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Solent University

Solent University (previously Southampton Solent University) is a public college primarily based in Southampton, United Kingdom. It has about 11,000 college students. Its major campus is placed on East Park Terrace near the city centre and the maritime hub of Southampton.

Solent University college students are represented via Solent Students' Union, that's based totally on the East Park Terrace campus.[4]

History

The university's origins may be traced lower back to a private School of Art based in 1856, which subsequently have become the Southampton College of Art. Mergers with the Southampton College of Technology, and later the College of Nautical Studies at Warsash, caused the establishment of the Southampton Institute of Higher Education in 1984.

Southampton Institute have become a college on 12 July 2005, adopting the call Southampton Solent University on 15 August 2005.[5][6][6][7] Prior to 2005, Southampton Institute furnished assistance to Nottingham Trent University in its provision of commercial enterprise targeted ranges, relating to accountancy, finance and expert ACCA qualifications. Some Nottingham Trent University certificate included Southampton Institute/Solent University stamps to suggest this agreement. In 2015 the University got here to an agreement with New College of the Humanities, London whereby it will validate some of their tiers.[8] In November 2017, the Privy Council authorised the alternate of name of Southampton Solent University to Solent University, with impact from 2018.[9]

Campus

Solent University has three number one places: City, Warsash and Timsbury Lake. The City campus is inside the centre of Southampton, at the east side of East Park. This campus broadly includes the Sir James Matthews constructing, which is situated at the far side of the park.[10] Part of the Warsash School of Maritime Science and Engineering is at the jap financial institution of the Hamble River overlooking Southampton Water, even as Timsbury Lake is located in Timsbury.[11]

Plymouth Marjon University

Plymouth Marjon University, usually called Marjon is the Trading call of the University of St Mark and St John, a college based in general on a single campus on the northern edge of Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom. Formerly named University College Plymouth St Mark & St John, the institution was provided complete university reputation in 2013.[1]

The Vice-Chancellor of the college is Rob Warner who joined in March 2017.

History

Original university constructing in Chelsea

A model of the Chelsea Campus

The college's records dates lower back to the muse through the National Society (now National Society for Promoting Religious Education) of the constituent London schools of St John's College in Battersea, London (1840) and St Mark's College in Chelsea, London (1841).[3]

St Mark's College become founded upon the ideals of The Reverend Derwent Coleridge, son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, its first major: that its number one cause was to widen the instructional horizons of its college students. During the First World War, St Mark's College changed into requisitioned with the aid of the War Office to create the 2nd London General Hospital, a facility for the Royal Army Medical Corps to deal with army casualties.[4] St John's College changed into installed by using Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, together with Edward Carleton Tufnell, as a instructor schooling organization.[5]

These colleges merged in 1923, establishing a unmarried institution in Chelsea because the College of St Mark & St John. In 1973 came the circulate to Plymouth due to the university outgrowing the Chelsea campus. In 1991 the university have become affiliated to the University of Exeter, which permitted it to run undergraduate and postgraduate programmes main to degree awards of the University of Exeter, and in 2007, gained University College popularity, as the University College Plymouth St Mark & St John. It changed into awarded full university repute as Plymouth Marjon University in 2013.[1

Campus

The foremost front to the campus in Derriford, Plymouth in April 2014

The university campus several miles north of Plymouth city centre, subsequent to Derriford Hospital. Residential accommodation is supplied, with all first year college students guaranteed a place. In 2013 a main funding programme in campus centers changed into finished, with new game and workout technological know-how laboratories, considerable indoor and outdoor sports provision, theatre, media centre and song studio.

Academic profile

Rankings

National rankings

Complete (2021)[6] 127

British Government assessment

Teaching Excellence Framework[7] Silver

The university has over 70 taught programmes of take a look at. There are  schools: Faculty of Education, Enterprise & Culture and Faculty of Sport, Health & Wellbeing.

St Mary's University

St Mary's University, Twickenham, is a public university in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, in South West London. Founded in 1850, it's miles normally mentioned to be the oldest Roman Catholic college inside the United Kingdom. Formerly called St Mary’s University College, it become granted full college identify by the Privy Council on 23 January 2014. Since July 2019, the college has hosted the Mater Ecclesiae College, whose Ecclesiastical faculties enshrined seeing that 2013 within the "Bellarmine Institute" changed into delivered in after the closure of Heythrop College, University of London earlier in 2019.

He college is built on land formerly connected to Strawberry Hill House, which was at the beginning a small cottage in two or three acres (12,000 m2) of land through the River Thames. Horace Walpole, a son of the flesh presser Robert Walpole, rented the cottage in 1747 and in the end offered it. He set about reconstructing the house and adding to the land, which now amounts to round 35 acres (140,000 m2).

Walpole did now not comply with the traditional 18th-century fashion of classical constructing, but sought his idea in medieval patterns, developing a first-rate early instance of neo-Gothic structure. Some of his contemporaries imitated his layout and so this house and the concept it embodied take their area in the records of architecture as "Strawberry Hill Gothic".

By the quit of the 20 th century, Strawberry Hill House had fallen into a kingdom of disrepair, with the price of reversing its condition too considerable for the College to satisfy. The Grade One indexed constructing have been registered as a constructing at hazard with the aid of English Heritage (now Historic England) in 1996, and in August 2002 the Strawberry Hill Trust become shaped with a undertaking to repair the constructing and open it to a wider public. After the building became included in the 2004 World Monuments Fund Watch list of the sector's one hundred Most Endangered Sites and featured on the BBC Two programme Restoration, the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the Strawberry Hill Trust a £4.6 million furnish in 2005. £370,000 development funding and £1.4 million of investment from St Mary's turned into also obtained, however finance nonetheless fell short of the projected £8.2 million cost of recovery. The shortfall changed into eventually met in 2007 and in July of that yr the lease turned into transferred from the Catholic Education Service to the Trust. Restoration started in 2008 and the house became opened to the public in September 2010 following the of completion of the first section of the £nine million assignment.

Near the porter's resort is what Bridget Cherry and Sir Nikolaus Pevsner describe as an "incongruous Walpole survival without its protective flowers".[3] The Grade I listed[4] Chapel in the Wood is a lawn constructing designed in 1772 via John Chute and become finished in 1774 through Thomas Gayfere the Elder. It became restored in 1954 as a chapel to include a shrine of the Virgin Mary,[5] with new work of art and stained glass with the aid of Harry Clarke. The stained glass that Walpole housed inside it's far now at its authentic home[6] at Bexhill Church, Sussex.[3]