University of Wolverhampton

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University of Wolverhampton


Motto	Innovation and Opportunity
Established	1992, from Wolverhampton Polytechnic (est. 1969) ultimately from a merger between Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College and the local College of Art
Type	Public
Chancellor	Lord Paul
Vice-Chancellor	Caroline Gipps
Students	24,020 ^[1]
Undergraduates	19,710 ^[1]
Postgraduates	4,310 ^[1]
Location	Wolverhampton, UK
Website	http://www.wlv.ac.uk

The University of Wolverhampton is a British university, located on four campuses across the West Midlands and Shropshire. The main campus is located on Wulfruna Street in Wolverhampton.

The university currently offers over 340 undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and was the first to offer degrees in Interactive Multimedia Communication and British Sign Language.

1 History
2 Student Union
3 Campuses
4 Schools
5 Alumni
6 External links

[edit] History

In 1992 Wolverhampton Polytechnic was granted university status and thus became the University of Wolverhampton. The following year the first stage of construction was completed on the Priorslee Hall site at the Telford campus, this became home to both business and computer aided design students.

1994 saw Wolverhampton become the first UK university to be awarded the Charter Mark for excellence in customer service. The amalgamation of two local nursing colleges in 1995 formed the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the Walsall campus. Wolverhampton Science Park - a collaboration between the university and the local council - opened in 1996. Its aim was to forge a link between local businesses and the university's research departments.

The final years of the twentieth century saw a huge amount of development and expansion for the university. Two new state-of-the-art learning centres were opened at the Telford and City campuses in 1998. These learning centres were a fusion of traditional libraries with high-tech facilities, aimed at providing a greater range of accessible materials for students. The following year the university opened the Arena Theatre on the City campus along with the new SC building in Telford. The SC building became home to two new projects: DELTA and the Competitiveness Centre. DELTA was a new department aimed at the propagation of the latest information and communication technologies in education, whilst the Competitiveness Centre had the same goal, but for local businesses.

In 2000 the university announced plans to spend £60m on a seven-year plan to rebuild and revitalise its campuses. This redevelopment aimed to solve its problems with lack of space, and to make it a learning environment truly fit for the twenty first century.

[edit] Student Union

The Union employs over 150 people throughout its services and across the campuses, of that number more than 100 are students working with us part-time through their studies.

[edit] Campuses

City (North)
City (South)
Compton Park
Telford
Walsall
The university used to have a campus in Dudley

[edit] Schools

[edit] Alumni

Clare Teal (English jazz singer}}
Cornelia Parker (sculptor and installation artist)
David Carruthers (businessman, MBA from the University)
Giles Penfound (professional photographer)
Jenny Jones (Labour politician) (Labour MP)
Julian Peedle-Calloo (deaf TV presenter and footballer)
Michael John Foster (Labour MP)
Patrick Trollope (Press Photographer and owner of first UK Online Newspaper)
Scott Boswell (former professional cricketer)
Trevor Beattie (advertising executive responsible for the fcuk campaign)

The broadcaster/journalist Jeff Randall and the author Howard Jacobson both lectured here. Jacobson's experience formed the basis of his novel "Coming from Behind", set at a "fictional" polytechnic in the Midlands.

Magazine Editor Sean Laffey (Irish Music Magazine Dublin) ran the Polytechnic Folk club in the second half of the 1970s and graduated with a degree in Biology in 1979.