Cardiff

Posted August 2nd, 2007 by csc104

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Cardiff University Cardiff Wales UK CF10 3XQ

Contact number:

029 208 74000

Website:

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk

Brief history:

The Aberdare Report of 1881 recommended the foundation of university colleges in north and south Wales to complement the already established University College, Wales in Aberystwyth. Following a public appeal that raised £37,000, the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire opened on October 24, 1883 and was incorporated by Royal Charter the following year. The only college in Wales with its own degree awarding powers at this time was St David's University College. As such, Cardiff entered students for the examinations of the University of London until, in 1893, it became one of the founding institutions of the University of Wales and began awarding their degrees.

University Life

Accommodation & Surrounding Areas:

Availability
- 4700+ places available
- 1st years guaranteed accommodation

Costs
- Catered en suite room costs £93 per week
- Catered standard room costs between £77 and £82
- Self catered studio room costs £99 per week
- Self catered standard room costs between £54 and £60 per week
- Self catered en suite room costs between £63 and £79 per week

Contract Period
- 39 weeks

Locations
- All 13 halls are within walking distance of the campus.

Facilties
- Utilities included
- Internet (in most rooms) access included

Resources:

Library
- 1 500 000+ books and journals
- 3200+ study places

Opening hours
- 65 weekday hours
- 12 weekend hours

IT
- 2600+ computer
- 24 hour access
- Wireless

Welfare:

Services
- Counselling service
- Advisory service
- Childcare on campus
- Health centre (not a full general practice though)
- Nightline
- Chaplaincy

Safety
- 24 hour security centre
- Campus and halls of residence patrols
- Police liason project

Sporting facilities:

University sports centre indoor facilities
- Large multi-purpose sports hall
- Field hall, with 6 badminton courts, 5-a-side pitch & cricket nets
- Martial arts dojo
- Fitness suite with free weight facilities

University sports centre outdoor facilities
- All outdoor facilities are floodlit.
- Tennis and netball courts
- Artificial grass hockey pitch
- Grass training pitch for rugby, football and lacrosse

University fitness centre
- Fitness suite
- Modern fitness facility with extensive range of equipment
- Exercise studio for fitness classes, karate and fencing
- Wellbeing clinic

The squash centre
- 6 squash courts, three of which are glass backed

Outdoor facilities
- 33 acres of high quality grass pitches
- 4 rugby pitches
- 5 football pitches
- 1 lacrosse pitch
- 3 cricket squares
- 2 artificial cricket nets
- 1 floodlit training pitch
- Pavilion

Costs
- Good pay as you go scheme available to students.
- 3 months unlimited access gold membership costs students £45.

Sports Clubs
- Aikido
- American Football
- Badminton
- Basketball Cardiff Tigers - Mens
- Basketball (Womens)
- Canoe Club
- Caving
- Cheerleading
- Cricket Mens
- Cricket Womens
- Dance
- Fencing
- Football Club
- Ladies Football
- Golf
- Athletics and Cross Country (formerly known as 'Harriers')
- Medics Hockey
- Hockey (Mens)
- Hockey (Ladies)
- Jiu-Jitsu
- Karate - Do Shotokai
- Karate - Wado Kai
- Kickboxing
- Kite Surf
- Korfball
- Kung Fu
- Lacrosse
- Motorsports
- Mountain Bike
- Mountaineering
- Netball
- Rambling
- Riding Club
- Rifle
- Rowing
- Rugby (Mens)
- Ladies Rugby
- Sailing
- Snowsports
- Snooker
- Squash
- Sub-Aqua
- Surf
- Swimming and Water Polo
- Taekwon-do
- Tennis
- Tennis Medics
- Trampoline
- Ultimate Frisbee
- Volleyball
- Windsurf
- Yoga

Going out and social life

Club nights:

Cardiff Student Nights

Student union & social clubs:

Venues
- All in all there are 9 bars to keep boozers happy!
- The Solus is the SU nightclub, with a capacity 1800 it is one of the biggest venues in Cardiff. A chilled out food court during the day, student superclub come the evening.
- The Taf is the SU pub, which seems to get bigger and busier by the year.
- CF10 is the SU cafe bar, which serves snacks and coffee during the day. When nightime comes, an intimate club it does become.
- Great Halll is the a great concert hall with 700 seated & 1500 standing capacity. It attracts some grade A acts, including Oasis, GLC and Faithless.
- The Cap and Gown Bar is the slighty more mature bar, servicing the needs of the post graduate community.

Student Media
- Gair Rhydd is the SU weekly newspaper
- Quench is the SU fortnightly magazine
- Xpress Radio is Cardiff's own student radio station

Clubs and societies:

- A Cappella
- Act One
- Afro-Caribbean Society
- Ahlul Bay't
- AIESEC
- Amnesty International
- Art
- Arts 4 Charity
- BACCUP
- Baha'i Society
- Bell Ringing
- Big Band
- BioScience
- Broadway Dance
- Business Society
- Catholic Society
- ChemSoc
- Chess Club Cardiff
- Chinese Students And Scholars
- Christian Union
- Civil Engineering
- Cocktail Society
- Conservative Future
- Debating | CUDS
- Funky Arse Disco Dancing
- Duke of Edinburgh
- Earthsoc
- EWB | Engineers Without Borders
- English
- Erasmus
- Film Society
- FlashMob
- French Society
- Cardiff Castle Garrison
- German
- Greek Society_Main
- GRIMSoc
- Gym Gym
- Healthcare Christian Union
- History
- Hong Kong
- Harry Potter
- Iranian
- Islamic
- Japanese
- Jazz Society
- Jewish
- Jewish
- Jewish
- Korean Society
- Krishna Consciousness
- Labour Students
- Language & Comms
- Law
- Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Society
- Lib Dems
- Links
- Live Music
- Malaysian
- Cardiff Marrow
- Mature Students
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medical International Society
- MedSoc
- MMM
- MOMED
- Medecins Sans Frontieres
- Music Society
- Navigators
- Neighbours
- NeuroScience
- Nightline
- Nursing Social Society
- Oddsoc
- Omani Society
- One Mission
- Optometry
- Pagan Society (CUPS)
- Palestinian Solidarity
- People And Planet
- Post Graduate Society
- Photographic Society
- Piratical
- Poker
- Pro-Evo
- Psychology
- RAG | CardiffRAG
- Real Ale and Cider
- Roleplaying & Wargaming
- Russian Society
- Save The Children
- SAWSA
- Scientific Dive
- Sci-Fi
- SHAG
- SIFE
- Socialist Students
- SOCSI
- Spanish And Italian
- SPEAK
- Speleological
- Sri Lankan
- Scout and Guide
- STAR
- Student Respect
- SVC | Student Volunteering Cardiff
- Socialist Worker Student Society
- Table Football
- Table Tennis
- The Rock Foundation
- Traffic clubbing and DJing society
- Wind Band
- WPSA
- Yuva

Boring but important

Fees and bursaries:

Undergraduate fees
- All courses set at £3070 for non Wales UK students.
- Students from Wales will be eligible for an annual £1,845 fee grant. This means that you will pay an annual fee similar to the current standard fee of £1,225 although this will not be charged "up front." Instead payment will be deferred until after you graduate.

Bursaries
- Cardiff University Bursary; awards available to student with a household income below £38 326. See below.

Household Income-----------Bursary received per year
£0 - £17,920--------------------£1000
£17,920 - £27,160------------£500
£26,161 - £38,325------------£300
£38,326 and above-----------£0

- Sports Bursary Programme; Support for elite athletes.

Scholarships
- Cardiff University Scholarship; £3000 awards available to top performing students studying chemistry, computer science, Earth science, engineering, mathematics, physics, archaeology, German, Italian, music and Welsh.

Future plans and investment:

How much?
- £12 million investment in the University’s School of Chemistry.

On what?
- Laboratory facilities for synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry have been completely refurbished and two new synthetic suites have been added, together with eight new refurbished laboratories for material science and biomolecular chemistry.

Visiting

Open day dates:

2008
- Wednesday 23rd April

Rail:

High speed InterCity trains provide frequent services between all major British cities. The Cardiff-London InterCity service, from London Paddington, runs some seventeen times a day, with a journey time of less than two hours.

Frequent regional network trains connect Cardiff with:
- Bristol (50 mins)
- Birmingham (2 hrs 10 mins)
- Southampton (2 hrs 30 mins)
- Manchester (3 hrs)
- Liverpool (3 hrs)

From Cardiff Central Station there is a frequent train service which stops at Cathays Station, located on the campus (Enquiries: 08457 484950).

Road:

Cardiff is served by the M4 and is easily accessible from all parts of Britain.
- From the south west, take the M5 and from the south of England, follow major A roads to the M4.
- From Scotland, the north of England and the Midlands, travel via the M50 to the M4.
- Travelling east on the M4. Leave the motorway at Junction 32, follow the A470, signposted City Centre, into the Cathays area of the city.
- Travelling west on the M4. Leave the motorway at Junction 29, follow the A48(M)/A48, signposted Cardiff East and South, to the A470. Follow the A470, signposted City Centre, into the Cathays area of the city.

Buses:

The No 27 service leaves from stand D3 in front of Cardiff Central Station, and the No 53 service leaves from nearby Westgate Street (Enquiries: 0870 6082608).