University of Winchester

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University of Winchester
Established 1840 (as Winchester Diocesan Training School)
Type Public
Chancellor Mary Fagan JP
Vice-Chancellor Professor Joy Carter
Students 5,480 [1]
Undergraduates 4,240 <ref name="HESA" />
Postgraduates 1,240 <ref name="HESA" />
Location Winchester, Hampshire, UK
Campus Semi-urban
Website [1]
The University of Winchester is a university in Winchester in the United Kingdom. It was given university status by the Privy Council in June 2005, having previously been known as University College Winchester and earlier as King Alfred's College, Winchester.

History

Formed in 1840 as a College for training teachers, King Alfred's moved to its main campus in West Hill, Winchester in 1862.

King Alfred's College trained thousands of teachers, at first men only, but women as well from 1960. With the sudden change in Government policy in the early 1970s, the College first looked for partners to merge with and also sought to diversify its provision. Its educational partner, the University of Southampton, was lukewarm about offering other forms of degrees, so the College sought approval for its own BEd and then BA degrees from the CNAA. Interdisciplinary degrees in History and English with Drama, Archaeology and American Studies were first offered. Further programmes in Drama, Design & Technology and Environmental and Social Issues followed in the 1980s, but it was only when, belatedly, the College embraced expansion in the early 1990s that CNAA approved a modular course that allowed a large number of new fields of study to grow at undergraduate level within a common regulatory framework. At the same time masters programmes were approved alongside the MEd programme. With the CNAA's demise in 1992, the College became accredited by the University of Southampton resuming a partnership broken off 18 years earlier.

When in 1995 the UK government published criteria by which Colleges could become Universities, King Alfred's under its Principal, Professor John Dickinson, set itself the target of becoming a university, by acquiring Taught and later Research Degree Awarding Powers. King Alfred's College received Taught Degree Awarding Powers in 2004, and changed its name to University College Winchester. A year later it became the University of Winchester, thus achieving the target set in 1995. Currently the University is applying for Research Degree Awarding Powers.

Current and future plans

Major redevelopment will take place in the next few years to modernise the main campus. Work is currently underway to build a "University Centre" on the site of the former refectory, at a cost of £9 million. The building will include a new Student Union and is due to open in September 2007.

Some of the buildings on the main campus are named after former staff. The Kenneth Kettle Building and The Fred Wheeler Building are two examples of this. The university also operates a small campus in Basingstoke.

The re-development of the University’s sports grounds at Bar End in Winchester is also underway after Sport England formally pledged £908,514 to complete the funding required for the project’s completion, in partnership with Winchester City Council. The new facilities at Bar End will include an Olympic standard 400m eight-lane athletics track with supporting field events, an all-weather hockey and general sports pitch, floodlighting and an extended pavilion.

Chancellorship

Mary Fagan JP the current Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire was appointed Chancellor of the university in October 2005.

Professor Paul Light, appointed in 2001 as Principal of King Alfred's College, became the first Vice Chancellor in 2005, and was succeeded in April 2006 by Professor Joy Carter.

Notable academic staff

Notable alumni

  • Martin Bashir - Television journalist.
  • Mike Bushell - BBC Television Journalist.
  • Sara Coburn - Freelance broadcaster/ event facilitator.
  • Patrick "Paddy" Falconer - UK Director, International Herald Tribune.
  • Steven Furst - Comedy Actor (Little Britain)
  • Dirk Maggs - Radio Producer.
  • Michael Rose - Musical theatre producer (Oliver!; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang etc)
  • Angus Scott - Television journalist (also Part-Time Lecturer in Journalism)

See also

References

External links

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