University of Wales

The University of Wales was a confederal university founded in 1893. It had accredited institutions throughout Wales, and formerly accredited courses in Britain and abroad, with over 100,000 students, but in October 2011, it withdrew all accreditation, and it was announced that the university would be effectively abolished: Newport and Glyndŵr University are to become independent universities, while Swansea Metropolitan University will merge with Trinity Saint David. At the time of its announced closure, the Chancellor of the University of Wales was HRH the Prince of Wales and the... Pro-Chancellor was the Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan. Professor Marc Clement was President and the Vice-Chancellor was Professor Medwin Hughes. The University of Wales was founded in Wales in 1893 as a federal university with three foundation colleges: University College Wales , which had been founded in 1872 and University College North Wales and University College South Wales and Monmouthshire which were founded following the Aberdare Report in 1881.
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