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Since its founding by Royal Charter in 1893, the University of Wales has played an important role in the delivery of higher education in Wales.  It has made a significant contribution to the country's academic and cultural life.  The landscape of higher education has changed considerably since the University was first established and it is now time to look to the future.  


I have already made clear my views on the University of Wales' overseas activities, which have also attracted considerable publicity.  In the recent past, concerns have been raised in relation to the University of Wales' management, academic standards and teaching.  I am pleased that the University has made good progress in responding to the problems that have been identified.  I welcome the fact that the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) has worked closely with the University and with the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) to agree and monitor an action plan to address the identified failings.  


I am very grateful for the energy and commitment of the University's Vice Chancellor, Professor Medwin Hughes, in coming to terms with the issues facing the institution.  


HEFCW's report, Future Structure of Universities in Wales (2011\), recommended a merger between the University of Wales: Trinity St David and Swansea Metropolitan University, 'potentially but not necessarily also with the University of Wales'.  The UWTSD's written response to the report restated its commitment to this merger and to delivering a transformed University of Wales.  I have already said that I have accepted HEFCW's advice and I welcome the moves made by these institutions towards implementing HEFCW’s recommendations to strengthen the delivery of higher education in South West Wales.


In October 2011, Professor Hughes announced that the University of Wales would stop validating degree courses at all other institutions in the UK and abroad with effect from the start of the 2012 academic year.  I recognise that, whilst the University of Wales requires careful management, there are good things about the institution which need preserving.  

My officials have continued to discuss with the University of Wales how to ensure the safeguarding of certain of its Welsh activities and assets.  These include discussions about the future of Gregynog and the Centre for Advanced Welsh Studies.


Professor Hughes wrote to me recently, outlining the current position of the University of Wales and the work that it has been doing on these matters, including making future arrangements for its assets as well as its validation activities.  A copy of Professor Hughes' letter is attached to this statement as I believe that it is in the public interest for this information to be made available.  Professor Hughes will soon be making a statement himself, plotting a course for the many activities of the University of Wales that continue to hold national importance, as suggested in the letter.


Like all other Welsh higher education institutions, the University of Wales must seek to adapt to the challenges facing it in the twenty first century.  I believe that the proposals which have been put forward by HEFCW, should they come to fruition, provide an opportunity for it to do so.





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* #### Written Statement \- Letter from Professor Medwin Hughes,
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Translation:


 
Ers iddi gael ei sefydlu drwy Siarter Frenhinol ym 1893, mae Prifysgol Cymru wedi chwarae rhan bwysig yn narpariaeth addysg uwch yng Nghymru. Mae wedi cyfrannu'n sylweddol at fywyd academaidd a diwylliannol y genedl. Mae cyd\-destun addysg uwch wedi newid yn sylweddol ers i'r Brifysgol gael ei sefydlu'n wreiddiol, a nawr yw'r amser i edrych tua’r dyfodol.  


Rwyf eisoes wedi mynegi fy marn yn glir am weithgarwch Prifysgol Cymru dramor, ac mae hynny hefyd wedi bod yn destun cryn gyhoeddusrwydd. Yn ddiweddar iawn, mynegwyd pryderon am reolaeth Prifysgol Cymru, ei safonau academaidd a'r addysgu. Rwy'n falch bod y Brifysgol wedi gwneud cynnydd da o ran ei hymateb i'r anawsterau a nodwyd. Rwy'n croesawu'r ffaith bod yr Asiantaeth Sicrhau Ansawdd wedi cydweithio'n agos â'r Brifysgol a Chyngor Cyllido Addysg Uwch Cymru i gytuno ar gynllun gweithredu, a'i fonitro, er mwyn mynd i'r afael â'r methiannau a nodwyd.  


Rwy'n hynod ddiolchgar am frwdfrydedd ac ymrwymiad yr Athro Medwin Hughes, Is\-Ganghellor y Brifysgol, wrth ddod i delerau â'r materion sy'n wynebu'r sefydliad.  


Yn adroddiad Cyngor Cyllido Addysg Uwch (CCAUC), Future Structure of Universities in Wales (2011\), argymhellwyd y dylid uno Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant â Phrifysgol Fetropolitan Abertawe ac, o bosibl, ond nid o reidrwydd, â Phrifysgol Cymru hefyd. Roedd ymateb ysgrifenedig Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant i'r adroddiad hwn yn pwysleisio unwaith yn rhagor ei bod wedi ymrwymo i’r uno ac i weddnewid Prifysgol Cymru. Rwyf eisoes wedi datgan fy mod yn derbyn cyngor CCAUC ac rwy'n croesawu'r camau a gymerwyd gan y sefydliadau hyn er mwyn gweithio i wireddu argymhellion CCAUC i gryfhau'r modd y darperir addysg uwch yn y De\-orllewin.


Ym mis Hydref 2011, cyhoeddodd yr Athro Hughes y byddai Prifysgol Cymru yn rhoi'r gorau i ddilysu cyrsiau gradd ym mhob sefydliad arall yn y DU a thramor o ddechrau blwyddyn academaidd 2012\. Rwy'n cydnabod, er bod angen rheolaeth ofalus ar Brifysgol Cymru, bod agweddau da am y sefydliad sydd angen eu cadw. Mae fy swyddogion i wedi parhau â'r trafodaethau â Phrifysgol Cymru er mwyn sicrhau bod rhywfaint o'i gweithgareddau a'i hasedau yng Nghymru yn cael eu diogelu. Mae'r rhain yn cynnwys trafodaethau am ddyfodol Gregynog a'r Ganolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd.


Yn ddiweddar, ysgrifennodd yr Athro Hughes ataf gan amlinellu safbwynt presennol Prifysgol Cymru ar y gwaith y mae wedi bod yn ei wneud ar y materion hyn, gan gynnwys gwneud trefniadau ar gyfer y dyfodol ar gyfer ei hasedau a’i gweithgarwch dilysu. Mae copi o lythyr yr Athro Hughes ynghlwm wrth y datganiad hwn, gan fy mod o'r farn ei fod o fudd i'r cyhoedd allu gweld yr wybodaeth hon. Bydd yr Athro Hughes yn gwneud ei ddatganiad ei hun cyn hir, gan baratoi trywydd ar gyfer amrywiol weithgareddau Prifysgol Cymru sy'n dal i fod o bwys cenedlaethol, fel yr awgrymir yn y llythyr.  


Fel pob sefydliad addysg uwch arall yng Nghymru, rhaid i Brifysgol Cymru geisio addasu i'r heriau sy'n ei hwynebu yn yr unfed ganrif ar hugain. Rwyf i o'r farn bod y cynigion sydd wedi eu cyflwyno gan Gyngor Cyllido Addysg Uwch Cymru, os cânt eu gwireddu, yn cynnig cyfle iddi wneud hynny.


 





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* #### Datganiad Ysgrifenedig \- Llythyr wrth yr Athro Medwin Hughes ,
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