Primary School Visits the City beach
The Swansea Bay region offers a wide range of primary, secondary, further and higher educational establishments.
Depending on individual school policy, education is available in English, Welsh and bilingually and there are also denominational schools in the region.
2009 GCSE results across the region & 2009 A level results across the region.
Swansea has 88 Infant, Junior & Primary schools and 15 Secondary Schools.
Visit City and County of Swansea for further information
Neath Port Talbot has 66 Infant, Junior and Primary Schools and 12 Secondary schools.
Visit Neath Port Talbot website for further information
Carmarthenshire has 136 Infant, Junior & Primary schools and 18 Secondary schools.
Visit Carmarthenshire website for further information on education.
Post-16, there are four extremely popular Tertiary Colleges, namely Swansea College, Gorseinon College, Coleg Sir Gâr and Neath College, all offering a wide variety of courses.
See the pages above left for more info on the individual further education providers
Students from across the World choose to study in Swansea Bay’s first class higher educational institutions. Swansea University, Swansea Metropolitan University and the UK's newest university, Trinity University College, Carmarthen offer a wide range of courses. For more information on Higher Education please visit the ‘Studying’ section
INDEPENDENT EDUCATION
Whilst private education is not widespread throughout South West Wales, there are a number of independent schools at Primary and Secondary level across the region: For more information on these please visit:
www.emetis.com
Cognita Schools in Wales - Cognita has three schools in Wales – Oakleigh House and Ffynone House in Swansea and St Clare’s in Porthcawl. All are co-educational and follow the Cognita ethos of developing skills of literacy and numeracy.
