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Oxford Brookes University
Motto: Excellence in diversity
Established: 1992, from Oxford Polytechnic (est. 1970) ultimately from Oxford School of Art (est. 1865)
Type: Public
Chancellor: Jon Snow
Vice-Chancellor: Janet Beer
Students: 19,070[1]
Undergraduates: 13,645[1]
Postgraduates: 5,120[1]
Other students: 300 FE[1]
Location: Oxford, England, UK
Colours:             [2]
Affiliations: Universities UK
Association of MBAs
Website: http://www.oxfordbrookes.ac.uk/

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Contents

Overview

The University has roots in Oxford that go back to 1865 (when it was known as the Oxford School of Art). Oxford Brookes is the eighth largest employer in Oxfordshire, providing 2,500 jobs across the University.[3] This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ...


Oxford Brookes University pioneered the use of modular degree courses and has earned recognition for quality in architecture[4], art, economics, engineering, history[5], modern languages and publishing.[citation needed] The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies is one of several programmes at Brookes that has expanded the university's reputation abroad. Similarly, the national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) assigned the Department of History its foremost international ranking (5*).[6] The Oxford Brookes Department of Architecture is one of the largest in Britain and in 2006 was named as the leading school of architecture outside London and second overall in the UK[7]. In the most recent 2007 survey by the Architect's Journal it was ranked fifth overall.[8] This article is about building architecture. ... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying scientific knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria. ... This article is about the study of the past in human terms. ... A modern language is any human language that is used by societies in the world today. ... “Publisher” redirects here. ...


Specialist Study

The Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) in the School of the Built Environment was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize and is well known for its programme for humanitarian practitioners. CENDEP provides an academic setting for the study of cities, humanitarianism and refugees. Singer and activist Annie Lennox is patron of the Master's Course in Humanitarian and Development Practice.[9] The Queens Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education is a biennially awarded series of prizes awarded to Universities and Colleges in the further and higher education sectors within the United Kingdom. ... Annie Lennox (born Ann Lennox on 25 December 1954) is a Scottish musician, vocalist, and Academy Award-winning songwriter. ...


In 2007, The MSc in Primate Conservation was awarded the highly-prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize – a national honour recognising the outstanding contribution by the MSc programme team and the Department of Anthropology & Geography at Oxford Brookes.[10]


The Oxford Brookes School of Technology is well known for its automotive and motorsports engineering courses leading to undergraduate BEng(Hons) and MEng(Hons) degrees. The school is also home and lead institution to Motorsport Knowledge Exchange[11] which is a Government-funded small cooperative of institutions, involved in delivering motorsport education at a variety of different levels, from technician to post-graduate.


Sport

Rowing


Oxford Brookes Rowing Club currently has eight student and four alumni Olympic / World medallists at varying levels. The men’s group contains eight Great Britain under-23 international athletes, and 15 athletes with Great Britain junior international experience. The club boasts 16 wins in 14 years at Henley Royal Regatta, most recently in 2006. The university boathouse is located at Cholsey, near Wallingford, a land-based rowing facility i situated at the Centre for Sport at Headington Campus.


Cricket


Oxford University and Oxford Brookes combine the best cricket players to make up the Oxford Universities Centre of Cricket Excellence (UCCE)[12]. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...


Motorsport


Formula One champion Fernando Alonso provides scholarships for masters degree students to study motor sport engineering at the university[13],[14]. Participants, in specific will study either an MSc in motorsports engineering or in race engine design at Oxford Brookes. The university, which is based in the heart of the UK’s ‘motorsport valley’, boasts a teaching staff that includes Prof. Geoff Goddard, a former chief designer at Cosworth[15]. F1 redirects here. ... Cosworth Logo Cosworth is an automotive engineering company founded in London in 1958 specialising in engines for automobile racing. ...


Fairtrade University

Oxford Brookes university became the first university in the world to be awarded Fairtrade status in October 2003[16]. In 2007 Oxford Brookes came fifth in a the new environmental league table of universities and received a first class rating for its environmental creditentials[17].


Campuses

Oxford Brookes University has three main campuses:


Headington Campus is located in Headington, a residential area of Oxford, one mile from the city centre. It consists of the Gipsy Lane site, which is the main teaching site, the Marston Road site, being the school of Health and Social Care, and the Headington Hill site across the road from Gipsy Lane, where the Students' Union and main halls of residence are located. The Headington Shark Headington is a residential suburb of Oxford, England, lying on top of a hill of the same name overlooking the city of Oxford in the river valley below. ... This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ... “Miles” redirects here. ... Headington Hill is a hill in the east of Oxford, England, in the suburb of Headington. ...


Wheatley Campus is set near Wheatley in the Oxfordshire countryside, seven miles south-east of the city centre, and is where business, IT, mathematics and more recently engineering subjects are taught. Wheatley viewed from Windmill Lane Wheatley village lies six miles east of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, UK, in a valley at right angles to the river Thame. ... In economics, a business is a legally-recognized organizational entity existing within an economically free country designed to sell goods and/or services to consumers, usually in an effort to generate profit. ... Information and communication technology spending in 2005 Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ... For other meanings of mathematics or uses of math and maths, see Mathematics (disambiguation) and Math (disambiguation). ...


Harcourt Hill Campus is situated on Harcourt Hill on Oxford's western perimeter, two and a half miles from the city centre. Education, Philosophy, Theology, Media and Communication and many other subjects are taught here, in a landscaped setting overlooking the city. It was formerly the site of Westminster College, Oxford, the only independent Methodist higher education institution in Europe, which specialised in Teacher Training and Theology and whose students were awarded their degrees by the University of Oxford upon successful completion of their course. The 'campus' was purpose-built for the College's move from London to Oxford in the 1950s and was leased to Brookes by the Methodist Church. The College lives on in the Westminster Institute of Education at Oxford Brookes University, which is the school responsible for those subjects taught at the Harcourt Hill Campus by Brookes. Oxford Brookes University is a public university in Oxford, England. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... Theology finds its scholars pursuing the understanding of and providing reasoned discourse of religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... Popular press redirects here; note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint The Popular Press. Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. ... Westminster College, Oxford was founded in 1851 in Horseferry Road, London, and originally specialised in the training of teachers for Methodist schools. ... For other uses, see Methodism (disambiguation). ... This article concerns the Degrees of Oxford University. ... The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ... The Methodist Church of Great Britain or British Methodist Church is the largest Wesleyan / Methodist body in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain (although more limited in Scotland). ...


All three main campuses offer a range of sports and recreational facilities that can be used by all the students. Harcourt Hill and Wheatley provide catering whereas the rest offer excellent catering facilities, a library with an extensive range of reference books and journals, and 24 hour computer rooms along with numerous other facilities.


Future plans

Oxford Brookes is currently redeveloping its campuses in cooperation with RMJM architects (joint architects of the new Scottish Parliament). Plans include extensive rebuilding--a new School of Technology (housing Brookes’ Motorsport Engineering Centre) and a recently completed Research Centre at Gipsy Lane are two examples of an ambitious "masterplan" that promises to revamp the entire campus.Initial Masterplan document RMJM are a British architectural practice, founded in 1956 by Robert Matthew and Stirrat Johnson-Marshall. ... For the national legislative body up to 1707, see Parliament of Scotland. ...


Professor Janet Beer, the former Pro Vice Chancellor at Manchester Metropolitan University, has recently been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. [4]


Halls of residence

Oxford Brookes has nine halls of residence: Crescent Hall, Cheney Student Village, Clive Booth Hall, Warneford hall, Cotuit Hall, Morrell Hall, Paul Kent Hall, Lady Spencer Churchill Hall at Wheatley campus and Harcourt Hill Hall at Harcourt Hill. Cheney Student Village Cheney Student Village is one of the nine halls of residence at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England. ... Cotuit Hall is one of the nine halls of residence at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England. ...


Global partnership

Oxford Brookes University's partnership with Association of Chartered Certified Accountants allows ACCA students to study for a BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting while taking their ACCA examinations. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is a British chartered accountancy body with a global presence that offers the Chartered Certified Accountant (Designatory letters ACCA or FCCA) qualification worldwide. ... The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is a British chartered accountancy body with a global presence that offers the Chartered Certified Accountant (Designatory letters ACCA or FCCA) qualification worldwide. ...


Tsinghua University (清華大學) will recognise the Oxford Brookes University BSc Applied Accounting degree, which has been successfully developed in conjunction with ACCA and which enables students who have completed two parts of the ACCA qualification to apply for the Oxford Brookes degree. [5] Tsinghua University (THU; Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is a university in Beijing, China. ... BSC is an abbreviation for: Bachelor of Science (usually written BSc), an academic science degree Base Station Controller, a subsystem in a GSM mobile phone network Binary symmetric channel in coding theory Binary Synchronous Communications, a data link protocol developed by IBM in the 1960s In medical literature: best supportive...


The University is also in partnership with the Budapest (Hungary) based institution of International Business School (Budapest) (Nemzetközi Üzleti Főiskola). IBS students can attend courses which, besides the Hungarian degree also provides OBU BA degrees in different subjects, such as Marketing, Communications, etc. [6]


Notable alumni

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References

  1. ^ a b c d Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2006/07 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet). Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  2. ^ From [1]:
  3. ^ https://edm.brookes.ac.uk/hr/hr/vacancies.do
  4. ^ [2]
  5. ^ BBC News article: Oxford's history blow
  6. ^ BBC News article: Oxford's history blow
  7. ^ [Architects' Journal 4 May 2006 page 84]
  8. ^ [3]
  9. ^ Annie Lennox
  10. ^ SSL News » Blog Archive » MSc in Primate Conservation awarded prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Award
  11. ^ Motorsport Knowledge Exchange
  12. ^ Sport — Oxford Brookes University
  13. ^ F1 | ITV Sport
  14. ^ Times Higher Education - Oxford Brookes in pole position for F1 success
  15. ^ The Official Formula 1 Website
  16. ^ Fairtrade policy — Oxford Brookes University
  17. ^ People & Planet - People & Planet Green League 2007

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University of Wales, Lampeter Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan   University of Wales, Lampeter (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) is a university in Lampeter, Wales, the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, and the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge. ... The University of Wales, Newport is a University of Wales institution located in Newport. ... Swansea University (Welsh: Prifysgol Abertawe) is located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. ... Trinity College, Carmarthen Trinity College, Carmarthen is a higher education college in Carmarthen, West Wales. ... Affiliations University of Wales, Coalition of Modern Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities Website http://www. ... The University of Wales (Prifysgol Cymru in Welsh) is a federal university founded in 1893. ... This is a list of universities, university colleges and colleges in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. ... // Distance Education is a field of expertise exploring situations in which the learner and the teacher are separated in time, space or both. ... Queens University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland and a member of the Russell Group (a lobby group of major research universities in the United Kingdom). ... The University of Ulster (UU) is a multi-centre university located in Northern Ireland and is the largest single university on the island of Ireland, discounting the federal National University of Ireland. ... Affiliations Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Website http://www. ... The University Alliance is a mission group of British universities established in 2007. ... The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, a Member Institution of the federal University of Wales, was the first university institution to be established in Wales. ... Bournemouth University is a university in and around the large south coast town of Bournemouth, UK (although its main campus is actually situated in neighbouring Poole). ... The University of Bradford is a university in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. ... Cranfield University is a British postgraduate university based on three campuses. ... De Montfort University (DMU) is a British univers