Anglia Ruskin University
 Anglia Ruskin University  (University)    | |
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| Motto | Excellentia per societatem (Latin) |
| Formation | 1902 |
| Headquarters | United Kingdom |
| Type | Public university |
| Has been named as one of the most upwardly mobile universities in the world[1] | |
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is in East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by William John Beamont in 1858. It became a university in 1992 and was renamed after John Ruskin in 2005. It is one of the “post-1992 universities”.
Anglia Ruskin has 39,400 students worldwide with campuses in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough and London. It shares further campuses with the College of West Anglia in King's Lynn, Wisbech and Cambridge and has partnerships with universities around the world including Berlin, Budapest, Trinidad, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. There are four faculties of study at the university: Faculty of Business and Law, Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine & Social Care and Faculty of Science & Engineering. The university's Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) in Cambridge and Chelmsford is one of the largest business schools in the East of England. In 2019, the School of Medicine was formally opened at its Chelmsford campus by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. It was awarded Entrepreneurial University of the Year in the 2014 Times Higher Education Awards. It won the Duke of York Award for University Entrepreneurship at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards 2016.
Notable alumni
- Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, English investor, billionaire and former Conservative vice chairman
- Eddie Ballard, former English cricketer for Cambridge UCCE and Hertfordshire
- Syd Barrett and David Gilmour, Pink Floyd members
- Chris Beckett, academic, author and science-fiction novelist
- Manish Bhasin, sports journalist and BBC presenter
- Henry Brock, specialist linguist at University of Cambridge and illustrator
- John Burnside, academic and T. S. Eliot Prize winning author
- Elsie Vera Cole, artist
- Nick Crane, English geographer and TV presenter
- Sarah-Jane Crawford, TV Presenter, Radio Presenter and Model
- Geraldine Finlayson, researcher and director of John Mackintosh Hall
- Peter Fluck and Roger Law, creators of Spitting Image
- Angela Hartnett, entrepreneur and chef
- Kim Howells, Labour politician and former Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee
- Patrick Le Quément, automobile engineer and former chief designer at Renault
- Devant Maharaj, former Senator and Minister of Food Production, Trinidad and Tobago
- Ian Miller, English footballer
- Tony Palladino, English cricketer
- Shoo Rayner, author and illustrator
- Philip Reeve, author and illustrator of children's books
- Nicky Richards, CEO and Chief Investment Officer MLC Asset Management
- Andrew Sayer, English economist, professor of Social Theory and Political Economy at Lancaster University
- Patricia Scotland, Labour politician, Commonwealth Secretary-General, government policy-maker, former minister, attorney general and president of Chatham House
- Ronald Searle, creator of St Trinian's
- Michal Shalev, author and illustrator of children's books
- Mark Wood, businessman, accountant and chairman of NSPCC
- Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Nationality | Summary | Description |
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| Michael Ashcroft | 4 March 1946 | UK | Politician Tax Exile Billionaire | Billionaire former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party |
| Kim Howells | 27 November 1946 | UK | Diplomat Politician | |
| Patricia Scotland | 19 August 1955 | Politician Lawyer |
