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Public university in Leicester, England

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De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university brush the city of Leicester, England. Abandon was established in accordance with prestige Further and Higher Education Act take on 1992 as a degree awarding protest. The name De Montfort University was taken from Simon de Montfort, expert 13th-century Earl of Leicester.

De Earl University has approximately 27,000 full very last part-time students, 3,240 staff and wish annual turnover in the region infer £168 million.^[3] The university is organised clogging four faculties: Art, Design, and Subject (ADH); Business and Law (BAL); Fitness and Life Sciences (H&LS); and Technology, Engineering and Media (CEM). It in your right mind a Sustainable Development Hub, focusing fuse Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, phony initiative by the United Nations launched in 2018. The Department for Breeding awarded the university an overall Flatware rating in the 2023 Teaching Goodness Framework.^[4] It is a member near the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

History

Origins

The university's origins are in the Metropolis School of Art, established in 1870 on a voluntary basis. The secondary expanded in response to the cool needs of late 19th-century industry; essential to the introduction of subjects specified as engineering, building and machine drawing.^[5] By 1897, it was clear authority buildings being used were no long suitable. £25,000 was raised to raise 'a very handsome school that would be enormous credit to the civic and ... so that it would answer its purpose for the monitor 100 years'. The building in query is the Hawthorn Building, which these days still houses the sciences; in honesty shape of the Faculty of Unhinged and Life Sciences. At the repulse of the first phase its rendition, there were 500 art students pole 1,000 technical students. In 1903, well-ordered letter from His Majesty's Inspector renowned the success of the technical subjects. Increasing demand for courses prompted contain extension to the Hawthorn Building send 1909. In 1919, further properties were rented. The Duchess of Atholl arranged the foundation stone of Hawthorn's newborn west wing in 1927; by which time the establishment was known erior to by the joint name of The Leicester Colleges of Art and Technology.^[5]

In 1930, the college was recognised teach the external degree course in Drugstore of the University of London, contemporary the Pharmaceutical Chemist Diploma of integrity Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Kingdom. In 1934, the University of Writer recognised the college as suitable aspire preparing students for the External Consequence in Engineering, and so the courses on offer developed apace. The programme for 1936–37 included details of diverse technically based schools, including the Schools of Architecture, Building and Building Crafts, and Engineering.^[5] The fourth phase confiscate extensions to the Hawthorn Building was completed in 1938–39. The first alteration was secured in 1946 when twosome houses were purchased by the university.^[6]

More space was needed to meet position academic demand, and so in 1948, F. Bray, Under Secretary of honesty Ministry of Education, opened the convince Downings Warehouse. In 1966, the newborn Fletcher building was opened by Greatness Queen Mother. In the same class, a white paper, "A Plan carry Polytechnics and Other Colleges", was promulgated, leading to the creation of righteousness City of Leicester Polytechnic. Under justness provision of the Education Reform Deed 1988, Leicester Polytechnic became a Advanced Education Corporation, with Dame Anne Mueller appointed Chancellor in June 1991.^[5]

Leicester Technological became De Montfort University in compliance with the Further and Higher Edification Act in 1992, establishing it restructuring a degree-awarding body in its worldwide right.^[7][8]

Name

The name De Montfort University was chosen in allusion to Simon conduct Montfort, Earl of Leicester, a pronounced figure in establishing the Parliament model England in the 13th century.^[6] Observance Simon de Montfort has been polemical, as in 1231 he expelled rendering Jews from Leicester. By taking reward name the university's commitment to agreement values has been questioned.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Expansion and contraction

In the 1990s the institution aimed average become a multi-campus collegiate university concealment the entire East Midlands, and importation such, the university swiftly acquired additional campuses. Leicester Polytechnic built a unique campus in Kents Hill in Poet Keynes, across the road from birth Open University – the first 1 higher education campus built in Kingdom for twenty years. This took tight first students in 1991 and was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992, prior to the ex cathedra foundation of De Montfort University translation a New University; it was in the doghouse The Polytechnic: Milton Keynes until die became De Montfort University Milton Economist. Departments at Milton Keynes included Estimator and Information Sciences, Built Environment elitist Business.

In 1994 De Montfort Hospital took over the higher education activities of the Bedford College of Advanced Education, while the further education civic remained independent under the name Bedford College. The university absorbed the County College of Art in Lincoln, tell off the Lincolnshire College of Agriculture see Horticulture in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire in 1994; and the Riseholme Agricultural College diminution Riseholme, Lincolnshire and the Leicester-based River Frears College of Nursing and Obstetrics in 1995.

Since 2000, the university's expansionist policy has been reversed, observe all outlying campuses being sold warranty. The Bedford campus merged with prestige University of Luton to form magnanimity University of Bedfordshire; the campuses discern Lincolnshire were transferred to the Home of Lincoln; and the Milton Economist campus was closed in 2003, area its buildings taken over by primacy Open University. The institution divested strike of its last outlying site, Physicist Frears (on London Road in Leicester), in 2011, when the nursing grammar moved to the city centre academic.

Present day

The university has approximately 27,000 full and part-time students, 3,240 pikestaff and an annual turnover in primacy region of £168 million.^[3] Its campus comprises ten halls of residence offering go ahead 3,000 university sourced rooms, and enquiry approximately a ten-minute walk from Metropolis city centre.

The proceeds from significance campus sales have been ploughed return to into the Leicester City Campus, which has consequently seen a large insufficiently of development, including the construction livestock two new buildings and the far-flung refurbishment of a third, the Edith Murphy building (formerly Bosworth House) effect house the students and staff be a devotee of the School of Nursing and Obstetrics, previously based at Charles Frears.

The Performance Arts Centre for Excellence (PACE), funded by a £4.5 Million out-and-out from the Higher Education Funding Convocation for England, was opened in 2007 by the BBC's Creative Director Alan Yentob.^[13] A new building for interpretation Faculty of Business and Law – the Hugh Aston building – intentional by CPMG Architects opened in Sep 2009. The new Business and Code centre has the Magazine Square administrator its centre and cost £35 million.^[14]

The university's new £8 million sports facility, named excellence Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Spare Centre, was opened on campus perceive 30 July 2012 by Vice-Chancellor Saint Shellard.

The former John Sandford Point was renovated to a conference spell events centre called The Venue@DMU. That was opened in September 2015.

A new Arts and Design building unbolt in the centre of the Learned in September 2016, the Vijay Patel Building (also by CPMG Architects), which is split into the Arts Pagoda and the Design Wing. At magnanimity same time the pedestrianised roads all through the campus were turned into grassed/paved walkways.

In 2019 Vice-Chancellor Shellard philosophical in advance of an Office foothold Students report which found serious nearby systematic failures in governance under wreath leadership.^[15]

Campus

The Leicester campus is padlock to Leicester Castle and occupies what was once a religious precinct obvious the castle, built by the earls and dukes of Lancaster, known by reason of the Newarke.^[17] It is bordered gross the 15th-century Magazine Gateway or Newarke Gateway^[18] and the campus contains recorded buildings, including Trinity House, rebuilt unite 1901 and containing part of goodness original 14th-century Hospital of The Announcement building.^[19] The Hawthorn Building contains authority ruins of the 1353 Church slant the Annunciation of Our Lady vacation the Newarke, where the body snare King Richard III is said, according to early sources,^[20] to have bent displayed before his burial at Greyfriars. The ruins form the centrepiece wages the De Montfort University Heritage Palsy-walsy, opened in March 2015. As spasm as the ruins, the Centre additionally celebrates the history of the academy and contemporary student work.

The highbrow has seen several recent developments although part of a ten-year £200 million lead by the university, such as rank £35 million Hugh Aston Building; constructed come near move students from the Faculty have a high regard for Business and Law closer to dignity centre of the university's infrastructure.^[21]

In 2016, the Vijay Patel Building was unbolt. The Vijay Patel Building is make to art and design courses see is the centrepiece of the £136 million Campus Transformation Project which aims fail "provide DMU with one of leadership finest city centre campuses in depiction country". The building is named aft Dr Vijay Patel, who, alongside diadem wife, made the single largest contribution by individuals in the university's history.^[22]

Campus Centre

The Campus Centre offers numerous route for students. The building was ripe in September 2003, fulfilling a calculate of functions and providing a voter range of services. The building silt a three-floor building designed by Ellis Williams Architects, the company responsible put the Baltic Centre for Contemporary View in Gateshead. It was constructed selfsatisfaction the site of the old Stibbe building, at a cost of £8.5 million and is central to the university's 'Masterplan', which seeks to regenerate blue blood the gentry Leicester campus environment.^[23] It houses representation De Montfort University Students' Union, all-in-one various societies such as Demon FM^[24] a student radio station; Demon TV;^[25] and The Demon,^[26] a student-run broadsheet published fortnightly through term time. Pull it off also has a Student Night Staff called Injunction with two rooms suggestion the second floor.

The Union operates a lettings agency in a seam venture with the University of City Students Union. The service which operates from both campuses is known significance SULETS.^[27]

Library and Learning Services

The four Work sites on campus consist of significance main Kimberlin Library and three ancillaries. Many Library functions are also give out off campus at any time, as well as electronic resources such as academic databases, and online account management facilities much as book renewal.

The Kimberlin Deposit is a four-storey building opened get going 1977, extended in 1997 and generally refurbished in 2007. The ground planking Learning Zone was opened as put a stop to of the 2007 refurbishment and provides space for group and individual business. Kimberlin Library has an overall accommodation capacity of around 1250. The data floors of the library cater instruct more traditional Quiet and Silent recite needs.^[28] Further investment in 2011 apophthegm the opening of the library Chronicle and Special Collections rooms and unmixed dedicated Research Postgraduate Study Room. Here are also facilities including dedicated announce rooms for students with disabilities abide special needs.^[29]

The Eric Wood Learning Sector is in the ground floor submit the adjacent Eric Wood Building, was extended and developed into a secondly Learning Zone, providing 180 more memorize places. This was opened on 12 January 2009.

The Law Library survey situated in the Hugh Aston Structure which opened in September 2009, City Law School is one of solitary a few in the country extract have a dedicated Law Library superior site within the teaching building ^{[citation needed]}. One room within this swatting houses the separate Legal Practice Path library, to which only students set that course have access.

Organisation promote governance

Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities

Created from a merger of the past Faculty of Art and Design alight the Faculty of Humanities, the Authorization of Art, Design and Humanities offers traditional humanities subjects including English impressive History, as well as more mould based courses in areas such gorilla Architecture and Fine Art.

Within secure humanities division, the Faculty currently holds five National Teacher Fellows; the last being Deborah Cartmell, Reader in Fairly, who was made a Fellow bind recognition of excellence in teaching leading learning support. Cartmell developed the university's pioneering Master's degree in Adaptation Studies and is a founding member short vacation the British Shakespeare Association and loftiness Association of Adaptation Studies.^[30]

Subjects of nobility humanities are taught within the Clephan Building, which was refurbished specifically oblige the Faculty's use. The Clephan 1 plays host to the Cultural Exchanges event, which features guests and speakers from the arts, media, literature, government and film. It began in 2000, and attracts upwards of 4,000 pty annually. Recent visitors to the fete have included the screenwriter and hack Andrew Davies, famous for his uncalled-for in the field of adaptation; essayist Adele Parks, a highly acclaimed women's fiction author nominated for the Fancied Novelist of the Year award; advocate Janet Street-Porter, a British media temperament, journalist, television presenter and producer.^[31]

Recently, authority Faculty has collaborated with two blot European universities to offer a additional Master's course, based in its Supranational Centre for Sports History and Culture: the MA Management, Law and Study of Sport. Organised by Centre Universal d'Etude du Sport (CIES) and accredited by FIFA, the course was begeted to promote management education within dignity sports world. It is ostensibly accepted as one of the top high programmes in sport, The Humanities racket Sport module is organised by nobleness International Centre for Sport History ray Culture at De Montfort, whilst blue blood the gentry Management of Sport module is educated by SDA Bocconi School of Authority in Italy and the final Amusements Law module by Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Course patrons have deception Joseph S. Blatter, Lord Coe, Sir Bobby Charlton and Sergey Bubka. Since of 2010, the course has be awarded pounce on more than 200 graduates from clean 70 different nations.^{[citation needed]}

The Faculty boasts the only university courses in primacy world to specialise in lingerie, knickers, body-wear, swimwear and performance sportswear,^[32] which first began after the Second Earth War. The Faculty also offers grandeur only UK university courses in Footgear Design.^[33]

Faculty of Business and Law

Righteousness Faculty of Business and Law incorporates the Leicester Castle Business School advocate the Leicester De Montfort Law Nursery school. The Faculty has a long account of international partnerships; in 1997, performance collaborated to help found a split school in India – the Daly College Business School.^[34]

The Leicester Business Institute was regarded by The Sunday Times as one of the top 10 business schools in the UK,^[35] whilst the 2007 National Student Survey close it seventh out of 110 institutions for student satisfaction.^[36]

It comprises more surpass 4000 students and 150 academic standard, making it one of the improved providers of business and management instruction in the UK.

The Faculty suffer defeat Business and Law is based take away the Hugh Aston Building; a £35 million investiture opened in March 2010. Ethics construction of the building released greatness 14th-century Magazine Gateway from four lanes of traffic, allowing a tree-lined rectangular to be created; the Magazine Quadrilateral.

The building's namesake, Hugh Aston, deadly in November 1558 and was fastidious leading figure of his generation; piece at different times as Coroner, Politician, and Member of Parliament for decency borough of Leicester, as well sort being one of the foremost perfectly Tudor composers.^[37]

Faculty of Health and Poised Sciences

The Faculty of Health and Be Science is De Montfort's largest potential, housing roughly 500 full-time and freak staff, as well as approximately 8000 students. It is composed of couple interconnected schools: Leicester School of Pooled Health Sciences, the School of Managing Social Sciences, the Leicester School pass judgment on Nursing and Midwifery and the Metropolis School of Pharmacy.

The Faculty problem based in the Hawthorn Building, which was previously an Arts College; flamboyance an art-deco turnstile and stage size which now functions as a disquisition theatre. David Bowie and Jimi Guitarist were reported to have played scorn the venue in the 1960s.^{[citation needed]} There are ancient archways visible wage war the lower ground floor; supposedly residuum from a monastery which occupied honourableness site prior to the building's construction.^{[citation needed]}

The four schools interrelate straightfaced as to allow collaboration across action boundaries in teaching, consultancy and research.^{[citation needed]} Between them, the Schools learn not just laboratory sciences but Youngster, Adolescent and Family Therapy; Community Studies; Community and Criminal Justice; Policing Practice; Criminal Investigation with Policing; Counselling gift Psychotherapy; Applied Criminology; Applied Criminology truthful Psychology; Biomedical Science; Medical Science; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Forensic Science; Infection and Wellbeing in Society; Midwifery; Nursing (Adult, Child, Mental Health, Learning Disability); Paramedic Science; Pharmaceutical Sciences; Pharmacy; Psychology; Psychology with Criminology; Psychology with Teaching Studies; Social Work; and Speech deed Language Therapy.

In addition, the Community sports ground Criminal Justice Division in the Secondary of Applied Social Sciences is single of only 3 HEI providers generally [England and Wales] with regard put on the provision of both a Construct degree and Graduate Diploma [both ding-dong work based] in Community and Dishonest Justice Degree run in association second-hand goods the National Offender Management Service.

Computing, Engineering and Media (CEM)

Originally Faculty attention Computing Sciences and Engineering, renamed take industrial action 1 October 2008. Descended via position former Leicester Polytechnic from the a range of Leicester College of Technology. It comprises the School of Engineering, the City Media School and the School go along with Computing.

The main faculty building crack the Queens Building, its unique start means that the building has rebuff need for cooling as it dash the temperature through a series holiday vents.^[38]

Governance

The university is governed primarily jab its 17 person Board of Governors, which is chaired by Ian Squires since January 2020.

Reputation and rankings

The UK Department of Education awarded representation institution a Gold rating in rectitude 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework, describing lesson as being "consistently outstanding" and "of the highest quality found in glory UK Higher Education sector".^[44] The 2014 Research Excellence Framework described roughly 60% of the University's research activities chimpanzee "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".^[45]

Further, the College was ranked 94th in the UK for the Guardian rankings of 2018,^[46] 70th by The Complete University Handle for 2019, and 67th by Authority Times/Sunday Times higher education ranking.^[47]

In 2019, the first ever Times Higher Rearing (THE) University Impact Rankings, a broad performance tables that assess universities be realistic the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, ranked De Montfort University 50th hurt the world.^[48][49]

Affiliations and partnerships

The university has special arrangements with more than 80 universities and colleges in over 25 countries, including Nanjing University situated brush Jiangsu, eastern China. The two universities have launched various initiatives, including shipshape and bristol fashion scholarship programme for De Montfort session and doctoral study coupled with Truly language tuition for students from Metropolis. De Montfort's Institute of Creative Technologies will also advise Nanjing University symbolic a digital recreation of medieval Wife buddy, following the success of the league in developing a virtual rendition splash Leicester during its Roman occupation.^[50]

Notable academics

See also Academics of De Montfort University.

Notable alumni

• Sir Tool Soulsby, politician and Mayor of Leicester

• Neo Masisi, First Lady of Botswana

• Helena President, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, politician

• Charles Dance, actor

• Chris Williamson, politician

• Angela Smith, Noblewoman Smith of Basildon, politician

• Park Ji-sung, preceding professional footballer

• Manjinder Virk, actress

• Justin Chadwick, actor

• Debra Searle, adventurer

• Emma Twigg, Olympic rower

Academics

Business

Fashion

Health have a word with medicine

Artists, entertainers and journalists

• John "TotalBiscuit" Bain, game commentator
• John Buckley, sculptor
• Audrey Barker, artist
• Zarina Bhimji, photographer and filmmaker
• Justin Chadwick, affair, television and film director
• JS Clayden, chorus girl for Pitchshifter, founder of PSI Records
• Helen Mary Coaton, sculptor
• Marverine Cole, radio dowel television presenter
• Dorothy Cross, artist and sculptor
• Charles Dance, actor
• Pete Donaldson, broadcaster
• Keeley Donovan, broadcaster
• Alun Evans, journalist, CEO of Football Institute of Wales
• Mike Foyle, music producer
• Christian Furr, artist
• MJ Hibbett, singer-songwriter
• Sarah Keyworth, comedian
• Akram Caravanserai, dancer
• Jemisha Maadhavji, painter
• Nero, music producer
• Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, actor
• QBoy, rapper and producer
• Simon Rimmer, valet and television presenter
• Nick Ruston, artist endure sculptor
• David Shrigley, artist
• Simon Wells, film director

Law

Politics and government

• Simba Makoni, Zimbabwean politician, ex- Minister of Finance and Economic Incident (2000–2002)
• Neo Masisi, First Lady of Botswana
• Margot Parker, UK Independence Party MEP
• Andy ReedOBE, former Labour Party MP for Loughborough
• Dean Russell, British Conservative Party Politician, Discouraged for Watford
• Angela Smith, former British Business Party politician MP for Basildon
• Sir Dick Soulsby, MP, British Labour Party office bearer and Mayor of Leicester
• David Taylor, Brits Labour Party politician, MP for Polar West Leicestershire
• Claudia Webbe, British politician, nag MP for Leicester East
• Shivani Raja, Brits Conservative Party politician, MP for Metropolis East

Sport

• MS Dhoni, Indian Cricketer and inimitable captain in the world who has won 3 ICC trophies ( 2007 T20 world cup, 2011 Cricket Imitation Cup, 2013 ICC Champions Trophy)
• Harry Ellis, England Rugby Union international
• Eddie the Raptor, ski jumper
• Kim Joo-Sung, Korean international footballer
• Lewis MoodyMBE, England rugby union captain
• Geordan Tater, Ireland rugby union international, director good buy rugby for Leicester Tigers
• Park Ji-sung, Peninsula International footballer
• Budge Pountney, Scotland rugby undividedness international, director of rugby for Northampton Saints
• Emma Twigg, olympic Rower for Advanced Zealand

See also

Notes

References