Talk:Oxford Brookes University

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REMOVED What must be noted. A completely unnecessary and childish diatribe about what Brookes is or isn't. DO NO REINSTATE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.123.45 (talk) 08:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


REMOVED: Football OBUFC - Legendary club captain Carl "Girlface" Laitham 2007/2008 gave brought all 5 teams into the BUSA league this time around with success in most of the teams. Great social life, banter and footballing life

does not make any sense —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.123.45 (talk) 17:43, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


The initial sections contain so much varied information that I decided to start to break information down into subsections. Also I edited the initial sentence - Brookes was not created from an amalgamation of Oxford Polytechnic and the Oxford School of Art, they are the same thing, but relate to the evolution of Brookes. i.e Oxford Polytechnic and the Oxford School of Art did not exist at the same time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.73.141.164 (talk) 14:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC) I also added the university colours and some other references —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.73.141.164 (talk) 14:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


Tinkered with a couple of paragraphs in the main section for readability purposes.

-Gregor

Is headington really "pleasant" MikeyB! 20:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

If it is not 'pleasant', then at least it is an expensive, calm and posh area. I live in Oxford (although not in headington...)--DragonFly31 14:27, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

It's not calm, it's full of bloody pikeys. </pov> 3dom 00:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

There is a distinct lack of mention of the gipsy lane campus, which is, as an educational facility, much larger than The headington campus which is generally a student union bassed campus.

-Jamie Gibbs (brookes student- representative of life sciences)ĴαΜЃЄ {αЌα Μαп Ѓп ŁΦчε}

the gypsy lane SITE and the headingington hill SITE are both part of the headington campus so any mention of gypsy lane would only be as a subdivision of the headington campus Nicoli nicolivich 18:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC) (brookes architecture student)

They are, however, both on different sides of the road and as such I would say that they are distinctly separate despite them being grouped together by brookes.Darryl L James 18:35, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV

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Why is this article tagged regarding it's neutrality?


Updated to balance a certain anti-brookes flavour, however unintentional it may have been.

In its current state the first few paragraphs almost seems to read like copy written by Brookes., phrases such as "Efforts by Brookes to forge a distinct and recognisable identity are a work in progress" with no source, "testament to the hard work and dedication of its staff" starts to sound biased etc. etc. Probably needs toning down a little. -- Pishmishy 16:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. Go ahead and make some changes. --ElKevbo 16:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Best new University? Stats? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.22.78.111 (talk • contribs) 20:39, February 12, 2007

Agreed. I trimmed the most blatant POV and unsourced academic boosterism and added several requests for citations. --ElKevbo 03:12, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
The list of Brookes' awards and the respective awarding bodies can be found here - http://brookes.ac.uk/about/facts/awards - I believe it is one of the Times university guides that consistently labels it as the best new university. Joy.discovery.invention (talk) 01:21, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NOTABLE ALUMNI

removed - They recived honorary diplomas / degrees

from aluni section, although they have all recieved hon docs fron Brookes, they did not study there.

perhaps make a new section for this information —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.123.45 (talk) 22:18, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] University ratings

(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)

There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 23:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Jon Snow and Lord Patten are not particularly close friends, nor does this have anything to do with the relationship between the universities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.80.240.86 (talk) 20:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC)