma in bio chemistry”.
- 17 June 2025, on a live video: “I did a diploma in biochem to get in, which was really, really good because it took the A&P out of the studying. So you didn’t need to study the anatomy and physiology part of it because at degree level, because you already knew it.”
Three days later our original article said that no earlier qualification could excuse a nursing student from anatomy and physiology (A&P). That was too absolute. The NMC lets universities count earlier learning towards up to half of a nursing course, if it matches what the course teaches (standard 1.5 of its programme standards).
But she has since said she was not excused. Reading criticism of the claim aloud on a live video, she answered:
- 28 September 2025: “It did take the ANP because I didn’t need to study the anatomy and physiology the night before the exam. I still had to do the exam, you fool.” And: “I think I had 97 in my ANP.”
- In the same video: “It’s an access to biochem.” “That’s what got me into university.”
- And: “Okay, I didn’t study here at Cardiff. And I never said I did.”
On that last point she is right that our 2025 article compared her claim with Cardiff’s own biochemistry degree. She says the diploma came from somewhere else. She has not said where, and no certificate for it has been published, including in the “Courses & Training” album her page opened in September 2026.
Where it stands: “took the A&P out of the studying” has become “the night before the exam”. The diploma itself has still not been shown.
“Unconditional offers”
- 18 July 2023: “I was accepted to every Uni I applied to with unconditiona offers.”
- 17 June 2025: “Which, by the way, I was accepted to every university that I applied for with an unconditional offer.”
- 28 September 2025: “I actually put the unconditional offers on Facebook.”
- 17 July 2026: “4 addition unconditional offers into Adult Nursing from other universities”.
An applicant who already holds the grades a course asks for can be given an unconditional offer, so this is possible. In 2025 we called it unlikely. The fairer point is that it has never been shown. None of the offers has been posted again since the question was raised, and the 85 posts from before 2019 in our archive include none.
Where it stands: possible, and never shown.
The learning difficulties “position”
- 17 June 2025: “And I was also offered learning difficulties nurse position in the interview for the application process by the University of South Wales.”
- 12 September 2025: “I was offered learning difficulties nurse training after, which I think was a good thing for over 18 months.”
- 28 September 2025: “I was offered the position to study learning difficulties nurse.”
In 2025 we read “position” as a job, and said universities do not hand out jobs at interviews. She says she meant a place on the course, and we accept that reading: the University of South Wales does run a learning disabilities nursing degree. No offer letter has been shown.
Where it stands: a course place, by her own explanation. Never shown.
CACHE and the CPD certificates
Her profile listed “Works at CACHE Level 3 Award, Certificate and Diploma in Child Care and Education” in both January 2026 captures. In 2025 we tested whether that would get someone into nursing. She had not claimed it did, so we have dropped that test. On 13 September 2026 she gave a different account: “My Mother went back to college to get her child minding qualifications and I forgot I went with her because she didn’t want to go on her own. I think it’s Cahe level 3 child minding ? I will get her to dig out the certificates.” The line is no longer on her profile.
In July 2025 she posted a photograph of three certificates from 2019 study days at the Village Hotel in Cardiff, run by the publisher of the British Journal of Midwifery and the Journal of Health Visiting. They record attendance, not a qualification, and she agrees. On 7 February 2026: “So yeah that’s not my nursing degree. That’s additional CPD courses.”
The CPD certificates as she posted them in July 2025, with the name area whited out.
In September 2026 a new image of the same certificates appeared, now made out to “Jayne Price, Cardiff University Student”, with a fourth added. Facebook labelled it AI content. The Changing Academic Record compares the two.
Is it a crime to call yourself a nurse?
Not yet, on its own. The law protects “registered nurse”, not the word “nurse”. In May 2025 the government announced that it would make it a criminal offence for anyone not on the NMC register to call themselves a nurse. That needs new legislation, which has not yet been put before Parliament. The Department of Health and Social Care’s call for evidence on who should be exempt ran from 30 July to 8 October 2026.
What the law already covers is narrower. Under article 44 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 it is an offence, if done with intent to deceive, to falsely claim to be on the register, to use a title reserved for people on the register, or to falsely claim to hold qualifications in nursing or midwifery.
We are not alleging that she has committed any offence. Whether she holds a nursing qualification is a matter of record for Cardiff University and the NMC, and a question she could settle by publishing the award.
At a glance
| What she has said | Where it stands, October 2026 |
|---|---|
| “BA Hons Nursing” at Cardiff | Wrong degree title. Cardiff’s course is a Bachelor of Nursing. Her profile now says “Former Student Nurse”. |
| “got my degree” | No award shown. Not on the NMC register when we checked. |
| A biochemistry diploma that “took the A&P out of the studying” | No certificate or college named. She now says she still sat the exam. |
| Unconditional offers from every university | Possible. Never shown. |
| A learning difficulties nurse “position” at interview | A place on the course, she says. Never shown. |
| CACHE Level 3 | Now described as her mother’s course. |
| CPD certificates | Attendance at study days: “that’s not my nursing degree”. |
Read more. The Changing Academic Record sets out every claim and document in date order, including the certificates posted in September 2026. 8 NHS Bodies Asked looks at her claim, made on 1 April 2026, that “I am still employed by a health board”.
Studied with her? If you were on Cardiff’s nursing course from 2016, or interviewed at the University of South Wales that year, and remember her, tell us through our contact page. We will not name you without your agreement.
Carrie-Anne Ridsdale, also known publicly as Jayne Price, has a standing right of reply. If anything here is wrong, send us the document that shows it through our contact page, and we will correct it on the record. A copy of the award, or of the offers, would settle most of this article.
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…Sherlock
