Peter Noyes
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Peter Noyes is an academic who was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Newport in Newport, South Wales, UK, 2006-2012.{{citation|url=http://www3.newport.ac.uk/news/displayStory.aspx?story_id=85|title=University's New Vice-Chancellor will Spearhead Planned Expansion|publisher=University of Wales|date=November 1, 2006|accessdate=2010-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070513005111/http://www3.newport.ac.uk/news/displayStory.aspx?story_id=85#|archive-date=2007-05-13|url-status=dead}}.
Noyes has a degree in social psychology from Loughborough University and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of London.http://www3.newport.ac.uk/displayPage.aspx?object_id=6350&type=PAG{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Peter Noyes Biography, www.newport.ac.uk Noyes joined the University of Wales administrative staff in 1996, after previously working at the Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education; he was appointed as vice-chancellor in 2006. On 8 May 2012 he issued a statement that he would be stepping down from his post at the end of the academic year for "personal reasons".{{Cite web|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419848&c=1|title = Newport vice-chancellor to step down|date = 8 May 2012}}{{citation|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-17964337|title=University of Wales Newport vice-chancellor Peter Noyes to stand down|publisher=BBC|date=5 May 2012|accessdate=15 February 2015}}