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Oxford Brookes University
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| 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: | 18,950[1] |
| Undergraduates: | 13,710[1] |
| Postgraduates: | 5,015[1] |
| Other students: | 220 FE[1] |
| Location | Oxford, England, UK |
| Affiliations: | Universities UK Association of MBAs |
| Website: | http://www.brookes.ac.uk/ |
Oxford Brookes University is a public university in Oxford, England.
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The University has roots in Oxford that go back to 1865 (when it was known as the Oxford School of Art). The present student body is 19,000. It has managed to forge a presence in the city of Oxford as well as maintain a separate identity from nearby University of Oxford.
Oxford Brookes University pioneered the use of modular degree courses and has earned recognition for quality in publishing, engineering, modern languages, history, art, architecture and economics.[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*).[2]
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.[3]
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 in a survey conducted by The Architect's Journal and second overall in the UK (AJ 4 May 2006 page 84). In the most recent 2007 survey by the Architect's Journal it was ranked fifth overall.[4]
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.[5]
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, and the adjacent Headington Hill site over the road, where the Students' Union is located.
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.
Harcourt Hill Campus is situated 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.
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.
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 at Harcourt Hill, Harcourt Hill Hall.
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.
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. [3]
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. [4]
Oxford Brookes is currently redeveloping its campuses in cooperation with RMJM Architects (joint architects of the new Scottish parliament building). 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
Professor Janet Beer, the former Pro Vice Chancellor at Manchester Metropolitan University, has recently been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. [5]
- Paul Conneally - Poet / Artist / Educationalist
- Jonathan Djanogly - Conservative MP, Shadow Solicitor General and Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry
- Andy Gomarsall MBE - England Rugby Player
- Prof Nabeel Hamdi- Author, humanitarian and winner of UN Habitat’s Scroll of Honour
- Charlie Luxton - Broadcaster / Architect
- James Pepper - Poet / Political Activist
- Steve Ridgway - CEO of Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd since April 1998
- David Mayer de Rothschild - Environmentalist
- Dr. Hugo Slim -Author and chief scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Switzerland and former trustee of Oxfam
- Steve Williams MBE - GB four member Olympic Champion Athens 2004
- Robert Evans - Writer
- Lynne Featherstone -MP
- Dr Brendan Barrett - Academic programme officer at the United Nations University in Tokyo
- Patrick Hall - MP
- Alex Partridge member of winning coxless four, World Rowing Championships 2005 and 2006
- Georgina Rylance - Actress
- Gurdeep Samra - Music Producer
- Adrian Reynard- Motorsport driver and entrepreneur
- Annabel Port - Radio broadcaster
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ BBC News article: Oxford's history blow
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- ^ http://ssl3.brookes.ac.uk/sslnews/?p=49]
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