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Cardiff University
Cardiff University Information & History...
Cardiff University, like many of the other distinguished civic English universities, emerged from an amalgamation of historically independent institutions. In 1866 the Cardiff Arts and Science Classes devolved into the Cardiff Technical College, the Welsh College of Advanced Technology and the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST).
It was in the Aberdare Report 1881, which recommended the forming of universities in North and South Wales in order to complement the previously established University College Wales (which is now the University of Wales Aberystwyth).
By 1883 public appeals for funding raised enough money to open the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in the same year. A year later in 1884 the University College was incorporated into the institution by Royal Charter. At the time the only college in Wales, which could award its own degrees, was St David’s University College, and all students were entered into the examinations of the University of London. This was the practice right up until 1893, when the college formed the foundations for the University of Wales and began to award its own degrees independently.
1893 also saw the establishing of Departments of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Pharmacology as the College’s School of Medicine. However, by 1931 The Welsh School of Medicine separated to form the University of Wales College of Medicine.
In 1972 the University College Of South Wales changed its name to University College Cardiff. By 1988 it had merged with UWIST, and was renamed by constitutional changes as the University of Wales Cardiff in 1996. This institution became more commonly known as Cardiff University, but not officially named as such until 2004. This was also the year in which the College of Medicine, which had previously run in partnership with Cardiff University, was finally merged into the institution and became part of Cardiff University.
The university has a prestigious record of academic excellence, learning and scientific development. In the 1990’s the university’s computer systems became the home for the Internet Movie Database. The Cardiff University Innovation Network has excelled in providing expertise, business knowledge and technological advice to local businesses. This in turn facilitates tens of millions of pounds in to the Welsh economy and further establishes commercial links in the community and local businesses.
The University’s Manufacturing Centre has a customer base of over one hundred businesses and serves to propagate its innovative research to over two thousand companies throughout the United Kingdom.
Today the University is the only Welsh member of the prestigious ‘Russell Group’ of universities which ensures distinction, funding and priority for its academic research. Cardiff University employs over five and half thousand staff to cater for its growing population of local and international students who come there to study, encouraged by its world renowned reputation as a world leader in research and development. Thus ensuring that Cardiff University is at the heart of Welsh learning and academic brilliance.
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