The merger, expected in 2017-18, will take place under the Trinity Saint David charter.

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In south west Wales, Swansea Metropolitan University and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David have agreed to unite.

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The merger with Trinity Saint David and Swansea Met is expected in 2017-18.

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Finally, Prince Charles joined a traditional Welsh carol service in Carmarthen, at the town's University of Wales Trinity Saint David campus.

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Trinity Saint David vice chancellor Prof Medwin Hughes will become vice chancellor of the University of Wales as part of the merger.

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The university is effectively being abolished in a merger with Trinity Saint David in Carmarthen and Lampeter, and with Swansea Metropolitan university.

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Earlier this month an agreement in principle to create a single new university for South West Wales (University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Swansea Metropolitan University) was announced.

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However the minister has rejected a recommendation to formally merge Aberystwyth and Bangor, however accepted the advice to merge the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Swansea Metropolitan University.

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Under the merger - which will create a university of up to 13, 000 students - the Swansea Met brand will remain, but it will come under the umbrella of Trinity Saint David.

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In 1960 he worked at an international school in the Netherlands before being appointed as a senior lecturer at the then Trinity College, Carmarthen (which is now the University of Wales Trinity Saint David) where he stayed until he retired.

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