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CARMARTHENSHIRE NEWS • EDITION 10 NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2012 Welcome
THE University of Wales Trinity Saint David is proud to be a part of the community in Carmarthenshire. The recent merger with Swansea Metropolitan University will allow us to enhance the already excellent student experience offered and build on the existing achievements of the merged partners. Trinity Saint David has been a major
centre for the delivery of vocational higher education in Carmarthen for over 160 years. It was, and will continue to be, firmly rooted in the community it serves. Service to the people of the region remains one of our core values, this commitment is, and will remain, a key part of our success both in the past and in the future. Vice-Chancellor, Professor Medwin Hughes
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Students go green to save the rainforest
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STUDENTS at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s raised £243 for the rainforest charity ‘Rooting for Change’ The money, raised through a cake the Lampeter campus
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Students’ Union, will help expand a tree planting scheme in a deforested area of Kenya, part of the charity’s
aim to help protect an area of tropical forest the size of Wales. The Lampeter-Bore Community Carbon Link project aims to connect the mid-Wales community of Lampeter with the sub-Saharan community of Bore in Kenya’s Coastal Province. Abi Jenkins, campaign coordinator said: "We are very pleased to have
the continued support of the University, Community Carbon link and the Size of Wales. This set of partnerships is making an enormous difference to the people in Bore as well as educating people locally on the drastic effects of climate change."
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Winners of the road safety competition in the last issue of Carmarthenshire News will be announced in the next edition.
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A Coleg Sir Gâr carpentry student has won a gold medal for the UK at the EuroSkills competition held in Belgium. Gareth Jones from Garnant, aged
19, competed in the event as part of a process following a recent selection for the WorldSkills UK squad. The former
Amman Valley
Comprehensive pupil said: “The opening ceremony echoed the Olympic Games with a parade of nations in a very glitzy affair.” Gareth began his craft on a school
links programme at the college and continued to study a Pathways to Apprenticeship. He is employed as an apprentice with Paul Taylor Building Services.
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