Cardiff University and University of Wales College of Medicine merged in 2004, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama joined the University of Glamorgan Group in 2007 and the University of Wales, Lampeter, and Trinity University College, Carmarthen, joined forces this year.

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The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS) will work in collaboration with Oxford University, King's College London, Bangor University and the National Library of Wales on the "archaeological background of the emergence of the Celtic languages in western Europe".

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The episode is likely to cause further embarrassment for the University of Wales, after an earlier BBC investigation revealed a college offering its courses in Malaysia was run by a pop star with two bogus degrees.

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Representatives from NUS Wales, the University and College Union, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the Association for College Management were present to give evidence to the committee.

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In 1960 he worked at an international school in the Netherlands before being appointed as a senior lecturer at the then Trinity College, Carmarthen (which is now the University of Wales Trinity Saint David) where he stayed until he retired.

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University College London academics interviewed paediatricians at 177 hospitals in England and Wales and found a lack of knowledge about the warning signs of children being underweight.

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