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Middlesex University 

Middlesex University
Established: 1973
Chancellor: Lord Sheppard of Didgemere
Vice-Chancellor: Michael Driscoll
Staff: 1,800
Students: 23,290[1]
Undergraduates: 17,755[1]
Postgraduates: 5,535[1]
Other students: 5 FE[1]
Location: London, England
Affiliations: AMBA
EUA
Website: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/

Middlesex University is a university in north London, England, located in the historic county boundaries of Middlesex (from which it takes its name).

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History

The history of Middlesex University began in the late 1880s, when two educational institutions opened their doors in north London - St Katherine's College and the Hornsey School of Arts and Crafts. Both would become part of Middlesex Polytechnic, which was founded in 1973. Middlesex was awarded the title 'University' - by Royal Assent - in 1992.

The institution was created in 1973 when Enfield College of Technology, Hendon College of Technology and Hornsey College of Art, joined to create Middlesex Polytechnic. The College of All Saints (St Katherine's College, founded 1878, uniting with Berridge House in 1964 to form All Saints) and Trent Park College joined in 1978 and in 1992 it became Middlesex University. In 2005, Middlesex University opened an overseas campus in Dubai, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Business, Computing Science, Media Studies and Psychology.

Key dates in Middlesex history

  • 1878 - St Katherine's College opens in Tottenham and is in use for more than a century
  • 1882 - Hornsey School of Arts and Crafts founded
  • 1901 - Ponders End Technical Institute (still the home of the University's Social Sciences programmes) begins
  • 1939 - Hendon Technical Institute opens in the Burroughs, Hendon.
  • 1947 - Trent Park College of Education opens to train necessary teachers in the post-war period.
  • 1962 - New College of Speech and Drama opens
  • 1973 - Middlesex Polytechnic was formed
  • 1992 - Middlesex University was formed
  • 2008 - The Enfield campus will close in summer 2008

Campuses

The University is spread across 5 sites. All campuses are located in North London. Each campus has a quite distinct character and some of the campuses are important architecturally, especially Trent Park.

The university is planning to consolidate many of its activities onto the Hendon campus over the next few years.

Hendon

Hendon Campus
Hendon Campus
Library in Hendon
Library in Hendon

Hendon was known as the Hendon College of Technology. Today's main (or college) building was built in the neo-Georgian style by H.W. Burchett and opened in 1939. It has been refurbished in a £40 million project, which includes the addition of a glass covered central court yard. The college was extended in 1955 and in 1969 a new refectory and engineering block (the Williams Building) was added. In 2004 The new Learning Resource Centre, The Sheppard Library opened on the site. Hendon also has a sports club, known as The Burroughs for students and staff which has one of the few real tennis courts in the UK. Middlesex University Business School, the School of Computing Science Home movie clipand the bulk of the School of Health and Social Science are located in Hendon.

The campus in Hendon is expanding dramatically over the next five to ten years using a number of London Borough of Barnet office buildings including the current Town Hall in The Burroughs as well as the construction of new buildings including a new state of the art Science Building which opens in September 2008. The research centres for biomedical science, risk and environmental sciences are based here. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/research/centres/biomed/index.asp

Enfield

The campus closed in July 2008, and the majority of departments located here moved to the extended Hendon campus and some to the Archway Campus shared with UCL. Enfield campus was originally the Enfield College of Technology, founded in 1901 as Ponders End Technical Institute.

Trent Park

Mansion at Trent Park
Mansion at Trent Park

See Trent Park for a short history of the campus

Trent Park is a palatial mansion set in a 4 km² country park, originally a fourteenth-century hunting ground of Henry IV. Performing arts, teacher education, humanities, product design, engineering, modern European philosophy, critical theory and art theory/aesthetics are based here. It is home to the Gubbay and Sassoon halls of residence. The university had ambitious plans to redevelop the site, however, these were rejected by Enfield council. The Flood Hazard Research Centre moved here from the closed Enfield campus in July 2008.

Cat Hill

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Hornsey College of Art
Hornsey College of Art

Cat Hill Campus is located in Cockfosters. It was originally the illustrious Hornsey College of Art, founded in 1880. In the late 1970s the campus was extended to become the Faculty of Art & Design of the then Middlesex Polytechnic. Today, art and design, cinematics and electronic arts are located at Cat Hill. The Cat Hill Campus houses MoDA, the University's Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture and the National Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive. The campus houses the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, [1] named after John Lansdown which runs a variety of graduate and undergraduate degrees in interactive media and electronic arts including MA Design for Interactive Media which teaches interaction design, usablity, information architecture, game design and other digital disciplines.

The photograph is not of Cat Hill Campus, but of the old campus for the Hornsey College of Art, which is in Hornsey, several miles south of the current campus.

Hospital campuses

Royal Free Hospital
Royal Free Hospital

Additionally, the School of Health and Social Sciences occupies the Archway and Hospitals campuses operating from four sites at the Royal Free Hospital, Whittington Hospital (jointly owned and in development with University College London), Chase Farm and North Middlesex hospitals.

Dubai

In 2004, Middlesex University opened an overseas campus in Dubai, situated in the Knowledge Village Dubai. In Dubai, Middlesex currently offers undergraduate degrees in Business Administration, Business Information Systems, Information Technology, Communications and Media, Psychology and Tourism. It also offers Masters degrees in Marketing, Human Resource Management and Management, and an MBA.

Former campuses

Tottenham

The campus was closed in Summer 2005, and its programmes of study have been moved to the university's other campuses. The Tottenham campus started life as St Katharine's College, one of the first British teacher training colleges in 1878, later to become the College of All Saints - a Church of England college of higher education and a constituent college of the Institute of Education, University of London, for whose degrees it taught. The name change was a result of the 1964 union of St Katharine's with Berridge House, Hampstead, on the Tottenham site. The college expanded in the 1960s, although much of the campus retained its Victorian architecture. After the union with Middlesex Polytechnic, the campus was home to humanities and cultural studies, business studies, law, sociology and women's studies, all of which have been moved to other campuses. The College of All Saints itself continues to this day in the All Saints Educational Trust.

Bounds Green

Bounds Green campus, home to the Engineering and Information Technology schools was sold to a residential developer in December 2003. It was used extensively for location shooting for the 1989 film, Wilt.

Schools of Middlesex University

Middlesex University is divided into four Schools:

  • School of Arts and Education
  • Middlesex University Business School, famous for Professor John Grahl's work
  • School of Computing Science
  • School of Health and Social Sciences

Students

Middlesex University has a very diverse student body, around 22,000 strong, many of whom are mature students. Around 5,000 students are from overseas, coming from more than 100 countries (2004). The application/places ratio is 6.1:1 (2002)citation needed. The University also has student exchange links with 100 colleges and universities around the world.

Students' Union

As of 2005, Middlesex University Students' Union (MUSU[2]) is undergoing a period of large-scale change. Academic year 2004-05 saw the university management force MUSU, against the wishes and votes of MUSU members, to give up its commercial areas, i.e. shops, bars, cafeterias and entertainments. These have now been taken over by a company called Scolarest, a major player in catering facilities to UK educational institutions, who already handle catering facilities for the university proper. This situation has arisen due to a dispute over a £250,000 debt owed by MUSU to the university.

MUSU has four sabbatical officers, each with a specific portfolio, and who also represent the students on their base campus. MUSU runs a number of student lead entertainment and communication activities under the name of MUD (Middlesex University Direct). This includes a radio station (MUD Radio) and a student magazine (MUD Magazine), which is published six times a year and is available to students for free.

In 1981 Union president Nick Harvey joined protests outside Rochester Row police station after six Irish students were detained without charge under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. That year student John Kennedy stood in the Crosby by-election to high-light the case of seven students suspended from the Polytechnic after an occupation demanding nursery facilities. election leaflet


Quality, Awards and Rankings

The university has been awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize three times and has also won a Queen's Award for Enterprise (for its international work). Like many universities, its league table placing varies depending on what is being measured by journalists.

In 2006, the University was ranked second in a re-assessment of teaching quality in all English universities. The Times Higher Education Supplement of 17 November 2006 reported on how the scores for each university, as marked by the Quality Assurance Agency, had been “adjusted to remove the link with research” and form a league table which had post-1992 universities performing strongly.

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) [3] ranks Middlesex University Business School among the top 20 international business schools in the world, ahead of Oxford and Cambridge.

Middlesex University Business School is also rated as a "centre of excellence" by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the first university in the UK to offer courses accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as well as accredited by the Association of MBAs.

The University is home to two HEFCE 'Centres for Excellence in Learning and Teaching' -one in Work Based Learning - one in Mental Health and Social Work.

As of The Guardian's University Guide 2008, out of all the universities ranked (excluding specialist universities), it received 37.88 out of 100, [2]

The Independent newspaper league table 2009 for universities ranked Middlesex on the 82nd position.

Notable alumni

Famous alumni include:

Notable academics

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References

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  1. ^ 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 2008-04-11.
  2. ^ Guardian Unlimited | Education

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