Student bags top awards (From Penarth Times)

Student bags top awards

A FORMER Penarth pupil has received personal congratulations from the National Assembly for outstanding examination success at university.

Budding accountant Linsay May Andow, a former pupil at St Cyres School, was congratulated by Jane Davidson AM, the Minster for Education and Lifelong Learning for her performance at Cardiff University.

Linsay is studying BSc Accounting at Cardiff Business School, where she won the Charles Magee Prize for Best student in Core Accounting Subjects and the KPMG Prize for Best Student in Management Accounting.

She received a £350 prize cheque at the Business School's Annual Prize Giving. The event, now in its 24th year, is an important occasion in the school's calendar. In addition to distributing more than £15,000 in scholarship and prize money to students, it is an opportunity for the school to reinforce its commitment to teaching and rewarding quality.

It is also a chance for high calibre students to present themselves to prestigious companies who, in addition to sponsoring their prizes, may ultimately be their employer.

Cardiff Business School is the largest department in Cardiff University and is one of the most successful business schools in the country, regularly placed in the top ten of the 100 business schools in Britain.

Extensive links with public and private companies, government agencies and universities throughout the world have helped earn it an international reputation.

It has expertise in research and teaching across a wide span of specialist areas, including economics, business, banking, human resource management, finance and accounting, marketing and strategy, operations management and quantitative methods.

For more information, visit www.cardiff.ac.uk