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When they get towards the end of their courses most undergraduates prove themselves in the private silence of the exam hall. Art students are different. Their end-of-year work is brutally laid bare, on gallery display for all to see –…
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John Edward Lee, pioneer archaeologist of Caerleon
There are plenty of plaques to be seen on the streets of Caerleon – commemorating the novelist Arthur Machen, John Jenkins, opponent of the Chartists, and Basque children given refuge during the Spanish Civil War – but none, as far…
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MOOCs and other animals in Wales: what do you think?
Interested in MOOCs and other forms of online learning as they affect Wales? If so, read on … In February 2013, Leighton Andrews AM, the Welsh Government Minister for Education and Skills , announced the establishment of the Online Digital…
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Pembrokeshire coast walk: day 5
One rocky hill dominates the city of St David’s: Carn Llidi. Though it isn’t particularly high (less than 600 feet) its craggy summit is rarely out of the viewfinder of cameras pointed at the cathedral or other buildings, and it’s…
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Wales Coast Path: day 44: Aber Mawr from Goodwick
Today we resume at Goodwick in the company of MH, who joins us from Ceredigion. MH is an athlete, but is generous in holding back his natural instinct to sprint to our destination. He’s also an ornithologist – he comes…
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Wales Coast Path: day 41: Solva from Whitesands
Out of sequence, C. and I decide to tackle Whitesands to Solva, about 12 miles of winding coastline with St David’s as its focus. H. joins us, with today’s guest-walkers, M. and L. from Leicester, old friends of Pembrokeshire. The…
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Wales Coast Path, day 45: Goodwick from Parrog
C. and I leave Parrog and climb, thankfully to a lower cliff height than yesterday. To our left, the dark outline of Carn Ingli, to our left a succession of jagged sea rocks, one in the curious shape of a…
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Wales Coast Path, day 46: Parrog from St Dogmaels
We start at Poppit Sands, beyond St Dogmaels at the mouth of the Teifi estuary: two men just on the wrong side of middle age, with sensible boots and full rucksacks. A blustery wind blows, clouds rush in from the…
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Llyfrgellwyr: dal yma
Dyw hi ddim yn hawdd ar hyn o bryd i bobl sy’n gweithio yn y rhannau hynny o’r sector cyhoeddus sy ddim yn ‘wasanaethau hanfodol’. Er bod dyletswydd statudol ar awdurdodau cyhoeddus i ddarparu gwasanaeth llyfrgell ‘cynhwysfawr ac effeithlon’ i’w…
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Arthur Blayney’s farewell to Gregynog, 1795
As I survey my estate And my blood’s come To nought In this parchment dry body And as I consider my kin’s line Scrolling back unbroken To Brochwel Ysgythrog Prince of Powys And down the lane As I plan my…