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Steel City Shows Its Mettle CITY PROFILE CITY PROFILE Y ith more than 70,000 AM Opposite page: a floral recreation /AL students at two major SS of a steel worker outside Sheffield universities and Europe’s RNE A Town Hall. This page: the Peace largest college of further Gardens (main picture); and UL H PA education, Sheffield is one of (left to right) the Winter Garden; W the UK’s most popular student destinations. Renishaw Hall Gardens; and the riverside Upper Don Walk The city is conveniently located in the centre of the UK, with flights from India arriving at Manchester airport, an hour away. London can be reached by train in just two hours. Sheffield has a fascinating history and heritage, from its roots in steel-making to its sporting reputation. It is an exciting, safe, cosmopolitan city with lively nightlife, extensive leisure facilities and beautiful countryside on the doorstep. It also has a low cost of living compared to most other major UK cities. Sheffield was one of England’s main industrial cities in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, when it was the centre for British steel production. Using local coal and iron, and powering engines with water from the Y AM rivers, Sheffield steelmakers dominated L /A the 19th-century world market for cutlery, OLEY H C rail tracks, armour and guns. However, S with increasing competition, the industry PETER , declined in the 1970s. For a glimpse of this Y AM industrial past, visit Kelham Island Museum, L H/A which has the original River Don steam IT SM OR engine, the most powerful working steam V engine remaining in Europe (it’s fired up TRE S, twice a day when the museum is open). E MAG I There’s also a fine collection of metalwork ETTY at the Millennium Galleries, including items /G RY A made from ‘Sheffield plate’ (created using R B a technique that fuses a thin layer of silver OTOLI H on to copper) and sterling silver. P Despite its grimy past, Sheffield is now the the wealthy during the late 19th century, in greenest city in Europe, with more trees a drive to escape the smog-clad valley, and per head of population than any other and THE POET JOHN the attractive hillside suburbs contain many 61 per cent of its total area green space. grand Victorian buildings. In the 1960s, the STEEL CITY SHOWS There are 78 public parks, more than 170 BETJEMAN DESCRIBED poet John Betjeman described Broomhill, woodlands and 10 public gardens, and BROOMHILL, RISING rising above the west of the city, as one of almost a third of the city lies within the the prettiest suburbs in England. expanse of the Peak District National Park. ABOVE THE WEST OF There are two universities in Sheffield, The city’s 19th-century botanical gardens THE CITY, AS ONE each with its own identity, campus buildings ITS METTLE have recently been completely restored and specialist subjects. Both universities and stretch over 19 acres. There are 15 OF THE PRETTIEST are fully integrated within the city, and the different garden areas featuring collections SUBURBS IN ENGLAND faculty and department buildings merge Once a gritty industrial hub, Sheffield is now a much greener place that hosts of plants from all over the world, including seamlessly with those around them. many exciting cultural and sporting events. Antonia Windsor visits the city Mediterranean, Asian and American-prairie- The University of Sheffield is situated to style plants. Some of these are housed in the west of the city centre. It is a leading ‘built on seven hills’ and finds the huge student population has plenty to enjoy the restored glass pavilions, which were an research university, and one of England’s original feature of the gardens when they original ‘red brick’ institutions, a term used opened in 1836. to describe six universities founded in major industrial cities before the first world war Head for the hills – Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester Locals like to say that, like Rome, Sheffield and Bristol are the other five. Founded in was built on seven hills, although there is 1905, many of the University of Sheffield’s some debate as to exactly which hills these key buildings are indeed built in attractive are. Suffice it to say that the city grew up red brick. The university is consistently in the valley created by the River Don and ranked among the top 20 in England and then spread upwards on to the surrounding Europe, and has produced five Nobel hillsides. The move uphill was mainly led by Prize winners in the fields of medicine, 52 | CLUB UK | www.educationuk.org/india www.educationuk.org/india | CLUB UK | 53 CITY PROFILE CITY PROFILE Y AM OEFIELD/AL C N H Y, JO Y, AM /AL M Y, EYE35.CO Y, AM /AL G IN MAG D9 I H S ILLI G EN V TE S physiology and chemistry. Out of a student As well as these two major universities, population of nearly 25,000, almost 5,000 the city is also home to Sheffield College, are international students, many of whom a federation of four colleges across the SHEFFIELD HALLAM are drawn to the university’s excellence city, which specialise in the provision of in engineering and medicine. Indians are vocational training, foundation degrees and IS ONE OF THE the second largest national group after English language tuition. Last year, a £60 UK’S LARGEST the Chinese, with more than 450 Indian million environmentally-friendly building students attending the university in 2010. opened at its Granville Road site, to the UNIVERSITIES, WITH Sheffield Hallam University has a campus east of the city centre. Each year students ALMOST 35,500 next to Sheffield’s main railway station from more than 80 different countries go and bus station, and a second, known as to Sheffield College to perfect their English STUDENTS, MORE Collegiate Crescent, to the south-west of and study academic and vocational courses. the city centre. It is one of the UK’s largest Among the courses offered are dentistry, THAN 4,200 OF universities, with almost 35,500 students, hospitality and catering, construction and WHOM ARE FROM more than 4,200 of whom are from outside digital media. the UK. Formerly Sheffield Polytechnic, it With so many students it is no surprise OUTSIDE THE UK began to award its own degrees in 1992 and that there is plenty going on in the city was renamed Sheffield Hallam University. It to keep them entertained. Each of the is one of the most highly regarded modern universities and colleges has its own The botanical gardens and universities and is particularly well known for Students’ Union, which arranges events, (opposite, clockwise from top left) the Blade water feature its strength in business, computer science, but the city itself is very student-focused outside Sheffield railway station; nursing and midwifery. The university has and local bars, restaurants and clubs offer the former National Centre for strong links with India and in 2010, Sheffield special student night discounts. D A Popular Music – now Sheffield E H Hallam was the only university to send There is a very popular film-making Hallam University Students’ students to New Delhi to work as official course at Sheffield Hallam University and Union; and mountain-biking WOOD in the Peak District A volunteers in the press operations area of at the arthouse Showroom cinema EEN H S the Commonwealth Games. you might see a screening of one 54 | CLUB UK | www.educationuk.org/india www.educationuk.org/india | CLUB UK | 55 CITYCITY PROFILE The Showroom cinema; LIVING IN snooker at the Crucible; and Arctic Monkeys SHEFFIELD NAME Avanti Gupta FROM New Delhi COURSE BSc Biomedical Sciences, S University of Sheffield E IMAG I chose to study in Sheffield because the university is ranked highly for biomedical sciences and it offers human E M BENETT/GETTY dissection for anatomy. It’s great – a lot DAV , of people in my area of education have S E chosen Sheffield. IMAG When I arrived I thought it was cold, /GETTY wet and hilly – and I was quite upset for FP a day or two. But then I was given an S/A TE A Y orientation programme and that really W turned everything around. The weather NDRE , A didn’t matter and I made friends. The S E thing that really makes Sheffield for IMAG me is the diversity and the friendliness of the people and the fact that there RY/GETTY RY/GETTY A R are no gates to our campus – I feel like B I belong to the whole city. I also now OTOLI H P really like the weather, and the fact that the city is so green. At the university there are loads of opportunities. We or two student shorts before the main film. There are also plenty of fine athletics have something called the ‘give it a go’ Sheffield also hosts the annual Doc/Fest, centres, a legacy of the World Student programme, where you can try out new a celebration of international documentary Games, which were held in the city in 1991. activities every day. It covers everything film-making, which takes place in venues Music features heavily in Sheffield’s from palm reading to henna tattoos. across the city each June. At the Crucible psyche and the city has produced many I like going to the Meadowhall theatre, you might see an innovative first-class bands, including Cabaret Voltaire, shopping centre – a huge mall of production of a Shakespeare play, the latest the Human League, Pulp and more recently hundreds of shops a short tram ride out offering from the Northern Ballet, or the Arctic Monkeys.
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