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	EESW - The Engineering Education Scheme in Wales aims to encourage students of high ability with the potential to study for an engineering or science degree, to make a positive commitment to a career in engineering and make determined application for suitable courses in universities
	VTC Cymru - VTC Cymru is part of the UK's National Grid for Learning, this is the access point for a range of educational resources for teachers throughout Wales
	BBC Wales - Education - Educational material and resources for pupils and teachers that covers a range of ages from primary school to school-leavers
	Learn English in Wales - Association comprised of private schools and universities that offer English as a Foreign Language courses and are accredited by the British Council and/or the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes. Include a general overview and information about each member institution.
	Student Community Action Wales Development Unit - Student-led organisation working with local communities. Includes description of the organisation and opportunities, and list of participating educational institutions. [English/Cymraeg]
	ELWa - The national council for education and training. Includes details about the organisation along with contact details.
	Junior Live Arts 2000 - A combined Primary Schools' Millennium Project involving over 400 children with their teachers and parents, from ten schools, in a full scale musical production.
	Welsh Archives Council - The council represents institutions and organisations from all parts of Wales involved with the administration of archives. Contains details of archive repositories in Wales and elsewhere.
	Further Education Funding Council for Wales - Responsible for securing the provision of facilities for further education and for the administration of funds in support of further education. Provides information on funding allocations and training materials.
	Food & Farming Partnership - A partnership project for schools, exploring issues surrounding farming and food production. A summary of the organisation's purpose, and viewpoints on topics from various organisations.
	Coleg Gwent - Information about course, campuses and calendar. Campuses located in Abergavenny, Cross Keys, Ebbw Vale, Newport, Pontpool, and Usk.
	Welsh Funding Council - Information on funding further and higher education. Contact details.
	The National Strategy for Basic Skills in Wales - Offers information on programmes, advertising campaign and resources for education professionals.
	Welsh Open College Network - Provides an accreditation service for qualifications, credits and awards through training and education.
	CEWC-Cymru - A national charity working with young people to promote understanding of the contemporary world.
	Learning Wales - Education resources from the Welsh Assembly Government. Information on schools, adult training, teaching, and careers.
	Higher Education Funding Council for Wales - This site contains a good range of information about the HEFCW, established in May 1992, including a list of HE institutions in Wales, publications, research assessments, funding methodologies, and other initiatives.

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Education I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Education They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Education In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Education Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Education your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Education When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Education The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (Fran�ois VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Education Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Education Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan Education Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Education An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Education Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous Education "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Education The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exup�ry) A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Education The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom Education It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Education We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Education "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Education Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. 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