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The University of Bradford (est. 1966) is a university in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Formed from a technical college in 1966, there are three campuses: the main campus, located on Richmond Road, the School of Health, on Trinity Road, but due to move to the main campus in Summer 2011 School of Health New Build, and the School of Management, at Emm Lane. According to The Times Good University Guide 2008, the University of Bradford is the 48th best university in the country. It has roughly 12,000 students enrolled, of which almost a third are mature students. Almost 25% of students are international students, and come from over 100 countries. 92% of the University of Bradford domestic students come from the state sector.
The University of Bradford was the first university in the UK to establish a Department of Peace Studies in 1973, and it is currently ranked first in the world for the subject. Its School of Management is also ranked third best in the UK. The University of Bradford is currently undergoing a £79 million redevelopment programme, to improve both its building and its accommodation, as well as its facilities for disabled students, who compose almost 6% of the total student population.
The University of Bradford has its origins in the Bradford Schools of Weaving, Design and Building dating from 1860 which in 1882 became the Bradford Technical College. In 1957, the Bradford Institute of Technology, was formed as a "College of Advanced Technology" to take on the running of higher education courses. Construction of the Richmond Building, the largest building on campus, began in 1963. The Horton Building and Chesham building were subsequently added, on the opposite side of Richmond Road. The Charter of Incorporation was granted in 1966, to create the University of Bradford; the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson became the University of Bradford first chancellor.
Expansion of the main campus continued in the 1980s, with the addition of the Library and Computer Centre, Communal Building, Pemberton Building and Ashfield Building. An extension to the Library and Computer Centre was completed in the mid-1990s. In 1996 the University of Bradford joined with the former Bradford and Airedale College of Health, which then became the School of Health Studies within the University of Bradford. The Department of Physics was closed in the 1980s. The Department of Mathematics was closed to new undergraduates in 1997, with the remaining postgraduate activities and lecture support being integrated into the Department of Computing as the Mathematics Unit. The Department of Mathematics has since been reopened within the School of Computing, Informatics and Media.
The Bradford Race Riots of 2001 lead to a sharp fall in applications to the University of Bradford, but the situation has improved since and in 2005 undergraduate applications from home students was up by 35% on the previous year. In 2005, a £79 million redevelopment of the campus was announced, and a project to create the world's first 'Ecoversity' was formed. The University of Bradford would strive to reduce its environmental footprint by reducing waste and using sustainable materials, and would imbue sustainability into everything that the institution does, including teaching. As part of this, Bradford became a Fairtrade University in December 2006.
Redevelopment of the sports facilities was completed Summer 2009, and a new student village called "The Green" is being constructed which is due to open in September 2011. Of the existing halls owned by the University of Bradford, those on the Laisteridge Lane site were sold to Corporate Residential Management in 2005, and Shearbridge Green Halls were demolished in December 2006. Longside Lane halls and Kirkstone Halls were demolished during the first half of 2009.
The motto which appears on most current University of Bradford publications is Making Knowledge Work, which relates to the institution's focus on courses that lead to employment. The University of Bradford announced in June 2007 it was to use this phrase as a trademark. However, the motto inscribed beneath the official coat of arms is Give Invention Light, which is taken from Shakespeare's Sonnet 38. It has also used the slogans Be Inspired and Confronting Inequality, Celebrating Diversity in recent promotional material.
In 2005 University of Bradford was ranked 7th, for graduate placement, by The Times Good University Guide; with the nursing and a number of ancillary medical courses placing 100% of their students, within 6 months of graduation.
The current chancellor is the former world-class cricketer and Pakistani politician Imran Khan, who was installed on 7 December 2005. He took over from Baroness Lockwood, who had served since 1997. Prior chancellors have included, in reverse order, Trevor Holdsworth (1992–1997), John Harvey-Jones (1986–1991) and Harold Wilson (later Lord Wilson of Rievaulx) (1966–1985).
The current Vice-Chancellor (as of 1 June 2007) is Professor Mark Cleary. He joined the University of Bradford from the University of Plymouth where he was the Acting Vice-Chancellor (Academic). He was due to start in his new position following Professor Chris Taylor's retirement on the 1st May. However due to the sudden death of Professor Roland Levinsky, the vice-chancellor of Plymouth, his appointment was delayed until the summer. He succeeded Professor Chris Taylor who held the post from 1 October 2001 to 30 April 2007, when he retired from the University of Bradford. Taylor took over from Professor Colin Bell, who was Vice-Chancellor between 1998 and 2001 and who was later Vice-Chancellor at the University of Stirling. Bell died suddenly in April 2003 and the University of Bradford now holds an annual memorial lecture in his name discussing widening participation.
The Bradford School of Management is located 3 miles (4.8 km) away from the main campus on a 13-acre (53,000 m2) parkland campus, Emm Lane. It teaches courses in business, finance, accountancy, management and marketing. As of 2005 the department commenced teaching an accredited LLB Law degree. It has a number of Masters degrees, MBA programmes and doctoral programmes running alongside undergraduate programmes. University of Bradford School of Management works with organisations such as Asda, the BBC and Emirates, as well as small businesses, providing management development, MBAs and research and graduate links. Its MBAs and undergraduates have some of the highest employment rates of any business school.
The University of Bradford is extremely diverse, with significant ethnic minority, mature, disabled, and international student populations. In March 2006, four University of Bradford students were arrested and detained under the Terrorism Act 2000, on suspicion of terrorism-related offences. In 2007, all four were tried and found guilty of possessing material for terrorist purposes. This was quashed on appeal in February 2008 on the grounds that there was no proof of terrorist intent.
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The address of University of Bradford is Richmond Road, Bradford, BD7 1DP.
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