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As well as running club sides, three South Wales universities—Cardiff University, UWIC and the (Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf based) University of Glamorgan— formed the Cardiff/Glamorgan Centre of Cricketing Excellence, one of six Centres of Cricketing Excellence established by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in October 2000. The ...
In April 2010 he was awarded a personal chair by UWIC and made his inaugural lecture on Politics and Humour in February 2011. Deacon left UWIC in July 2011 and from the Autumn of 2011 he worked with the Department of History at the University of Wales Trinity St Davids [2] before starting lecturing at Swansea University.
Leighton Andrews (born 11 August 1957) is an academic [2] and former Welsh Labour [3] politician. He was the National Assembly for Wales member for Rhondda from 2003 until 2016. . He was Minister for Children, Education & Lifelong Learning from 2009 to 2011, then Minister for Education and Skills in the Welsh Government until his resignation on 25 June 2013 after an alleged conflict between ...
He also acted in National Youth Theatre as a teenager before moving to Cardiff to study sport at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) in Wales. In Wales, Jackson started competitive boxing, entering in the British Universities Boxing Championships , an inter-university competition held throughout the whole of Britain, and won the ...
Atlantic College was founded by Kurt Hahn, a German educationalist who had previously set up the Schule Schloss Salem and the Stiftung Louisenlund in Germany, Gordonstoun School in Scotland, and the Outward Bound movement.
He was Coach for Aberavon RFC between 1991 and 1992 and coached UWIC RFC forwards coach from 1993 to 1996. He also was a very good athlete (shot, discus and hammer events) competed in international athletics in Senior Wales AAA Vest from 1968 to 1971, British Schools AAA 1969 – Shot, Discus, Hammer (Res), Wales Secondary Schools Shot Put ...
He was also made a Fellow of UWIC (University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, now [Cardiff Metropolitan University]) and a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International. In 2007,he became a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Mid Glamorgan and was promoted to Vice Lord Lieutenant in 2012. He retired from the post in 2017.
The longest lived of these federal institutions was the University of Wales, which was founded by royal charter in 1893 with the federation of University College Wales (now Aberystwyth University), University College North Wales (now Bangor University) and University College South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University). Prior to this ...