[Mr Dion]

is there anyone on the board from round about Treforest (near pontyprid) on this board?
i was over there a month or so ago looking at glamorgan university. just wondering if anyone new anything about the area.

[Eddie]

i was born in Cardiff but no absolutely nothing about the palce you want to knwo about so...............I may as well have posted nothing in this thread!

[kendra k]

but it didn't stop you, did it eddie?

today in one of my classes we were talking about voiceless consonants, that would normally be voiced. (like m, b, or g) anyhow... i was the only person who knew that welsh has a voiceless l (the lovely ll!). i went to the head of the class for that one.

[Jacqui]

good for you, im so impressed!

I got an A in welsh GCSE!

[Sam]

Anybody know anything about swansea uni, it looks like a nice place to go. Crap internet access though it seems so the bonus for you lot is you get rid of me.

[Adam]

Didn't you ask about UoG a few months back?

Anyway - The University is in the middle of the sleepy village of Treforest. This is a picturesque little place and has a few nice pubs to drink in, pub crawls are laughably easy due to them all being within about a square mile! The local community doesn't exactly welcome Glamorgan's 17 000 students with open arms but they seem to grudgingly accept that without the university there wouldn't be a Treforest. There are some English-Welsh tensions but nothing to get in a pickle about. If you are English just keep your trap shut when the rugby is on. For more fun, Cardiff is about 20 mins away and easily accesible.

Regarding UoW Swansea:

Libraries:
730 000 books is more than enough for the number of students. There is a problem with space though and study places are short. You might be better off finding a quiet corner somewhere else. Try the city's municipal libraries. You are also less likely to be distracted.

Computing:
950 machines means high competition. Try to bring your own machine if you can, it saves time and hassle when you really need access.

Sports:
£3 gets you membership to the athletic union. This gives you access to most facilities for a nominal fee. The list is pretty impressive: A fitness suite, sports hall, weights room, astro pitch, pool, squash, tennis and netball courts, a climbing wall, lake, and rifle range, an athletics track and playing fields. As if that weren't enough there is a dry ski slope and sailing in the local area.

Future Plans:
A new club and music venue is on the way.
Disabled Students:
Good facilities here. Induction loops for hearing impaired students, a recording centre for the visually impaired, specially reserved places in halls and a dyslexia support group. On top of that wheelchair access is just about perfect. A gold star for Swansea then.

Student Welfare:
The health and counselling services are run together and provide perfectly adequate facilities for your well being.

Parking:
There are a very limited number of permits available for students and competition is as fierce as a hungry tiger. Don't bother trying would be our advice. There is adequate parking on halls sites.

University Shops:
There is a range of shops in the students' union including a travel agency, 2nd hand bookshop, print shop and a general store selling stationery and groceries. At the Hendrefolian student village there is a good shop with just about everything you could need.

University Bookshops:
There is a 2nd hand bookshop on campus.

Banking:
There is a branch of Lloyds and a Natwest cashpoint on site. Other than that you will have to go into the city. No great hardship, its not very far.

Transport Policy:
None but there doesn't really need to be.

Green Areas:
Everywhere! The University is set in a park and the city is quite green.

[Sam]

Computing:
950 machines means high competition. Try to bring your own machine if you can, it saves time and hassle when you really need access.

Internet acess from your own computer is quite expensive from what I remember, ok 1p a minute isn't that exsepensive round-a-bouts but it adds up when you spend aslong on the net as me. But oh, to go to uni somewhere pretty! You have no idea the value of this you countryside people, living in the middle of a crappy city all your life.

[timb]

i'm from north devon so i know what the countryside is like, and it sucks ass. city = shops = good

[Lew]

i've been living in/near a crappy city/cities all my life and you reall miss it when you move to somewhere like that (or cornwall in my case) you feel out of place, well i do anyway

[Sam]

You would rather live in the middle of a rather bad estate in Wolverhampton than somewhere peaceful, beautiful and quiet? I spent alot of my childhood over at Cannock Chase (Titters land don't you know) and I love it, just miles of trees and countryside and wildlife. There are some lovely little villages just outside Wolves not far from me (I'm lucky to live on the outskirts) and I'd love to settle in one of them or near Cannock Chase when I'm older, I think I must have country in my blood cos I can never understand the appeal of a dirty, busy, rushed city.

[Mr Dion]

Didn't you ask about UoG a few months back?

Anyway - The University is in the middle of the sleepy village of Treforest. This is a picturesque little place and has a few nice pubs to drink in, pub crawls are laughably easy due to them all being within about a square mile! The local community doesn't exactly welcome Glamorgan's 17 000 students with open arms but they seem to grudgingly accept that without the university there wouldn't be a Treforest. There are some English-Welsh tensions but nothing to get in a pickle about. If you are English just keep your trap shut when the rugby is on. For more fun, Cardiff is about 20 mins away and easily accesible.

i may have...cant rightly remember.

thanks for the info. i wont have to worry about the english thing, its more the being irish thing.

[Adam]

any reason why your wanting to study in wales?

when you have:

Dublin City University
National University of Ireland, Galway
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Portobello College International
Queens University Belfast -
The National University Of Ireland
The University of Dublin, Trinity College
University College Cork
University College Dublin
University of Limerick

[Mr Dion]

u missed a few there.

glamorgan is the best place to do sports psychology. nowhere in ireland does it.
also id rather get away when goin to university...meet new people etc.

[timb]

You would rather live in the middle of a rather bad estate in Wolverhampton than somewhere peaceful, beautiful and quiet?.

yes.

wolverhampton was actually my second choice uniersity, i went to an open day but the campus wasn't as nice as dmu.

[Sidders]

DMU's crap. I was going to go there but I got a job instead.

Come to SHU. It's got one of the biggest uni networks in Europe. It's got nearly 2000 machines I think.

[Lew]

i wont be thinking about uni for a couple of years yet. i'm 2 years behind pretty much everyone else in my age year because of my incompetence and arrogance when i was in secondary school. if i do eventually get to uni i will know that i earned it. i could have just given up after coming out of school with no gcse's but i strived on, living with the shame of retaking gcse's and now being in the not that much better position of doing a media gnvq.

getting to uni and succeeding now would be a big slap in the face to all my teachers in school who told me straight up to my face that i was a loser and i was going nowhere.

[Sidders]

i wont be thinking about uni for a couple of years yet. i'm 2 years behind pretty much everyone else in my age year because of my incompetence and arrogance when i was in secondary school. if i do eventually get to uni i will know that i earned it. i could have just given up after coming out of school with no gcse's but i strived on, living with the shame of retaking gcse's and now being in the not that much better position of doing a media gnvq.

getting to uni and succeeding now would be a big slap in the face to all my teachers in school who told me straight up to my face that i was a loser and i was going nowhere.

Yeah, I didn't bother going straight after school either. I didn't really have the maturity to go straight there so I decided to go to work for a couple of years to get experiance in the real world. I think I benefited from it, but I put on a hell of a lot of weight (mainly from drinking), which I've kept ever since.

[Lew]

by the way i wasnt implying that people who do the standard school (gcse's) college (a-levels) then university route have not earned it. i just feel that in my mind i deserve to do well if i do get to (and succeed at) uni

[Bridgie]

u missed a few there.

glamorgan is the best place to do sports psychology. nowhere in ireland does it.
also id rather get away when goin to university...meet new people etc.

i just got my offer through from glamorgan yesterday after going for an interview.

been there twice now, uni looks great and its all on 1 campus. sports facilities look brilliant which im happy about.

as for the pub crawl adam mentioned, the students said its good to get out to cardiff because the same 5 pubs for 3 years gets very boring!

only 15 minute train journey to cardiff though.

i may see you there.

[timb]

DMU's crap. I was going to go there but I got a job instead.

Come to SHU. It's got one of the biggest uni networks in Europe. It's got nearly 2000 machines I think.

sheffield must suck, coz i didn't even consider it.

[Lew]

oh well if you didnt consider it..........

[timb]

oh well if you didnt consider it..........

exactly. and i got prospectus' from all the universities running computer science courses. they must have had something in there that mentioned business studies or something

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

most people i knew when i started uni (4 years ago this september... scary) went to sheffield or leeds... it seemed to be the place to go.

[timb]

tbh i probably ruled them both out because they are too far north. i'm from devon birmingham and leicester was sort of the line, but that doesn't help me offend sidla as much, so i'm sure sheffield sucks balls

[Adam]

most people i knew when i started uni (4 years ago this september... scary) went to sheffield or leeds... it seemed to be the place to go.

manchester, bristol, nottingham etc etc