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CAT Media Department: Press Release
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New Welsh Minister launches CAT's postgraduate school
Official visit will highlight climate targets for Wales |
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| Contact: Sophie Holdstock (Email) |
Date: 21/06/2007 |
 Thursday 21 June 2007: Jane Davidson, the new Minister for Sustainability and Rural Development in the Welsh Assembly Government, will officially launch the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)'s Graduate School for the Environment (GSE) today.
The Minister will also visit the construction site of a new facility being built to host the Graduate School and other CAT educational projects. The Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (WISE) will provide a new kind of learning environment while standing as a practical example of low carbon building technologies.
Paul Allen, CAT Development Director said:
“CAT’s new Graduate School for the Environment is assembling a world class team in Wales to teach the skills and knowledge urgently needed for the transition to a low carbon economy and help us meet national sustainability targets.
The CAT Graduate School will provide qualifications through innovative postgraduate courses. Its education and research programme will address energy and climate targets such as Wales' microgeneration strategy and its objective of making all new building zero carbon by 2011.”
CAT’s successful MSc in Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies is growing fast and now has over 400 students. CAT will soon be offering two other postgraduate courses both unique in their combination of practical and academic learning.
The Chair of the Validation Board said, “It is wonderful to validate a course which is going to make a real difference to people's lives.”
To spread this cutting-edge knowledge world wide, a distance-learning version of the programme has also been validated. External examiner Professor Peter Smith said he believed it was “the foremost in the provision of this subject area in the UK.”
Photo Opportunity: during the Minister’s tour of the WISE construction site at 2pm.
CAT media office Sophie Holdstock 01654 705953
CAT Development Director Paul Allen 01654 705958
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