University of East Anglia
| University of East Anglia | |
|---|---|
| motto | Do different |
| founding | 1963 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Norwich , UK |
| Chancellor | Karen Jones |
| Students | 17,925 (2018/2019) |
| Website | www.uea.ac.uk |
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a campus university in Norwich in the county of Norfolk in east England . It was founded by the British government in 1963 as part of a program to establish new universities. It is now one of the most successful of these newly established universities and has long been on the list of the UK's best educational institutions.
The university is known nationwide for the fact that in 1970 the writers Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson introduced the first course in creative writing in Great Britain with an official degree.
Of the 17,925 students in 2018/2019 (2007: 19,400), 10,680 were women. 13,215 were studying before graduation and 4,710 were postgraduates .
history
The first students were temporarily housed in Earlham Hall, about four and a half kilometers west of the city center, in 1963, as the university village , which was in use until the early 1980s, was not yet completed at the time. The final campus, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun , was built on the nearby Earlham Golf Course . The buildings are mainly made of concrete .
In the mid-1970s, a former gravel pit in the south of the university campus was abandoned and filled with water, creating a new lake. Around the same time, a generous donation from the Sport England Lottery Fund enabled new sports buildings and a theater to be built. In 2001 the sports park was opened, one of the most modern sports facilities in England.
The university campus offers some architecturally very interesting buildings. For example, the main teaching wing has the shape of an elongated building block, The Teaching Wall , which is bent several times and runs roughly in an east-west direction. The oldest residential buildings were built in the form of ziggurats . The original plan was to build all residential buildings this way, but this had to be abandoned due to financial cuts in the early 1970s. Instead, the unappealing buildings of Waveney Terrace were built.
Another notable place on the university campus is The Square, a central square surrounded by concrete stairs. There are also a few bars and pubs as well as banks and a book shop. The UEA had and still has a good reputation for the courses it teaches. The students involved in climate research were some of the first to grapple with the phenomenon of global warming .
In addition to the independent student newspaper Concrete, there is a thriving landscape of other student magazines and media . The university has had its own radio station since 1989, and the university television station Nexus UTV, which was launched in 1968, is the country's oldest student television station still running.
In 2003 the university had a total of 9,000 so-called undergraduate students and 4,000 who had already graduated. Around 1000 students come from outside the European Union .
The hacker incident at the University of East Anglia's climate research center attracted general media interest .
Personalities
(Selection)
- Tupou VI. , King of Tonga
- José Abel , politician
- Franklin Allen , British economist
- David Almond
- Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos , British politician
- Anna von Bayern , German journalist
- Manuel de Araújo
- Tash Aw
- Gunaadschawyn Batjargal , Mongolian diplomat
- Martyn Bedford
- Steve Blame
- Tim Bowler , British writer
- John Boyne
- Douglas Carswell , politician
- Gurinder Chadha
- Tracy Chevalier , American writer
- Tony Colman , politician
- Jack Davenport , British actor
- Andreas Dorschel , German philosopher
- Jessica Draskau-Petersson , Danish athlete
- Anne Enright , Irish writer
- Judith Farnworth , diplomat
- Susan Fletcher
- Caroline Flint , politician
- James Frain , British actor
- Sir Robert Fulton , Governor of Gibraltar
- Gerald Gazdar
- Sir Carlyle Glean , Grenadian politician
- Helon Habila
- Mohammed Hanif
- Charlie Higson , British comedian
- Michael Houghton , microbiologist
- W. John Hutchins
- Michael Hüther , German economist
- Kazuo Ishiguro , British-Japanese writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (2017)
- Ousman Jammeh , Gambian politician
- Donald Kaberuka , Rwandan politician
- Murat Karayalçın , Turkish politician
- Panos Karnezis
- Deirdre Madden
- Ian McEwan , British writer
- Andrew Miller , British writer
- Jeff Minter
- Esther Mujawayo , sociologist, trauma therapist, author from Rwanda
- Amir Muhammad
- Paul Murray
- Paul Nurse , British biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (2001)
- Teima Onorio , Vice President of Kiribati
- Ben Rice , writer
- John Rhys-Davies , British actor
- Benjamin D. Santer , American climate researcher
- Simon Scarrow , British writer
- Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market , politician
- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber , German climate researcher
- WG Sebald , German writer
- Julian Siegel
- Össur Skarphéðinsson , Icelandic politician
- Matt Smith
- Paul Stewart
- Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde , politician
- Rose Tremain , British writer
- Martin Tyler
- Binyavanga Wainaina , writer
King of Tonga Tupou VI.
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See also Category: Honorary Doctorates from the University of East Anglia .
Web links
- University of East Anglia website
- UEA Students' Union
- UEA sports park
- Student newspaper "Concrete"
- University radio website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chancellor - UEA. In: University of East Anglia UEA> About Us> Our University> Chancellor. University of East Anglia UEA, accessed March 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Higher Education Student Statistics: UK:, Where do HE students study? In: HESA> Open data> Students> Where do they study? > Students by HE provider. Higher Education Statistics Agency HESA, accessed March 21, 2020 .
- ^ School of Creative Writing, University of East Anglia website, accessed March 9, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 18.7 " N , 1 ° 14 ′ 27.2" E