Author: Rhys Gregory

Cardiff Metropolitan University has appointed leading technology pioneer Professor Jon Platts as Dean of its much-anticipated Cardiff School of Technologies. Professor Platts is a widely published, high level manager and Company Director with a breadth of industry and research experience in autonomous systems, machine intelligence and human computer integration. He will lead the ambitious multi-million pound Cardiff School of Technologies which will further establish Cardiff Metropolitan University as a world leader within the tech industry. The School’s strategy outlines plans to recruit 2,000 new students by 2024 aligned to the employment needs of South Wales’ growing tech sector and will…

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FOUR Christ College Brecon students are celebrating after being offered places to study at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The competition has never been so fierce for these coveted places. The number of applications has more than doubled to Oxford over the past 20 years, with 22,000 applicants for 3,250 places. Aisling Tarpey has received an unconditional offer to read English at Lincoln College, Oxford; Adonijah Airede to study Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; Hayato Kaneda to University College, Oxford for Physics; and Kevin Zhao to read Engineering at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Set within the Brecon Beacons National Park,…

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