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University of the West of England
Address: Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY
Website: http://www.uwe.ac.uk
Telephone: 0117 965 6261
Vice Chancellor: Professor Steven West
UWE has well over 1,000 developed partnerships from Aardman to the World Health Organisation, from North America to Vietnam, which it uses to the benefit of its students, research and knowledge exchange activities.
The 6th largest university in terms of its 30,000 degree students and the largest provider of postgraduate education in the South-West, UWE has doubled the size of its main campus through a deal with HP. The university is the winner of the Exel Widening Participation University of the Year, through delivering an annual outreach programme to 10,000 pupils and 20,000 volunteering hours.
A third of research is world leading/internationally excellent and regularly a top new university for successful research applications. UWE runs a unique Graduate Development Programme to improve the employability skills of students giving them consistently high employment.
Recent news from University of the West of England
1 January: UWE celebrates CASE Europe matched funding success
UWE Bristol has been named one of the outstanding fundraising universities in 2010-11 in the recent CASE Europe Matched Funding Awards....
1 January: Join UWE and Bristol University Rowers for the annual harbourside Boat Club Varsity
Boat crews from UWE Bristol and the University of Bristol go head to head on Saturday 12 May 2012 from 13:00 to 16:00 for an afternoon of racing at the eighteenth annual Boat Club Rowing Varsity....
1 January: How nurses were trained in the 1950's - UWE donates archive to Bristol Record Office
UWE Bristol is marking International Nurse's Day by donating its collection of unique records of the training undergone by nurses sixty years ago to Bristol Record Office....
1 January: Virtual worlds can end the loneliness of the long distance learner
Watch video here to find out more Learn more about new teaching and learning innovations at UWE Bristol at a special lecture that will be delivered from the Glendinning Lecture Theatre on the..…
1 January: UWE Bristol student Andrew Pozzi wins Gold in 110m hurdles
British hurdling athlete, Andrew Pozzi, who is a student at UWE Bristol struck Gold and smashed the record in the 110m Hurdles final at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) outdoor …
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