Talk:University of Wales

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Contents 1 Associated Colleges 2 University ratings 3 Splitting Up? 4 Scarf colours 5 Number of Students at each institution 6 Endowments 7 Cardiff

[edit] Associated Colleges

For what I've read, I guess the Greenwich School of Management (www.greenwich-college.co.uk) is also an associated college? It does offer MSc Programmes from the University of Wales... --Pinnecco 15:07, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

The Greenwic Shchool of Management is not an associated college but would come under 'Validated Insititutions'. The school itself is not part of the university of wales, but as you have pointed out its MSc. programs are validated by the UoW. AlexD 16:07, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] University ratings

(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)

There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 21:45, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Splitting Up?

I'd heard that the University of Wales is going to be splitting up. Is this simply an unfounded rumour or is there something in it? Anthropax 20:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• An unfounded rumour, I'd say. Cardiff University's merger with the Wales College of Medicine in/around 2004 has generated many rumours that instititions like UW Swansea and UW Aberystwyth are going to follow suit. Whilst it is generally accepted that UW Swansea wish to style themselves as 'Swansea University', they are still officially UW Swansea. As with so many with re the University of Wales, much of the rumour is down to bias. 15:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scarf colours

The colours shown here and on Academic scarf#Other university scarf colours are a little out of sync, being miror images (I can see how this can arise) and having different thicknesses. Is anyone able to get both the correct way round and the thicknesses onto both articles? Timrollpickering 14:43, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Number of Students at each institution

Whilst I have no reason to doubt the stated total numbers of students for each accredited institution, the figures stated are misleading.

According to their own website "Lampeter is one of the smaller universities in Europe with around 1,000 students on its campus and with a total student population of under 10,000." [1]. Presumably the rest are distance learners?

Wouldn't it reflect the institutions concerned more accurately if distance learning students are reported as a separate column? As it currently stands, it makes UW Lampeter appear a similar in scale to other larger universities within Wales which is a clearly false impression.

--Afgyork1 12:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Endowments

I havent checked these thoroughly, but some of the figures are clearly wrong. Edinburgh and Glasgow are the two largest in the UK behind oxbridge (which I do know for a fact) at £200million and £135million. So a figure of 12billion for all of Wales and £140million for Aberystwyth is clearly wrong. Can someone verify this before it is removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.203.242 (talk) 14:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cardiff

Cardiff University is now a separate institution awarding its own degrees. Could someone either from Cardiff or from the University of Wales please edit the page accordingly?Kranf (talk) 22:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC)