Keele

Keele University , officially known as the University of Keele, is a public research university in Keele, approximately 3 miles from Newcastle-under-Lyme, , England. Keele was granted university status by Royal Charter in 1962 and was founded in 1949 as the University of North Staffordshire.

Keele occupies a 625-acre (250 ha) rural campus close to the village of Keele and consists of extensive woods, lakes and Keele Hall set in Staffordshire Potteries. It has a science park and a conference centre, making it the largest campus university in the UK. The university's School of Medicine operates the clinical part of its courses from a separate campus at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. The School of Nursing and Midwifery is based at the nearby Clinical Education Centre. Shield of the University of Keele History Motto Thanke God for All Establishment Type Public

Cambridge and Oxford Established 1949 – as Extension Lectures had been University arranged in the Potteries College of North since the 1890s, but outside Staffordshire any organised educational 1962 – royal framework or establishment. charter granted In 1904, funds were raised by for university local industrialists to support teaching by the creation of a status North Staffordshire College, Endowment £0.95 million but the project, without the (2016)[1] backing of Staffordshire County Council, was Budget £148 million (2015–16) abandoned. Chancellor Sir Jonathon By the late 1930s the Staffordshire towns of Longton, Fenton, Porritt Burslem, Hanley had grown into the largest conurbation without some form of university provision.A large area including Staffordshire, Vice-Chancellor Trevor Shropshire and parts of Cheshire and Derbyshire did not have its own McMillan university. Stoke, in particular, demanded highly qualified graduates for the regional pottery and mining industries and also additional social Visitor Jacob Rees- workers, teachers and administrators. A. D. Lindsay, Professor of Mogg Philosophy and Master of Balliol College, Oxford, was a strong (as Lord President advocate of working-class adult education,and suggested a "people's of the Council ex university" in an address to the North Staffordshire Workers' officio) Educational Association in 1925. Academic staff 860

Administrative 87 staff

Students 10,865 (2018/19 Campus Undergraduates 8,455 (2018/19)

Setting Postgraduates 2,410 (2018/19)

Located in North Staffordshire, Keele's campus is rural with many

19th-century architectural features such as Keele Hall predating the Location Keele, concrete and red-brick buildings of the modern university. The campus Newcastle- occupies a 625-acre (250 ha) rural campus close to the village of Keele under-Lyme, and consists of extensive woods, lakes and Keele Hall set in Staffordshire, Staffordshire Potteries. The estate was originally given by King Henry II of England to the Knights Templars in 1180. When the 53.003°N Templars were condemned and dissolved by the Council of Vienne in 1311, their possessions were annexed by the Knights Hospitallers until 2.273°W their dissolution by Henry VIII. The estate was purchased from the Campus Rural Crown by the Sneyd family and remained their property until acquisition by the Stoke-on-Trent Corporation in 1948. Apart from Newspaper Concourse increasing numbers of academic and residential buildings arboretum, Colours Staffordshire gold Islamic centre, shops, cafés and places to eat and drink. The campus and red has science, business enterprise parks and conference centres. It is home to the Earth Science Education Unit (ESEU).The chapel is located in the centre of the campus, close to the university library and Athletics Team Keele student union. From the onset, Christian worship was central to Affiliations ACU EUA University life. Lindsay, first principal of the University College, was an ardent Christian preaching every Sunday in the Library Reading UK room of Keele Hall. A permanent structure was required and the Midlands chapel was built in 1965. Built from Staffordshire blue brick, the Innovation chapel accommodates different Christian traditions. UWM

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Keele University Observatory

Academic profile and reputation

Keele has a graduation rate of over 90%,with 68.4% achieving 1sts or Rankings 2:1s.90% of undergraduates are state-educated, and over 25% of students are from working-class backgrounds. In recent years Keele National rankings has attempted to boost this number by reaching out to local schools and Complete (2021) 52 hosting a summer school. In February 2011, a Sutton Trust report revealed that 3·4% of students had received free school meals, whilst Guardian (2021) 32

7·9% had attended independent schools. This compares the national Times / Sunday Times 51 figures for England of 14% eligible for free school meals, and 7% (2021) independently educated. Global rankings

ARWU (2020) 701–

Research 800 QS (2021) 701–

Keele submitted 60% of its staff to the 2014 Research Assessment 750 Exercise (RAE) and ranked 57 of 128 institutions by grade point THE (2021) 501– average (GPA) The University scored particularly well in public 600 health, health services and primary care. Medical research includes detecting Parkinson's disease early, and using stem cell research to aid British Government assessment the healing process. The cochlear implant was developed in the Teaching Excellence Gold Department of Communication and Neuroscience at Keele. Other Framework notable medical pursuits includes attempts to explain the evolution of the human brain, looking into links between cannabis and mental illness (cited in the 2009 reclassification debate), as well as tumour and cancer research. In August 2009, university astronomers, led by David Anderson, discovered the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction to the spin of its star.The planet was named WASP-17b.In 2010 Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston won the Ig Nobel prize for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain. In 2010 a medical centre in Newport, Shropshire was completed, for students to learn in real medical situations and to research medical sciences.

Notable people

In popular culture

Keele University featured prominently in Marvellous, the biographical film about honorary graduate Neil Baldwin broadcast on BBC Two in September 2014. The BBC filmed parts of its surreal comedy A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1988) at the Keele University campus and students played extra parts.