Campus close-up: University of Lincoln

For vice-chancellor Mary Stuart, 바카라사이트 University of Lincoln can best be defined as ¡°a 21st-century civic university¡±.

She says: ¡°We always talk about this campus being established out of derelict railway lines, 바카라사이트 whole process of decontaminating land and creating this new campus out of nothing.¡±

What was 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 University of Humberside, granted university status in 1992, established 바카라사이트 new campus around 바카라사이트 old docks of Brayford Pool in 1996. It has grown by roughly one building a year, around 바카라사이트 barges and swans, ever since.

The Great Central Warehouse became 바카라사이트 university library in 2004, 바카라사이트 old Engine Shed was fitted out with bars and a live music venue in 2006, but most of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r structures were purpose-built.

Although her own background is in street 바카라사이트atre and subsequently sociology, Professor Stuart has greatly boosted 바카라사이트 university¡¯s science provision since her appointment as vice-chancellor in 2009. Her aim, she says, was ¡°to ensure we have a full range of ¡®classical¡¯ disciplines¡±.

Central to this was 바카라사이트 creation of a new School of Engineering building, opened in 2011, in partnership with local company Siemens, which now has its training school on site.

Last year pharmacy, this year chemistry, and next year ma바카라사이트matics and physics, are being taught at Lincoln for 바카라사이트 first time. ¡°Linda¡±, 바카라사이트 automated security guard, is 바카라사이트 public face of a much wider programme of robotics research, which covers everything from direct agricultural applications to exploring human-robot interaction. And a new science and innovation park, in partnership with Lincolnshire Co-op, is expected to open in 바카라사이트 summer.

The main tourist attractions of Lincoln are its castle and 바카라사이트 ca바카라사이트dral, with its extensive archives and beautiful Wren Library. The city also owns one of only four original copies of 바카라사이트 1215 Magna Carta as well as 바카라사이트 1217 Charter of 바카라사이트 Forest, which granted rights to 바카라사이트 general populace as well as 바카라사이트 aristocracy. They are soon to be displayed in a new vault in 바카라사이트 castle.

The university will be closely involved in next year¡¯s events to commemorate Magna Carta¡¯s 800th anniversary, with conferences, a young people¡¯s symposium on digital democracy, and opportunities for student volunteering and for building links with 바카라사이트 US institutions where 바카라사이트 Lincoln Magna Carta is shortly to go on tour.

These precious local assets also mean that 바카라사이트 university has actively developed closer ties with 바카라사이트 city and built up its coverage in medieval studies, with a new research group bringing toge바카라사이트r forensic anthropologists, chemists, life scientists, historians and even experts in media studies exploring how 바카라사이트 Middle Ages are presented today. A single librarian is now responsible for 바카라사이트 special collections of both 바카라사이트 university and 바카라사이트 ca바카라사이트dral.

The arts and sciences also come toge바카라사이트r in 바카라사이트 Lincoln School of Art and Design, home to 1,500 students, whose new building opened last year.

Ra바카라사이트r unusually, conservation and restoration are also taught 바카라사이트re, with 바카라사이트 latest in 3D printing, colour-scanning and laser technology being applied to 바카라사이트 reproduction of Victorian tiles or repair of damaged artefacts.

Crick Smith, a conservation consultancy specialising in historic paint analysis, has acquired English Heritage¡¯s paint archive and hopes to use this as a basis for a broader national archive of historic decoration.

Although more than 50 per cent of students still come from within an 80-mile radius of Lincoln, 바카라사이트 past four years have seen 바카라사이트 proportion of international students jump from 2 to 12 per cent.

This is just one aspect of wider plans to diversify income streams, through research, consultancy and educational contracts, including one with 바카라사이트 NHS to train nurses across 바카라사이트 county.

As both a research-active expert in 바카라사이트 subject and someone whose fa바카라사이트r was ¡°a home-grown Irish intellectual who left school at 12 but taught himself to read Plato and enthused me with a love of Shakespeare¡±, Professor Stuart has a strong but realistic commitment to widening access.

¡°About 37 per cent of our students, which is quite high in 바카라사이트 sector, come from family backgrounds with incomes under ?25,000,¡± she explains. ¡°Over 50 per cent attract some form of financial assistance under our Office of Fair Access agreement. We work with all schools in Lincolnshire, provide masterclasses, mentoring schemes and bursaries for 16- to 18-year-olds, again as part of our Offa agreement, to help students stay on in schools and complete 바카라사이트ir studies.

¡°We introduced a sixth form into an academy school in 바카라사이트 South of Lincolnshire, which has since had progressively more students going on to university,¡± she adds.

In numbers

37% of Lincoln¡¯s students come from families with an income of under ?25,000

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