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The University of Winchester is a university in Winchester in the United Kingdom. It was given university status by the Privy Council in June 2005, having previously been known as University College Winchester and earlier as King Alfred's College, Winchester. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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History Formed in 1840 as a College for training teachers, King Alfred's moved to its main campus in West Hill, Winchester in 1862.
King Alfred's College trained thousands of teachers, at first men only, but women as well from the 1960s. With the sudden change in Government policy in the early 1970s, the College first looked for partners to merge with and also sought to diversify its provision. Its educational partner, the University of Southampton, was lukewarm about offering other forms of degrees, so the College sought approval for its own BEd and then BA degrees from the CNAA. Interdisciplinary degrees in History and English with Drama, Archaeology and American Studies were first offered. Further programmes in Drama, Design & Technology and Environmental and Social Issues followed in the 1980s, but it was only when, belatedly, the College embraced expansion in the early 1990s that CNAA approved a modular course that allowed a large number of new fields of study to grow at undergraduate level within a common regulatory framework. At the same time masters programmes were approved. With the CNAA's demise in 1992, the College became accredited by the University of Southampton resuming a partnership broken off 18 years earlier.
When in 1995 the UK government published criteria by which Colleges could become Universities, King Alfred's under its Principal, Professor John Dickinson, set itself the target of becoming a university, by acquiring Taught and later Research Degree Awarding Powers. King Alfred's College received Taught Degree Awarding Powers in 2004, and changed its name to University College Winchester. A year later it became the University of Winchester, thus achieving the target set in 1995. Currently the University is applying for Research Degree Awarding Powers.
Current and future plans Major redevelopment will take place in the next few years to modernise the main campus. Work is currently underway to build a "University Centre" on the site of the former refectory, at a cost of £9 million. The building will include a new Student Union and is due to open in September 2007.
Some of the buildings on the main campus are named after former staff. The Kenneth Kettle Building and The Fred Wheeler Building are two examples of this. The university also operates a small campus in Basingstoke. Basingstoke railway station, as seen from Alençon Link. ...
Chancellorship Mary Fagan JP the current Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire was appointed Chancellor of the university in October 2005.
Professor Paul Light, appointed in 2001 as Principal of King Alfred's College, became the first Vice Chancellor in 2005, and was succeeded in April 2006 by Professor Joy Carter. Paul Light was brought up in Weymouth in Dorset and studied Psychology from 1966 until c 1974 at St Johns College, Cambridge, where he obtained an MA and also a doctorate. ...
Notable academic staff Michael Hicks (b. ...
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Notable alumni - Martin Bashir - Television journalist.
- Mike Bushell - BBC Television Journalist.
- Sara Coburn - Freelance broadcaster/ event facilitator.
- Patrick "Paddy" Falconer - UK Director, International Herald Tribune.
- Steven Furst - Comedy Actor (Little Britain)
- Dirk Maggs - Radio Producer.
- Michael Rose - Musical theatre producer (Oliver!; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang etc)
- Angus Scott - Television journalist (also Part-Time Lecturer in Journalism)
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See also Winchester Student Union is the Student Union for the University of Winchester. ...
Winchester School of Art is an art school that is now part of the University of Southampton. ...
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References - ^ a b c Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2005/06. Higher Education Statistics Agency online statistics. Retrieved on 2007-03-31.
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