University of Gloucestershire
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| motto | In animo et veritate (In Spirit and Truth) |
| founding | 1834 (as Mechanics Institute ); University status since 2001 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Cheltenham and Gloucester , United Kingdom |
| Vice Chancellor | Stephen Marston |
| Students | 8,745 |
| Annual budget | £ 1.77m |
| Website | www.glos.ac.uk |
The University of Gloucestershire is a fledgling British university with its headquarters in Gloucestershire , England . It is divided into four locations - three in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester . Another campus existed in London , this was sold. The departments include economics, computer science, media, art & communication, geography, biology, social sciences, education and sport. The university currently has 9500 full-time and part-time students enrolled. The university participates in the European Union's Erasmus program .
history
The university in its current form is the successor to a long line of higher education institutions and has seen numerous name changes and mergers in the past. Its history began with the Cheltenham Mechanics Institute, founded in 1834 - so its roots go back to the time of England's oldest universities being founded in modern times.
University institutions absorbed into the university:
- 1834 - Cheltenham Mechanics Institute
- 1840 - Gloucester Mechanics Institute
- 1847 - Church training college, Cheltenham
- 1852 - Cheltenham School of Art
- 1920 - St Paul's College of Education
- 1920 - St Mary's College of Education
- 1967 - Gloucestershire College of Education
- 1979 - College of St Paul and St Mary
- 1980 - Part of Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology
- 1990 - Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education
Since 1992 the Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education (CGCHE) has been able to award diploma and postgraduate degrees and, since 1998, postgraduate research degrees. Despite its long history, the institution has only had university status since 2001. It was only at this point that it was renamed the "University of Gloucestershire". It is currently headed by Vice Chancellor Patricia Broadfoot. George Leonard Carey , Baron Carey of Clifton, Archbishop Emeritus of Canterbury, is the chancellor with more representative tasks .
The university has pursued a sustainable environmental strategy since 1993 and was the first university in the UK to meet the ISO 14001 environmental management standard .
Locations
The university has three locations in Cheltenham and Gloucester. There are IT and library facilities on every campus. There are also three faculties at the university. The former campus in London was sold in 2010 and the Pittville campus closed in late 2011.
Francis Close Hall
The Francis Close Hall campus is located in restored historic buildings near Cheltenham city center. A mixture of humanities subjects, pedagogy as well as natural and social science subjects is located on campus.
The Park
The Park is the university's largest campus. It is home to the business school , which provides training for economics, management and marketing, but also for law, computer science, tourism and related subjects. The business school is a member of the Association of Business Schools, making it one of the UK's leading business schools. The Association of Business Schools and the close cooperation with other organizations such as EQUAL (European Quality Link) ensure quality control and accreditation .
Oxstalls
Oxstall's campus is in the heart of Gloucester, about five minutes from the city center. The campus houses the faculty with the areas of sport as well as health and social sciences.
Pittville Studios
Pittville Studios is on Albert Road in Cheltenham. This is where the faculty was located, which includes the areas of media as well as art and communication. Founded more than 150 years ago as the Cheltenham School of Art, the studios hosted a mix of different courses in art, design and media. The faculty claims to impart creativity within a strict academic structure.
At the end of 2011 this campus was closed for financial reasons.
The London Campus
The London campus was the most recent addition in England: it was set up in the early 1980s as the Urban Learning Foundation (ULF) with the aim of improving the quality of teacher training. In September 2003 the ULF became part of the University of Gloucestershire.
In May 2010, the campus was sold for £ 9.7 million to help improve the university's financial position.
Activities outside the UK
Germany
Since March 2009, the University of Gloucestershire has also offered its part-time DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) program in Germany ( Munich ). Since 2014, the part-time doctoral programs (DBA, PhD) in Germany have been carried out in cooperation with the Institute for University Cooperation and International Doctoral Programs (IHP) and its partner universities in Munich, Cologne, Mainz and Hamburg. The programs work on the model of a “flying faculty” with supplementary blended learning units. This means that the lecturers for the respective modules are "flown in" from the English university and their events are prepared and followed up with written materials and online units. The lingua franca is English, the dissertation (thesis) and the other assignments must also be written in English. The final disputation (Viva Voce) takes place at the University of Cheltenham. PhD and DBA degrees from British universities can be used as a doctorate in Germany ("Dr." without an addition in front of the name).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Times Higher Education - 'Capital Campus sold'
- ↑ "Family Tree" of the University of Gloucestershire
- ↑ Sustainable Development of the University of Gloucestershire ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Campus overview for the University of Gloucestershire
- ↑ Faculties ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ University of Gloucestershire - Capital campus sold
- ↑ 'Cuts' force media campus closure
- ↑ 'Cuts' force media campus closure
- ↑ Times Higher Education - 'Capital Campus sold'
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '16 " N , 2 ° 5' 20" W.