Queen Margaret University
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| Established | 1875 |
| Type | Public |
| Principal | Prof. Anthony Cohen, FRSE |
| Students | 5,414 |
| Location |  Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Campus | 3 campuses, All located in Edinburgh |
| Website | www.qmu.ac.uk |
Queen Margaret University (formally Queen Margaret University College and Queen Margaret College) is a modern University located in Edinburgh, Scotland, with an emphasis on providing high quality higher education and research from undergraduate to doctorate level. It is named after Saint Margaret (1045-1093), wife of King Malcolm III, and was founded in 1875. In January 2007, it was awarded university status.[1]. The university will move to a new purpose-built campus located in Musselburgh, just to the east of Edinburgh. Set to open in the autumn of 2007, the campus will centralise all three of QMU's current campuses into one in this new multi-million pound development.
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[edit] History
Queen Margaret University was established in 1875 as a female only institution. Whilst it is now a co-educational establishment it retains a disproportionately large number of female students[2]. It was initially set up to campaign for better education and improved career opportunities for females and to bring about an improvement in diets, particularly the diets of working class families.
QM focuses its expertise on issues of pressing social need and engages directly with the community. QM is currently gearing up to play a key role in Scotland's world class higher education sector.
As a result of rapid progress and growth, in 1992 the Privy Council granted Queen Margaret College powers to award its own taught degrees. In 1998, the College was granted full degree powers, which enabled it to award its own research and higher degrees. In 1999 it became Queen Margaret University College. After further improvements in the college, including a new campus currently underway to centralise all courses, in January 2007 the institution was awarded full university status, thus changing the title to Queen Margaret University. QM is scheduled to relocate from its current three campuses to a brand new purpose-built campus near Musselburgh, just to the east of Edinburgh, in September 2007.[3]
[edit] QMU's Mission Statement
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[edit] List of Schools
Currently, QM teaching covers a range of subjects under its four schools:
[edit] School of Drama and the Creative Industries
The School of Drama and Creative Industries is a lively community of enquiring practitioners. Its aim is to educate and train theatre and screen practitioners, and cultural sector workers. The emphasis is firmly on the creative practice of making performance for live and recorded media, and on the study of the cultural sector. This practice is strongly rooted in theory. The School has a thriving research culture and offers its own research degrees. The staff team is comprised of working theatre and screen directors, actors, writers, journalists, designers, community arts workers, cultural sector workers, musical directors, stage managers, technicians, voice coaches and choreographers. In addition, the School regularly engages guest staff and resident theatre companies. With a clear focus on the development of lifelong learning skills, the School is committed to a range of Continuing Professional Development opportunities and also works in training the corporate sector through drama techniques.
The Gateway Theatre is the current home for the BA (Hons) in acting & performance along with the BA (Hons) in Theatre Productions (Lighting, Sound, Set Design & Stage Management) courses. They are the only courses at QMU in which students are required to spend up to 8 hours per day, Monday to Friday in class. The course is listed as one of the top 21 accredited drama schools in the UK by the National Council for Drama Training (NCDT), as is the Theatre Production course.
[edit] School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication
With a range of integrated subjects and a rapidly growing research profile, the School is an increasingly popular choice for students and researchers investigating human issues. The School comprises of the following subjects: Media, Communication and Sociology, Psychology and Speech and Hearing Sciences]]. The School is the only institution in Scotland that is accredited by the Institute of Public Relations to deliver its prestigious and competitive IPR Diploma and is accredited to offer degrees in Health Psychology
The subject area of Speech and Hearing Sciences won the prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for research in 2002.
[edit] School of Health Sciences
With enthusiastic staff and close external partnerships, the school is at the forefront of learning and teaching opportunities across nursing and the allied health professions. It comprises of the following subjects: Dietetics, Nutrition & Biological Sciences, Nursing, Occupational Therapy & Art Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Radiography and Music Therapy.
The School maintains close links with health and social care practitioners which creates educational programmes at the leading edge of today's issues. It also facilitates clinical placements, enables a close fit between research and practice and encourages professional development by practitioners.
[edit] School of Business and Enterprise
The School provides a wide range of educational programmes at undergraduate, taught postgraduate and research degree levels. Subjects covered at undergraduate level include: Tourism, Management, Hospitality, Events Management, Consumer Studies, Marketing and Retail Business. Subjects covered at postgraduate level include: MBAs in Cultural Management, Golf and Country Club Management, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality, eTourism and Public Service Management.
[edit] Campuses
[edit] Musselburgh Campus
The university will move to a new purpose-built campus located in Musselburgh, just to the east of Edinburgh. Set to open in the autumn of 2007, the campus will centralise all three of QMU's current campuses into one, in this new multi-million pound development. [4]
[edit] Corstorphine Campus
Located just outside Edinburgh to the West, this is the main base for the University and is the largest of the three current sites.
[edit] Leith Campus
Providing a base for most of the health services courses. It is located near the heart of the city, with great public transport links to the centre of Edinburgh, and also to Corstorphine.
[edit] Gateway Theatre
Opened in 1999, the ex-television studio (previously owned by Scottish Television) is the home to many of QMU's Art, Acting, Performance, and Technical Theatre students. It is situated on Elm Row, Leith Walk, Edinburgh. Students in the BA Theatre Production & BA Acting courses put on approximately four performances per term. The performances are completely run by students from these two courses, with the only exception being an outside director, employed by QMU. The performances are becoming more of a struggle to produce, due to the in-house theatre being shut-down, however they still have the use of the small Pend Studio space, and two of these productions (per term) usually travel to another location (e.g. the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews, and the St. Brides Centre, Edinburgh)
[edit] Trivia
- Famous acting graduates from QMU include:
- Ashley Jensen (Extras & Ugly Betty)
- Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting, Dog Soldiers & Rome)
- Matt Baker (British television presenter notable on Blue Peter)
- Edith Bowman (BBC Radio 1 presenter)
- The Queen Margaret student newspaper is called the QM Echo.
[edit] References
- ^ Award of full university status
- ^ QMU Statement of Accounts 2006
- ^ QM relocates
- ^ QMUC relocates main campus
[edit] External link
[edit] School pages
- School of Drama and the Creative Industries
- School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication
- School of Health Sciences
- School of Business and Enterprise
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