Quality Education
Higher Education in Wales UK represents exceptional quality and has an established reputation for excellence in teaching, learning and research.
Wales has over thirty centres of excellence and expertise offering applied research and consultancy to business and industry; and
to local and national government.
The 2008 RAE saw strong performances in Wales over a range of subjects from art and
design to physics, with world-class achievement in a number of areas including
civil engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, computer science and
informatics, psychiatry and neuroscience, psychology, allied health professions,
business and management, politics and international studies, town and country
planning and Celtic studies.
Wales offers a number of the top research specialisations in the country including an award winning Film school, the leading Civil Engineering department, the leading Optometry & Vision Sciences department, the leading Architecture school, two of the top rated Psychology schools, one of the leading International Politics departments, one of the top Materials Technology departments, three of the top Theology and Religious Studies schools and the top Accounting and Finance department in the UK (RAE 2008).
Wales also offers the national Music and Drama conservatoire of Wales, the leading "new university", a Government Charter Mark holding university, one of the largest and most progressive library schools in Britain, two business schools that achieved a Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) and a renowned Manufacturing Engineering Centre.
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