Brighton and Sussex Medical School
The University of Brighton is a UK university of 20,700 students and 2,500 staff based on five campuses in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings on the south coast of England. Its roots can be traced back to 1859 when the Brighton School of Art was opened in the Brighton Royal Pavilion.
The university focuses on professional education, with the majority of degrees awarded also leading to professional qualifications in areas including Pharmacy, Engineering and Information Technology.
In 2012 the University of Brighton came third in the People & Planet's Green League table of UK universities ranked by environmental and ethical performance.[5]
History[edit]
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Brighton School of Art opened its doors to more than fifty pupils and was situated in a room off the kitchens of the Royal Pavilion
1859: The Brighton School of Art opens its doors to its first 110 students. The school's first home is in rooms adjacent to the kitchens of the Royal Pavilion.
1876: The School of Art moves to its own building in Grand Parade. The Prime Minister, William Gladstone, witnesses the laying of the new building's foundation stone.
1897: The Municipal School of Science and Technology opens in Brighton with 600 enrolled students.
1898: The Chelsea School opens in London as an institution training women and girls in physical education.
1909: The Municipal Day Training College, forerunner of the School of Education, opens in Richmond Terrace, Brighton.
1949: The Chelsea School celebrates its fiftieth anniversary by moving to Eastbourne.
1960s: Construction of new buildings for Brighton College of Technology begin in Moulsecoomb.
1970: The School of Art and Brighton College of Technology merge to form Brighton Polytechnic.
1976: Brighton College of Education (the teacher training college) merges with Brighton Polytechnic, giving the polytechnic a campus at Falmer.
1979: The East Sussex College of Higher Education, including the Chelsea School, merges with Brighton Polytechnic, creating a campus in Eastbourne.
1992: Along with many other polytechnics Brighton is granted university status and becomes the University of Brighton under the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992.
1994: The Sussex and Kent Institute of Nursing and Midwifery becomes part of the university, increasing the number of students based in Eastbourne.
2003: The Brighton and Sussex Medical School opens as a partnership between the University of Brighton, the University of Sussex and the Universities Hospitals Trust. It is the first medical school in the south-east outside London.
2004: University Centre Hastings is opened, managed by the University of Brighton.[6]
2011: The University of Brighton's International College opens on the Brighton campus, to provide international students with preparatory academic tuition for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
2011: The University of Brighton Doctoral College was launched to support postgraduate research students. Dedicated research study centres are established on the Eastbourne and each of the three Brighton campuses.[7]
Campuses and facilities[edit]
The university has five campuses. Three in Brighton; at Grand Parade, Moulsecoomb, and Falmer, and one in Eastbourne and one in Hastings.[8]
Grand Parade, Brighton[edit]
Grand Parade campus in Brighton city centre is home to the Faculty of Arts, the University of Brighton gallery and Sallis Benney Theatre.[9] The faculty's archives include the University of Brighton Design Archives, which houses collections from the Design Council and a range of other British and global design organisations, and the moving image archive Screen Archive South East.[10] Staff and students have access to the specialist humanities, art and design library at St Peter's House, computer pool rooms, a media centre, a restaurant and cafe.[9] The School of Architecture and Design, Schools of Arts and Media and School of Humanities are based at Grand Parade.[9]
Phoenix halls of residence provide accommodation for 298 students.[9]
Falmer, Brighton[edit]
The Checkland Building at Falmer campus opened in 2009
The Falmer campus is located approximately three miles from Brighton city centre. The Faculty of Arts (Literature, Language and Linguistics), Faculty of Health and Social Science, Faculty of Education and Sport, School of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Applied Social Science, Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research, International Health Development and Research Centre, Social Science Policy and Research Centre, School of Education, Education Research Centre, the Centre for Learning and Teaching and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School are all based on this campus.
The campus is served by a number of bus services[11] and Falmer railway station is immediately adjacent. There are also cycle lanes leading to the campus from the city centre. The campus is adjacent to the new Falmer Stadium, home to Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., which opened in 2011.
The campus includes the Great Wilkins and Paddock Field halls of residence.[12] Other facilities on the Falmer campus include a library, computer pool rooms, a restaurant and café/bar, a Students' Union cafe and a shop. Sports facilities on the campus include floodlit 3G AstroTurf pitch, netball and tennis courts, and a new sports centre which opened in October 2010. The new sports centre includes a fitness suite, two activity studios and a sports hall with six badminton courts.[13]
Student services on the Falmer campus include a careers service, counselling service, student advice service, disability and dyslexia service and chaplaincy.
Moulsecoomb, Brighton[edit]
The Moulescoomb campus is located to the north of Brighton city centre. It is the largest of the five campuses with over 8,000 students.[14] Brighton Business School, School of Architecture and Design (architecture and interior design courses), School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, School of Environment and Technology and School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences are based on Moulsecoomb campus. The University of Brighton's International College is located in the Watts building.
Facilities include Aldrich library, computer pool rooms, two restaurants and five cafes. Moulsecoomb Place halls of residence provide accommodation for 160 students. The campus is served well by bus services[11] and Moulsecoomb Station.
Eastbourne[edit]
The Eastbourne campus (also known as the Theatre of Dreams) is located at the foot of the South Downs National Park, about ten minutes walk from the seafront and twenty minutes from the pier and Eastbourne town centre. Almost 3,000 students are based here studying at The School of Sport and Service Management, School of Health Professions and The School of Nursing and Midwifery.[15]
Teaching and learning facilities at Eastbourne campus include exercise physiology laboratories, an environmental chamber, a human movement laboratory, culinary arts studio and the Leaf Hospital podiatry and physiotherapy clinic.[15] Study facilities in Eastbourne include Queenswood library, computer pool rooms, a learning technologies suite, restaurants, and a Students' Union shop. Sports facilities include a 25-metre swimming pool, sports hall, artificial outdoor pitch and dance studio.
Welkin halls of residence provides accommodation for over 350 students. The campus is served by a number of bus services and is in walking distance of Eastbourne railway station. Bike storage is provided on campus.
Hastings[edit]
The University of Brighton campus in Hastings is three minutes south of the station and about the same distance from the seafront and the shopping district. Students study applied social science, broadcast media, business and management, community history, computing, education, English literature, environmental biology, human biology, mathematics, media studies and sociology.[16]
Campus facilities include TV and radio studios, a library, computer pool rooms, a cafe and a Students' Union office. The university's student-run radio station, Burst Radio, is based on the Hastings campus.
Robert Tressell Halls provide accommodation for 65 students. The Priory Square building opened in 2012 and provides a 160 seat lecture theatre and a suite of laboratories for science courses.[17] The Priory Square building was formally opened on Monday 2 December 2013.[18]
Libraries[edit]
The university's libraries (with 1,400 work places) contain over half a million books, journals and audio-visual materials and, additionally, have subscriptions to around 8,000 electronic journals. In a year, there are around one million loans – and, on an average day, over 6000 student visits. Combined, the university's libraries are open for 250 hours per week, with each library typically open between 55 and 68 hours per week, including evenings and weekends.[19] The university has six libraries spread around its campuses.
The University of Brighton is a UK university of 20,700 students and 2,500 staff based on five campuses in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings on the south coast of England. Its roots can be traced back to 1859 when the Brighton School of Art was opened in the Brighton Royal Pavilion.
The university focuses on professional education, with the majority of degrees awarded also leading to professional qualifications in areas including Pharmacy, Engineering and Information Technology.
In 2012 the University of Brighton came third in the People & Planet's Green League table of UK universities ranked by environmental and ethical performance.[5]
History[edit]
This section is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. You can help by converting this section to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is available. (September 2013)
Brighton School of Art opened its doors to more than fifty pupils and was situated in a room off the kitchens of the Royal Pavilion
1859: The Brighton School of Art opens its doors to its first 110 students. The school's first home is in rooms adjacent to the kitchens of the Royal Pavilion.
1876: The School of Art moves to its own building in Grand Parade. The Prime Minister, William Gladstone, witnesses the laying of the new building's foundation stone.
1897: The Municipal School of Science and Technology opens in Brighton with 600 enrolled students.
1898: The Chelsea School opens in London as an institution training women and girls in physical education.
1909: The Municipal Day Training College, forerunner of the School of Education, opens in Richmond Terrace, Brighton.
1949: The Chelsea School celebrates its fiftieth anniversary by moving to Eastbourne.
1960s: Construction of new buildings for Brighton College of Technology begin in Moulsecoomb.
1970: The School of Art and Brighton College of Technology merge to form Brighton Polytechnic.
1976: Brighton College of Education (the teacher training college) merges with Brighton Polytechnic, giving the polytechnic a campus at Falmer.
1979: The East Sussex College of Higher Education, including the Chelsea School, merges with Brighton Polytechnic, creating a campus in Eastbourne.
1992: Along with many other polytechnics Brighton is granted university status and becomes the University of Brighton under the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992.
1994: The Sussex and Kent Institute of Nursing and Midwifery becomes part of the university, increasing the number of students based in Eastbourne.
2003: The Brighton and Sussex Medical School opens as a partnership between the University of Brighton, the University of Sussex and the Universities Hospitals Trust. It is the first medical school in the south-east outside London.
2004: University Centre Hastings is opened, managed by the University of Brighton.[6]
2011: The University of Brighton's International College opens on the Brighton campus, to provide international students with preparatory academic tuition for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
2011: The University of Brighton Doctoral College was launched to support postgraduate research students. Dedicated research study centres are established on the Eastbourne and each of the three Brighton campuses.[7]
Campuses and facilities[edit]
The university has five campuses. Three in Brighton; at Grand Parade, Moulsecoomb, and Falmer, and one in Eastbourne and one in Hastings.[8]
Grand Parade, Brighton[edit]
Grand Parade campus in Brighton city centre is home to the Faculty of Arts, the University of Brighton gallery and Sallis Benney Theatre.[9] The faculty's archives include the University of Brighton Design Archives, which houses collections from the Design Council and a range of other British and global design organisations, and the moving image archive Screen Archive South East.[10] Staff and students have access to the specialist humanities, art and design library at St Peter's House, computer pool rooms, a media centre, a restaurant and cafe.[9] The School of Architecture and Design, Schools of Arts and Media and School of Humanities are based at Grand Parade.[9]
Phoenix halls of residence provide accommodation for 298 students.[9]
Falmer, Brighton[edit]
The Checkland Building at Falmer campus opened in 2009
The Falmer campus is located approximately three miles from Brighton city centre. The Faculty of Arts (Literature, Language and Linguistics), Faculty of Health and Social Science, Faculty of Education and Sport, School of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Applied Social Science, Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research, International Health Development and Research Centre, Social Science Policy and Research Centre, School of Education, Education Research Centre, the Centre for Learning and Teaching and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School are all based on this campus.
The campus is served by a number of bus services[11] and Falmer railway station is immediately adjacent. There are also cycle lanes leading to the campus from the city centre. The campus is adjacent to the new Falmer Stadium, home to Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., which opened in 2011.
The campus includes the Great Wilkins and Paddock Field halls of residence.[12] Other facilities on the Falmer campus include a library, computer pool rooms, a restaurant and café/bar, a Students' Union cafe and a shop. Sports facilities on the campus include floodlit 3G AstroTurf pitch, netball and tennis courts, and a new sports centre which opened in October 2010. The new sports centre includes a fitness suite, two activity studios and a sports hall with six badminton courts.[13]
Student services on the Falmer campus include a careers service, counselling service, student advice service, disability and dyslexia service and chaplaincy.
Moulsecoomb, Brighton[edit]
The Moulescoomb campus is located to the north of Brighton city centre. It is the largest of the five campuses with over 8,000 students.[14] Brighton Business School, School of Architecture and Design (architecture and interior design courses), School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, School of Environment and Technology and School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences are based on Moulsecoomb campus. The University of Brighton's International College is located in the Watts building.
Facilities include Aldrich library, computer pool rooms, two restaurants and five cafes. Moulsecoomb Place halls of residence provide accommodation for 160 students. The campus is served well by bus services[11] and Moulsecoomb Station.
Eastbourne[edit]
The Eastbourne campus (also known as the Theatre of Dreams) is located at the foot of the South Downs National Park, about ten minutes walk from the seafront and twenty minutes from the pier and Eastbourne town centre. Almost 3,000 students are based here studying at The School of Sport and Service Management, School of Health Professions and The School of Nursing and Midwifery.[15]
Teaching and learning facilities at Eastbourne campus include exercise physiology laboratories, an environmental chamber, a human movement laboratory, culinary arts studio and the Leaf Hospital podiatry and physiotherapy clinic.[15] Study facilities in Eastbourne include Queenswood library, computer pool rooms, a learning technologies suite, restaurants, and a Students' Union shop. Sports facilities include a 25-metre swimming pool, sports hall, artificial outdoor pitch and dance studio.
Welkin halls of residence provides accommodation for over 350 students. The campus is served by a number of bus services and is in walking distance of Eastbourne railway station. Bike storage is provided on campus.
Hastings[edit]
The University of Brighton campus in Hastings is three minutes south of the station and about the same distance from the seafront and the shopping district. Students study applied social science, broadcast media, business and management, community history, computing, education, English literature, environmental biology, human biology, mathematics, media studies and sociology.[16]
Campus facilities include TV and radio studios, a library, computer pool rooms, a cafe and a Students' Union office. The university's student-run radio station, Burst Radio, is based on the Hastings campus.
Robert Tressell Halls provide accommodation for 65 students. The Priory Square building opened in 2012 and provides a 160 seat lecture theatre and a suite of laboratories for science courses.[17] The Priory Square building was formally opened on Monday 2 December 2013.[18]
Libraries[edit]
The university's libraries (with 1,400 work places) contain over half a million books, journals and audio-visual materials and, additionally, have subscriptions to around 8,000 electronic journals. In a year, there are around one million loans – and, on an average day, over 6000 student visits. Combined, the university's libraries are open for 250 hours per week, with each library typically open between 55 and 68 hours per week, including evenings and weekends.[19] The university has six libraries spread around its campuses.