Don't forget Bangor
Posted on: Friday, 26 March 2004, 06:00 CST
SIR - Regarding your article by Sir John Cadogan on the future of chemistry as a subject at the University of Wales, Swansea, (March 20) while not wanting to involve myself in the internal politics of the University of Wales, Swansea, I applaud many of Sir John Cadogan's more general comments about the place of chemistry in higher education.
I would however, like to correct one factual oversight regarding the teaching of chemistry in Wales.
Wales does indeed have a higher education chemistry department west of Cardiff, at the University of Wales, Bangor, which although north of the M4 corridor is still in Wales and still west of Cardiff!
Our university has an excellent chemistry department that has taught the subject since 1884.
Listed among the top 10 chemistry departments in the UK by the Guardian (2003), awarded an 'excellent' for the quality of its teaching, the department is justifiably proud of its strong record of research and collaboration with industry.
ELINOR ELIS-WILLIAMS
Press Officer, External Affairs Office, University of Wales, Bangor
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