Nottingham Trent University

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Nottingham Trent University


Established	1970 (Trent Polytechnic), 1992 (university status)
Type	Public
Vice-Chancellor	Professor Neil Gorman
Students	20,780 ^[1]
Undergraduates	13,190 ^[1]
Postgraduates	5,755 ^[1]
Other students	450 ^[1]
Location	Nottingham, United Kingdom
Campus	City, Campus and Rural
Affiliations	Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities, European University Association
Website	http://www.ntu.ac.uk/

Arkwright Building

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a university in Nottingham, England. Its origins date back to 1843. It was founded as Trent Polytechnic (later Nottingham Polytechnic) in 1970 before gaining its university status in 1992. It is one of the largest new universities in the United Kingdom with over 20,000 students.

Nottingham Trent University is the top university for graduate employability in England and Wales and has significant international recognition of its work.

1 Campuses
2 Structure
3 Recent developments
4 Estate Regeneration
5 Unusual courses
6 Nottingham Trent Students' Union
7 Past Presidents of The Nottingham Trent University Union of Students
8 Vice-Chancellors
9 History
10 Alumni
11 See also
12 External links
13 Clubs & Societies
14 References
15 News links

[edit] Campuses

Nottingham Trent University has three campuses.(3)

The City Campus, located in Nottingham City Centre, around Shakespeare Street.
Clifton Campus, located in Clifton on the edge of Nottingham - home to the School of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, School of Education, School of Arts and Humanities, and the School of Computing and Informatics.
Brackenhurst Campus - home to the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences - has its own dairy farm and licensed bar, and is situated near Southwell.

[edit] Structure

With the arrival of Vice-Chancellor, Professor Neil T. Gorman, the university underwent a major change in organisation. It is now made of up four colleges, which bring together a number of schools.

College 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

[edit] Recent developments

The City campus recently benefited from the completion of the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) light rail system in December 2003 which provides a tram stop outside the Boots Library. This allows a direct link to the main railway station.

The University also recently joined forces with Microsoft to form the Microsoft Academy at Nottingham Trent University.

The university's in-house MLE is also based around Microsoft technology, namely Exchange with university wide use of the VLP (Virtual Learning Portal) now in its third year (2.1 TB of materials served and 3.3 million logins during the 2004/05 academic year).

Rebranded Signage

October 2004 saw the introduction of the university's new identity (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 a strong international dimension in education, and has partnerships with many universities and colleges throughout the world. For example, it awards a number of degrees in Griffith College Dublin, Ireland which were recently recognised by King's Inns, Dublin as satisfying the requirements of entry to that institution.

July 2005 saw the purchase of 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. The NTIC is proving very successful.

[edit] Estate Regeneration

2005 saw the start of the regeneration project to update much of the university's estate to meet the growing needs of the university.

New Computing & Informatics Building

Improvements to date include:

Brand new £8,000,000 Computing & Informatics building on the Clifton Campus.
The Art & Design Bonington Building on the City Campus has been completely refurbished, with a brand new front section, a two storey atrium, an increased number of exhibition spaces, as well as a cafe.
The Chaucer Building, home of the Business School (again, on the City Campus), has also been fully refurbished, with new paintwork, signage and a range of new facilities such as a brand new foyer/reception, lecture theatres and lifts.
New accommodation blocks on the Brackenhurst Campus.

Proposed Newton/Arkwright 'Central Court'

Planning permission has been granted for the University's planned improvements of the Newton and Arkwright buildings. The £70 million scheme aims to link the existing Newton and Arkwright Buildings with a 'central court', and a new quadrangle. The new building will house new lecture theatres, as well as student services.^[2]

The 18-month planning phase involved discussions with the local council, English Heritage, and conservation groups.

[edit] Unusual courses

Computer Science (Games Technology). The university also has a multi-media course which has a wider focus.
Social and Therapeutic Horticulture - at Brackenhurst.

[edit] Nottingham Trent Students' Union

The students' union, NTSU, has bases at all three Nottingham Trent campuses.

On the City Campus, the union is based in the Byron House building. Facilities include a bank, 2 bars (Glo and Sub), a gym, catering facilities (including a cafe and diner), a shop, and a sports hall. The student union's executive committee are also based here. The building is home to the union's flagship 'Climax' night on a Saturday, with a capacity of 3000 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 Benenson Building. Facilities here include a bank, a bar and diner (known as The Point), a gym, a shop, and a takeaway. Clifton's flagship night is on a Friday, and host to the nationwide club nightFlirt!.

Brackenhurst also has an NTSU presence, featuring a shop and bar (The Orangery).

The student newspaper is called 'Platform' and is published every Monday. The union radio station, FlyFM, has won the BBC Best Student Show award. It can be listened to online. 97.5 KICK FM, the original Radio station, was created in 1996 and won three radio 1 student radio awards.

Started in 2006, the student's union now has it own TV station - Trent TV - which has begun broadcasting some top quality programmes, beginning with events from Freshers Week, the Kinki nights out at Nottingham's Ocean nightclub, and popular video on a Student Demo over top-up fees held in London, and now programmes ranging from comedies to documentaries - Programmes

There are around 30 clubs & Societies

[edit] Past Presidents of The Nottingham Trent University Union of Students

1992-1993 Ashley Baxter
1993-1994 Ashley Baxter
1994-1995 Nicholas Beal
1995-1996 Benjamin Morrison
1996-1997 Benjamin Morrison
1997-1998 Ruth Moore
1998-1999 Catherine Burns
1999-2000 Catherine Burns
2000-2001 Matthew Nunn
2001-2002 Matthew Nunn
2002-2003 Lucy Colleridge
2003-2004 Matthew Wallace
2004-2005 Katie Sillito
2005-2006 Kate Steventon
2006-2007 Bavesh Shah
2007-2008 Scott Blakeway

[edit] Vice-Chancellors

1992 - 2003 Professor Ray Cowell
2003 - present day Professor Neil T. Gorman

[edit] History

1843 - Nottingham Government School of Design opened
1858 - The Nottingham Government School of Design moved to Commerce Square
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 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
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 Trent Polytechnic took place.
1989 - Nottingham Polytechnic Higher Education Corporation was founded.
1992 - The Nottingham Trent University was launched.