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THES Awards 2006 Awards29.01,32 18/9/06 1:26 pm Page 3 THE SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES Awards29.01,32 18/9/06 1:26 pm Page 2 “ Our students have the right to expect an outstanding learning experience. The Higher Education Academy supports universities and colleges in their desire to provide such an experience for a diverse student body. We support higher education institutions in promoting equality of opportunity for enhancing the disabled students. Our Subject Centres are building on resources to relate good student learning disability practice to specifi c disciplines. We offer support to institutions in many experience areas to enhance the experience they provide for overseas students, including curriculum development, the creation of learning environments for both home and overseas students, and the development of strategies for internationalising learning and teaching. The participation of overseas students adds value to the HE experience for all students. We hope they will take home a very positive message about HE in the UK. So we are delighted to join the THES in recognising and rewarding people who have made outstanding contributions in these areas.” Paul Ramsden Chief Executive The Higher Education Academy The Higher Education Academy is proud to support: Best Student Experience Outstanding Support for Students with Disabilities Outstanding Support for Overseas Students www.heacademy.ac.uk awards29.02-03 18/9/06 1:27 pm Page 1 TIMES HIGHER AWARDS 2006 commitment to scholarship will prove attractive. Its Sixth Century Chairs campaign has already resulted in 27 professorial-level appoint- ments. This is the exciting future that Rice quit Manhat- HIGHER tan for. EDUCATION KENT UNIVERSITY Kent University’s home page reads a little like a property INSTITUTION portfolio — Canterbury, Med- NOMINEES ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY way, Tonbridge, Brussels and OF THE YEAR Aberdeen University wants to Transmanche. But territorial recapture the idea of higher reach is less important for education as a scholarly com- Kent than the fact that each SPONSOR: HOBSONS munity. Looking to the past name represents a distinct “The passion students have for studying in UK might seem odd in a modern type of provision. higher education institutions never fails to knowledge economy, but for David Melville, Kent’s vice- delight and motivate me. From a business C. Duncan Rice, Aberdeen’s chancellor, claims to have perspective, these students are one of the most principal, the timing is right. coined the word “multiversity” “When we debate higher to encapsulate the strategy. demanding audiences around, and they become education, we tend to talk Robin Baker, pro vice- more demanding every year. This has created about issues such as student chancellor, explains that Kent an exciting, dynamic market to work in, pushing employability and how institu- wants to show that research all concerned to strive for excellence in every tions contribute to the econ- and teaching need not field, from initial recruitment to the quality of omy,” he says. “But there is polarise higher education. the academic delivery. We at Hobsons continue not so much talk about uni- “We could have aspired to be- versities’ role in traditional lib- come a Russell Group univer- to dedicate our expertise to improving the global eral learning and about the sity or an access institution. student experience of UK higher education and role the humanities and social But we have strengths that meeting student expectations through our sciences play in society.” can take us in all directions portfolio of services — we are delighted to be At the heart of Aberdeen’s involved in raising the profile of higher education scholarly community will be a in the UK with these awards.” £55 million landmark library, which is due to open in 2011. Katherine Dunstan, Hobsons Rice says the building, part of JUDGES: Helena Kennedy QC; a £230 million capital-building John O’Leary, editor of The Times Higher; programme, will do for Aber- Bernadette Porter, former vice-chancellor deen what the Guggenheim of Roehampton University Museum did for Bilbao. “We want the library to be a bea- con. It will be an explicit state- ment of our ambitions.” Aberdeen hopes that its What do students want from a higher institution? Recruitment How do students decide which course and which institution to attend? excellence, When do students make their decision Real results you reach the right students you want awards29.02-03 18/9/06 1:27 pm Page 2 AWARDS 2006 TIMES HIGHER if developed properly.” Sir Colin Campbell, the One of its most exciting vice-chancellor, is quick to sites is Transmanche, which praise those who have con- is billed as the only Anglo- tributed to Nottingham’s con- French higher education insti- siderable achievements. tution. Its first students, who “What brings staff in here at studied at Kent and at French We compete the weekend is self-esteem. partner universities, grad- in a sector They are hugely committed.” uated this summer. of research Nottingham was the last for- Kent has also blazed a trail eign university to open a cam- in widening participation with elites and pus in China last year before its Medway campus, near teaching- the country’s Government Chatham, which it shares with intensive banned further overseas insti- Greenwich and Canterbury gate. Our message is simple. universities, enough, but Leicester is also tutions. A week after that, it Christ Church universities as It’s an eye-catcher.” ‘ rising in the research ranks. became the first overseas uni- well as Mid-Kent College. But Leeds Met is about but we want Earlier this year, it accepted versity to open a campus in These projects are the cul- more than low fees. It plans to to do both an invitation to join the 94 Malaysia. The campuses allow mination of a decade’s work, become a regional super- Richard Taylor, Group of universities, which Nottingham to expand and to but, as Baker says: “We feel power along the model of the Leicester University represents small research- satisfy its staff and students that 2006 is our year. All the big US state university sys- intensive institutions. with exchanges abroad. strands have come together.” tems. “Whether you compare What brings Richard Taylor, Leicester’s Sir Colin says: “We have it with American state univer- staff in director of marketing, believes had about 15 or 20 applica- LEEDS METROPOLITAN sities or a Commonwealth the institution’s all-round tions a year to open cam- UNIVERSITY system, the aim is to create a here at the excellence comes from valu- puses abroad, but we have Leeds Metropolitan University system that is mutually benefi- weekend is ing teaching as well as re- turned them down. We do not has a touch of Tesco about it: cial for us, partner institutions self-esteem. search and administrative want to overstretch.” both provide a huge number and students,” Denton says. They are skills. “We see teaching, re- There is plenty to focus on of quality products and search and administration as back home too, with plans to services at discount prices. LEICESTER UNIVERSITY hugely synergistic, not antagonistic. redevelop a brownfield site Leeds Met advertised its Leicester is not the biggest, committed We believe this builds a behind the university’s main decision to charge £2,000, richest or most famous uni- Sir Colin Campbell, stronger institution. Although campus for, among other instead of £3,000, a year for versity in the UK. But by any Nottingham University we compete in a sector of things, a research and all its degree courses with the measure, it is one of the best. research elites and teaching- innovation park. slogan “low-charging, high- Students gave it top marks intensive universities, at impact”. It boasts 52,000 stu- in four out of the seven cate- Leicester we want to do both.” dents, a figure that is likely to gories in last year’s National grow as a result of its decision Student Satisfaction Survey, NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY on fees. The number of appli- and the university is confident There can be only two rea- cations rose 12.6 per cent that this year’s results will be sons why a university car park this year, bucking trends. just as good, if not better. would be half full on a Satur- Steve Denton, pro vice- Leicester is ranked the 14th day — either the managers are chancellor, says: “It is a mar- best institution nationally for tyrants or the staff are incredi- ket with many complicated meeting benchmarks on bly driven. Nottingham Univer- messages about fees and widening participation among sity is going places — notably bursaries. It must be a night- disadvantaged students. to East Asia — and its staff mare for 17-year-olds to navi- This would be achievement ’ want to share in its success. her education urses to take Hobsons is the only organisation that has the global network, the largest student access and the best research and latest technologies to help you plan, ision and how can market and manage your student admissions. want to influence? For more information on any of Hobsons services please contact the Education team on 0207 958 5000 or email [email protected] awards29.04-05 18/9/06 1:35 pm Page 1 TIMES HIGHER AWARDS 2006 OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY JUDGES: Sir David Watson, professor of higher education management at the Institute of Education and former vice- chancellor of Brighton University; Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust; Liz Thomas, senior adviser for widening participation at the Higher Education Academy LEEDS METROPOLITAN code) have helped facilitate a Among its other achieve- that Aberdeen is so proud of. UNIVERSITY radical reform of the club’s ments, the university helped “Aberdeen believes that Partnership with Bradford image and restored it to its create a classroom at the one of the roles of universities City Football Club place as a positive, cohesive club, which can handle ses- is to contribute to the cultural Just two years ago, Bradford force at the heart of the sions for more than 5,000 life of the cities in which City Football Club was facing community.
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