William Glyndwr "Wil" Edmunds OBE (born 1947) is a retired Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 educationalist. He was Principal of Coleg Ceredigion

Coleg Ceredigion

Coleg Ceredigion is a bilingual further education college in Ceredigion. It has two campuses in the two largest towns in Ceredigion, namely Aberystwyth and Cardigan The college's principal is Jacqui Weatherburn...

 and then Principal/Chief Executive of Deeside College

Deeside College

Deeside College is a further education college situated in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, North Wales. In January 2007, the college gained the highest possible grade 1 inspection ratings for its Work Based Learning provision...

 1997-2004, during which time the college was the first Further Education college to be awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize

Queen's Anniversary Prize

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. In 2004 he was appointed chair of ACCAC

ACCAC

ACCAC was the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales....

, the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales.

Edmunds has a degree in music from Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds

University of Leeds

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, and a masters degree in social psychology from the University of Liverpool

University of Liverpool

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. He received the OBE in 2001 for "services to Further Education".