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58-668: Currently CICCU runs two main outreach activities – 'Events Week' in Lent term , and 'Big Questions' lunches on Fridays in St Andrew the Great which feature short talks and Q&As about questions of life and faith – along with a variety of occasional events, and bigger activities in colleges. Students in many other universities followed Cambridge's lead in forming their own Christian Unions, beginning with OICCU being founded in Oxford in 1879. Initially CICCU

116-574: A 400-seat auditorium, a student services centre, learning spaces and retail facilities. The Forum is located at the centre of the Streatham Campus and features the refurbished main library, the Great Hall and the area between it. Designed as a glass structure of modernist design, The Forum also acts as the university reception area. The Forum was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 2 May 2012. The Forum's structural engineers, Buro Happold , won

174-443: A broad range of disciplines, perform strongly in league tables, and function with similar quantities of financial resources. The Centre for Maritime Historical Studies was formed in 1991 to promote a wider understanding of the significance of maritime history within the world of historical scholarship. Some of the supported programmes are: The university coat of arms symbolises the university's historical associations with

232-456: A female to male ratio of 55:45. Exeter was in the first group of UK universities to require an A*grade in A-level examinations as part of its standard offer for entry into some undergraduate courses. The Undergraduate Prospectus 2013 lists ten-degree programmes that require at least one A*grade as part of the conditional standard offer, including Economics, English, History, and Mathematics. In

290-628: Is Charles III . The university organises its academic and administrative departments into six academic colleges. Each college contains a number of subject disciplines, institutes and research centres. The colleges are led by a dean who works in partnership with a college manager and is supported by two associate deans, one for research and knowledge transfer and one for education. The university annually measures its performance relative to another ten peer universities which includes Durham , St Andrews , UCL and Warwick . The universities are chosen because, like Exeter, they are research-intensive, offer

348-534: Is not necessary to attend any events, or become involved with helping. CICCU is led by Christian students from a wide variety of backgrounds, united in a common desire to "make Jesus Christ known to students in Cambridge." Past CICCU members have included Josh Moody , Basil Atkinson , Helen Roseveare , John W. Wenham , John Stott and Vaughan Roberts . The leadership operates on two levels – university wide and within colleges. A committee of eight students, known as

406-861: Is based in three buildings on the Streatham Campus: Geoffrey Pope, the Henry Wellcome building for Biocatalysis and the Hatherly Laboratories. The department has recently received significant investment to further develop its facilities, particularly with improvements to the Geoffrey Pope building. On the Streatham Campus , the Business School is spread over three buildings, located in close proximity to each other: Building:One, Xfi Building and Streatham Court. Building:One houses

464-599: Is primarily located in the city of Exeter, where it is the principal higher education institution. Streatham is the largest campus containing many of the university's administrative buildings. The Penryn campus is maintained in conjunction with Falmouth University under the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) initiative. The Exeter Streatham Campus Library holds more than 1.2 million physical library resources, including historical journals and special collections. It

522-596: Is still situated on St. Luke's Campus. UEMS was re-branded as the College of Medicine & Health in 2019. The Penryn Campus is a campus of the university in Penryn, Cornwall . The campus is part of the Combined Universities in Cornwall project, and is shared with Falmouth University . University of Exeter departments on the site include the internationally renowned Camborne School of Mines , whose graduates are highly sought after by mining and civil engineering industries as well as

580-461: Is symbolised by the book with gold edges and a Latin motto, Lucem sequimur ("We follow the light"). Exeter had the 13th highest average entry qualification for undergraduates of any UK university in 2015, with new students averaging 471 UCAS points . The university gives offers of admission to 90.8% of its applicants, the 2nd highest amongst the Russell Group . In the 2018/19 admission cycle,

638-592: Is that of the Institute of Cornish Studies, directed by Dr Garry Tregidga . It seeks to promote a greater knowledge of historical and contemporary Cornwall with a particular emphasis on the use of oral history through the Cornish Audio Visual Archive (CAVA) which is based at the institute. Cornwall Council is building the Tremough Innovation Centre (TIC) on land adjacent to the campus, with

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696-620: Is the chief ceremonial officer of the university and presides over occasions such as degree ceremonies. The vice-chancellor is the chief academic and executive officer and is supported by four deputy vice-chancellors. The current chancellor is Sir Michael Barber , who succeeded Paul Myners at the start of 2022. The vice-chancellor and president is Professor Lisa Roberts who joined the University as vice-chancellor in September 2020, following Sir Steve Smith's retirement. The university's visitor

754-579: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings Top 200 world universities for the first time in 2010/2011 (in 184th place), Exeter increased its global standing in 2011/2012, by ranking in 156th place. In the 2015/16 Times Higher Education World University Rankings , Exeter placed 93rd. Exeter was ranked 34th on the annual list of the top 500 major universities worldwide in the Leiden Rankings (2015). In

812-766: The Camborne School of Mines were established in 1838, 1855, 1863, and 1888 respectively. These institutions later formed the University of Exeter after receiving its royal charter in 1955. In post-nominals , the University of Exeter is abbreviated as Exon. (from the Latin Exoniensis ), and is the suffix given to honorary and academic degrees from the university. The university has four campuses: Streatham and St Luke's (both of which are in Exeter); and Truro and Penryn (both of which are in Cornwall ). The university

870-835: The Great Exhibition of 1851 , Exeter School of Art in 1855 and the Exeter School of Science in 1863 were founded. In 1868, the Schools of Art and Science relocated to Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Queen Street, Exeter, and, with support from the University of Cambridge , became the Exeter Technical and University Extension College in 1893. In 1900 its official title was changed to the Royal Albert Memorial College and

928-587: The renewable energy sector. Other departments at Penryn include the rapidly growing Centre for Ecology and Conservation (CEC), the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), and the Institute of Cornish Studies . Built in 2015, the Business School is based in the SERSF Building on our Penryn Campus. The building features a specially designed area for business engagement called 'The Collaboratory', and hosts

986-556: The "Ram" and a bar (previously called the "Ewe") within a nightclub called the Lemon Grove (or "Lemmy"), both run by the University of Exeter, formerly run by the Students Guild. The campus hosts a medical centre, a counselling service, a children's day-care centre and numerous catering outlets. Many halls of residence and some self-catering accommodation are located on this campus or in the near vicinity. The Northcott Theatre resides on

1044-401: The 2013 Institution of Structural Engineers award for Education or Healthcare structures for the project. In 2017, the £52 million Living Systems Institute was opened to pioneer research into living systems and the diagnosis and treatment of disease. St Luke's Campus is just over a mile from the larger Streatham campus and ten minutes' walk from the centre of Exeter. The campus is home to

1102-676: The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020 Subject Rankings, Exeter University ranked 11th in the world for public administration. In the QS World University Subject Rankings 2020, Exeter ranked 10th in the world for sport and health sciences and 14th for engineering in minerals and Mining. The university was named the Sunday Times University of the Year 2013. It was named Times Higher Education University of

1160-525: The Business School's MBA suite, La Touche café and several modern lecture theatres and seminar rooms. The Xfi Building is home to the school's Bloomberg Suite, a specialist IT room for detailed financial market data, and next to this is the Student IT Suite, also equipped with specialist software. Streatham Court is where you will find the Business School's Career Zone and Study Abroad Team, as well as

1218-747: The Council of the College to buy a major portion of the Streatham Estate. A slow move to the Streatham Estate from the centre of the city occurred over time. The first new building erected on the Streatham Estate was the Washington Singer building; the foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII ), then President of the University College of the South West of England. The building

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1276-507: The Exec organise CICCU. Two reps in each college lead college events and meetings. There are weekly meetings in almost every college during term time – these include Bible study, prayer and praise. The college groups then meet together as a whole for Bible Teaching and prayer each week. The CICCU organises weekly talks, explaining what Christians believe, and discussion groups (Christianity Explored courses). The college groups organise termly events in

1334-643: The Gulf States made it possible to build a new university library in 1983 and more recently have allowed for the creation of a new Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies; as of 2017, Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi , the ruler of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates – had given more than £8 million to Exeter University, and was described by the university as its "single most important supporter" in its 2007 annual report.   A further major donation enabled

1392-575: The Peninsula Medical School, created the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. St Luke's campus is the main site for the University of Exeter Medical School, which accepted its first students in 2013. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Cornwall was among the most significant metalliferous mining regions in the world. Camborne School of Mines was founded in 1888 to meet the needs of this local industry. Camborne School of Mines

1450-745: The Streatham estate as well as halls of residence for around 1,000 students. These included homes for the Chemistry and Physics departments, the Newman, Laver and Engineering Buildings and Streatham Court. Queen's Building had been opened for the Arts Faculty in 1959 and the Amory Building, housing Law and Social Sciences, followed in 1974. In the following two decades, considerable investment was made in developing new self-catering accommodation for students. Gifts from

1508-581: The United States, Australia ( Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students ), New Zealand ( Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship ) and across the globe. Students who become members of CICCU are asked to sign the following statement, "I desire in joining this Union to declare my faith in Jesus Christ as my Saviour, my Lord and my God". This was one of the issues in the dispute with the SCM. However, this declaration

1566-472: The University of Exeter and received its royal charter in 1955, exactly one hundred years after the formation of the original Exeter School of Art . Queen Elizabeth II presented the charter to the university on a visit to Streatham the following year. The university underwent a period of considerable expansion in the 1960s. Between 1963 and 1968, a period when the number of students at Exeter almost doubled, no fewer than ten major buildings were completed on

1624-583: The Year 2007. There are approximately 70 research centres and institutes within the university, including the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum , the Institute of Cornish Studies , the Environment and Sustainability Institute and the Marchmont Observatory . The Centre for Leadership Studies , now part of the University of Exeter Business School ,

1682-496: The aim of enabling existing and start-up companies to grow and thrive. The governance framework of the university is in its royal charter which was granted in 1955. The council is the university's governing body, with responsibility for institutional policies and financial, estates and legal matters. Academic governance is provided by the Senate which is responsible for teaching and learning, examinations and research. The chancellor

1740-464: The campus. In the early 2000s, the university benefited from an investment program worth more than £235 million. New student accommodation was constructed, including Holland Hall, named after the former vice-chancellor of the same name. Sports facilities, including a professional-standard tennis centre, have been completed in addition to an upgrade of the Students' Guild building. After a donation from

1798-579: The college moved to Bradninch Place in Gandy Street. The college was again renamed to the University College of the South West of England in 1922 after the college was incorporated under the Companies Act and included on the list of institutions eligible to receive funds from the then University Grants Committee . As was customary for new university institutions in England in the 19th and early 20th centuries,

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1856-401: The college prepared students for external degrees of the University of London . Alderman W. H. Reed, a former mayor of Exeter , donated Streatham Hall on the Streatham Estate to the new University College in 1922. Streatham Hall was renamed to Reed Hall after its benefactor. At the same time, the first principal of the University College, later Sir Hector Hetherington (1920–24), persuaded

1914-452: The colleges where people can come and find out more about Christianity. Every year there is a high-publicity main event, during which events are held in most of the colleges and there are lunchtime and evening talks. CICCU adopts the doctrinal basis of UCCF#Doctrinal basis , to which it is affiliated. Attitudes towards homosexuality have been a particular area of controversy, in particular during their 2004 Promise Week event, in which it

1972-633: The completion of the Xfi Centre for Finance and Investment . Since 2009, significant further investment has been made into new student accommodation, new buildings in The Exeter Business School , and the Forum: a new development for the centre of Streatham Campus. In 1838, the Exeter Diocesan Board of Education resolved to found an institution for the education and training of schoolmasters,

2030-495: The development and research sectors. A base for 55 firms in the city, the centre houses high-tech businesses from the software and biomedical sectors to advanced manufacturing and internet firms. The Innovation Centre is host to some of the most upwardly mobile small firms in the country, according to Experian in a report commissioned by the BBC . As a result of a £48 million investment, The Forum building includes new facilities including

2088-675: The first such initiative in England. As a result, a year later, the Exeter Diocesan Training College was created in Cathedral Close, Exeter at the former house of the Archdeacon of Totnes, adjacent to Exeter Cathedral . The first principal was appointed and the college opened in 1840. Expansion followed, and in 1853, John Hayward (who was later responsible for the design of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum )

2146-436: The institution for 2022–23 was £633.5 million of which £118.7 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £604.0 million. The university's origins can be traced back to three separate educational institutions that existed in the city of Exeter and in Cornwall in the middle of the 19th century. To celebrate the educational and scientific work of Prince Albert, and inspired by

2204-517: The largest academic school of the university, the Graduate School of Education. It shares the campus with the Department of Sport and Health Sciences. The future of St. Luke's Campus was the subject of a feasibility study in 2007, and a proposal was considered by the university to relocate one of the departments to the Streatham Campus to facilitate future expansion at St. Luke's. A final decision

2262-485: The locality. The triangular gold castle with three towers comes from Exeter's coat of arms and represents Rougemont Castle , as alluded to by the red background. The 15 gold bezants (Byzantine gold coins) that appear around the edge of the shield are from the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall and represent Cornwall , while the green cross on the white background is from the city of Plymouth 's coat of arms. The theme of learning

2320-548: The main rankings of universities in the United Kingdom the university is currently placed between 11th and 18th. In The Sunday Times 10-year (1998–2007) average ranking of British universities based on consistent league table performance, Exeter was ranked joint 26th overall in the UK. For 2016, it climbed to 7th place in the UK by The Times , 9th place by The Guardian and 10th place by The Complete University Guide. Entering

2378-569: The new BSc Business and Environment course. The campus is set in 100 acres (40 ha) of countryside, but close to the towns of Penryn and Falmouth . The campus has a population of around 4,000 students. All the Cornwall departments are constitutionally parts of departments also represented at the University's Exeter campuses, including the Camborne School of Mines, which is part of the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences. A driving force behind Cornish concentrated research

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2436-553: The ruler of the Sharjah emirate , Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi , an alumnus of the university, an extension was added to the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies building. He has donated more than £5m since 2001. In 2006, the Department of Drama completed a major renovation with the construction of the state of the art Alexander Building, named after the university's former Chancellor Lord Alexander . The Department of Biosciences

2494-481: The specialist Finance and Economics Experimental Laboratory at Exeter (FEELE), and high capacity, recently refurbished teaching rooms. The Exeter Innovation Centre, based at the Streatham Campus, has been completed in two phases. Phase I of the Innovation Centre was finished in 2000 with Phase II opening in 2008, creating a 37,000 sq ft (3,400 m ) building for use by new and growing businesses within

2552-494: The university gave out offers to only 4.7% of international applicants to the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of surgery (BMBS) programme making it one of the most competitive medical school for international applicants in the UK; in comparison 24.7% of UK/EU applicants received offers in the same admission cycle. In the 2016–17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 75:6:19 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with

2610-405: The university's new Cornwall Campus opened. Streatham is the main campus, sitting on a hillside one side of which looks down across Exeter city centre. The Independent has described the campus environment as "sublime". The campus has several galleries, including the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum . A Sculpture Walk includes pieces by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth . There is a bar called

2668-587: The warmth of their welcome, and the depth of their conviction. From this point the usual tenure was from the Easter Term of one year to the Lent Term of the next Sources in the Cambridge University Library Lent term Lent term , named for Lent , the six-week fasting period before Easter , is the name of the winter academic term at the following British universities : and

2726-670: The year). Schools in the United Kingdom which use the name 'Lent term' include: This article relating to the University of Cambridge is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Exeter University Penryn – 70 acres (28 ha) The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England , with its main campus in Exeter , Devon . Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College , Exeter School of Science , Exeter School of Art , and

2784-498: Was 40 students. In parallel, at the Royal Albert Memorial College , an initiative within the Arts and Sciences department in 1912 eventually led to the formation of an Institute of Education (of which St Luke's College was a constituent member) and a separate department of Extra Mural Studies for the purposes of teacher training. Exeter Diocesan Training College was formally renamed to St Luke's College Exeter in 1930 and became co-educational in 1966. In 1978, St Luke's College Exeter

2842-415: Was alleged that homosexual relations were equated with bestiality . CICCU members deny that their organisation is anti-gay, stressing "equality in the sight of God", and point out that they love homosexual and heterosexual friends equally, as does God.. Recent comment on the CICCU has been more ambivalent – surprised by the intense focus on sharing rather than simply maintaining their faith, but impressed by

2900-455: Was commissioned to design a purpose built premises for the college on Heavitree Road. The building, largely built in grey limestone from Torbay with Bath Stone dressings, was completed by the autumn of the following year. On 18 October 1854, after a service in Exeter Cathedral , an opening ceremony for the new buildings was held. From this date in 1854 (St Luke's Day), the college was unofficially known as St Luke's. The college's intake in 1854

2958-434: Was incorporated into the University of Exeter. Initiatives by the university and others to expand the provision of higher education in Cornwall resulted in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) initiative in 1999. As part of this initiative, Penryn , just outside Falmouth , became the site of the Penryn Campus, a facility shared with Falmouth University . Camborne School of Mines relocated to Penryn during 2004 when

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3016-446: Was incorporated into the University of Exeter. A faculty was created incorporating the university's Institute of Education and St Luke's College Exeter into a new School of Education. The Peninsula Medical School was established in 2000 in conjunction with the University of Plymouth and the National Health Service , based at St Luke's and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital . The School of Dentistry opened in 2007 and, together with

3074-514: Was located in the centre of Camborne for almost a century but, following major investment by the international mining industry and others, relocated in 1975 to purpose-built facilities midway between Camborne and Redruth . Significant expansion and diversification of teaching and research provision occurred during the 1980s and early 1990s, including the development of undergraduate and taught postgraduate degree programmes in geology, environmental science and surveying. In 1993, Camborne School of Mines

3132-452: Was one of the pre-World War II local university colleges granted university status in the 1950s, as part of the second wave of civic universities . In 2012, Exeter joined the Russell Group of research-intensive UK universities. It is also a member of Universities UK , the European University Association , and the Association of Commonwealth Universities and an accredited institution of the Association of MBAs (AMBA). The annual income of

3190-413: Was opened in 1931. The first of the purpose-built halls of residence, Mardon Hall, opened in 1933. The second academic building on the estate was the Roborough Library named in recognition of the interest taken in the development of the college by the first Lord Roborough , one of its early benefactors. Roborough Library was completed around 1939. The University College of the South West of England became

3248-411: Was part of the Student Christian Movement , which it left in 1910 to provide a specifically conservative evangelical ministry in Cambridge. Again, OICCU and other Unions followed them in this move, and together they founded the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions in 1928, which now the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship or UCCF . UCCF spread to Canada in the same year and later to

3306-401: Was taken by the university management team in July 2007, with the Graduate School of Education, the Department of Sport and Health Sciences, and the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry remaining in residence at St. Luke's. The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry has now split into the University of Exeter Medical School (UEMS) and the University of Plymouth Medical School. UEMS

3364-547: Was the name of the autumn term at the University of Sydney before it swapped over to the two semester system in 1989. It was also formerly used at King's College London , University of Kent , Exeter University , University of Wales, Lampeter , University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Heythrop College, University of London . The term runs from January to March and thus corresponds to Hilary term at Oxford and Trinity College Dublin , and Epiphany term at Durham . At Sydney , it ran from March to May (10th to 22nd Mondays of

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