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- Sir Deian Rhys Hopkin was from 2001 until 2009 Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of London South Bank University, England. He is an historian, originally from Wales and a fluent Welsh speaker. Born and educated in Llanelli, West Wales, he attended the first ever Welsh-medium school to be established by a local authority, followed by a scholarship to Llandovery College. He graduated in history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he also completed his PhD. After a brief period at Queen Mary College, London, he returned to the Department of History at Aberystwyth where he taught for twenty four years and became Head of Department; for most of that time he was also a tutor at the Open University and was seconded to the OU to develop new courses. In 1991 he was appointed Dean of Human Sciences at City of London Polytechnic which became, in 1992, London Guildhall University. He was promoted to Vice-Provost in 1996. He is actively involved in educational policy and, in particular, the skills agenda of the UK. He is co-chair of the HE Engagement Board for the Department for Children, Schools and Families developing communications strategies with universities over new qualifications. He is the HE Champion for the 14-19 Diploma and is HE Champion of the Apprenticeship programme. He is a Board member of the Learning and Skills Council, Foundation Degree Forward and the Campaign for Learning, and a Patron of Tower Hamlets Summer University, Southwark Theatres and Education Partnership (STEP) and the Bishopsgate Institute. He is Vice Chairman of CARA, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and also a Board member of the Scholars at Risk - CARA Network, which provides support internationally for refugee scholars and academics. He was until 2009 Chairman of the UNIAID Foundation, the national charity supporting students in financial difficulty which has now merged with the Brightside Trust. He has published on Labour and press history and on the use of computers in history, and was co-founder of the Association for History and Computing and founding editor of Llafur]], The Journal of Welsh Labour History, of which he is now a Vice President He has extensive broadcasting experience and was a member of the BBC General Advisory Council, the Educational Broadcasting Council for Wales and for many years a member of the Court and Council of the National Library of Wales, where he still serves as an adviser to the Welsh National Political Archive Hopkin is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, as well as a Freeman of the City of London, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and the Guild of Educators. He has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and awarded an Honorary D. Litt by Glamorgan University. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineering and an Honorary Member of the City and Guilds Institute of London. He was knighted in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
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- Sir Deian Rhys Hopkin was from 2001 until 2009 Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of London South Bank University, England. He is an historian, originally from Wales and a fluent Welsh speaker. Born and educated in Llanelli, West Wales, he attended the first ever Welsh-medium school to be established by a local authority, followed by a scholarship to Llandovery College. He graduated in history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he also completed his PhD.
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