Oxford Brookes University
| 2009 | 2008 | 2003 | |
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| 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.
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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.
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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]
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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.
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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]
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Notable alumni
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References
- ^ 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.
- ^ From [1]:
- ^ https://edm.brookes.ac.uk/hr/hr/vacancies.do
- ^ [2]
- ^ BBC News article: Oxford's history blow
- ^ BBC News article: Oxford's history blow
- ^ [Architects' Journal 4 May 2006 page 84]
- ^ [3]
- ^ Annie Lennox
- ^ SSL News » Blog Archive » MSc in Primate Conservation awarded prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Award
- ^ Motorsport Knowledge Exchange
- ^ Sport — Oxford Brookes University
- ^ F1 | ITV Sport
- ^ Times Higher Education - Oxford Brookes in pole position for F1 success
- ^ The Official Formula 1 Website
- ^ Fairtrade policy — Oxford Brookes University
- ^ People & Planet - People & Planet Green League 2007
- ^ [www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/good_university_guide/ Times University Guide]. The Times.
- ^ The Table Of Tables. The Telegraph.
- ^ The Guardian University Guide. The Guardian.
- ^ The Guardian University Guide. The Guardian.
- ^ The Table Of Tables. The Telegraph.
- ^ [www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/good_university_guide/ Times University Guide]. The Times.
- ^ The Table Of Tables. The Telegraph.
- ^ [www.thegooduniversityguide.org.uk/single.htm?ipg=6605 The Good University Guide]. The Independent.
- ^ [www.thegooduniversityguide.org.uk/single.htm?ipg=6605 The Good University Guide]. The Independent.
- ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/sunday_times_university_guide/article2496240.ece
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External links
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