Nottingham Trent University (
NTU) is a
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in
NottinghamNottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England and is one of only eight members of the English Core Cities Group....
,
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. Its origins date back to 1843. It was founded as
Trent PolytechnicPolytechnics were tertiary education teaching institutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The comparable institutions in Scotland were collectively referred to as Central Institutions. Like other polytechnics, their aim was to teach both academic and vocational subjects...
(later
Nottingham Polytechnic) in 1970 before gaining university status in 1992. It is one of the largest universities in the
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, serving more than 24,000 students.
In 2007,
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wrote that NTU "is one of the top places in the country for graduate employment" and the University has significant international recognition of its work in Art and Design, Communication, Business, Cultural and Media Studies, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts, English Language and Literature, Other Studies and Professions Allied to Medicine, French and Law.
- 1843 - Nottingham Government School of Design opened
- 1858 - The Nottingham Government School of Design moved to Commerce Square
Commerce Square is a high-rise office building complex in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Commerce Square consists of One and Two Commerce Square, two identical 41-story, office towers that surround a paved courtyard...
- 1865 - The Nottingham Government School of Design moved to Waverley Building
- 1881 - University College was established.
Nottingham Trent University (
NTU) is a
universityA university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
in
NottinghamNottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England and is one of only eight members of the English Core Cities Group....
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Its origins date back to 1843. It was founded as
Trent PolytechnicPolytechnics were tertiary education teaching institutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The comparable institutions in Scotland were collectively referred to as Central Institutions. Like other polytechnics, their aim was to teach both academic and vocational subjects...
(later
Nottingham Polytechnic) in 1970 before gaining university status in 1992. It is one of the largest universities in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
, serving more than 24,000 students.
In 2007,
The GuardianThe Guardian is a British daily newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Founded in 1821, it is unique among major British newspapers in being owned by a foundation .The Guardian Weekly, which circulates worldwide, provides a compact digest of four newspapers...
wrote that NTU "is one of the top places in the country for graduate employment" and the University has significant international recognition of its work in Art and Design, Communication, Business, Cultural and Media Studies, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts, English Language and Literature, Other Studies and Professions Allied to Medicine, French and Law.
History
- 1843 - Nottingham Government School of Design opened
- 1858 - The Nottingham Government School of Design moved to Commerce Square
Commerce Square is a high-rise office building complex in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Commerce Square consists of One and Two Commerce Square, two identical 41-story, office towers that surround a paved courtyard...
- 1865 - The Nottingham Government School of Design moved to Waverley Building
- 1881 - University College was established. It later became the new university's Arkwright Building.
- 1941- The Victorian
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Arkwright building, on the corner of South Sherwood Street and Shakespeare street, was hit during the Nottingham Blitz the building was partially destroyed as it took a direct hit, It was rebuilt a number of years later, 45 people were killed
- 1945 - Nottingham and District Technical College was designated.
- 1958 - Nottingham Regional College of Technology was opened.
- 1959 - Nottingham College of Education opens at Clifton
Clifton is a council estate and village in of the city of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England founded by Sir Robert Clifton. The estate has a number of shop-clusters and relatively good transport links with the city and surrounding areas. The village is on the A453 which is the main connection...
- 1964 - Nottingham Regional College was officially launched.
- 1966 - Nottingham College of Art and Design was linked with the Regional College - as a Polytechnic designate.
- 1970 - Trent Polytechnic was granted polytechnic status.
- 1975 - Trent amalgamated with Nottingham College of Education at Clifton.
- 1988 - The official name change to Nottingham Polytechnic took place.
- 1989 - Nottingham Polytechnic Higher Education Corporation was founded.
- 1992 - The Nottingham Trent University was launched.
- 2008 - Nottingham Trent University is named as the top post-1992 university.
Structure
With the arrival of Vice-Chancellor Neil T. Gorman, the University underwent a major change in organisation. It is now composed of four Colleges, which bring together a number of Schools:
- College of Science
- School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
- School of Science and Technology
- College of Arts, Humanities and Education
- School of Arts and Humanities
- School of Education
- College of Art & Design and Built Environment
- School of Art & Design
- School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
- College of Business, Law & Social Sciences
- Nottingham Business School
- Nottingham Law School
- School of Social Sciences
Industrial links
NTU has established industrial links with a number of national and multinational companies such as
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, Toyota, Boots and Rolls Royce. Representatives from these companies deliver talks to prospective placement students or those pondering career options upon graduation.
Campuses
Nottingham Trent University has three campuses:
City Campus
Located just north of Nottingham City Centre, the city campus offers subjects such as Law, Social Sciences and Art & Design. The campus is currently undergoing an ambitious £70 million development, which will see two of the University's largest and oldest buildings, Newton and Arkwright, linked by a postmodern "quadrangle". Stephen Jackson, the University's Chief Financial and Operations Director said in 2006 that when work is completed in 2009, "the project will go a long way towards enhancing NTU’s national and international reputation as a dynamic and forward-thinking institution".
Clifton Campus
Situated at
CliftonClifton is a council estate and village in of the city of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England founded by Sir Robert Clifton. The estate has a number of shop-clusters and relatively good transport links with the city and surrounding areas. The village is on the A453 which is the main connection...
, around four miles from Nottingham, the Clifton Campus is home to the University's Schools of Arts and Humanities, Education, and Science and Technology. The campus, linked to the city by a regular student bus service, also offers three halls of residence (Peverell, Gervase and College Drive), numerous sports facilities, and a student union bar, "The Point".
Brackenhurst Campus
Home to the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, Brackenhurst has its own
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and licensed bar. It is situated near
SouthwellSouthwell is a town in Nottinghamshire, England, best known as the site of Southwell Minster, the seat of the Church of England diocese that covers Nottinghamshire...
.
Recent developments
The City Campus recently benefited from the completion of the
Nottingham Express TransitNottingham Express Transit is a light-rail tramway in the Nottingham area in England. The first line opened to the public on 9 March 2004, having cost £200 million to construct. The scheme took sixteen years from conception to implementation...
(NET) light rail system in December 2003, which provides a tram stop outside the Boots Library. This allows a direct link to the Nottingham city's main railway station.
The University also recently joined forces with
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to form the Microsoft Academy at Nottingham Trent University.
The University's in-house managed learning environment has recently been replaced, after University-wide use of the Virtual Learning Portal (VLP) for five years (4.85
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of materials served and 6.7 million logins during the 2006/07 academic year). . The in-house MLE has now been replaced by
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from the 2008/09 academic year onwards with the Virtual Learning Portal being officially retired at the end of 2008.
In October 2004, the University underwent a rebranding, which included the amalgamation of Faculties into new Colleges, the introduction of a new logo and the dropping of the definite article from the official University name. The old logo still appears around department buildings, although much of the old signage has been removed and replaced with rebranded versions on all three campuses.
The University has partnerships with many universities and colleges throughout the world. Since 1998 NTU has awarded a number of business and law degrees
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,
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the law degrees since 2004 has been recognised by
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,
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as satisfying the requirements of entry to that institution, the first independent institution to do so.
In July 2005, the University purchased the Belgrave Centre, thus releasing Nottingham Law School from its ongoing rental commitment along with the added benefit of providing rental income from the Government Office of the East Midlands, which currently has a tenancy agreement until 2010 for approximately half of the building.
The University has recently entered into a partnership with Kaplan Inc. to form the "Nottingham Trent International College" (NTIC) which, through foundation courses and pre-masters courses, helps international students to progress to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at NTU and other UK universities.
In June 2008 Sir Michael Parkinson was named as the first Chancellor, responsible for a number of duties, including representing the university on special occasions and conferring degrees at graduation ceremonies (although he was absent from the 2009 graduation ceremonies). The official installation as Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University took place in a special ceremony on Tuesday 11 November 2008, at the
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,
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.
Estate regeneration
2005 saw the start of a regeneration project to update much of the University's estate to meet the growing needs of the University. Improvements to date include:
- A new £8 million Computing & Informatics building on the Clifton Campus.
- New Centre for Effective Learning in Science (CELS) building.
- The Art & Design Bonington Building on the City Site has been completely refurbished, with a new front section, a two-storey atrium, an increased number of exhibition spaces, and a cafe.
- The Chaucer Building on the City Site, home of the Business School, Law School, CBJ and the School of Social Sciences is currently being fully refurbished, with new paintwork, signage, foyer/reception, lecture theatres, and lifts. A new state-of-the-art entrance and fascia dedicated to the Centre for Broadcast Journalism was completed in February 2009 and officially opened by Sir Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE is an English broadcaster and journalist. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007.- Early life :...
.
- New accommodation blocks on the Brackenhurst Campus.
- The complete refurbishment of the Newton and Arkwright buildings and the construction of a glazed Link Building between the two. The complex will include new lecture theatres, teaching rooms, offices, student services, computer rooms, a conference centre, cafes and a restaurant.
Nottingham Trent Students' Union
The
students' unionA students' union, student government, student senate, students' association, guild of students or government of student body is a student organization present in many colleges, universities and has started to appear in some high schools...
, "NTSU", has bases at all three campuses.
On the City Campus, the Union is based in the Byron House building. Facilities include a bank, two bars (The Pulse and Sub), a gym, catering facilities (including a cafe and diner), a shop, and a sports hall. The Students' Union executive committee is also based there. The building is home to the Union's "Climax" night on a Saturday, with a capacity of 3,000 students accommodated by both bars, and much of the remaining building (which is transformed to allow its special use for the night). Other nights include "The Tone Club" (a specialist indie band night), and "Assault" (for rock and punk fans).
On the Clifton Campus, the Union is based in the Benenson Building. Facilities there include a bank, a bar and diner (known as "The Point"), a gym and shop. Clifton's flagship night is on a Friday, and host to the nationwide club night, "Double Vision!".
Brackenhurst also has an NTSU presence, featuring a shop and bar ("The Orangery").
The student magazine is called
Platform and is published every fortnight.
The Union radio station, Fly FM, has won the BBC Best Student Show award, and recently relaunched as an online station. The station broadcasts five days a week, from 11 am to 10 pm, with a vast variety of shows from its flagships, "Off The Record" and "Lunch With..." to shows specialising in a variety of specialist genres including house, drum and bass and soul. 97.5 KICK FM, the original radio station, was created in 1996 and won three Radio 1 student radio awards.
The Students' Union television station,
Trent TV, was launched in 2006. Programmes include coverage of Freshers' Week, "Kinki" nights out at Nottingham's Ocean nightclub, "Student Pads" – a parody of
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– and "Pitchside": a sports show that includes interviews with some of the biggest names in Nottingham sport.
Partner universities
- Ching Yun University
Ching Yun University（; Hakka: Ciàng-iŭn Tai-hok; abbreviation CYU）is a university in Jhongli City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan. CYU is also known as Ching Yun Tech .- Present Situation :...
, TaiwanTaiwan , also known as Formosa , is the largest island of the Republic of China in East Asia. Taiwan is located east of the Taiwan Strait, off the southeastern coast of mainland China...
- Espeme
Espeme is the undergraduate program of the Edhec Business School in Lille, Nice and Paris. It four-year program leading to a Bachelor in Business.ESPEME was created in 1988 for school-leavers with finance, marketing and human resources specialisations....
-EDHEC Business School, Lille-Nice, France
List of Vice-Chancellors
- Professor
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Ray Cowell (1992 – 2003)
- Professor
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Neil T. Gorman (2003 – date)
Notable alumni
- Julius Ayodeji (of Nigeria, West Africa) - Multimedia artist, writer and director http://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/school_research/art_and_design/staff/53574gp.html
- Olav Bjortomt
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- quiz setter for The TimesThe Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register....
and notable contestant
- Hazel Blears
Hazel Anne Blears is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Salford. She was Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party Chair between 5 May 2006 and 24 June 2007. From 27 June 2007 she served as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, before resigning...
- Labour PartyThe Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...
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for SalfordSalford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. The present borough constituency dates from 1997....
and Chair of the Labour PartyThe Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...
- Ana Boulter
Ana Boulter is a British TV presenter, who currently lives in Hong Kong. She attended Nottingham Trent University and studied broadcast journalism. She presented CBBC between 1998 and 2001, as well as BBC regional programme Inside Out and has worked for Sky News since 2005. She also dated Chris...
- Actress, television presenter http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099575/
- Shane Cullinan
Shane Cullinan is a composer and arranger whose work ranges from compositions for TV and film to orchestral pieces and opera.Born in 1975, Cullinan has worked independently as a composer and arranger since graduating from Nottingham Trent University....
- Composer
- Nick Easter
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- Professional rugby union player
- Lynn Elliott - Chair of the English Dept at California State University, Chico, USA http://www.ntu.ac.uk/alumni/profiles/15880gp.html
- Bobby Friction
Paramdeep Singh Sehdev, better known as Bobby Friction, is a DJ, television presenter and radio presenter from West London.He studied Contemporary Arts at The Nottingham Trent University.He is heavily involved in the British South Asian Club Scene....
- 1 Xtra DJ
- Heather E. Geddes
Heather E.Geddes, is an illustrator and costume designer.Geddes is a graduate of Nottingham Trent University and a postgraduate of the Central School of Speech and Drama....
- Poetry book illustrator.
- Jonathan Glazer
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- Film and video director
- Steve Hogarth
Steve Hogarth also known as "h", is vocalist with the British Progressive Rock band Marillion...
- Lead singer of MarillionMarillion are a British rock group. Formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in 1979, their recorded studio output comprises fifteen albums and is generally regarded as comprising two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988 after their first...
- Samson Kambalu
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- Artist, writer
- Paul Kaye
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(Dennis Pennis) - Actor, comedian
- Adam Leventhal
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- Broadcaster
- Tim Noble and Sue Webster
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- Artists
- Christian O'Connell
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- Broadcaster, Absolute Radio
- Mike Parry
-Biography:Born in Chester, Parry attended The King's School, Chester, and later Trent Polytechnic. After graduating, he became "a Fleet Street reporter" and contributed to tabloid newspapers, most notably with The Sun. Parry then had a spell as Press Officer with the Football Association. In...
- Broadcaster
- Alan Simpson
Alan John Simpson is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament for Nottingham South.-Early life:...
- MP for Nottingham South (student union president 1969-70)
- Six By Seven
Six By Seven are a Nottingham-based rock band who consist of Chris Olley on vocals and guitars, James Flower on keyboards, Sam Hempton on guitar and Chris Davis on drums...
- Nottingham-based rock band
- Simon Starling
Simon Starling is an English conceptual artist and was the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize.He studied photography at Trent Polytechnic Nottingham and then attended Glasgow School of Art....
- Turner Prize winner, 2005
- Simon Taylor-Davis - Guitarist in the Klaxons
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- David Tress
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- Anglo-Welsh artist
- Nick Waplington
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Artist and photographer
- Mike Moysey Former International Rugby Union Player
- Mark Crossley - Broadcaster, Absolute Radio
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