Universiti Reading

Universiti Reading
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Ditubuhkan  pada:	1926 - memperolehi status Universiti 1892 - University College, Reading
Jenis:	Awam
Canselor:	Sir John Madejski
Naib canselor:	Prof. Gordon Marshall
Pelawat:	The Lord President of the Council ex officio
Kakitangan:	4,024
Pelajar:	22,805
Siswazah:	12,683
Pelajar sarjana/doktor falsafah:	10,122
Lokasi:	Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Kampus:	Whiteknights: 1.3 kilometer persegi (321 ekar)
Warna:	Ungu dan Putih Diraja
Penggabungan:	1994 Group
Laman sesawang:	www.reading.ac.uk

Universiti Reading ialah sebuah universiti di bandar Reading, Berkshire, England. Ia telah ditubuhkan pada 1892 sebagai University College, Reading dan menerima piagam dirajanya pada 1926. Universiti ini mempunyai suatu tradisi panjang penyelidikan, pendidikan dan latihan di peringkat tempatan, negara dan antarabangsa. Ia menawarkan ijazah tradisional dan juga ijazah kurang biasa dan yang berkaitan dengan vokasional. It dianugerahkan Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education pada 1998, dan sekali lagi pada 2005. Ia merupakan salah satu daripada 10 universiti paling penyelidikan-intensif di UK, selain dianggap antara 200 universiti terbaik di dunia dalam Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2009

Dalam tahun-tahun kebelakangan, universiti ini telah dilanda kontroversi, dengan jabatan ditutup dan kakitangan kehilangan kerja. Universiti ini akan kehilangan 7.7% daripada pendanaan HEFCE pada tahun fiskal 2010-2011.

History

The University War Memorial clock tower, on the London Road Campus

The University owes its origins to the Schools of Art and Science established in Reading in 1860 and 1870. These became part of an extension college of Christ Church of the University of Oxford in 1892, which became known as University College, Reading.

The new college received its first treasury grant in 1901. Three years later it was given a site, in London Road, by the Palmer family of Huntley & Palmers fame. The same family's continued support enabled the opening of Wantage Hall in 1908 and the Research Institute in Dairying in 1912.

The college first applied for a Royal Charter in 1920 but was unsuccessful at that time. However a second petition, in 1925, was successful, and the charter was officially granted on March 17, 1926. With the charter, the University College became the University of Reading, the only new university to be created in England between the two world wars.

In 1947 the University purchased Whiteknights Park, which was to become its principal campus. In 1984 the University started a merger with Bulmershe College of Higher Education, which was completed in 1989.

In October 2006, the Senior Management Board proposed the closure of its Physics Department to future undergraduate application. This was ascribed to financial reasons and lack of alternative ideas and caused considerable controversy, not least a debate in Parliament over the closure which prompted heated discussion of higher education issues in general. On October 10 the Senate voted to close the Department of Physics, a move confirmed by the Council on November 20. Other departments closed in recent years include Music, Sociology, Geology, and Mechanical Engineering. The university council decided in March 2009 to close the School of Health and Social Care, a school whose courses have consistently been oversubscribed.

In January 2008, the University announced its merger with the Henley Management College to create the university's new Henley Business School, bringing together Henley College's expertise in MBAs with the University's existing Business School and ICMA Centre. The merger took formal effect on the 1st August 2008, with the new business school split across the university's existing Whiteknights Campus and its new Greenlands Campus that formerly housed Henley Management College. A further restructuring announced in September 2009 portends the loss of additional jobs, in the film, theatre and television department.

Campuses

Whiteknights Lake

The University Great Hall, on the London Road Campus

Greenlands Campus, used by the Business School

The University maintains over 1.6 kilometer persegi (395 ekar) of grounds, in four distinct campuses:

• Whiteknights Campus, at 1.23 kilometer persegi (304 ekar), is the largest and includes Whiteknights Lake, conservation meadows and woodlands as well as most of the University's departments. The campus takes its name from the nickname of the 13th century knight, John De Erleigh IV or the 'White Knight', and was landscaped in the 18th century by Marquis of Blandford. The main University library, in the middle of the campus, holds nearly a million books and subscribes to around 4,000 periodicals.

• The smaller London Road Campus is the original University site and is closer to the town centre of Reading. The London Road site forms the base for the majority of the university's extramural and distance learning activities, and is home to the Centre for Continuing Education and the Professional Management Programmes as well as the Museum of English Rural Life. Moreover, it plays host to the University graduation ceremonies twice a year, in the Great Hall. London Road is currently undergoing extensive renovation to allow a number of departments to move from Bulmershe from 2011.

• The Bulmershe Court Campus in Woodley is the second biggest campus belonging to the University.^{[petikan diperlukan]} Formerly Bulmershe Teaching College, in 1989 the College of Higher Education merged with The University of Reading and the campus is now the home of The Institute of Education and the Department of Film, Theatre and Television, alongside the Bulmershe site of Students’ Union, Breeze Bar, and Bulmershe Hall of Residences. It also has the largest hall of residence of the University. Furthermore, the campus hosts a range of the University's home sporting fixtures, including football, basketball and the Reading Knights American Football team. Bulmershe is currently due for closure in 2011 with departments moving to either London Road or Whiteknights Campuses.

• The Greenlands Campus, on the banks of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire. Once the home of William Henry Smith, founder of WH Smith, and latterly the site of the Henley Management College, this campus became part of the university on the 1st August 2008, with the merger of that college with the university's Business School to form the Henley Business School. The school's MBA and corporate learning offerings will be based at Greenlands, with undergraduate and other postgraduate courses being based at Whiteknights.

The University also owns 8.5 kilometer persegi (2,100 ekar) of farmland in the nearby villages of Arborfield, Sonning and Shinfield. These support a mixed farming system including dairy cows, ewes and beef animals, and host research centres of which the flagship is the Centre for Dairy Research.

As part of the proposed Whiteknights Development Plan in Autumn 2007, the University proposed spending up to £250 million on its estates over 30 years, principally to focus academic activities onto the Whiteknights site. The University also intends to site some functions on the London Road site, with a complete withdrawal from Bulmershe Court proposed by 2012.

Research

In the Research Assessment Exercise in 2001, five departments were awarded the top rate of 5* – Archaeology, English, Italian, Meteorology and Psychology, and fifteen departments were awarded the rating of 5. In the wake of the 2008 RAE, the university saw a cut of £4m (19%) in its recurrent research funding, the largest cut among the 1994 Group of British universities.

The Department of Meteorology was awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2005. Reading was the first university to win a Queen's Award for Export Achievement, in 1989.

UK University Rankings

	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994	1993
Times Good University Guide	31st=	25th	31st	39th	30th	29th	30th	27th	31st	31st	24th=	28th	21st	24th=	19th=	23rd=	32nd=
Guardian University Guide	39th	42nd		44th	27th	21st	29th
Sunday Times University Guide		32nd	31st	34th	35th	37th	36th	31st	28th	29th	28th	32nd=
Independent / Complete	38th	29th
Daily Telegraph			29th				40th
FT							24th		27th	34th	30th

Community

In the 2004–05 academic year, the university had 4,024 staff and 15,326 students.

Reading University Students' Union is the affiliated student organisation which represents the students' interests. The Students' Union publishes Spark, a bi-weekly newspaper aimed at the student population of the University, which was weekly until October 2006 (it is now published fortnightly during term-time) and runs the student radio station Junction11. The university also has a number of Junior Common Rooms that are nominally independent from the Students' Union and the University.

The Students' Union building on Whiteknights Campus contains an 1800 capacity venue called 3sixty, two bars, a number of retail outlets, and The Hub. The Hub is the Union's new volunteer, advice, student activity centre, cost around £1.8m and was officially opened in March 2007 by Bill Rammell MP, Minister for Higher Education.

University halls and accommodation

Student accommodation is provided in a number of halls of residence offering a mix of partially catered (19 meals per week) and self-catering accommodation, along with other self-catering accommodation. Following a major review the University is now preceding with the integrated Halls and Catering Strategy, that will see several halls replaced as well as new ones created with social, catering & welfare facilities provided in hub areas. Most of the halls of residence lie close to the northern campus periphery and in residential areas close by.

Halls are managed in groups which are Lakeside (Bridges, Bulmershe & Wessex), Northcourt (Sibly, Sherfield, Student Village (managed by UPP) and St. Patrick's), Park (Childs, Greenow, McCombie, MacKinder, Stenton, Windsor and Whiteknights), Redlands (Hillside, Martindale, St. George's, Wells and Wantage) and Estates Management (35 Upper Redlands Road, Mansfield and St. David's).

The former St. Andrews Hall closed in 2001, and is now the home of the Museum of English Rural Life.^{[petikan diperlukan]}

St. George's Hall and The Reading Student Village are leased back to the University from UJC. The cost of leasing back the Student Village to the University, according to the University accounts, was £1.5 million for 2003–04 and £1.3 million in 2002–03.

Societies

The University of Reading has 60 societies open to and run by its students.

The University also has its very own Scottish Highland Bagpipe & Drum Band, Reading University Pipe Band, who teach the Great Highland Bagpipes and also serve students and staff as the University of Reading's Scottish Society.

Student media

Students run a full compliment of student media, which includes;

• TV station, RUON
• Radio station, Junction11
• Newspaper, Spark*.

Museums, libraries and botanical gardens

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The Main Library on the Whiteknights Campus

Reading University maintains four museums, two campus libraries and a range of inter-departmental libraries, and a botanical garden. The largest and best known of these museum is the Museum of English Rural Life, which has recently relocated from a location on Whiteknights Campus to a site nearer the town centre on the London Road Campus. The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, the Cole Museum of Zoology, the University of Reading Herbarium and the Harris Garden are all on the Whiteknights Campus.

The Whiteknights Main Library holds catalogue of over 1.2 million books, as well as a range of electronic resources, videos and archives. All in 14,000 square metres of public space on five floors of resources, a maintenance floor, entrance plaza and the Knowledge Exchange. The secondary library on the University's Bulmershe Campus supports teaching courses and provides resources in education, health & social care, music, and film & drama. There is also a library in the University's Meteorology department.

Sports

• Rowing
• Sailing
• Boxing

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• Senarai universiti dan kolej perhutanan

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