Newport's University to be 'dissolved' in merger (From South Wales Argus)
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Newport's University to be 'dissolved' in merger
5:00pm Tuesday 17th July 2012 in News
NEWPORT’S University will be ‘dissolved’ and merged with the University of Glamorgan, the Minister for Education and Skills Leighton Andrews said today.
In a statement this afternoon, the minister told of the: “need to dissolve the existing University of Wales, Newport” as part of the moves to create a “strong metropolitan university in South East Wales”.
He said he expects to see “discussions between Glamorgan and Newport focus on a merger that is likely to utilise the existing vehicle of the University of Glamorgan structure.”
He added: “subject to the outcome of this statutory consultation, I would anticipate seeing real progress on the merger of Newport and Glamorgan by 2013."
He said he also expected Cardiff Metropolitan University, formerly UWIC to join the new South East Wales institution, saying: “I would hope to see progress in terms of Cardiff Metropolitan's involvement in the new merged institution in 2014.”
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Owain Vaughan
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5:52pm Tue 17 Jul 12
Dave on his Soapbox
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5:58pm Tue 17 Jul 12
Matty639
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Manley
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chris227
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dark_angel
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5:32pm Wed 18 Jul 12
Manley wrote:The city centre campus cannot handle the amount of students that it holds now due to the stupid design of the building. The amount of space that is wasted - and this building won an award !!!!!
The Newport city campus had the potential to attract large numbers of students. I can't see that being the case if this takeover goes ahead and the newport university buildings become an annexe of Glamorgan Uni. This is a real shame for Newport as a whole and the councillors should get involved to try and preserve Newports identity.
The only reason the "university" has any international students is due to the University of Wales connection - when that goes (when newport will be disbanded) so will the students !!!
Owain Vaughan says...
5:50pm Tue 17 Jul 12