Prifysgol Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth University

ORGANISATION

Aberystwyth University is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. The university has almost 8,000 students studying across 3 academic faculties and 17 departments.

The aims and objectives of the University are outlined in its charter. The following is listed in this document as one of the University’s core objectives: ‘to give special attention, itself or jointly with others, to the educational needs of Wales, having regard to the Welsh language and the culture, the economic development and the social traditions of Wales’.

Aberystwyth University contributes to the promotion of linguistic diversity in a variety of ways, in particular:

By upholding a comprehensive bilingual policy that treats both Welsh and English as official working languages, which means that any services of a public nature offered by the institution can be accessed through the medium of either Welsh or English.
By playing a leading role in Wales in the development and promotion of Welsh medium provision at the higher education level. Students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) at Aberystwyth are able to study an increasing number of university courses through the medium of Welsh.
By supporting multidisciplinary academic research that focuses on areas such as language policy and planning, language revitalisation, bilingual education and language legislation.

COUNTRY

Wales

TYPE OF ORGANISATION

Associate Member

WEBSITE

https://www.aber.ac.uk/

INFORMATION ABOUT THE LANGUAGE

Welsh

NAME OF THE LANGUAGE

ENW’R IAITH

Welsh

Cymraeg

TOTAL NUMBER OF SPEAKERS

CYFANSWM NIFER Y SIARADWYR

562,000 (Census 2011)

REGULATED BY

RHEOLEIDDIR GAN

Welsh Language Measure 2011 and the Welsh language Commissioner.

Mesur yr Iaith Gymraeg 2011 a Chomisiynydd yr Iaith Gymraeg.

GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

ARDAL DDAEARYDDOL

Wales

Cymru

LANGUAGE FAMILY

TEULU IEITHYDDOL

Celtic

Celtaidd

STATUS OF THE LANGUAGE

STATWS YR IAITH

Official status in Wales

Statws swyddogol yng Nghymru

STATUS AT THE UNIVERSITY

STATWS YNY BRIFYSGOL

Universities are Autonomous bodies. They have to comply with the Welsh Language Standards.

Mae prifysgolion yn sefydliadau hunan-reolaethol. Mae’n rhaid iddynt gydymffurfio â Safonau’r Iaith Gymraeg.

FIELDS OF USE

ÀMBITS D’ÚS

Public administration (although only 2 councils have Welsh as their official working langauges) must offer a biling service, media (S4C, Radio Cymru, no daily newspaper but community papers and magazines and an online service), education (22.47% currently in Welsh Medium or bilingual education), leisure – project but no real national policy.

Er mae dau gyngor yn unig sydd â’r Gymraeg yn iaith gwaith iddynt, mae’n rhaid i weinyddiad cyhoeddus gynnig gwasanaeth dwyieithog: cyfryngau (S4C, Radio Cymru, dim papur dyddiol ond papurau bro a chylchgronau a gwasanaeth ar-lein); addysg (22.47% mewn addysg Gymraeg neu ddwyieithog); hamdden,- prosiect ond dim polisi cenedlaethol gwrioneddol.