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University confers honorary fellowship on St David's Day
01.03.2011
Today the University of Wales Trinity Saint David will confer an honorary fellowship upon Professor David Warner, Vice-Chancellor of Swansea Metropolitan University, at a ceremony to be held on the University's Lampeter campus.
The University’s Honorary Fellowship is presented to individuals who have made a significant contribution to their field of expertise, to society or to the life of the University.
Professor Medwin Hughes, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David said “I am delighted that the University is able to recognise Professor Warner’s considerable contribution to higher education in the UK and in particular to the sector in South West Wales.
“He is the longest serving leader of a higher education institution in Wales and his experience and expertise has always been of great value to us over the years. He has been a good friend to this institution and has demonstrated his commitment to the development of the University sector in the region. Our institutions announced the intention to merge at the end of last year and recent events have seen further developments with the inclusion of the University of Wales and UWIC. Such developments will take that vision a stage further as we work together to deliver strategic change by creating a new system to transform educational planning and delivery in Wales.
The ceremony will follow the St David’s Day Service led by the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Reverend Dr Barry Morgan at 5.30pm.
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David is working with Swansea Metropolitan University, Coleg Sir Gâr, Pembrokeshire College and Coleg Ceredigion to create a dual sector university. This means that the institutions will work as a group to provide progression routes and choices for students as well as programmes of study that respond to the needs of employers in the region.
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Note to Editor
- Professor David Warner became the Vice-Chancellor of Swansea Metropolitan University (then Swansea Institute of Higher Education) on 1st January, 1998 and is now the longest serving head of a Higher Education institution in Wales. He previously worked in a school, an FE college and at the Universities of Warwick, East Anglia and (now) Birmingham City University (Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the last-named).
- Professor Warner has written or edited some ten books on aspects of higher education management including Human Resource Management in Higher and Further Education; How to Manage a Merger... or Avoid One; Higher Education Management: the key elements; The State of UK Higher Education; Higher Education Law and Managing Crisis. He is currently the commissioning editor of a sixteen volume series for the Open University Press entitled Managing Universities and Colleges and is the Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education.
- Professor Warner has been involved in all aspects of HE management development for a number of years. He has successfully undertaken a wide range of consultancies in the UK and is currently working, under the auspices of the Leadership Foundation, at the University of Manchester.
- Professor Warner is the Deputy Chair of Higher Education Wales, which is part of Universities UK and has also undertaken a number of international consultancies, the most recent being for universities in Namibia, Romania, Belarus and Queensland.
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