University of South Wales

University of South Wales

Prifysgol De Cymru
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Type	Public
Established	April 2013 1841
Chancellor	Rt Hon Lord Morris of Aberavon KG PC
Vice-Chancellor	Professor Julie Lydon
Students	33,584
Location	Treforest, Cardiff, Newport , Wales, UK
Campus	Five campuses in Treforest, Newport, and Cardiff
Website	http://www.southwales.ac.uk

The University of South Wales is one of the largest 10 campus universities in the UK. It is the UK’s leading university for student support, winning the 2012 Times Higher Award for Outstanding Support to Students and the 2013 Guardian Higher Education Award for widening participation through its UHOVI initiative.

The University of South Wales was formed on 11 April 2013 by the merger of the University of Glamorgan and the University of Wales, Newport. Both previous institutions were founded by to train for engineering, management and the professions, with the University tracing its roots to the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines, Newport Mechanics Institute, Newport Technical Institute, Monmouthshire Training College, and the Caerleon College of Education.

It is a major player in the arts, with an internationally acclaimed film school, industry standard animation facilities, broadcasting studios, one of the UK’s oldest photography schools, a strong reputation for theatre design, award-winning poets, scriptwriters, and authors, and the national music and drama conservatoire, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, as a wholly owned subsidiary.

The University of South Wales is unusual in UK terms in bringing together the broadest range of provision and the widest access to education. It offers a full range of qualifications from Further Education to degrees to PhD study, specialist training in a world-renowned conservatoire, and we play a vital regional progression role with Further Education colleges. As a major post-92 university it delivers the full range of STEM subjects, from engineering and mathematics to computing and surveying.

The University of South Wales is a major player in British and global higher education. It ranks its key attributes as the employability of its graduates, the applied research of its academics, and role it plays in economic, social and cultural development.

The University of South Wales is a major public policy think-tank, offering independent advice to government and employers across the UK on health, education, economic growth, social policy and governance. It has most recently provided a partnerhsip platform for major think-tanks such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and NESTA to develop debate on public policy reform in the UK.

As a member of the St David’s Day Group with Cardiff, Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea, the University of South Wales is recognised as one of Wales’s five major research universities and a recognised leader in key areas of specialist research, such as sustainable energy, educational development , creative industries and the arts, mobile communications, humanities, sports injury and performance, new business incubation, and innovation for technology and start-up companies

The Vice-Chancellor of the University is Professor Julie Lydon, who currently is Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of South Wales Group,which includes the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Merthyr Tydfil College, and the University.

The designate Chair of Governors is Andrew Wilkinson, who currently holds this position at the University of Wales, Newport.