Robert A. Pearce

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Professor Robert Pearce is the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter.

Educated at Grammar Schools in Birmingham, Bristol and Gloucester Pearce went on to study law at Pembroke College, Oxford. He has since held academic positions at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne, Lancaster, University College Cork (part of the National University of Ireland), and at the University of Western Ontario.

He has been Professor in Law at the University of Buckingham between 1990 and 2003, where he was successively Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Acting Vice-Chancellor. On 1 October, 2003, he became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter, in succession to Professor Keith Robbins.

He has also been an academic auditor for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and its predecessor, the Higher Education Quality Council, since 1993.

Preceded by
Keith Robbins
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter
2003–
Succeeded by
Current Incumbent