Education Swansea

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swansea university has campus in singleton park overlooking swansea bay. engineering department recognised centre of excellence pioneering work on computational techniques solving engineering design problems. department of physics renowned research achievements @ frontiers of theoretical physics, particularly in areas of elementary particle physics , string theory. , many other departments such history, computer science , german awarded excellent in last inspection. university awarded times higher education supplement award uk s best student experience in 2005. in 2017, swansea university medical school ranked third best medical school in united kingdom, behind oxford , cambridge universities.

in 2015 swansea university opened new bay campus situated in jersey marine area of swansea.

other establishments further , higher education in city include university of wales trinity saint david , gower college swansea. trinity saint david formed on 18 november 2010 through merger of university of wales lampeter , trinity university college carmarthen under lampeters royal charter of 1828. on 1 august 2013, swansea metropolitan university became part of university of wales trinity saint david (uwtsd). swansea metropolitan university particularly known architectural glass department, teaching , transport & logistics degrees.

schools

in local authority area, there 1 nursery school; 6 infant schools , 5 junior schools. there 77 primary schools, 9 of welsh-medium, , 6 of voluntary aided. there 15 comprehensive schools under remit of local education authority, of 2 welsh-medium. in addition, there 6 special schools.

the oldest school in swansea bishop gore school. largest comprehensive school in swansea olchfa school. there 1 roman catholic comprehensive school in city – bishop vaughan catholic comprehensive school. welsh medium schools ysgol gyfun gymraeg gŵyr , ysgol gyfun gymraeg bryn tawe. other schools in swansea include birchgrove comprehensive school, cefn hengoed community school, dylan thomas school, pentrehafod comprehensive school, morriston comprehensive school , gowerton school.

some primary schools in swansea are:

cwm glas primary school
danygraig primary school
pennard primary school
pentre r graig primary school
sketty primary school
st. thomas primary school
waun wen primary school
ysgol gynradd gymraeg gellionnen
ysgol gynradd gymraeg tirdeinaw

there few roman catholic primary schools, 1 of them being st. joseph s primary school.

independent schools in swansea include ffynone house school , oakleigh house school.