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'The University of Manchester' is a university located in Manchester, England. With over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, more than 10,000 staff and an annual income in excess of £600,000,000, it is the largest single-site University in the United Kingdom and receives more applications from prospective students than any other university in the country, with more than 60,000 applications for undergraduate courses alone. According to the ''The Sunday Times'', "Manchester has a formidable reputation spanning most disciplines, but most notably in the life sciences, engineering, humanities, economics, sociology and the social sciences".[3]
The present University was formed in 2004 by the dissolution of the Victoria University of Manchester (which was commonly known as the University of Manchester) and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) and the subsequent formation of a single institution. The University of Manchester is a member of the Russell Group and was named University of the Year 2006. This followed the awarding by the inaugural Times Higher Supplement's University of the Year prize in 2005.[4] Manchester is also ranked, in terms of academic quality; 48th in the World, 5th in UK and 9th in Europe in the Shanghai Jiao Tong list 2007.[5]
Main articles: UMIST, Victoria University of Manchester
While the present University was formed in 2004, its constituent parts date from as early as 1824.
The University's history is closely linked to Manchester's emergence as the world's first industrial city. John Dalton together with Manchester businessmen and industrialists established the Mechanics' Institute (later to become UMIST) in 1824 to ensure that workers could learn the basic principles of science. Similarly, John Owens, a Manchester textile merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1851 for the purpose of founding a college for the education of males on non-sectarian lines. Owens College (to become the Victoria University of Manchester) was established and granted a Royal Charter in 1880 to become England's first civic university. It was initially housed in a building, complete with Adams staircase, on the corner of Quay Street and Byron Street which had been the home of the philanthropist Richard Cobden, and subsequently was to house Manchester County Court.
By 1905 the two institutions were a large and active force in the area, with the Mechanics' Institute, the forerunner of the modern UMIST, forming a Faculty of Technology and working alongside the Victoria University of Manchester.
Before the merger, the Universities between them counted 23 Nobel Prize winners amongst their former staff and students. Manchester has traditionally been particularly strong in the sciences, with the nuclear nature of the atom being discovered at Manchester, and the world's first programmable electronic computer coming into being in the city. Famous scientists associated with the university including the Physicists John Dalton, Niels Bohr, Ernest Rutherford, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden, Balfour Stewart and Alan Turing. However, the university has also contributed in many other fields, and the mathematician Paul Erdős, the author Anthony Burgess, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre, the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and the composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended Manchester. Well-known figures among the current academic staff include author Martin Amis, international development "guru" Jeffrey Sachs, literary critic Terry Eagleton and composer John Casken.
The newly merged University of Manchester was officially launched on 22 October 2004 when the Queen handed over the Royal Charter. It has the largest number of full time students in the UK, unless the University of London is counted as a single university. It teaches more academic subjects than any other British University. The President and Vice-Chancellor of the new University is Alan Gilbert, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. One of the stated ambitions of the newly combined university is to 'establish it by 2015 among the 25 strongest research universities in the world on commonly accepted criteria of research excellence and performance'.[6]
The Times Higher World University Rankings 2006 ranked Manchester 6th best university in the UK, 11th in Europe and 40th in the world.[7] The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006 published by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked Manchester 5th in the UK, 9th in Europe and 50th in the world.[8] According to High Fliers Research Limited's survey, 'The Graduate Market in 2007', University of Manchester students are being targeted by more top recruiters for 2007 graduate vacancies than any other UK university students.[9]
Manchester has the largest total income of all UK universities, standing at £590 million as of 2005.[10], however its annual deficit runs at £15-20 million.[11] Its research income of £200 million is the fifth largest of any university in the country. Despite its size The University of Manchester is divided into only four faculties, each sub-divided into schools:
★ 'Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences' consisting of the Schools of ''Medicine''; ''Dentistry''; ''Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work''; ''Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences''; and ''Psychological Sciences''.
★ 'Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences' consisting of the Schools of ''Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science''; ''Chemistry''; ''Computer Science''; ''Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Science''; ''Physics and Astronomy''; ''Electrical & Electronic Engineering''; ''Materials''; ''Mathematics''; and ''Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering''.
★ 'Faculty of Humanities' includes the School of ''Arts, Histories and Cultures'' (a rather catchall title incorporating Archaeology; Art History; Classics and Ancient History; Drama; English and American Studies; History; Music; and Religions and Theology). The other Schools are ''Education''; ''Environment and Development''; ''Informatics'' (formed from the UMIST Department of Computation); ''Languages, Linguistics and Cultures''; ''Law''; ''Social Sciences'' and the ''Manchester Business School''.
★ 'Faculty of Life Sciences' unusually consisting of a single school.
The ''Main Campus'' of the University consists of the roughly adjoining sites of the former UMIST campus, near Sackville Street, and the former main campus of the Victoria University of Manchester, in the vicinity of Oxford Road. The terms ''North Campus'' and ''South Campus'' (respectively) are sometimes used when making a distinction between the former sites, though the official status of these terms is unclear, and are not universally used. In addition there are a number of further university buildings located throughout the city, and throughout the further region (such as One Central Park, Jodrell Bank Observatory and Tabley House, a stately home; latter two are in the nearby county of Cheshire).
The University has embarked on a £600 million programme of capital investment, to deliver eight new buildings and 15 major refurbishment projects by 2010. These include:
★ £60 m Flagship Student Services and Nursing building
★ £10 m Functional Biology Building
★ £33 m Life Sciences and Medical and Human Sciences Building
★ £56 m Alan Turing Building: housing Mathematics, the Photon Sciences Institute and the Astronomy and Astrophysics group.
★ £50 m Life Sciences Research Building
★ £13 m Chemistry Building
★ £38 m Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB)
★ £31 m Humanities Building - now officially called the "Arthur Lewis Building"
★ £17 m John Rylands Library, Deansgate
★ £18 m Re-location of School of Pharmacy
★ £20 m Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC)
Main articles: John Rylands University Library
The University's library, the John Rylands University Library, is the largest non-legal deposit library in the UK, as well as being the country's third-largest academic library after those of Oxford and Cambridge. The oldest part of the library, founded in memory of John Rylands by his wife Enriqueta Augustina Rylands as an independent institution, is situated in a Victorian Gothic building on Deansgate, Manchester city centre. This site houses an important collection of historic books and manuscripts, including the oldest extant New Testament document, Rylands Library Papyrus P52, the so-called ''St John's fragment''. The Deansgate site has recently reopened to the public, following major improvements and renovations, including the construction of the pitched roof originally intended.
Main articles: Jodrell Bank Observatory
The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics is a combination of the astronomical academic staff, situated in Manchester, and the Jodrell Bank Observatory near Goostrey, about ten miles west of Macclesfield. The observatory boasts the third largest fully-movable radio telescope in the world, the Lovell Telescope, constructed in the 1950s. It has played an important role in the research of quasars, pulsars and gravitational lenses, and has played a role in confirming Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
Main articles: Manchester Museum
The Manchester Museum provides access to about six million items sourced from around the world. Collections include butterflies and carvings from India, birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific, live frogs and ancient pottery from America, fossils and native art from Australia, mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa, plants, coins and minerals from Europe, art from past civilisations of the Mediterranean, and beetles, armour and archery from Asia. The museum recently acquired a cast of a fossilised ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' called "Stan", which was unveiled on 4 November 2004.
Main articles: Whitworth Art Gallery
The Whitworth Art Gallery is home to collections of internationally famous British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers, as well as modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. A programme of temporary exhibitions runs throughout the year, with the Mezzanine Court serving as a venue for showing sculpture.
Main articles: Contact Theatre
The University's Contact Theatre mostly stages live performances of modern works and participatory work for younger audiences. It is housed in a fortress-style building on the Oxford Road, with a unique energy-efficient system, using its high towers. The interior houses three performance spaces, a lounge bar and "Hot Air", a reactive public artwork, in the foyer space.
Main articles: Manchester Conference Centre
Owned and operated by the University, Manchester Conference Centre on Sackville Street offers conference facilities in its two theatres (seating up to 300) and 19 seminar rooms.
The buildings around the old quadrangle date from the time of Owens College, and were designed in a Gothic style by Alfred Waterhouse (and his son Paul Waterhouse). Today, the museum continues to occupy one side (including the tower) and the grand setting of Whitworth Hall is used for the conferment of degrees. The old Christie Library now houses Christie's Bistro, and the remainder of the buildings are used by administrative departments.
Main articles: Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre
Formerly named The Firs, the original house was built in 1850 for Sir Joseph Whitworth, by Edward Walters, who was also responsible for Manchester’s Free Trade Hall and Strangeways Prison. Whitworth used the Firs mainly as a social, political and business base, entertaining radicals of the age such as John Bright, Richard Cobden, William Forster and T.H. Huxley at the time of the Reform Bill of 1867. Whitworth, credited with raising the art of machine-tool building to a previously-unknown level, supported the new Mechanics Institute in Manchester – the birthplace of UMIST - and helped to found the Manchester School of Design.
In 1882, the Firs was leased to C.P. Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian. After Scott's death the house became the property of Owens College, and was the Vice-Chancellor's residence until 1991.
The old house now forms the western wing of Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre at the University. The newer eastern wing houses the circular Flowers Theatre, six individual conference rooms and the majority of the 75 hotel bedrooms.
Prior to merging, the two former universities had for some time been sharing their residential facilities.
The North Campus lies on the previous UMIST Campus, comprising of five halls of residence central to the Sackville Street building (Weston, Lambert, Fairfield, Chandos, Wright Robinson), and several other halls within a 5-15 minute walk away, such as the Grovensor group of halls and Whitworth Park.
The Fallowfield Campus, situated 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the main university campus (the South Campus), is the largest of the university's residential campuses. The Owens Park tower lies at the centre of it, with Oak House being the other main hall of residence. Woolton Hall is also present on Fallowfield campus next to Oak house. Allen Hall is a traditional hall situated nearby equally classic Ashburne Hall. Richmond Park is a relatively recent addition to the campus.
Victoria Park Campus, situated between Fallowfield and the South Campus, just off Rusholme, comprises several houses of Residence. Among these are St Anselm Hall with Canterbury Court, Dalton-Ellis Hall (with Pankhurst Court), Hulme Hall (including Burkhardt House), St Gabriel's Hall and Opal Gardens Hall.
The University also has an additional residential campus some distance away in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, known as Hardy Farm.
There are many different clubs and societies operating within the University of Manchester. Common areas include sports, hobbies, politics and religion. The University of Manchester website details the various societies in far greater depth than is present below. There are several fairs during the freshers period in which various clubs and societies promote themselves.
Today the university can boast more than 80 health and fitness classes every whilst over 3000 students are members of the 42 various Athlethic Union Clubs. Generally, the sports societies in Manchester vary widely in their level and scope. Many of the more popular sports will have several university teams as well as departmental teams which may be placed in a league against other teams from different departments/halls of residence within the university. Common teams include: Hockey, Rugby, Football, Basketball, Netball and Cricket. The Manchester Aquatics Centre, the swimming pool used for the Manchester Commonwealth Games is also on the campus.
Hobbies has been used as an umbrella term to cover the huge range of other clubs and societies on offer. These vary hugely between areas like Languages, Nationalities, Wargames, Artsbased e.g. Anime and many more. If a particular society does not exist there is usually a mechanism by which it can be created.
There is a wide range of religious based societies and places of worship within the University. A religions fair is also held, where information is distributed about the different societies. There are large Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Bahá'à societies which hold regular events and meetings.
The university has a strong Drama tradition and past students include Meera Syal, Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton. The Drama Society holds a yearly drama festival, involving 13 plays in five theatres and over 120 students, as well as coordinating several independent student run productions. The Fringe Society in 2006 took twelve plays and over 70 students to the Edinburgh Fringe festival under the company name "Johnny Miller Presents". The company was awarded a ThreeWeeks Editors' Award, which honours the most talked about and exciting people and companies at the festival.[12]
The University of Manchester Students' Union is the representative body of students at the University of Manchester. There are now two Union buildings - the Steve Biko building inherited from the Victoria University of Manchester, and the Barnes Wallis building from UMIST. Manchester Academy, the Union's music venue, hosts bands most nights of the week. The student newspaper is called ''Student Direct''. The radio station, Fuse FM, broadcasts twice-yearly on both FM and also over the internet.
The University of Manchester's medical school is one of the largest in Europe, with over 400 medical students being trained in each of the clinical years and over 350 students in the pre-clinical/phase 1 years. Approximately 110 students who have completed pre-clinical training at the Bute Medical School (University of St Andrews) join the third year of the undergraduate medical programme each year.
The University's Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences has links with a large number of NHS hospitals in the north west of England and maintains presences in its four base hospitals. The base hospitals are Manchester Royal Infirmary (located at one end of the main university campus on Oxford Road) and Wythenshawe Hospitals, Salford's Hope Hospital, the Royal Preston Hospital. All are used as hospitals for clinical medical training for doctors and nurses.
The School of Pharmacy [3]at Manchester University also benefits from the University's links with the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Wythenshawe Hospitals and Salford's Hope hospital. All of the undergraduate pharmacy students gain hospital experience through these links and are the only pharmacy students in the UK to have an extensive course completed in secondary care [13]
Main articles: People associated with the University of Manchester
Many notable and famous people have worked or studied at one or both of the two former institutions that merged to form the University of Manchester, including 23 Nobel prize laureates. Some of the best known include John Dalton (founder of modern atomic theory), Ernest Rutherford (the first person to probe the atom) Bernard Lovell (a pioneer of radio astronomy), Alan Turing (one of the founders of computer science and modern computing) and Anthony Burgess (author). Additionally, a number of world leaders are associated with the university, including Chaim Weizmann (the first President of Israel).
1. Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2005/06
2. The University of Manchester Scarf
3. Manchester unites to target world league
4. University of the Year
5. Top 100 European Universities
6. Towards 2015
7. World University Rankings
8. Top 500 World Universities
9. Most wanted students
10. Finances
11. Faculty Assembly Report, February 2007
12. The ThreeWeeks Editors Awards 2006
13. http://www.pharmacy.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/
'The University of Manchester' is a university located in Manchester, England. With over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, more than 10,000 staff and an annual income in excess of £600,000,000, it is the largest single-site University in the United Kingdom and receives more applications from prospective students than any other university in the country, with more than 60,000 applications for undergraduate courses alone. According to the ''The Sunday Times'', "Manchester has a formidable reputation spanning most disciplines, but most notably in the life sciences, engineering, humanities, economics, sociology and the social sciences".[3]
The present University was formed in 2004 by the dissolution of the Victoria University of Manchester (which was commonly known as the University of Manchester) and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) and the subsequent formation of a single institution. The University of Manchester is a member of the Russell Group and was named University of the Year 2006. This followed the awarding by the inaugural Times Higher Supplement's University of the Year prize in 2005.[4] Manchester is also ranked, in terms of academic quality; 48th in the World, 5th in UK and 9th in Europe in the Shanghai Jiao Tong list 2007.[5]
History
Main articles: UMIST, Victoria University of Manchester
The University of Manchester coat of arms
The university's Whitworth Hall. This archway was the inspiration for the logo of the Victoria University of Manchester
While the present University was formed in 2004, its constituent parts date from as early as 1824.
The University's history is closely linked to Manchester's emergence as the world's first industrial city. John Dalton together with Manchester businessmen and industrialists established the Mechanics' Institute (later to become UMIST) in 1824 to ensure that workers could learn the basic principles of science. Similarly, John Owens, a Manchester textile merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1851 for the purpose of founding a college for the education of males on non-sectarian lines. Owens College (to become the Victoria University of Manchester) was established and granted a Royal Charter in 1880 to become England's first civic university. It was initially housed in a building, complete with Adams staircase, on the corner of Quay Street and Byron Street which had been the home of the philanthropist Richard Cobden, and subsequently was to house Manchester County Court.
By 1905 the two institutions were a large and active force in the area, with the Mechanics' Institute, the forerunner of the modern UMIST, forming a Faculty of Technology and working alongside the Victoria University of Manchester.
Before the merger, the Universities between them counted 23 Nobel Prize winners amongst their former staff and students. Manchester has traditionally been particularly strong in the sciences, with the nuclear nature of the atom being discovered at Manchester, and the world's first programmable electronic computer coming into being in the city. Famous scientists associated with the university including the Physicists John Dalton, Niels Bohr, Ernest Rutherford, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden, Balfour Stewart and Alan Turing. However, the university has also contributed in many other fields, and the mathematician Paul Erdős, the author Anthony Burgess, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre, the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and the composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended Manchester. Well-known figures among the current academic staff include author Martin Amis, international development "guru" Jeffrey Sachs, literary critic Terry Eagleton and composer John Casken.
The Sackville Street Building, formerly known as UMIST Main building
The newly merged University of Manchester was officially launched on 22 October 2004 when the Queen handed over the Royal Charter. It has the largest number of full time students in the UK, unless the University of London is counted as a single university. It teaches more academic subjects than any other British University. The President and Vice-Chancellor of the new University is Alan Gilbert, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. One of the stated ambitions of the newly combined university is to 'establish it by 2015 among the 25 strongest research universities in the world on commonly accepted criteria of research excellence and performance'.[6]
The Times Higher World University Rankings 2006 ranked Manchester 6th best university in the UK, 11th in Europe and 40th in the world.[7] The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006 published by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked Manchester 5th in the UK, 9th in Europe and 50th in the world.[8] According to High Fliers Research Limited's survey, 'The Graduate Market in 2007', University of Manchester students are being targeted by more top recruiters for 2007 graduate vacancies than any other UK university students.[9]
Manchester has the largest total income of all UK universities, standing at £590 million as of 2005.[10], however its annual deficit runs at £15-20 million.[11] Its research income of £200 million is the fifth largest of any university in the country. Despite its size The University of Manchester is divided into only four faculties, each sub-divided into schools:
★ 'Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences' consisting of the Schools of ''Medicine''; ''Dentistry''; ''Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work''; ''Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences''; and ''Psychological Sciences''.
★ 'Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences' consisting of the Schools of ''Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science''; ''Chemistry''; ''Computer Science''; ''Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Science''; ''Physics and Astronomy''; ''Electrical & Electronic Engineering''; ''Materials''; ''Mathematics''; and ''Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering''.
★ 'Faculty of Humanities' includes the School of ''Arts, Histories and Cultures'' (a rather catchall title incorporating Archaeology; Art History; Classics and Ancient History; Drama; English and American Studies; History; Music; and Religions and Theology). The other Schools are ''Education''; ''Environment and Development''; ''Informatics'' (formed from the UMIST Department of Computation); ''Languages, Linguistics and Cultures''; ''Law''; ''Social Sciences'' and the ''Manchester Business School''.
★ 'Faculty of Life Sciences' unusually consisting of a single school.
Campus and facilities
The ''Main Campus'' of the University consists of the roughly adjoining sites of the former UMIST campus, near Sackville Street, and the former main campus of the Victoria University of Manchester, in the vicinity of Oxford Road. The terms ''North Campus'' and ''South Campus'' (respectively) are sometimes used when making a distinction between the former sites, though the official status of these terms is unclear, and are not universally used. In addition there are a number of further university buildings located throughout the city, and throughout the further region (such as One Central Park, Jodrell Bank Observatory and Tabley House, a stately home; latter two are in the nearby county of Cheshire).
Major projects
The atrium inside the new £38m Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre
The University has embarked on a £600 million programme of capital investment, to deliver eight new buildings and 15 major refurbishment projects by 2010. These include:
★ £60 m Flagship Student Services and Nursing building
★ £10 m Functional Biology Building
★ £33 m Life Sciences and Medical and Human Sciences Building
★ £56 m Alan Turing Building: housing Mathematics, the Photon Sciences Institute and the Astronomy and Astrophysics group.
★ £50 m Life Sciences Research Building
★ £13 m Chemistry Building
★ £38 m Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB)
★ £31 m Humanities Building - now officially called the "Arthur Lewis Building"
★ £17 m John Rylands Library, Deansgate
★ £18 m Re-location of School of Pharmacy
★ £20 m Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC)
John Rylands University Library
Main articles: John Rylands University Library
The University's library, the John Rylands University Library, is the largest non-legal deposit library in the UK, as well as being the country's third-largest academic library after those of Oxford and Cambridge. The oldest part of the library, founded in memory of John Rylands by his wife Enriqueta Augustina Rylands as an independent institution, is situated in a Victorian Gothic building on Deansgate, Manchester city centre. This site houses an important collection of historic books and manuscripts, including the oldest extant New Testament document, Rylands Library Papyrus P52, the so-called ''St John's fragment''. The Deansgate site has recently reopened to the public, following major improvements and renovations, including the construction of the pitched roof originally intended.
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
The 76 m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
Main articles: Jodrell Bank Observatory
The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics is a combination of the astronomical academic staff, situated in Manchester, and the Jodrell Bank Observatory near Goostrey, about ten miles west of Macclesfield. The observatory boasts the third largest fully-movable radio telescope in the world, the Lovell Telescope, constructed in the 1950s. It has played an important role in the research of quasars, pulsars and gravitational lenses, and has played a role in confirming Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
Manchester Museum
"Stan" the ''T. rex'' at Manchester Museum on 4 November 2004 when he was first exhibited
Main articles: Manchester Museum
The Manchester Museum provides access to about six million items sourced from around the world. Collections include butterflies and carvings from India, birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific, live frogs and ancient pottery from America, fossils and native art from Australia, mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa, plants, coins and minerals from Europe, art from past civilisations of the Mediterranean, and beetles, armour and archery from Asia. The museum recently acquired a cast of a fossilised ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' called "Stan", which was unveiled on 4 November 2004.
Whitworth Art Gallery
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Main articles: Whitworth Art Gallery
The Whitworth Art Gallery is home to collections of internationally famous British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers, as well as modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. A programme of temporary exhibitions runs throughout the year, with the Mezzanine Court serving as a venue for showing sculpture.
Contact Theatre
The Contact Theatre
Main articles: Contact Theatre
The University's Contact Theatre mostly stages live performances of modern works and participatory work for younger audiences. It is housed in a fortress-style building on the Oxford Road, with a unique energy-efficient system, using its high towers. The interior houses three performance spaces, a lounge bar and "Hot Air", a reactive public artwork, in the foyer space.
Manchester Conference Centre
Main articles: Manchester Conference Centre
Owned and operated by the University, Manchester Conference Centre on Sackville Street offers conference facilities in its two theatres (seating up to 300) and 19 seminar rooms.
Old Quadrangle
The Old Quadrangle
The buildings around the old quadrangle date from the time of Owens College, and were designed in a Gothic style by Alfred Waterhouse (and his son Paul Waterhouse). Today, the museum continues to occupy one side (including the tower) and the grand setting of Whitworth Hall is used for the conferment of degrees. The old Christie Library now houses Christie's Bistro, and the remainder of the buildings are used by administrative departments.
Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre
Main articles: Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre
Formerly named The Firs, the original house was built in 1850 for Sir Joseph Whitworth, by Edward Walters, who was also responsible for Manchester’s Free Trade Hall and Strangeways Prison. Whitworth used the Firs mainly as a social, political and business base, entertaining radicals of the age such as John Bright, Richard Cobden, William Forster and T.H. Huxley at the time of the Reform Bill of 1867. Whitworth, credited with raising the art of machine-tool building to a previously-unknown level, supported the new Mechanics Institute in Manchester – the birthplace of UMIST - and helped to found the Manchester School of Design.
In 1882, the Firs was leased to C.P. Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian. After Scott's death the house became the property of Owens College, and was the Vice-Chancellor's residence until 1991.
The old house now forms the western wing of Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre at the University. The newer eastern wing houses the circular Flowers Theatre, six individual conference rooms and the majority of the 75 hotel bedrooms.
Residential campuses
Dalton Ellis Hall claims to be the oldest purpose built hall of residence in England
Prior to merging, the two former universities had for some time been sharing their residential facilities.
The North Campus lies on the previous UMIST Campus, comprising of five halls of residence central to the Sackville Street building (Weston, Lambert, Fairfield, Chandos, Wright Robinson), and several other halls within a 5-15 minute walk away, such as the Grovensor group of halls and Whitworth Park.
The Fallowfield Campus, situated 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the main university campus (the South Campus), is the largest of the university's residential campuses. The Owens Park tower lies at the centre of it, with Oak House being the other main hall of residence. Woolton Hall is also present on Fallowfield campus next to Oak house. Allen Hall is a traditional hall situated nearby equally classic Ashburne Hall. Richmond Park is a relatively recent addition to the campus.
Victoria Park Campus, situated between Fallowfield and the South Campus, just off Rusholme, comprises several houses of Residence. Among these are St Anselm Hall with Canterbury Court, Dalton-Ellis Hall (with Pankhurst Court), Hulme Hall (including Burkhardt House), St Gabriel's Hall and Opal Gardens Hall.
The University also has an additional residential campus some distance away in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, known as Hardy Farm.
Clubs and societies
There are many different clubs and societies operating within the University of Manchester. Common areas include sports, hobbies, politics and religion. The University of Manchester website details the various societies in far greater depth than is present below. There are several fairs during the freshers period in which various clubs and societies promote themselves.
Today the university can boast more than 80 health and fitness classes every whilst over 3000 students are members of the 42 various Athlethic Union Clubs. Generally, the sports societies in Manchester vary widely in their level and scope. Many of the more popular sports will have several university teams as well as departmental teams which may be placed in a league against other teams from different departments/halls of residence within the university. Common teams include: Hockey, Rugby, Football, Basketball, Netball and Cricket. The Manchester Aquatics Centre, the swimming pool used for the Manchester Commonwealth Games is also on the campus.
Hobbies has been used as an umbrella term to cover the huge range of other clubs and societies on offer. These vary hugely between areas like Languages, Nationalities, Wargames, Artsbased e.g. Anime and many more. If a particular society does not exist there is usually a mechanism by which it can be created.
There is a wide range of religious based societies and places of worship within the University. A religions fair is also held, where information is distributed about the different societies. There are large Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Bahá'à societies which hold regular events and meetings.
The university has a strong Drama tradition and past students include Meera Syal, Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton. The Drama Society holds a yearly drama festival, involving 13 plays in five theatres and over 120 students, as well as coordinating several independent student run productions. The Fringe Society in 2006 took twelve plays and over 70 students to the Edinburgh Fringe festival under the company name "Johnny Miller Presents". The company was awarded a ThreeWeeks Editors' Award, which honours the most talked about and exciting people and companies at the festival.[12]
The University of Manchester Students' Union
The University of Manchester Students' Union is the representative body of students at the University of Manchester. There are now two Union buildings - the Steve Biko building inherited from the Victoria University of Manchester, and the Barnes Wallis building from UMIST. Manchester Academy, the Union's music venue, hosts bands most nights of the week. The student newspaper is called ''Student Direct''. The radio station, Fuse FM, broadcasts twice-yearly on both FM and also over the internet.
NHS hospitals
The University of Manchester's medical school is one of the largest in Europe, with over 400 medical students being trained in each of the clinical years and over 350 students in the pre-clinical/phase 1 years. Approximately 110 students who have completed pre-clinical training at the Bute Medical School (University of St Andrews) join the third year of the undergraduate medical programme each year.
The University's Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences has links with a large number of NHS hospitals in the north west of England and maintains presences in its four base hospitals. The base hospitals are Manchester Royal Infirmary (located at one end of the main university campus on Oxford Road) and Wythenshawe Hospitals, Salford's Hope Hospital, the Royal Preston Hospital. All are used as hospitals for clinical medical training for doctors and nurses.
The School of Pharmacy [3]at Manchester University also benefits from the University's links with the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Wythenshawe Hospitals and Salford's Hope hospital. All of the undergraduate pharmacy students gain hospital experience through these links and are the only pharmacy students in the UK to have an extensive course completed in secondary care [13]
Notable academic staff and alumni
Main articles: People associated with the University of Manchester
Many notable and famous people have worked or studied at one or both of the two former institutions that merged to form the University of Manchester, including 23 Nobel prize laureates. Some of the best known include John Dalton (founder of modern atomic theory), Ernest Rutherford (the first person to probe the atom) Bernard Lovell (a pioneer of radio astronomy), Alan Turing (one of the founders of computer science and modern computing) and Anthony Burgess (author). Additionally, a number of world leaders are associated with the university, including Chaim Weizmann (the first President of Israel).
References
1. Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2005/06
2. The University of Manchester Scarf
3. Manchester unites to target world league
4. University of the Year
5. Top 100 European Universities
6. Towards 2015
7. World University Rankings
8. Top 500 World Universities
9. Most wanted students
10. Finances
11. Faculty Assembly Report, February 2007
12. The ThreeWeeks Editors Awards 2006
13. http://www.pharmacy.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/
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