Aberystwyth Education

Education

University

• University of Wales
  
  • The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (In the grounds of the National Library)

• Aberystwyth University

Secondary Schools / FE college

• Coleg Ceredigion local FE college
• Penglais School
• Penweddig is a local PFI funded bilingual school
• Inspection reports on the Secondary Schools in Ceredigion
• Welsh pupils are assesed at 11 to determine what their likely grades at 16 will be. These are compared to their actual grades at 16 to rank how well Welsh schools match the expected grades NEW

Primary Schools & Pre-schools

• Cwmpadarn Primary School
• Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth
• Plascrug Primary
• Inspection reports on the Primary Schools in Ceredigion
• Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin is a voluntary organisation that aims to give young children early years services (nurseries, playgroups, etc) through the medium of Welsh.

Libraries

• National Library of Wales
• Search the National Library of Wales Book Catalogue
• Search the University of Wales theses & dissertations held at the National Library
• Search Aberystwyth University Book Catalogue
• Aberystwyth University Open Access Repository
• The Aberystwyth Town Library which as well as the usual service also provides free public access to the internet!

Dictionaries

• An Anglo-Norman Dictionary is being developed in the university
• The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth is home to the Dictionary of the Welsh Language

Other

• Despite the university closing down the Chemistry Department the Mid-Wales Section of the Royal Society of Chemistry still run a programme of Chemistry Lectures in Aber'
• British Computer: Society Mid-Wales Sub-Branch
• Café Scientifique - public lectures and forum for debating science issues at the Arts Centre Bar
• Salon Aberystwyth organizes public discussions and debates
• Aberystwyth Skeptics in the Pub
• TEDx talks in Aberystwyth
• Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group
• Ceredigion Community Learning
• Aberystwyth University of the Third Age (U3A). (Self-help social group for people over 50 providing educational, creative & leisure activities)

Genealogy & Local History

The National Library is the main repository for ancient Parish Registers from all over Wales, which attracts many visitors to Aberystwyth doing research on their family trees.

• National Library of Wales Family History web pages
• Aberystwyth genealogical resources
• Cardiganshire Family History Society, are based in Aberystwyth
• Dyfed Familily History Society
• Welsh genealogical resources
• Cardiganshire Look-up Exchange Is a list of on-line indexes of old books and other source materials useful for genealogists
• The Llangynfelyn Parish (around Tre-Taliesin and Tre'rddôl) web site have lots of local genealogical information
• Penparcau History Group
• Historical statistics from multiple Aberystwyth census reports
• The history of Llanbadarn churchyard

• Ceredigion Archive collects, preserves and makes available to the public records about the history of Ceredigion
• The Library Service has created an on-line index of its local history collections
• Archives Network Wales is a searchable index of the major groups of historical records held by repositories in Wales.
• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
• National Library of Wales is the largest repository of local history records
• Aberystwyth & District Civic Society
• Local Megalithic and Prehistoric sites
• Ceredigion Museum & Gallery
• Coflein shows [Welsh] national monument's on zoomable map or by text search
• Welsh designer John Chris Jones recalls his childhood in Aberystwyth between 1927 and 1946
• Borth - A Maritime History by Terry Davies