University of Glamorgan
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The University of Glamorgan is a university in Treforest, near Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales.
It was founded in 1913 as a School of Mines to serve the large coal mining industry in the south Wales valleys. It later became Glamorgan Polytechnic, then The Polytechnic of Wales, before becoming The University of Glamorgan in 1992. It has around 19,000 students, with around 16,500 of them being undergraduates.
The university is divided into two campuses, a main campus in Treforest, and a campus for Law & Nursing students in Glyntaff. In recent years, the university has started up many new successful undergraduate degree programmes, several of which have quickly earned a reputation for excellence - particularly offshoots of the English degree, such as creative writing and journalism. It is the only university in the world to offer an undergraduate degree in science & science fiction, and one of the very few teaching science communication at undergraduate level. A degree in Astrobiology (about how life can form on a planet and, well, the biology of aliens) is announced for 2005/2006.
Glamorgan is the first university in Wales (and only the 8th in the whole of the UK) to have been awarded the nationally recognised Investor in People status, the UK's premier award for staff training and development.
In 2000, The Daily Telegraph reported that Glamorgan is in the top five of modern universities for teaching quality.
External link
- University of Glamorgan website (http://www.glam.ac.uk)
- Centre for Astronomy & Science Education (http://case.glam.ac.uk)
- University of Glamorgan Student Union website (http://www.glamsu.com)
- Leek - student union newspaper. (http://www.glamsu.com/main/studentactivities/leek)