Prof Clement left UoW in June 2012 to take up another role at Swansea University.

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UoW, which is merging with two other institutions, said all payments were agreed by a committee.

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The trusts will safeguard traditional UoW services such as the University of Wales Press and Gregynog Hall in Powys.

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In the October of that year, Prof Clement left the post of vice chancellor and was appointed as the UoW's president.

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It follows fierce criticism of UoW after a BBC Wales investigation in 2011 into a visa scam at a partner college in London.

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But a scandal uncovered by BBC Wales involving an alleged visa scam centred on a partner college in London offering UoW validated degrees confounded the plan.

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Plaid said the decision was "baffling" as it came as the UoW faced controversy over links to partner colleges, leading to it being effectively wound up.

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An earlier BBC Wales' Week In Week Out investigation in 2010 showed a Malaysian pop star with a bogus doctorate ran a college offering UoW courses.

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It led to a damning report from the higher education watchdog, the QAA, which found serious shortcomings in the way UoW approved other colleges to teach and design courses for its degrees.

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