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The first Wlpan course was run by the Extramural Department of the University of Aberystwyth over 6 weeks in the early summer of 1973, having been organised by Chris Rees. [3] The Wlpan course emphasises the spoken language, and different versions of the course are used in different parts of Wales in order to reflect regional differences in ...
The Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (meaning: Welsh National College), known in both Welsh and English simply as Coleg, [1] was established in 2011 by the Welsh Government to work with universities in Wales to develop Welsh-language courses and resources for students; it also provides and advances Welsh medium courses, scholarship and research in Welsh universities.
It has a bilingual language policy and offers the opportunity to study most subjects through the medium of Welsh. Since 1 April 2012, it has been a constituent college of Grŵp Llandrillo Menai. Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor has three main campuses at Dolgellau in Meirionnydd, Pwllheli in Dwyfor and Glynllifon (for agricultural courses) near Caernarfon.
The main source of funding is the Welsh Government as a designated institution under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. Since renaming as Adult Learning Wales – Addysg Oedolion Cymru, the organisation additionally retains the branding of predecessor institutions.
The published CorCenCC corpus was sampled from a range of different speakers and users of Welsh, from all regions of Wales, of all ages and genders, with a wide range of occupations, and with a variety of linguistic backgrounds (e.g. how they came to speak Welsh), to reflect the diversity of text types and of Welsh speakers found in ...
The college has offered both full and part time courses, [26] It has sites located in the heart of Wrexham, [1] with one of its sites located next to Wrexham bus station. [27] Its two campuses are Yale (on Grove Park Road) and Bersham Road. These comprise two of the five campuses of Coleg Cambria. [28]
[5] [6] The British government never prohibited the use of Welsh at schools but it treated English as the assumed language of instruction. [7] More Welsh was gradually used at schools in Welsh-speaking areas in the mid to late 19th century [8] [9] and teaching of the language began to receive moderate government support from the late 19th ...
Elwyn Hughes is the Senior Co-ordinator for Welsh Courses for Adults in the Department of Lifelong Learning at the University of Wales, Bangor.His achievements over the past 30 years were recognised at the 2005 National Eisteddfod of Wales when he was awarded the "Tlws Goffa Elvet a Mair Elvet Thomas" Award in recognition of his work.