City University London is a
British
university based in Northampton Square
, Islington
, London
. The
university has a research experience of over 100 years and has
often been highly ranked for its graduate employability and
graduate salaries. The University's mission, as outlined in its
Strategy, is to "lead London in education, research and knowledge
transfer for businesses and the professions".
History
The City
University (known as City University London) traces its origin to
the Northampton Institute, established in 1894, and named after the
Marquess of
Northampton, who donated the land on which the Institute was
built, between Northampton
Square and St John Street in Islington. The Institute was established to provide
for the education and welfare of the local population. It was
constituted under the City of London Parochial Charities Act
(1883), with the objective of "the promotion of the industrial
skill, general knowledge, health and well-being of young men and
women belonging to the poorer classes".
Originally there were six departments:
- Mechanical Engineering and Metal Trades
- Artistic Crafts
- Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
- Horology (the science of time and art
of clock-making)
- Electro-Chemistry
- Domestic Economy and Women's Trades
In 1903-04 a separate Technical
Optics
department was established.
In 1909 the first students qualified for University of London BSc
degrees in Engineering as internal students. Since 1909 the
Institute had been involved in
aeronautics education, and in 2009 the School of
Engineering and Mathematical Sciences celebrated the
centenary of aeronautics at City.
In 1908 the Institute's swimming pool was used for the
Olympic games.
The Institute was designated a "College of Advanced Technology" in
1957.
In 1961 the Institute's involvement in
Information Science began with the
introduction of a course on "Collecting and Communicating
Scientific Knowledge".
In 1966 City received its
Royal
Charter, becoming
The City University to reflect the
institution's close links with the City of London.
In 1971 the
Apollo 15 astronauts visited
City University London and presented the Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Tait, with a piece of
heat shield from
the Apollo 15
rocket.
Organisation
Northampton Square in front of the
main university building
The Chancellor of the University is the
Lord Mayor of the City of
London ex officio. For a number of
years, students have taken part in the annual
Lord Mayor's Show, representing the
University in one of the country's largest and liveliest parades.
The day-to-day running of the university is the responsibility of
the
Vice-Chancellor. The current
acting Vice-Chancellor is Professor
Julius Weinberg
The University is organised into seven schools:
Teaching and research ratings
UK University Rankings]]
In the 2008
Research
Assessment Exercise (RAE), the University rose to a ranking of
45, up 14 places since the previous RAE in 2001 when it was ranked
at 59, according to
Times Higher
Education analysis of
HEFCE's (Higher
Education Funding Council for England) RAE data, from 159
universities or colleges.
Courses
The University offers
Bachelor's,
Master's, and
Doctoral degrees as
well as certificates and diplomas at both undergraduate and
postgraduate level. More than two thirds of City's programmes are
recognised by the appropriate
professional bodies such as the
BCS,
BPS,
CILIP,
Institute of Civil
Engineers etc. in recognition of the high standards of
relevance to the professions. The University also has an online
careers network where over 2,000 former students offer practical
help to current students.
The
City Law
School
offers courses for undergraduates, postgraduates
and professional courses leading to qualification as a solicitor or
barrister, as well as continuing professional development.
Its Legal Practice Course has the highest quality rating from the
Solicitors Regulation
Authority.
Since 1976 City has been home to a centre for the education of
journalists, the highly-regarded
Department of
Journalism. It has the UK's first chair in reporting, the
Anthony Sampson professorship.
Partnerships, collaborations and spin-out companies
Simfonec
Simfonec was launched in March 2003 by the
Department of Trade and
Industry (DTI).
Simfonec was created through four of London's
leading universities (Royal Veterinary College
, King's College London
, Queen Mary, University of
London
and City University London) as a collaborative
Science Enterprise Centre (SEC) for the exploitation and transfer
of knowledge, ideas and resources among three key sectors -
academic, financial and Small and Medium Enterprises
(SMEs).Simfonec encourages the development of an
entrepreneurial outlook amongst researchers in science and
technology and orchestrates the delivery of science ideas to the
commercial marketplace.
Willis Research Network
In
September 2006, City joined the Willis Research Network (WRN), a
major, long-term partnership between leading international
scientific institutions (including the universities of Bristol
, Cambridge
, Durham
and Imperial College London
) and the global insurance broker, Willis Group Holdings. The
purpose of the network is to evaluate the frequency, severity and
impact of catastrophes such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and
terrorism.
CETL
City
University London and Queen Mary, University of
London were awarded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and
Learning (CETL) status by the Higher Education
Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in recognition of their
work in skills training for 3,000 students across six healthcare
professions.
LCACE
London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange
is a consortium of nine universities. It was established in 2004 to
foster collaboration and to promote and support the exchange of
knowledge between the consortium’s partners and London’s arts and
cultural sectors.
The nine institutions involved are: University
of the Arts London
; Birkbeck, University of
London
; City University London
; The Courtauld Institute of
Art
; Goldsmiths, University of
London; Guildhall School of Music
& Drama; King’s College London
; Queen Mary, University of
London and Royal Holloway, University of
London
.
Hanover Research Council
City University London becomes the first UK member of the Hanover
Research Council (HRC) - a Washington DC based research firm
serving more than 17 Industries and over 100 American
higher education institutions.
City of London
The
University has excellent links with businesses in the City of
London
.City University London has also joined
forces with other universities such as Queen
Mary and the Institute of Education
(both part of the University of London) with which it
jointly delivers several leading degree programmes.
City Technology plc
The University is the birthplace of City Technology plc (an
LSE listed spin-out of City
University London), the world's leading manufacturer of fuel-cell
gas sensors used in worker safety, automotive, medical and
emissions monitoring applications. Part of
Honeywell (USA) since March 2006.
Campus
The main City University building in
Northampton Square.
The
University has sites throughout London, with the main campus
located at Northampton
Square in Islington, close to the busy Upper Street
area.
Other academic sites are:
The
School of Community and Health
Sciences
, is geographically the largest school with sites
at:
In 2000 the University embarked on a major overhaul of university
buildings across all sites:
2000–2002
- Following a donation from the Sir John Cass's Foundation, a
multi-million pound building, Bunhill Row, was built for the Sir
John Cass Business School.
- A new Research Centre for Energy and the Environment was
completed in 2001/02. One of the very few of its type worldwide,
the Centre boasts some of the most advanced engine research
facilities in Europe.
- Construction of the Fight for Sight Optometry Clinic - a new
£5m facility dedicated to optometry teaching, clinical practice and
research.
The Grade II listed College
Building.
2004–2006
- A £23m landmark building to house the School of Social Sciences
and the Department of Language and Communication Science opened in
2004. The building uses the latest construction ideas for
low-energy design and includes computing and experimental
laboratories.
- Accommodation at One Canada
Square
was acquired in 2006 for Cass Business School's
Executive Education programme.
- The reconstruction and redevelopment of the University's
Grade II listed College Building
(following a fire in 2001) was completed in July 2006. It houses a
new high-tech Human Computer
Interaction Design lab, supported by The Vodafone UK
Foundation.
- In 2006, the Department of Radiography gained a brand-new
purpose-built clinical skills suite. The suite is equipped with
some of the most up-to-date imaging and radiotherapy equipment
available; the Department claims this to be the best-equipped
radiography clinical skills suite in England
2007–2008
- In 2007 City's School of Arts received a £10m building
refurbishment. The project ran until autumn 2008 and saw the
complete redevelopment of parts of the College Building.
- A brand new Students' Union venue opened in October 2008 called
TEN squared. It provides a hub to socialise in during the
day between lectures and hosts a wide range of evening
entertainment including club nights, society events and quiz
nights.
- In September 2007 many classrooms were installed with cutting
edge classroom technology including touch-screen control, video
conferencing software and high-quality audio to increase the focus
of student generated input.
Notable academics and alumni
Academics
Alumni
Arts, science and academia
- L. Bruce Archer - British mechanical engineer and Professor of Design Research at the Royal
College of Art
- John Brignell - former professor of Industrial Instrumentation, science
author
- Andrea
Christofidou - senior lecturer of philosophy, University of Oxford
- George Daniels - Horologist,
regarded as the greatest watchmaker of modern times and inventor of
co-axial escapement
- Jerry Fishenden - technologist,
currently National Technology Officer for the UK
- Julia
Gomelskaya - Ukrainian
music composer
- Steven Haberman - professor of
Actuarial science at City
University
- David Hirsh - Academic and
sociologist
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Indian
Muslim poet, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded as among the greatest in
modern times
- John Loder -
sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern
Studios
, as well as a former member of EXIT
- Sharon Maguire - director of
Bridget Jones's
Diary
- Rhodri Marsden - Journalist,
musician and blogger;
columnist for The Independent
- Robin Milner - Computer Scientist and recipient of the
1991 ACM
Turing Award
- Ebrahim Moosa -
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of the Center for Study of Muslim
Networks at Duke
University
- John Palmer
- instrumental and electroacustic music composer
- Mark Pawson - English artist,
creator of the Die-Cut Plug Wiring Diagram
Book
- Ziauddin Sardar - Academic and
scholar of Islamic issues, Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights
Commission
Government, politics and society
Business and finance
- Brendan Barber - General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
- Jonathan Breeze - Founder and
CEO of Jet Republic, private jet airline company in Europe
- William Castell - Chairman of
the Wellcome Trust and a Director of
General Electric and BP, former CEO of Amersham
plc
- Rod Clarke - Former Chief Engineer,
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, Ontario, Canada; Writer and
engineering historian
- Peter Cullum -
British entrepreneur
- David Essex - Chairman of Bemrose
Group
- James J. Greco - CEO of Bruegger's Enterprises Inc.
- Sir Stelios
Haji-Ioannou - Founder of easyGroup
- Ankush Johar - Director, Wireless Federation, a Wireless
Industry Research Conglomerate and founder of MobileTree
Limited
- Bob Kelly - CEO of Bank of New York Mellon, former
CFO of Mellon Financial Corporation
and Wachovia Corporation
- Muhtar Kent - CEO of The Coca-Cola Company. Formerly,
President and COO of Coca-Cola International and
Executive Vice President of The Coca-Cola Company
- Dick Olver -
Chairman of BAE
Systems
, member of the Board of Directors at Reuters
- Syed Ali Raza - President and
Chairman of the National Bank
of Pakistan
- Durmuş
Yılmaz - Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey
- David Woodward - CEO, Aabar
Petroleum Investments Company (Aabar), former President of BP Azerbaijan
- Keith Tozzi - Chairman of Concateno
Plc, manufacturer of clinical diagnostic products
- Kiran Rao - Executive Vice-President,
marketing and contracts, for European plane-maker Airbus SAS
Media and entertainment
- Eric Ambler - famous novelist and
Hollywood screenwriter; known as a major influence on writers and
an inventor of the modern thriller genre
- Kamal Ahmed - Journalist; former
exec editor, The Observer
- Samira Ahmed - Channel 4 Newsreader, covered the O.J. Simpson
murder case for the
BBC
- Catherine Bennett
- Journalist for The
Guardian
- Alisdair MacRae Birch -
Jazz guitarist, bassist, and arranger.
- Jeremiah
Birnbaum - American
singer/songwriter
and band member of The Ramblers
- Joanna Blythman - Non-fiction
writer, Britain's leading investigative food journalist
- Ellie Crisell - BBC Presenter
- Imogen Edwards-Jones -
Novelist
- Michael Fish - BBC weatherman
- Adam Fleming - CBBC reporter
- Alex Graham - Chairman of PACT
- Gillian Joseph - Sky News Presenter
- Kirsty Lang - BBC
Presenter and journalist
- Ellie Levenson - Freelance
Journalist and Author
- William Lewis -
Journalist and editor of the Daily
Telegraph
- Donal MacIntyre - Investigative
journalist
- Sharon Maguire - Writer and
Director, directed Bridget Jones's Diary
- Rhodri Marsden - Journalist,
musician and blogger;
columnist for The Independent
- Sharon Mascall
- Journalist, broadcaster and writer; lecturer at the University
of South Australia
- Dermot Murnaghan - Presenter on
Sky News
- Tiff Needell - Grand Prix driver,
Presenter of Fifth Gear on
Five
- Bridgid Nzekwu - Channel 4 Newsreader
- Raj Persaud - British consultant
psychiatrist, broadcaster, and author on psychiatry
- Linda Papadopoulos -
Psychologist, appearing occasionally on TV
- Richard Preston - Novelist
- Sophie Raworth - Newsreader,
presenter on BBC One O'Clock
News
- Joel Rubin - World-renown
klezmer clarinetist
- Ian Saville - British magician
- Bhaskar Bhattacharyya -
Writer, Film Maker and Indian Film Consultant to British
Television
- Barbara Serra - News presenter for Al
Jazeera from London
- Grub Smith - Television presenter and
journalist for FHM
- Abi Titmuss -
English
television
personality, glamour model and
occasional actress
- Laura Topham - Evening Standard Columnist
- L C Tyler - Comic crime writer
- Jo Whiley - BBC
Disc jockey
- Gary Younge - Guardian Columnist
Vice-Chancellors
References
- "Profile: City University", Times Online
External links
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and Smithfield, London
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; Shadow Secretary of State
for Education and Skills
Liberal Party
politician
electoral district of
Bright
, first Governor-General of
Pakistan
Politician and Businessman, current Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory
Commission, former Vice-Governor of the China Development Bank
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