Keele University

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Group.png Keele University  
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MottoThanke God for All
Formation1949
HeadquartersEngland
Type Public
The largest campus university in the UK by area

Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele,[1] is a public research university in Keele, approximately 3 miles from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Keele was granted university status by Royal Charter in 1962 and was founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire.[2]

Keele occupies a 625-acre 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.

Government funding cuts

Keele Hall

In late 1985, after a series of cuts in university funding, Keele briefly considered merging with North Staffordshire Polytechnic, but negotiations collapsed.[3] In September 1983, the Secretary of State, via the UGC, had encouraged the idea, asserting that the most radical way of increasing the size of departments and diminishing their number is by the merger of institutions. At the time, Keele had a population of 2,700 students, compared to 6,000 at the less academically exclusive Polytechnic. Edwina Currie, then Conservative MP for South Derbyshire, remarked, "A university which is now below 3,000 students has got problems. It simply isn't big enough".[4] Keele University Science & Business Park Ltd (KUSP Ltd) opened in 1987, partly to generate and diversify alternative sources of income.

In 1994, the Oswestry and North Staffordshire School of Physiotherapy (ONSSP), which had been a separate institution based at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, Shropshire, merged with Keele University, becoming Keele's Department of Physiotherapy Studies (now School of Health & Rehabilitation). It moved to the Keele University campus. In August 1995, Keele University merged with North Staffordshire College of Nursing and Midwifery, forming the new School of Nursing and Midwifery.

In 1998 and 1999 there was some controversy when the university decided to sell the Turner Collection, a valuable collection of printed mathematical books, including some which had belonged to and had been heavily annotated by Isaac Newton, in order to fund major improvements to the university library. Senior university officials authorised the sale of the collection to a private buyer, with no guarantee that it would remain intact or within the UK. Although the sale was legal, it was unpopular among the academic community, and the controversy was fuelled by prolonged negative press coverage suggesting that the £1m sale price was too low and that the collection was certain to be broken up.[5]

21st Century Developments

New Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing and Midwifery

Sir David Weatherall was named as Chancellor in 2000. In 2001, Keele was awarded an undergraduate medical school in partnership with Manchester University. Initially, some students from Manchester Medical School began being taught at Keele. Finally Keele's own medical school opened in 2007 with the first of cohort of students graduating in 2012. In 2009, the university was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, for 'pioneering work with the NHS in early intervention and primary care in the treatment of chronic pain and arthritis, linking research to delivery to patients through GP networks and user groups'.[6] In 2006 the School of Pharmacy was created with the launch of MPharm degree programmes.[7]

In early 2001, to cut costs, the faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences merged. Due to declining popularity and funding, the German department closed in December 2004[8] with the university retaining its physics degree despite the subject facing similar pressures.[9] Although degrees ceased to be offered in modern languages, a Language Learning Unit was created to provide Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish teaching for Keele students and staff. This can lead to an enhanced degree title given sufficient electives taken.[10]

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Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Chris ExleyAcademic19842021Pressured out by university management because of his research into the toxicity of aluminium
Jonathon PorritChancellor9 February 2012June 2022
Robbie SuttonAcademicNovember 2001July 2005

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

PersonBornNationalitySummaryDescription
Richard English1963Historian
Richard Mottram23 April 1946Spook
Civil servant		A former Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator
Priti Patel29 March 1972Politician
Ashten Regan8 March 1974
Malcolm Shaw1947Author
Academic
Lawyer
Editor		Can the US and Israel stitch up the genocide hearing at the International Court of Justice?<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Gareth Snell
Fiona Woolf11 May 1948UKLawyer
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References

  1. ↑ https://www.keele.ac.uk/discover/ourhistory/
  2. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/thekeeleoralhistoryproject/keeleheraldrycoloursandscarves/%7Ctitle=Keele's Colours and Badges
  3. ↑ Walker, David 'Proposals Would Merge Britain's University of Keele with nearby Polytechnic of North Staffordshire'; Chronicle of Higher Education, 31, 10 (6 November 1985),39, 42
  4. ↑ Kolbert (2000), p.221.
  5. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1998/dec/23/ameliagentleman
  6. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6595247/University-and-college-awards-the-winners.html
  7. ↑ https://www.keele.ac.uk/pharmacy/undergraduate/%7Ctitle=Undergraduate
  8. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/dec/29/highereducation.uk1
  9. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/dec/09/highereducation.science%7Ctitle=Keele plans to drop physics
  10. ↑ https://www.keele.ac.uk/llu/modernlanguages/
  11. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  12. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  13. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  14. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  15. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  16. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  17. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  18. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  19. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  20. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  21. ↑ http://www.keele.ac.uk/alumni/notablekeelites/
  22. ↑ https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/who-are-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list/
  23. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/26/john-clancy-brexit-uk-cities-world-stage
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