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Cardiff Metropolitan University

Cardiff Metropolitan University (Welsh: Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd) traces its history back to 1865, when the Cardiff School of Art first opened, later becoming the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) as part of the University of Wales, before becoming independent in 2011. The university offers degree courses in a variety of disciplines to over 12,000 students and is TEF silver-rated.

Research and enterprise centres include:

  • the Food Industry Centre
  • the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research
  • the National Centre for Product Design and Development Research.

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Teachers need a hand getting the message across. Wellbeing blackboard via pupunkkop/Shutterstock

All secondary schools could do with a head of well-being

Rachel Dodge, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Children’s character and well-being looks set to be a central education issue going into the 2015 general election. Getting out of the starting blocks in mid-December, Nicky Morgan, the secretary of state…
Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve board. EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo

How to interpret the Fed as it ends QE and morphs into a hawk

Marco Gundermann, Cardiff Metropolitan University

The US Federal Reserve this week has moved one step closer to lifting interest rates by ending its controversial bond-buying program. This begins a long-anticipated process that will take many months to…
Heaney at a family party in 1979. bc-burnslibrary

‘That final vowel’: reading Seamus Heaney’s last poem

Kate North, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Seamus Heaney’s final poem has been published just over a year after his death. Finished ten days before he died aged 74 in August 2013, the poem is a mediation on a painting of a canal by the French artist…
Food for thought. Hospital by Shutterstock

Healthy food might be bad for patients – here’s why

Amanda Squire, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Imagine you are feeling unwell, in pain, lonely and worried about your future health, and you just don’t feel like eating. It is unlikely that you want to eat a large, hot meal that arrives in front of…
A suspected IS convert is arrested in Indonesia. EPA/Sakhiy Rifano

The fight against Islamic State is a battle for young minds

Nicola Bowes, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with the fact that their nationals – and young people in particular – are leaving to join extremist groups such as Islamic State. In response, ministers…
There are blue skies at the end of Clearing. Man and laptop via Dean Drobot/Shutterstock

Ten pieces of advice on clearing from an admissions tutor

Olwen Moseley, Cardiff Metropolitan University

You’ve got your A Level results and things are not how you imagined they would be. Maybe you didn’t do as well as you thought you would. Or maybe you didn’t think you wanted to go to university but now…

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