Hundreds of students have started lectures at the new campus, which is 3,712 miles from Cardiff.
John McAllister left Barry in July, reaching Astana in Kazakhstan ahead of Thursday’s match.
A capsule with Don Pettit and his two Russian crewmates lands in Kazakhstan after a space station mission.
An overview of the media in Kazakhstan, including links to broadcasters and newspapers.
The White House has said the flight may have been hit by missiles fired by a Russian air-defence system.
Three survivors of the downed Azerbaijani plane have described the moments on the flight before the crash.
The Kremlin has refused to comment, but Russia's civil aviation agency said the situation in Chechnya was "very complicated" at the time.
A minister says all the survivors "heard blast sounds" over Grozny before the plane was diverted to Kazakhstan.
Footage shows survivors walking and being dragged away from the tail section of the plane.
