Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a
public university
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in
East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by
William John Beamont
William John Beamont (1828–1868) was an English clergyman and author.
Life
Beamont was born at Warrington, Lancashire, 16 January 1828, being the only son of William Beamont, solicitor and author of ''Annals of the Lords of Warrington'', and o ...
in 1858. It became a university in 1992, and was renamed after
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and pol ...
in 2005. It is one of the “
post-1992 universities
In the UK, a post-1992 university, synonymous with new university or modern university, is a former polytechnic or central institution that was given university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, or an institution that ...
”.
Anglia Ruskin has 39,400 students worldwide with campuses in
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a College town, university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cam ...
,
Chelmsford
Chelmsford () is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It ...
,
Peterborough
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...
, and
London
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. It shares further campuses with the
College of West Anglia
The College of West Anglia (often abbreviated to CoWA or CWA) is a four-campus college of further and higher education in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, England. The college has three campuses, located in King's Lynn, Milton and Wisbech, Cambridges ...
in
King's Lynn,
Wisbech
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, and
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a College town, university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cam ...
, and has partnerships with universities around the world including Berlin, Budapest, Trinidad and Tobago, 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 2021, Anglia Ruskin University received
The Queen's Anniversary Prize for world-leading music therapy research. In 2019, the School of Medicine was formally opened at its Chelmsford campus by
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
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. 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
Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales. It has traditionally been considered one of the " Big Four" clearing banks. Lloyds Bank is the largest retail bank in Britain, and has an exte ...
National Business Awards 2016.
History
![Anglia Ruskin Cambridge Main, 28 Sep, 2012](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Anglia_Ruskin_Cambridge_Main%2C_28_Sep%2C_2012.jpg)
Anglia Ruskin University has its origins in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by
William John Beamont
William John Beamont (1828–1868) was an English clergyman and author.
Life
Beamont was born at Warrington, Lancashire, 16 January 1828, being the only son of William Beamont, solicitor and author of ''Annals of the Lords of Warrington'', and o ...
in 1858. The inaugural address was given by
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and pol ...
(often incorrectly described as the founder; in fact he founded the
Ruskin School of Drawing
The Ruskin School of Art, known as the Ruskin, is an art school at the University of Oxford, England. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division.
History
The Ruskin grew out the Oxford School of Art, which was founded in 1865 and later became ...
in Oxford). The original location was near
Sidney Sussex College
Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1596 under the terms of the will of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), wife ...
, later moving to its present location in East Road,
Cambridge
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. The governing body in the 1920s included two remarkable pioneers in the civic history of Cambridge, Clara Dorothea Rackham and Lilian Mellish Clarke after whom buildings on the East Road campus were later named. In 1960 this became the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT) In 1989 CCAT merged with the Essex Institute of Higher Education, which was originally a vocational school named Chelmsford School of Science and Art and was later known as Mid Essex Technical College and Chelmer Institute of Higher Education, to form the Anglia Higher Education College. The merged college became a
polytechnic
Polytechnic is most commonly used to refer to schools, colleges, or universities that qualify as an institute of technology or vocational university also sometimes called universities of applied sciences.
Polytechnic may also refer to:
Educatio ...
in 1991, using the name Anglia Polytechnic, and was then awarded university status in 1992.
Initially Anglia Polytechnic University (APU), it retained the word 'polytechnic' in its title because "the term 'polytechnic' still had value to students and their potential employers, symbolising as it did the sort of education that they were known for – equipping students with effective practical skills for the world of work"
although in 2000 there was some self-doubt about including the term 'polytechnic' – it was the only university in the country to have done so. Wanting to keep the 'APU' abbreviation, a suggestion put forward by the governors was 'Anglia Prior University' (after a former Chancellor), but the Governors decided to keep 'polytechnic' in the title.
The university eventually reconsidered a name change and chose Anglia Ruskin University (thus incorporating into the title the surname of John Ruskin, who gave the inaugural address of the Cambridge School of Art), with the new name taking effect following the approval of the
Privy Council on 29 September 2005.
Former students included the Victorian poet, Augusta Webster, who signed John Stuart Mill's petition for votes of women in 1866. Past lecturers include
Odile Crick
Odile Crick (11 August 1920 – 5 July 2007) was a British artist best known for her drawing of the double helix structure of DNA discovered by her husband Francis Crick and his partner James D. Watson in 1953. , wife of
Francis Crick, who created the simple iconic image of
DNA.
The musician
Syd Barrett, songwriter and leading guitarist of the band,
Pink Floyd is an alumnus. Author
Tom Sharpe
Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March 1928 – 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist, best known for his '' Wilt'' series, as well as ''Porterhouse Blue'' and ''Blott on the Landscape,'' all three of which were adapted for television.
Life ...
was a lecturer in history at CCAT between 1963 and 1972 and
Anne Campbell, the Labour MP for Cambridge from 1992 to 2005, was formerly a lecturer in Statistics at CCAT. A blue plaque to the leading educationalist,
Dame Leah Manning, MP was erected in 2019 at the former
ragged school in Young Street acquired by the university in 2006 and subsequently converted into the Anglia Ruskin University Institute of Music Therapy.
Chelmsford Campus move
The Chelmsford Central campus closed at the end of the 2007/8 academic year, with all facilities moving to the new buildings at the Rivermead campus (now called the Chelmsford Campus) on Bishop Hall Lane.
Three buildings were saved – the East building (built 1931), the Frederick Chancellor building (built 1902), and the Grade-2-listed Anne Knight building (built in the mid-19th century), which was used by
Quakers
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. The East and Frederick Chancellor buildings fall under a conservation area, meaning they cannot be demolished without planning permission, as they are historically important due to their uses in the early days of higher education in Essex. The site is currently vacant due to the recession halting development which had been planned for many years; however, new plans have been released by Genesis Housing, who currently own the site.
The Chelmsford Campus facilities include a mock law court, mock hospital wards and operating theatres and labs.
Student complaints, 2014
In a
BBC News
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article from 3 June 2014, Anglia Ruskin University was reported to have received more complaints and appeals from its students than any of the other 120 universities who responded to freedom of information requests. In the year 2012/13 it received 992 "complaints and appeals".
In response, Lesley Dobree, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic), said that only 9 of the 992 recorded complaints were actual complaints – the others were protests about examination and assignment marking. It is not known if the BBC responded to this, or if the other universities in the list were assessed by the same criteria.
The article further stated the case of a group of students from the Chelmsford campus, who were abruptly informed that their Legal Practice Course was moved 45 miles to the Cambridge campus. They would therefore be limited to only two days of face-to-face teaching, having to watch the remaining lectures online rather than attend them live.
In 2019, Pok Wong, a 2014 graduate of Anglia Ruskin University, received a £61,000 out-of-court settlement from the university after suing it for
false advertising, alleging a low quality of teaching. The university has maintained that the payout does not prove that the university was at fault.
Entrepreneurship
Anglia Ruskin was awarded Entrepreneurial University of the Year in the 2014 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards.
Rescinding the degree of pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho
Anglia Ruskin bestowed
Junius Ho
Junius Ho Kwan-yiu (; born 4 June 1962) is a Hong Kong lawyer and politician who currently serves as a member in the Hong Kong Legislative Council. a prominent pro Beijing figure in Hong Kong’s political landscape, he formerly served as pre ...
, a pro-Beijing lawmaker in Hong Kong, with an Honorary Doctor of Laws in 2011. During the
2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Ho was accused of supporting the people who committed the
2019 Yuen Long attack
The 2019 Yuen Long attack, also known as the 721 incident, refers to a mob attack that occurred in Yuen Long, a town in the New Territories in Hong Kong, on the evening of 21 July 2019. It took place in the context of the 2019–2020 Hong Ko ...
.
In response to the controversial speech by Ho,
David Alton
David Patrick Paul Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool, (born 15 March 1951) is a British politician.
He is a former Liberal Party and later Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament who has sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 1997 ...
wrote to the university regarding the matter. Lord Alton urged the University to retract Ho's honorary doctoral degree. It was confirmed by the university that Ho was deprived of his degree on 29 October 2019.
Campuses
The university has campuses in Cambridge, Chelmsford and Peterborough, University Centres in
King's Lynn and Peterborough, and
collaborative partnerships
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with institutions in a variety of locations throughout the world, including London,
Berlin
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,
Budapest
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,
Athens
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,
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Kuala Lumpur
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Singapore
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and
Trinidad
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.
Facilities
Anglia Ruskin's Cambridge Campus is home to one of only 9
optometry schools in the UK, having its own optometry clinic.
The Cambridge campus has recently been redeveloped, which began with the refurbishment of Helmore, the main building on East Road, completed in 2006. In 2009, one of the university's largest buildings, Rackham, in the centre of the campus, was demolished to make way for the new Lord Ashcroft International Business School. The Mumford Theatre, which presents a range of professional touring, local community and student theatre for both the public and members of the university, is housed at the centre of the campus. From 2015, a new building at Young Street hosted the health courses, like nursing, midwifery, paramedic, ODP etc.
The Chelmsford campus houses the Queen's Building (opened in 1995) and the Sawyer's Building (opened in 2001). The Michael A Ashcroft Building opened in 2003 (renamed the Lord Ashcroft Building); the Mildmay Sports Centre, and the Tindal Building, in 2005; the William Harvey Building in 2007; The Faculty Building (renamed The Marconi Building in 2011) in 2008; and the Postgraduate Medical Institute building – named as Michael Salmon Building in 2017 -, opened 2011. In May 2017, the work has started on the building of Essex's first School of Medicine.
The Cambridge, Chelmsford, and Peterborough campuses have accommodation for students to live in during term-time.
Ruskin Gallery
The Ruskin Gallery is the university's public art gallery. Admission is free. Exhibits have included historic and contemporary art, as well as works by students and staff. The gallery is surrounded by fine art, illustration, design, and media studios. On 9 May 2011 Ruskin Gallery unveiled its new digital gallery, which displays art in a digital format on High Definition screens, including the world's first Panasonic 103" 3D Full HD plasma screen.
Organisation and administration
![Mellish Clark, Anglia Ruskin, 21 June, 2013](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Mellish_Clark%2C_Anglia_Ruskin%2C_21_June%2C_2013.jpg)
There are four Faculties of study at Anglia Ruskin University:
* Faculty of Business and Law
* Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
* Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine & Social Care
* Faculty of Science & Engineering
HSHS, the former Homerton School of Health Studies, was acquired by the University from the Trustees of
Homerton College
Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century. In 1894, the co ...
in 2005, after working closely in partnership for a number of years.
Faculties and Schools
Lord Ashcroft International Business School
The university's Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) in
Cambridge
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and
Chelmsford
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is one of the largest business schools in the
East of England, with nearly 100 full-time teaching staff and approximately 7,200 students from over 100 countries.
LAIBS is a member of the
EFMD and offers degrees. Several programmes of the LAIBS are accredited by
ACCA and
CIMA, and many other professional bodies in the United Kingdom.
The school is named after former student at Mid-Essex Technical College, a predecessor institution that is now part of ARU, and former Chancellor of ARU (2001 until 2021)
Lord Ashcroft
Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, (born 4 March 1946) is a British-Belizean businessman, pollster and politician. He is a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Ashcroft founded Michael A. Ashcroft Associates in 1972 and is ...
. In January 2020 Lord Ashcroft stepped down after nearly 20 years as Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University, with
Lord Ribeiro appointed as his successor.
During his time as Chancellor, Lord Ashcroft made a significant donations totalling £10 million to build two state-of-the-art Lord Ashcroft International Business School facilities in Chelmsford and Cambridge.
Faculty of Science & Technology
The Faculty of Science & Technology was one of the largest faculties at Anglia Ruskin University, with six departments spread across both Cambridge and Chelmsford campuses.
The Department of Built Environment was a large multidisciplinary department with the most comprehensive Built Environment portfolio in Eastern England and is based at the Chelmsford campus.
The Department of Computing and Technology was located at both the Chelmsford and Cambridge campuses. The department maintained close links with the electronics, software, automotive and creative industries, and is a Cisco Systems Regional Networking Academy.
The Department of Life Sciences was located at the Cambridge campus. State-of-the art industry-standard equipment for teaching includes well-equipped laboratories, gas and liquid chromatographic systems, and facilities for drugs analysis, toxicology, fire investigation and DNA analysis.
The Department of Psychology was based at the Cambridge campus. It was recognised for its performance in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise, making it the UK's top-rated Psychology department in a post-1992 university for the quality of its research.
The Department of Vision & Hearing Sciences was based at the Cambridge Campus for Optometry and Ophthalmic Dispensing
Research: Psychology, Vision, and Environmental Sciences research was rated as "world leading" or of "international" quality in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise. Successes include discoveries of new animal species, design of new car bonnets for improved pedestrian safety, and leading study in the first to study the toxic effects of
benzylpiperazine
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(BZP).
Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences
The Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (ALSS) offered courses from Foundation to PhD level through its five departments, which include the Cambridge School of Art itself.
The faculty also housed the Anglia Ruskin University Language Centre, which provided language training and courses to students, staff and the general public, and supports 11 research clusters, including the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute (CoDE) Research Institute.
Anglia Law School runs courses on both Cambridge and Chelmsford campuses, with a mock courtroom on each. Course provision includes undergraduate, postgraduate, research and professional qualifications. Their LLB (Hons) Law was rated in the top third of undergraduate law courses in the Guardian League Tables 2013.
![Anglia Ruskin Chelmsford](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Anglia_Ruskin_Chelmsford.jpg)
Cambridge School of Art is home to some 800 students studying for undergraduate, taught masters and doctoral qualifications. Its graduates include
Syd Barrett and
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd,
Spitting Image
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Creators Peter Fluck and Roger Law and Creator of St Trinian's
Ronald Searle
Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's S ...
.
English, Communication, Film and Media. The department offered courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and research level over three programmes: Film and Media; English Literature, writing and publishing; and English Language and Intercultural Communication. Their Film and Media provision ranked in the top quarter, and BA (Hons) in the top third, of The Guardian University League Table 2013.
Humanities and Social Sciences. Offered courses in History, Philosophy, Sociology, Public Service and Psychosocial Studies at undergraduate, postgraduate and degree level. Their History and Sociology provision both ranked in the top third of The Guardian University League Table 2013, while Philosophy ranked 16th.
Music and Performing Arts. Offers courses at undergraduate level in Music, Drama, Creative Music Technology, Popular Music and Performing Arts and at postgraduate level in Music Therapy and Dramatherapy. Research Degree supervision is also offered in a range of subjects. The department organises a varied programme of events each semester, including Lunchtime Concerts, Anglia Opera and Festival Week, and provides individual instrumental and vocal tuition.
Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine & Social Care
Following a restructure of the university in 2018 the Faculty of Medical Science and the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education merged to form the new Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care. The merger also involved a transition from a department organisation to a school based one. This saw the School of Economics, Finance and Law move to the new Faculty of Business and Law. The University now contains 13 schools.
The Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education was based in Chelmsford, Cambridge, and Peterborough. The Faculty is divided in 5 departments including Acute Care, Allied Health & Medicine, Education, Family & Community Studies and Primary & Public Health.
The Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education offers courses over a range of study levels, from foundation and undergraduate degrees to postgraduate qualifications. A variety of disciplines were available from nursing, operating department practice and social work to midwifery, education studies, public health and
laparoscopic
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surgery.
The former Faculty of Medical Science built on the international reputation of ARU's Postgraduate Medical Institute (PMI) on its Chelmsford campus, the Faculty of Medical Science (FMS) opened in 2014. The Faculty runs courses at the Department of Allied & Public Health and the Department of Medicine & Healthcare Science. It is home to the university's nascent School of Medicine which is the third department of this Faculty. The Faculty offers medical and clinically-focussed undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level degrees.
It merged with the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education in 2018 to become the new Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care.
On 10 October 2016, Anglia Ruskin announced that they planned to open Essex's first School of Medicine at its Chelmsford Campus. The purpose built brand new medical school would be the first undergraduate medical school in Essex and would cost £20-million to build. The medical school would include state-of-the-art skills facilities, specialist teaching space, a lecture theatre and a cadaveric anatomy suite.
On 19 May 2017, Anglia Ruskin announced that it has begun works to build the purpose built medical school on its Chelmsford Campus, due to be opened in September 2018.
Chief Executive of
,
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust
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It ...
and
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust which ran Southend University Hospital. It merged with two other trusts to form Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April 2020.
History
The trust was es ...
, Clare Panniker, attended the event alongside other officials.
On 21 September 2017, the university announced that the
General Medical Council had approved its curriculum and that the university now had official School of Medicine status.
In 2019 the School was formally opened by
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, (Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick; born 9 October 1935) is a member of the British royal family. Queen Elizabeth II and Edward were first cousins through their fathers, King George VI, and Prince George, Duke ...
.
ARU Peterborough
On 14 July 2020 the Minister of State for Universities Michelle Donelan has announced Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) as the official higher education partner for a new employment-focused university in Peterborough, an initiative by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) in collaboration with Peterborough City Council (PCC). The campus will also include a materials and manufacturing research and development centre inhabited by 3D printing specialists Photocentric, who have teamed up with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority to create the facility on the new Peterborough university campus
Research Institutes
Anglia Ruskin has 7 research institutes.
* Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research
* Global Sustainability Institute
* Policing Institute for the Eastern Region
* Positive Ageing Research Institute
* StoryLab Research Institute
* Veterans and Families Research Institute
* Vision and Eye Research Institute (formerly Vision and Eye Research Unit, VERU
Academic profile
Research
The 12 subject areas within Anglia Ruskin classified by the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 as producing "world-leading" research are: Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy; Architecture, Built Environment and Planning; Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory; Business and Management Studies; Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management; English Language and Literature; Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology; History; Law; Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts; Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Social Work and Social Policy.
An investigation performed at the end of 2007 by the
QAA reveal that as a result of its investigations, the audit team's view of Anglia Ruskin University is that "confidence can reasonably be placed in the soundness of the institution's present and likely future management of the academic standards of the awards that it offers and the quality of the learning opportunities available to students". However, an external inspection of Initial Teacher Education revealed inadequacies in 2010. The areas highlighted were the effectiveness of the provision in securing high quality outcomes for trainees, and the extent to which the training and assessment ensures that all trainees progress to fulfill their potential given their ability and starting points. It was only the Primary ITE that was found to be inadequate in the inspection, the Secondary and FE ITE were awarded a mark of satisfactory. Since this inspection, the Primary ITE has been awarded 'satisfactory' grades by
Ofsted in May 2011 and 'good' in 2012.
Rankings
Anglia Ruskin was named the UK 'Entrepreneurial University of the Year' at the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2014. Anglia Ruskin University was awarded a First in the Green League 2012 by People & Planet. The league is based on ten environmental criteria, both policy and performance related. It incorporates data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, including the percentage of waste recycled and
CO2 emissions for each individual institution. Anglia Ruskin University has been named as one of the most upwardly mobile universities in the world.
The list, produced by Higher Education strategy consultants Firetail and published by Times Higher Education, includes Anglia Ruskin as one of the 20 "rising stars" in global Higher Education. Anglia Ruskin is the only UK university to feature in the top 20. Nine of the "rising stars" are located in the United States, with universities in Australia, South Korea, Japan, Germany, and Finland completing the list. Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is ranked within the top 350 universities in the world and ranked joint 38th in the UK by the ''
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
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'' ''2020''.
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
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National Business Awards 2016.
Notable alumni
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*
Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft
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, English investor, billionaire and former
Conservative
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vice chairman
*
Eddie Ballard
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Having been educated at Hockerill Anglo-European College, Ballard undertook his un ...
, former English cricketer for
Cambridge UCCE and
Hertfordshire
*
Syd Barrett and
David Gilmour, Pink Floyd members
*
Chris Beckett, academic, author and science-fiction novelist
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Manish Bhasin
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, sports journalist and BBC presenter
*
Henry Brock
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Coaching career College of Emporia
Brock was hea ...
, specialist linguist at
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
and illustrator
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John Burnside
John Burnside FRSL FRSE (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer. He is one of only three poets (the others being Ted Hughes and Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book (''Black C ...
, academic and
T. S. Eliot Prize winning author
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Elsie Vera Cole
Elsie Vera Cole (27 July 1885 – 2 January 1967) was an English painter, engraver and art teacher.
Biography
Cole was born in Braintree in Essex to the congregational minister William Cole and his wife Ellen née Holmes. Cole went to school i ...
, artist
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Nick Crane, English geographer and TV presenter
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Sarah-Jane Crawford
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, TV Presenter, Radio Presenter and Model
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Geraldine Finlayson, researcher and director of
John Mackintosh Hall
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History
T ...
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Peter Fluck
Peter Nigel Fluck (born 7 April 1941) is a British caricaturist and one half of the partnership known as ''Luck and Flaw'' (with Roger Law), creators of the popular satirical TV puppet show ''Spitting Image''.
He attended Cambridgeshire High ...
and
Roger Law
Roger Law (born 6 September 1941, in Littleport, Cambridgeshire), is a British caricaturist, ceramist and one half of ''Luck and Flaw'' (with Peter Fluck), creators of the popular satirical TV puppet show ''Spitting Image''. Roger Law was a pi ...
, creators of ''
Spitting Image
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''
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Angela Hartnett
Angela Maria Hartnett (born September 1968) is an English Michelin-starred chef. A protégée of Gordon Ramsay who became well known by her appearances on British television, she was Chef-Patron at Angela Hartnett at The Connaught in London. Cu ...
, entrepreneur and chef
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Kim Howells
Kim Scott Howells (born 27 November 1946) is a Welsh Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 1989 to 2010, and held a number of ministerial positions within the Blair and Brown governments.
Biography
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,
Labour
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* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
politician and former Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee
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Patrick Le Quément Patrick may refer to:
* Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name
* Patrick (surname), list of people with this name
People
* Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint
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, automobile engineer and former chief designer at
Renault
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Ricardo P. Lloyd, British actor
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Devant Maharaj, former Senator and Minister of Food Production, Trinidad and Tobago
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Ian Miller, English footballer
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Magdalene Odundo,a ceramic artist graduate and 2022 Honorary Doctorate of Arts.
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Tony Palladino, English cricketer
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Anders Holch Povlsen, owner and CEO of
Bestseller
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Shoo Rayner
Shoo Rayner (born 1956) is a British children's author and illustrator. He was born Hugh Rayner to a Norwegian mother and a British father.
Background
Rayner's father served in the British Army, so his family moved around a great deal. His format ...
, author and illustrator
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Philip Reeve
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, author and illustrator of children's books
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Nicky Richards
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Nicholas Gordon Richards (born 25 February 1956 in Alnwick, Northumberland) is a British racehorse trainer specialising mainly in National Hunt racing. He is based at stables at Greystoke, near Penrith, C ...
, CEO and Chief Investment Officer MLC Asset Management
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Andrew Sayer, English economist, professor of Social Theory and Political Economy at
Lancaster University
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Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal
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,
Labour
Labour or labor may refer to:
* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
politician,
Commonwealth Secretary-General
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, government policy-maker, former minister, attorney general and president of
Chatham House
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Ronald Searle
Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's S ...
, creator of
St Trinian's
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Michal Shalev
Michal Shalev (Hebrew: מיכל שלו) is an Israeli author and illustrator of children's books. She has an MA in children's book illustration from the Cambridge School of Art
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East An ...
, author and illustrator of children's books
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Tim Stokely
Timothy Christopher Stokely (born July 1983) is a British businessman and the founder and former CEO of the internet site OnlyFans. He has been described by ''The Sunday Times'' as "the king of homemade porn".
Early life
Tim Stokely was born in ...
, CEO of
OnlyFans
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Mark Wood, businessman, accountant and chairman of
NSPCC
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a British child protection charity.
History
Victorian era
On a trip to New York in 1881, Liverpudlian businessman Thomas Agnew was inspired by a visit to the New Yor ...
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Barbara Yung
Barbara Yung Mei-ling (, 7 May 1959 – 14 May 1985) was a Hong Kong famous actress during the early 1980s. Yung died of suicide by gas inhalation at the age of 26, during the peak of her career.Her most popular acting role was Huang Rong in Th ...
, Hong Kong actress
See also
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Armorial of UK universities
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Cambridge Theological Federation
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List of universities in the United Kingdom
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Notes
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