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Two-panel image showing the red-brick Technical College tower entrance and an abandoned lecture theatre inside
B&R Urban Explorers UK

MOUNT PLEASANT: Inside Swansea’s abandoned Technical College — the building time forgot

Urban explorers' images show the former UWTSD Mount Pleasant campus — the 1931 Technical College — as it stands today:…

Eleven members of Swansea University's grounds team holding a green 2026/27 Green Flag Award banner in front of flower beds on Singleton campus
Bay Campus

SWANSEA: Green Flag flies over the university for a ninth year — as its grounds join Wales’ most exclusive heritage list

Swansea University's Singleton Park and Bay campuses have kept their Green Flag for a ninth consecutive year — and the…

Rhun ap Iorwerth speaking in the Senedd chamber, gesturing, with MSs seated behind him.
ALN

BUDGET DEFEAT: Plaid government’s £294m spending plan voted down 49–44 — as schools funding row claims its first casualty

The new Welsh Government has lost the vote on its first budget — with £294m for NHS waiting lists, childcare…

Senedd Chamber
ALN

SWANSEA SCHOOLS: ‘Owed £11m’ for children with additional needs, says council leader — as Plaid’s budget faces knife-edge vote tonight

Swansea council leader Rob Stewart says the city's schools should be getting at least £11m this year for pupils with…

A teacher standing at the front of a primary school classroom
Anna Brychan

TEACHERS’ PAY: Welsh Government to consult on 3.5% rise — but unions attack decision to reject independent 4.25% recommendation

Education Minister Anna Brychan says a higher award isn't affordable within school budgets, but TUC Cymru warns that paying teachers…

Ynystawe Primary School buildings and grounds seen from the road
heatwave

YNYSTAWE: Primary school sends pupils home at 12.30 today as heat peaks — the only school in Swansea to close early

Ynystawe Primary is one of just four schools in Wales closing early or shutting altogether on Friday as the third…

Three Parkland Primary pupils holding a giant first prize cheque, flanked by host Sian Lloyd and DVLA Chief Executive Tim Moss
Blaenbaglan Primary School

CODE CHALLENGE: Swansea and Neath Port Talbot schools sweep top prizes at DVLA’s annual coding contest

Parkland Primary and Ysgol Gymraeg Ystalyfera Bro Dur were crowned winners at the Swansea awards ceremony — with Blaenbaglan Primary…

Exterior view of Ysgol Heol Goffa special school in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
Children's Commissioner for Wales

LLANELLI: Minister urged to step in over ‘lifesaving’ school nurse battle as mum warns of ‘preventable tragedy’

Llanelli Town Council has written to Wales' new health minister demanding action over the lack of a full-time nurse at…

A composite of two photos showing a school nursery's outdoor area — a wooden Little Garden archway with planters, and a courtyard with a blue water table and tubs of colourful toys.
Curriculum for Wales

SWANSEA: Nursery children get new garden and water play area — as school beats thousands to national funding

Parkland Primary and Nursery School has transformed its nursery outdoor space into a garden and water play learning area —…

Five Swansea University researchers standing together — Dr Yang Liu, Dr Laura Seymour, Dr Maria Cheshire-Allen, Dr Charlotte Jones and Dr Tom Avery.
Dr Charlotte Jones

SWANSEA: University researchers grab five of just 30 places on Wales’ future research leaders programme

Five Swansea University researchers — working on everything from unpaid carers to trustworthy AI — have been picked for the…