There shall be and there is hereby constituted and founded a university in and for Wales, for both men and women to be eligible equally for north, mid and south Wales, and for the advancement of the nation.
Jeremy Miles – the Welsh Government’s Minister for Education and Welsh Language – chose a choice quote from the founding charter of the University of Wales to open a speech to the sector on his vision and priorities for HE, held at the impressive Swansea Waterfront campus of Trinity St David.
The passage was chosen to emphasise that while he’d been invited to speak on HE in Wales, he was keen to stress the contribution of universities to Wales – a neat reframing of Scotand’s “something for something” outcomes agreements culture that managed to emphasise both history and an appropriately tempered bit of national pride.
