Warwick Program

PRESIDENTIAL VISIT 14 DECEMBER 2000 PROGRAMME FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL VISIT Music by the University of Warwick Chamber Choir, conductor Colin Touchin Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, Sir Brian Follett Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Tony Blair, MP Speech by President William J Clinton INTRODUCTION 16,869 students (8,995 undergraduates, 6,439 postgraduates) Programmes in Humanities, Science, Medicine and Social Sciences, many with an interdisciplinary focus Founded less than 40 years ago,Warwick has postgraduate programmes. Its lively modern campus The University of Warwick is contemporary,energetic developed rapidly to become one of the UK’s most is home to some 16,000 students from over and forward looking,deeply committed to its highly respected universities. Currently ranked fourth 100 different countries,some 40% of whom are students,its impressive research agenda,and the among UK universities for the quality of its research, postgraduates. With its Arts Centre,its Science Park, wider community at home and abroad. and with the excellence of its teaching confirmed its new Medical School (in partnership with in the National Teaching Quality Assessment, the University of Leicester) and its commitment to Warwick has consistently been placed in the Top Ten lifelong learning,it has successfully balanced its in the UK universities’ league tables. It attracts high strong international and national reputation with quality students on both its undergraduate and local and community relevance. The Cybersphere - a 3D virtual environment developed by Warwick Manufacturing Group in collaboration with VR Systems UK GLOBALISATION The Centre for the Study of Globalisation and orders. It addresses the new opportunities, Regionalisation was established in 1997,with new insecurities and new inequalities for funding from the UK’s Economic and Social established,emerging and weaker nations Research Council. Its research focuses on the created by global processes. The Centre has a understanding and exploration of globalisation, strong international presence,providing a its relationship to regionalisation,and the national and international site for scholars and implications for modern governments from the practitioners,disseminating its work through evolution of globalising tendencies conferences,workshops and publications. in the international economic and political Professor Richard Higgott, Director, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation RELEVANCE From its earliest days, the University has sought to engage with real world issues. Its impact has been impressive. Warwick Business School is the first in the UK to Research and Development - leading edge highly rated research programme. The School has a have gained formal accreditation from management technological research in collaboration with over strong international perspective,reflected in its associations in the USA,Europe and the UK. It has 40 UK and international companies - while 4,000 academic programmes and in its exchange links with successfully combined research of international people are currently involved in its engineering and universities across the world. excellence (which last year produced external funding business management programmes in the UK,the of over £3.7 million) with teaching which meets the Pacific Rim and South Africa. This year,Warwick responded to the nation’s need needs of both undergraduates and practising for more medical doctors by opening a new Medical managers _ the Warwick MBA,widely supported by The Warwick Institute of Education is firmly School,in partnership with the University of employers,offers four flexible study routes,enabling focused on the issues that directly affect pupils, Leicester,with an innovative fast-track graduate students to balance the demands of study,careers teachers and education managers. Its wide ranging entry programme. Our first medical students - all and families. Warwick Business School offers 17 education and research programme directly graduates in Biological Sciences - began their training degree programmes,attracting over 3,800 students influences teaching and management policy through in September. The new Medical School will also from more than 70 countries. its professional development programmes for directly benefit the people of Coventry and practising teachers and education managers. The Warwickshire,by providing more doctors in the area Warwick Manufacturing Group,in the School of School of Law has made a distinctive contribution and greater access to specialist services,and through Engineering,collaborates with major companies to legal education by focusing on the social context the upgrading of Coventry’s Walsgrave Hospital to a across four continents. It has transformed the face of in which law and lawyers operate. Students are full University Teaching Hospital. engineering management education and created a encouraged to examine the contribution of law to new relationship between academics and contemporary social and economic problems - an industrialists. It specialises in industrially relevant approach which is also reflected in the School’s Malaysian Night at the University 2,500 international students from 100 different countries AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COMMUNITY Warwick is a cosmopolitan community with over Over the years,the Martin Family,whose branch in 2,000 international students from more than 100 Connecticut acquired Smirnoff Vodka in 1939 and different countries. Immediately before the start of marketed it with great success after the Second term,the University’s International Office offers a World War,have donated £19 million to the four-day Orientation Programme for newly joining University,one of the largest educational international students to help them settle in at benefactions in Britain from a single source. Their first Warwick. There is also a network of support services donation in the 1960s was for scholarships for a including specialist Student Advisers and student exchange between Warwick and the USA, International Liaison Staff: in fact,the Quality and since then the Martins’ generosity has helped fund Assurance Agency recently singled out for praise the Arts Centre (inspired by the Hopkins Center in Warwick’s ‘excellent student support and guidance’ Dartmouth),a student hall of residence for for international students. Warwick’s alumni international students and several major capital organisation is also international. Warwick projects and student scholarships. Graduates’ Association now has alumni groups in 20 countries across the world,including the USA, Hong Kong,Singapore and South America. American Connections From its earliest days the University was fortunate in developing a number of American partnerships. The Chamber Choir performing in Birmingham Cathedral STUDENT MUSIC Student music flourishes at Warwick. There is a full degree. All our student musicians study in other Congregations are enhanced by music specially Symphony Orchestra,120 piece Wind Orchestra, disciplines - they are scientists,mathematicians, composed by our Director of Music and performed Symphonic Wind Ensemble,Chorus of over 300 social scientists,historians,lawyers or linguists by student musicians. Music Centre students have members,an international award-winning Chamber - yet in Warwick's Music Centre they are able regularly gone on to study at conservatoire level Choir and ensembles catering for all tastes and simultaneously to develop their musical talents. and to make distinguished careers in music - talents,from big band to chamber music,madrigals The Director of Music,Colin Touchin,and Assistant perhaps the best testimony of all to the quality to musicals. Students regularly perform in the Arts Director,Stuart Dunlop,are supported by a staff of music making at Warwick. Centre,as well as in other prestigious venues in the of thirty tutors and further professional training is UK such as Symphony Hall,Birmingham. There are provided by the University's Quartet in Residence, also regular European tours. The Chamber Choir,in the Coull Quartet - a professional ensemble with particular,has a history of winning international an international reputation. competitions,going back to the Gold Award at the Montreux Choral Festival in 1988. The Choir has just Student music has always been central to the life reached the national semi-final of the Sainsbury’s of the University. From its earliest days,Warwick Choir of the Year 2000 Competition which will be has had a Director of Music. A series of Music broadcast in Britain on 26 December. Scholarships,initially funded by the Trust set up by the Martin family,has enabled students to pursue A remarkable record of high quality student music their musical interests alongside their main academic making - perhaps all the more remarkable because studies. The Music Centre adds an extra dimension Warwick has never offered an academic music to campus life - for example,our annual Degree The Piazza and Students’ Union, main campus WIDENING ACCESS TO A WARWICK EDUCATION Warwick is determined to provide a first class This summer,as part of the Government’s university education for everyone with the Millennium Summer School Scheme,the ability to benefit from it,regardless of University held a summer school for 16-17 year economic or social circumstances. This year,the olds from inner city schools to give them a taste University introduced scholarships,funded by of degree level learning and of campus life. Warwick Graduates’

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