University of Bedfordshire

The University of Bedfordshire is based in Luton and Bedford, the two largest cities inBedfordshire, England. A campus in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire is for students of Nursing and Midwifery. It has over 24,000 students. About 3,000 international students studying in the university. The university was created by the merger of the University of Luton and the Bedford campus of De Montfort University in August 2006, following approval by the Privy Council. In 2012 was upgraded to fair trade.

History

The University of Luton has its roots in Luton Modern School, which was established in 1908 and Luton Modern School and Technical Institute, which opened in 1937. This became Luton College of Higher Education with the merger of Luton College of Technology and Putteridge Bury College of Education in 1976. He received university status in 1993. The Bedford campus of De Montfort University was originally Bedford Teacher Training College, founded 1882 and Bedford College of Physical Education founded 1903.
Campus
The university with two main campuses are in the center of Luton and Bedford, in Polhill Avenue. Both have been recently renovated with new teaching and social services and on-campus housing.

The university has a campus in Putteridge third Bury, a cottage neo-Elizabethan located on the outskirts of Luton on the A505 road to Hitchin. The campus is located on approximately 30 acres of landscaped gardens. Bury Putteridge back to Edward the Confessor time and has ties to the Domesday Book. The current building was completed in 1911 and was designed by architects Sir Ernest George and Alfred Yeats in the style of Chequers, having had several redesigns and rebuilds in recent years. The campus is home to the Business School graduate from college, and the University Center Conference.

Organization and structure

The university has four faculties: Creative Arts, Technologies and Science, Education and Sport, Health and Social Sciences, and a business school and according to the Daily Telegraph that he has "one of the most generous" scholarship programs in the United Kingdom. The university has regional representatives in various parts of India to have extensive training to give free advice and, where possible, a face-to-face students. They are based on Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad and Vadodara.

Academic profile

In 2000, the University of Luton was ranked 83 of 93 British universities by The Times in its annual ranking of the University, increased to 72 from 101 two years later. In 2004, the University is so high dropout rate, and the decision to allow students to progress pass its third year of their studies, even if they can not pass the exams of first year and second was the Sunday Telegraph to ask "Is this the worst university in Britain?" Luton vice-chancellor responded by calling attention to the quality of education, which had been ranked 14th of 121 similar institutions last year by The Times.

The Sunday Times also awarded the University of Luton the title of Best New University in 2004 (before purchasing the Bedford campus and rebranding). The QAA conducted a thorough institutional audit of the University as a whole in 2005 (before the merger of the University), which led to questioning of the audit team of academic standards of its awards and its lack of confidence in the standards quality of the university. However, after the audit was made QAA received information indicating that the appropriate action was taken by the University in response to the findings of this report. As a result of the audit was signed in July 2007.

In 2008 Professor Les Ebdon said he had voluntarily accepted the 30 staff members. The university said that less than half were academic staff. Professor Ebdon said: "I do not know of any university in the east of England, who is making some adjustments to the template squeezed most of us have other expenses as much as we can staffing is the area to the left where spending may .. be removed, and is the biggest cost. " According to the same article, "Compared to many other universities, Bedfordshire spends a smaller proportion of their income on staff."

The university has been criticized for his association with the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, and controversial unacredited organization whose founder, Patrick Holford defense of vitamin C as better than conventional drugs to treat AIDS was described as "very scared" by the British Dietetic Association.

According to the THES University in 2008 threatened to take legal action against a website of one of his course was labeled as "shocking" by its staff-to-student. After QAA audit conducted in 2009, the University received a "confidence" rating.

Quality teaching

In 2004, The Sunday Times University of Luton awarded the title of Best New University and in 2007 the University of Bedfordshire was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Supplement University of the Year 2007.

The University received top marks from the Agency for Quality Assurance, the Government watchdog higher quality of education, the most recent audit (2009). The University of Bedfordshire Language and Linguistics courses is second in the latest edition of the Complete University Guide (CUG) for student satisfaction.

Awards

• Awarded Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2011.
• Winners Featured Finance Leadership Team in the Times Higher Education and Management Awards 2011.
• 'Gold' Investors in People Award in 2011.