Oxford Brookes University

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Oxford Brookes University
Motto: Excellence in diversity
Established: 1992, from Oxford Polytechnic (est. 1970) ultimately from Oxford School of Art (est. 1865)
Type: Public
Chancellor: Jon Snow
Vice-Chancellor: Prof.Janet Beer
Students: 19,070[1]
Undergraduates: 13,645[1]
Postgraduates: 5,120[1]
Other students: 300 FE[1]
Location: Oxford, England, UK
Colours:           [2]
Affiliations: Universities UK
Association of MBAs
Website: http://www.oxfordbrookes.ac.uk/

Oxford Brookes University is a public university in Oxford, England.

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[edit] Overview

Oxford Brookes has roots in Oxford that go back to 1865 (when it was known as the Oxford School of Art). Oxford Brookes is the eighth largest employer in Oxfordshire, providing 2,500 jobs across the University.[3]

Oxford Brookes University pioneered the use of modular degree courses and has earned recognition for quality in architecture[4], art, economics, automotive/motorsports engineering, history[5], modern languages and publishing.[citation needed] The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies is one of several programmes at Brookes that has expanded the university's reputation abroad. Similarly, the national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) assigned the Department of History its foremost international ranking (5*).[6] The Oxford Brookes Department of Architecture is one of the largest in Britain and in 2006 was named as the leading school of architecture outside London and second overall in the UK[7]. In the most recent 2008 survey by the Architect's Journal it was ranked fourth overall.[8]

[edit] Specialist study

The Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) in the School of the Built Environment was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize and is well known for its programme for humanitarian practitioners. CENDEP provides an academic setting for the study of cities, humanitarianism and refugees. Singer and activist Annie Lennox is patron of the Master's Course in Humanitarian and Development Practice.[9]

In 2007, The MSc in Primate Conservation was awarded the highly-prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize – a national honour recognising the outstanding contribution by the MSc programme team and the Department of Anthropology & Geography at Oxford Brookes.[10]

The Oxford Brookes School of Technology is well known for its automotive and motorsports engineering courses leading to undergraduate BEng(Hons) and MEng(Hons) degrees. The school is also home and lead institution to Motorsport Knowledge Exchange[11] which is a Government-funded small cooperative of institutions, involved in delivering motorsport education at a variety of different levels, from technician to post-graduate.

[edit] Sport

Rowing

Oxford Brookes Rowing Club currently has eight student and four alumni Olympic / World medalists at varying levels. The men’s group contains eight Great Britain under-23 international athletes, and 15 athletes with Great Britain junior international experience. The club boasts 16 wins in 14 years at Henley Royal Regatta, most recently in 2006. The university boathouse is located at Cholsey, near Wallingford, a land-based rowing facility situated at the Centre for Sport at Headington Campus.

Cricket

The University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes combine the best cricket players to make up the Oxford Universities Centre of Cricket Excellence (UCCE)[12].

Motorsport

Formula One champion Fernando Alonso provides scholarships for masters degree students to study motor sport engineering at the university[13],[14]. Participants, in specific will study either an MSc in motorsports engineering or in race engine design at Oxford Brookes. The university, which is based in the heart of the UK’s ‘motorsport valley’, boasts a teaching staff that includes Prof. Geoff Goddard, a former chief designer at Cosworth[15].

[edit] Fairtrade university

Oxford Brookes university became the first university in the world to be awarded Fairtrade status in October 2003[16]. In 2007 Oxford Brookes came fifth in a the new environmental league table of universities and received a first class rating for its environmental creditentials[17].

[edit] Academic Reputation

2009 2008 2003
Times Good University Guide 49th[18] 48th[19]
Guardian University Guide 57th[20] 53rd[21] 24th[22]
Sunday Times University Guide 53rd[23] 58th[24]
The Independent 59th[25] 53rd[26]

Oxford Brookes has been named as the leading modern university in the UK by the Sunday Times[27] 7 times in the last 10 years.

[edit] Campuses

Oxford Brookes University has three main campuses:

Headington Campus is located in Headington, a residential area of Oxford, one mile from the city centre. It consists of the Gipsy Lane site, which is the main teaching site, the Marston Road site, being the school of Health and Social Care, and the Headington Hill site across the road from Gipsy Lane, where the Students' Union and main halls of residence are located.

Wheatley Campus is set near Wheatley in the Oxfordshire countryside, seven miles south-east of the city centre, and is where business, IT, mathematics and more recently engineering subjects are taught.

Harcourt Hill Campus is situated on Harcourt Hill on Oxford's western perimeter, two and a half miles from the city centre. Education, Philosophy, Theology, Media and Communication and many other subjects are taught here, in a landscaped setting overlooking the city. It was formerly the site of Westminster College, Oxford, the only independent Methodist higher education institution in Europe, which specialised in Teacher Training and Theology and whose students were awarded their degrees by the University of Oxford upon successful completion of their course. The 'campus' was purpose-built for the College's move from London to Oxford in the 1950s and was leased to Brookes by the Methodist Church. The College lives on in the Westminster Institute of Education at Oxford Brookes University, which is the school responsible for those subjects taught at the Harcourt Hill Campus by Brookes.

All three main campuses offer a range of sports and recreational facilities that can be used by all the students. Harcourt Hill and Wheatley provide catering whereas the rest offer excellent catering facilities, a library with an extensive range of reference books and journals, and 24 hour computer rooms along with numerous other facilities.

[edit] Future plans

Oxford Brookes is currently redeveloping its campuses in cooperation with RMJM architects (joint architects of the new Scottish Parliament). Plans include extensive rebuilding--a new School of Technology (housing Brookes’ Motorsport Engineering Centre) and a recently completed Research Centre at Gipsy Lane are two examples of an ambitious "masterplan" that promises to revamp the entire campus.Initial Masterplan document

Professor Janet Beer, the former Pro Vice Chancellor at Manchester Metropolitan University, has recently been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. [4]

[edit] Halls of residence

Oxford Brookes has nine halls of residence: Crescent Hall, Cheney Student Village, Clive Booth Hall, Warneford hall, Cotuit Hall, Clive Booth Non-Onsuite (formerly Morrell Hall), Paul Kent Hall, Lady Spencer Churchill Hall at Wheatley campus and Harcourt Hill Hall at Harcourt Hill.

[edit] Global partnership

Oxford Brookes University's partnership with Association of Chartered Certified Accountants allows ACCA students to study for a BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting while taking their ACCA examinations.

Tsinghua University will recognise the Oxford Brookes University BSc Applied Accounting degree, which has been successfully developed in conjunction with ACCA and which enables students who have completed two parts of the ACCA qualification to apply for the Oxford Brookes degree. [5]

The University is also in partnership with the Budapest (Hungary) based institution of International Business School (Budapest) (Nemzetközi Üzleti Főiskola). IBS students can attend courses which, besides the Hungarian degree also provides OBU BA degrees in different subjects, such as Marketing, Communications, etc. [6]

[edit] Notable alumni

Main article: List of alumni of Oxford Brookes University

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2006/07 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet). Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  2. ^ From [1]:
  3. ^ https://edm.brookes.ac.uk/hr/hr/vacancies.do
  4. ^ [2]
  5. ^ BBC News article: Oxford's history blow
  6. ^ BBC News article: Oxford's history blow
  7. ^ [Architects' Journal 4 May 2006 page 84]
  8. ^ [3]
  9. ^ Annie Lennox
  10. ^ SSL News » Blog Archive » MSc in Primate Conservation awarded prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Award
  11. ^ Motorsport Knowledge Exchange
  12. ^ Sport — Oxford Brookes University
  13. ^ F1 | ITV Sport
  14. ^ Times Higher Education - Oxford Brookes in pole position for F1 success
  15. ^ The Official Formula 1 Website
  16. ^ Fairtrade policy — Oxford Brookes University
  17. ^ People & Planet - People & Planet Green League 2007
  18. ^ [www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/good_university_guide/ Times University Guide]. The Times.
  19. ^ The Table Of Tables. The Telegraph.
  20. ^ The Guardian University Guide. The Guardian.
  21. ^ The Guardian University Guide. The Guardian.
  22. ^ The Table Of Tables. The Telegraph.
  23. ^ [www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/good_university_guide/ Times University Guide]. The Times.
  24. ^ The Table Of Tables. The Telegraph.
  25. ^ [www.thegooduniversityguide.org.uk/single.htm?ipg=6605 The Good University Guide]. The Independent.
  26. ^ [www.thegooduniversityguide.org.uk/single.htm?ipg=6605 The Good University Guide]. The Independent.
  27. ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/sunday_times_university_guide/article2496240.ece

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