, mottoeng = The Lord is our Strength
, type =
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, established = 1838: Royal Polytechnic Institution
1891: Polytechnic-Regent Street
1970: Polytechnic of Central London
1992: University of Westminster
, endowment =
£5.1 million
, budget =
£205.1 million
, chancellor =
Lady Sorrell
, vice_chancellor = Peter Bonfield
, students = ()
, undergrad = ()
, postgrad = ()
, city =
London
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, country =
United Kingdom
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, colours = Royal blue, Fuchsia
, website
www.westminster.ac.uk, logo = Navbar-westminster-logo.svg
, affiliations =
The University of Westminster is a
public
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university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first
polytechnic
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to open in London.
The Polytechnic formally received a
Royal charter
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in August 1839, and became the University of Westminster in
1992
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.
Westminster has its main campus in
Regent Street
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in
central London
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, with additional campuses in
Fitzrovia
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,
Marylebone
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and
Harrow. It also operates the
Westminster International University in Tashkent
Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) is the first international university in Uzbekistan and first in Central Asia to offer Western education, with United Kingdom (UK) qualifications. WIUT was established in 2002 in partnersh ...
in
Uzbekistan
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. The university is organised into three colleges and 12 schools, within which there are around 65 departments and centres, including the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) and the Centre for the Study of Democracy. It also has its
Policy Studies Institute,
Business School
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and
Law School
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. Westminster had an income of £205.1 million for 2017–2018, of which £22 million was from funding grants, research grants and contracts.
The university is a member of the
Association of Commonwealth Universities
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, the
Association of MBAs
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Roles
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,
EFMD,
EQUIS
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, and the
European University Association
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.
Westminster's alumni include a
Nobel laureate in Medicine, the inventor of
cordite
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,
heads of state
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, politicians and
mayor
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s,
Olympians, scientists,
BAFTA- and
Oscar
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-winning filmmakers,
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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inductees,
Grammy Award
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-winning musicians, journalists, and poets.
History
1837–1881: Royal Polytechnic Institution
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The Royal Polytechnic Institution was built by William Mountford Nurse in 1837 and opened at 309 Regent Street on 6 August 1838 to provide (in the words of its prospectus of 1837) “an institution where the Public, at little expense, may acquire practical knowledge of the various arts and branches of science connected with manufacturers, mining operations and rural economy.”
Sir George Cayley
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(1773–1857), the "father of aeronautical engineering", was the first chairman and the Polytechnic formally received a Royal charter in August 1839.
The Polytechnic housed a large exhibition hall, lecture theatre and laboratories, and public attractions included working machines and models, scientific lectures and demonstrations, rides in a diving bell and, from 1839, demonstrations of photography. Prince Albert visited the institution in 1840, when he descended in the diving bell, and became a patron in 1841. The first public photographic portrait studio in Europe opened on the roof of the Polytechnic in March 1841.
In 1847,
John Henry Pepper
John Henry "Professor" Pepper (17 June 1821 – 25 March 1900) was a British scientist and inventor who toured the English-speaking world with his scientific demonstrations. He entertained the public, royalty, and fellow scientists with a wide r ...
joined the Polytechnic and oversaw the introduction of evening lectures in engineering, applied science and technical subjects for young working Londoners. Pepper wrote several important science education books, one of which is regarded as a significant step towards the understanding of
continental drift
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.
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In 1848, a theatre was added to the building, purpose-built to accommodate the growing audiences for the Polytechnic's optical shows. These combined magic lantern images with live performances, music, ghosts and spectres, spreading the fame of what was arguably the world's first permanent projection theatre.
In 1862, inventor
Henry Dircks
Henry Dircks FRSE FCS (26 August 1806– 17 September 1873) was an English engineer who is considered to have been the main designer of the projection technique known as ''Pepper's ghost'' in 1858. It is named after John Henry Pepper who impleme ...
developed the
Dircksian Phantasmagoria
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, where it was seen by Pepper in a booth set up by Dircks at the Polytechnic.
Pepper first showed the effect during a scene of Charles Dickens's novella ''
The Haunted Man'' (1848) at the Regent Street theatre to great success. However, Pepper's implementation of the effect tied his name to it permanently. Though he tried many times to give credit to Dircks, the title "
Pepper's ghost
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It is named after the English scientist John Henry Pepper (1821–1900) who began popularising the effect with a theatre ...
" has endured.
Under the chairmanship of
Joseph Butterworth Owen
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, the Royal Polytechnic Institution increased its presence in formal classes for young men traditionally denied the opportunity of higher education in the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century. Expansion gradually gave way to financial difficulty, reflecting a long-standing tension between education and the need to run a successful business. A fatal accident on the premises in 1859 caused the first institution to be wound up and a new one formed. Various regeneration schemes were considered, but in 1879 a fire damaged the roof, precipitating the final crisis.
1881–1970: Polytechnic Regent Street
In September 1881, the Royal Polytechnic Institution closed, marking a transition to new ownership and a new era of educational development. Christian philanthropist
Quintin Hogg (1845–1903) acquired the lease to the building in December 1881 for £15,000, and the premises re-opened on 25 September 1882. About 6,000 members and students – three times the anticipated number – attended during the first 1882/3 session. The institute gradually adopted the name the Polytechnic Young Men's Christian Institute, or simply, the Polytechnic, for short.
From 1882 an expanded programme of classes began, including science, engineering and art classes held in conjunction with the Science and Art Department (of the Board of Trade), and a scheme of technical and trade education, related to the
City and Guilds of London Institute
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of Technical Instruction and to the London Trades Council. The building housed classrooms, a swimming bath, gymnasium, and a refreshment room. Activities included daily chapels, Parliamentary debating, a Reading Circle, music and drama societies and several sports clubs.
In the early 1880s the Institute attracted much favourable attention from the technical education lobby. Following the City of London Parochial Charities Act in 1883, it became clear that funds would be available to endow the Polytechnic and to found and support institutions on the same model across London. A public appeal was launched in 1888 to raise the required matching funding. The Scheme was finalised under the auspices of the Charity Commissioners in 1891, when the Institute was reconstituted as The Polytechnic-Regent Street (often referred to as the Regent Street Polytechnic), managed by a newly created governing body.
On 21 February 1896, the first performance of a moving film (
Cinématographe
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) to a paying UK audience was delivered by the
Lumière brothers
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at the Regent Street Cinema. For this reason the cinema has been described as "the birthplace of British cinema".
The building at 309 Regent Street was rebuilt in 1910–1912 to reflect the needs of a growing institution whose student members exceeded 15,000. Pioneering work in emerging professional and commercial disciplines, alongside general interest subjects, was the hallmark of the institution. When
Hogg died in 1903, he was succeeded as President by Sir
Kynaston Studd
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Family
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(1858–1944), who remained in office until his death in 1944, and did much to continue the traditions of the founder. Two major appeals were launched to support expansion, the first for the rebuilding of 309 Regent Street in 1910–1912, and the second to build the Polytechnic Extension building for the Women's Institute in Little Titchfield Street, which was formally opened in 1929. Both buildings continued to provide sporting and social facilities for members of the Institute as well as workshops and classrooms for students of the Education Department.
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The Education Department provided a wide range of courses, with a rapid expansion of commercial subjects alongside the original trade and technical classes. Courses ranged from post-elementary school entry for craft and technical training at 13 to degrees accredited by the
University of London
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external degrees programme. Most teaching was in the evening and part-time, though day classes increased throughout the period. Following World War Two there was a rapid growth in the demand for further education and training, which was reorganised following the White Paper on Technical Education in 1956.
The variety of levels of work at Regent Street meant that it was designated a regional college rather than a college of advanced technology, after which the governors decided to reduce the proportion of lower level work. Following the establishment of the Council for National Academic Awards (
CNAA
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) in 1964, a number of degree courses were approved and became operational; including Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, Civil, Building, Production, and Manufacturing), Architecture, Photography (1966), Arts Administration (1967), Life Sciences (1973) and Media Studies (1975).
1970–1992: Polytechnic of Central London
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In 1960 the
London County Council
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announced a plan to turn Regent Street into a tri-partite federal college by adding a new College of Architecture and Advanced Building Technology (CAABT) and also a College of Engineering and Science (CES). The existing commercial subjects would remain centred on no 309 Regent Street.
CAABT was allocated the
Luxborough Lodge site in Marylebone Road and CES a site in New Cavendish Street. Both schemes suffered prolonged delays and the new buildings were not finished until 1970. Holborn College of Law, Languages and Commerce was merged with Regent Street Polytechnic to form the Polytechnic of Central London (PCL).
At a ceremony on 21 May 1971, the Lord Chancellor
Lord Hailsham
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, grandson and namesake of
Hogg, opened the new buildings and designated the new institution. In 1990, Harrow College of Higher Education became part of the PCL.
1992–present: University of Westminster
The PCL was re-designated as the University of Westminster following the
Further and Higher Education Act 1992
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, which created a single funding council, the
Higher Education Funding Council, for England and abolished the remaining distinctions between polytechnics (degrees awarded nationally) and universities (degrees awarded by individual university). The newly established university was re-dedicated at Westminster Abbey on 1 December 1992. As a university, Westminster gained the power to grant its own degrees.
Dame Mary Hogg (great-granddaughter of Quintin Hogg, founder of the Regent Street Polytechnic) was awarded an honorary
doctorate of law
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(LLD) by the University of Westminster in 1995. Hogg also became part of the court of governors at the university, thus continuing the university's close association with the Hogg family.
Westminster's efforts in overseas expansion resulted in the university being awarded the
Queen's Award for Enterprise
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in 2000, and again in 2005.
In recent years, the university has established the Africa, Arab and
China Media Centres; the Centre for the Study of Democracy, the institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, and absorbed the 90-year-old
Policy Studies Institute. In 2002 Westminster established the
Westminster International University in Tashkent
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at the invitation of the government of
Uzbekistan
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.
In 2013, the university celebrated 175 years of research, teaching, and providing education for all, regardless of background or financial status. Special events were organised both at campuses in the UK, and with their teams around the world. Celebrations included an interfaith service at
Westminster Abbey
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on 30 January 2013.
Campuses
Westminster has four main campuses, three of which are in
central London
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.
The Regent Campus comprises a group of buildings clustered around its historic headquarters at 309 Regent Street. The
Regent Street Cinema
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lies within the 309 Regent Street building, and serves as a fully functioning cinema, open to the public. Located nearby is the Little Titchfield Street building, which houses the library for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, including the
Westminster Law School
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, and the Wells Street building.
The Marylebone Campus is located on
Marylebone Road
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directly opposite
Madame Tussaud's
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and
Baker Street
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underground station. Built in the 1960s it is home to the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment,
Westminster Business School
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and the
Policy Studies Institute. The P3 exhibition area, a space located in the former concrete construction hall of the School of Engineering, was opened in 2008.
The Cavendish Campus is a modern glass and steel building in New Cavendish Street (
Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia () is a district of central London, England, near the West End. The eastern part of area is in the London Borough of Camden, and the western in the City of Westminster. It has its roots in the Manor of Tottenham Court, and was urban ...
), close to the
BT Tower
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. It houses science, engineering and computer laboratories. The campus is close to
Warren Street
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The street is crossed b ...
, Great Portland Street and Goodge Street underground stations.
The
Harrow Campus is in a suburb, outside Central London. It is the base for Media, Arts and Design courses. It is also home to London Gallery West which exhibits a broad mix of contemporary media, art and design work. The nearest Tube station to the Harrow campus is
Northwick Park
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on the
Metropolitan line
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.
;Non-campus sites:
*
Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports Ground (Polytechnic Stadium)
**Cavendish Road, Chiswick
*
Quintin Boat Club (QBC)
**Ibis Lane, Chiswick
;International campus sites:
*
Westminster International University in Tashkent
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(WIUT)
**12 Istiqbol Street, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Organisation and administration
The University of Westminster is incorporated under the Companies Act as a charity and company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital. It is also an
exempt charity An exempt charity is an institution established in England and Wales for charitable purposes which is exempt from registration with, and oversight by, the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
Exempt charities are largely institutions of furth ...
under the Charities Act 1993.
[
The university's governing body is the Court of Governors. It meets five times per year and is ultimately responsible for the effective conduct of the activities of the university, including its strategic development, educational character and mission, and finances. The members of the Court of Governors are the trustees of the charity.][
]
Colleges and Schools
The University of Westminster is organised into three colleges and 12 schools, within which there are around 65 departments and research centres:
* College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries, incorporating the School of Architecture and Cities, the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the Westminster School of Arts and the Westminster School of Media and Communications.
* College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, incorporating the School of Humanities, the School of Life Sciences, the School of Social Sciences and Westminster Law School
Westminster Law School (WLS) is the law school of the University of Westminster. Located at Little Titchfield Street near Regent Street in central London.
It awards LLB, LLM and PhD degrees, and also provides professional legal education inclu ...
.
* Westminster Business School
Westminster Business School is the business school of the University of Westminster. Located at its Marylebone campus in central London, it is one of the capital's leading centres for business education and has a large and diverse staff base wit ...
, including the School of Applied Management, the School of Finance and Accounting, the School of Management and Marketing and the School of Organisations, Economy and Society.
The University is also home to the institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, the Centre for the Study of Democracy and the Policy Studies Institute.
Finances
Westminster had an income of £205.1 million for 2017–2018, of which more than £22 million was from funding grants, research grants and contracts.
Coat of arms
The university's coat of arms
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reflects a number of key aspects of its heritage. The portcullis
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is the symbol of Westminster whilst the open book symbolises learning. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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, who agreed to continue as the Patron, is represented by the Tudor rose
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, one of the royal emblems. The motto of the university, "The Lord is our Strength", is influenced by Quintin Hogg and his Young Men's Christian Institute. The open book on the escutcheon contains a Latin motto which reads as "''Veritas
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''", meaning "truth".
Rankings
Westminster offers Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees as well as certificates and diplomas at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. More than two thirds of Westminster's programmes are recognised by the appropriate professional bodies
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such as the BCS, BPS, CIOB, CABE, ICE
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, RICS
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, HPC etc. in recognition of the high standards of relevance to the professions.
The university has numerous centres of research excellence and was ranked sixth in the UK and 40th globally for Media and Communications by ''QS World University Rankings
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'' 2018. The university was also ranked 15th for Art and Design in the UK, and 18th in the UK for Architecture. The ''Times Higher Education
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
'' Young University Rankings 2019, which lists the world's best under 50-year-old universities out of 351 universities, ranked Westminster 151–200 in the world.
The university achieved world leading and internationally excellent status for most of their work, ranking second for Communications, Cultural and Media Studies research, 6th for Art and Design research, in addition to the university performing strongly in Architecture and the Built Environment, and Geography and Environmental studies. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, almost 80 per cent of Westminster's submitted research across 20 subject areas was judged to be of international quality. In 2013, Westminster was ranked joint second in the UK by the ''Architects’ Journal'' in their "AJ Top 100" special issue.
Student life
A Student Representative Council (SRC) was established at the polytechnic in 1933, to create a sense of unity and expand the social activities of its day students. The SRC was affiliated to the National Union of Students but initially restricted itself largely to social activities.
After 1945 it began to campaign on issues such as lifting a ban on religious or political activity within the Polytechnic, and establishing a formal Students’ Union. The ban was lifted in 1962 and a Union granted in 1965.
Students' Union
University of Westminster Students' Union (UWSU) was founded in 1966 as The Polytechnic Students' Union. Its first President was Owen Spencer-Thomas (1966–1967). During the 1970s the newly formed Polytechnic of Central London Students’ Union (PCLSU) engaged in a strategy of protest and direct action. Against a backdrop of general social unrest, PCLSU campaigned against cuts in student grants, lack of accommodation and the rise in costs for overseas students.
After 1992, the Union was based primarily at the Marylebone
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An Civil parish#Ancient parishes, ancient parish and latterly a ...
site, where the SU served all students across four of its campuses. It now has offices on all campuses. The union also operates a bar, The Undercroft, and the Loft venue, located on the Harrow Campus.
The union has hosted to numerous musical events and gigs including Fleetwood Mac
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, and most notably the first and only encounter between Cream and Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix
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.
The union is run by five elected Officer Trustees who are campus based.
Student and university media
Smoke Radio is a student-run radio station at the University of Westminster. It was founded in 2004 and broadcasts online from a studio in the university's Harrow campus. Since September 2005 the station has run a 24-hour playout system and broadcast a schedule of live programmes during the week. Smoke Radio has won numerous awards at the Student Radio Association Awards (SRA), and recorded a record six wins in 2018.
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of the University of Westminster. Launched in September 2011 it is run by students and targeted at students. The station produces programmes covering campus news, film reviews and sport events and showcases student productions such as short films, TV shows, documentaries and music videos.
Press
From 1970-1992 the Students' Union published a magazine called McGarel. In the early 1990s, the Students' Union began expressing an interest in new print media, and The Smoke was conceived in 1992. However, in 2006, The Smoke briefly switched to a newspaper format, initially being published fortnightly during term time. The newspaper format was later scrapped for a much smaller magazine format.
''The Quintin Hogg'' (informally known as "The QH" or "The Hogg") was launched in September 2012 as a university-wide newspaper. The paper is circulated at all four of the university's campuses.
Past student publications included the ''Polytechnic Magazine'' (1935–1971), ''Poly-hoo'' (1938–1939), ''The Poly Tribune'' (1946), ''Publicity Committee News'' (1946), the ''Journal of the Maths and Physics Department'' (1945–1946), ''the Student Forum'' (1949–1953), ''New Chameleon'' (1962), ''Polygon'' (1963), ''Polygen'' (1964), ''West One'' (1966–1969), ''McGarel'' (1968–1993), and ''Gen'' (1970).
The university also publishes an annual alumni magazine, ''Network'', as well as several academic student journals such as the ''Law Review'' and ''Wells Street Journal''.
Sport
Sport has played an important role at the institution since the late 19th century. In 1883, the athletic club, the Harriers, was established and was for many years the largest athletics club in the country.
In 1908, the polytechnic organised the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1908 London Olympic Games, also hosting a venue at The Polytechnic Stadium
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In 1888 Quintin Hogg built a boathouse near ...
in Chiswick
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. From 1898, the polytechnic awarded the Studd Trophy, an annual trophy for the best sports performance. Over the years, the award was given to sportsmen from various disciplines, such as swimming
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, boxing
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, and cycling
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, but the majority of awards have been given to track and field
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athletes.
Noted award holders include:
* Willie Applegarth (1912/13), Olympic
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medallist sprinters
* Albert Hill (1919/20), Olympic gold medallist and middle-distance runner
* Harry Edward
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(1922), Olympic sprint bronze medallist
* Alan Pascoe
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(1971/72/73/74/75), hurdler
The university has grounds in Chiswick on the Thames with boat house, tennis courts, athletics track and about 12 pitches. There are sports pitches and a sports hall at the Harrow campus while the Regent Campus has a gym, badminton courts and offers sports, martial arts and yoga classes.
In the 2017-18 basketball season, the Westminster Dragons won their first university title in over seven years.
Notable people
Notable alumni
Notable Westminster alumni (and others who attended) include:
* Architects and sculptors including Sir Thomas Bennett (architect and designer of Saville Theatre
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and London Mormon Temple), Alfred Bossom
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( Magnolia Hotel), Laurence Broderick
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(sculptor of '' The Bull'', Birmingham Bullring), Ludo Campbell-Reid
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(2004 Olympic Games
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), Sir Anthony Caro
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(''Dream City'' at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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), Trevor Dannatt, Ron Herron
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( Walking City), Ian Ritchie ( Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre and Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art
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), Fred Roche ( Milton Keynes Development), Alireza Sagharchi
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( Kings Cross regeneration programme), Cameron Sinclair
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(co-founder of Architecture for Humanity
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), Michael Webb (founding member of Archigram
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), Michael Wilford
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( Lowry Centre and British Embassy in Berlin
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) and Chris Wilkinson
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(Gateshead Millennium Bridge
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).
* Artists and photographers including Sybil Atteck (Trinidadian painter), Norman Blamey
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Blamey was educated at Holloway School, London, and then at the Regent Street Polytec ...
(''Ordination'', ''The Lavabo''), John Frederick Brill
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(creator of the ''Bardia Mural
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''), Fougasse (editor of ''Punch
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'' magazine), Iain Macmillan (photographer of The Beatles
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' ''Abbey Road
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'' album), Charles Keeping
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(children's author and lithographer ''Les Misérables
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'', ''Beowulf
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'' and various works by Charles Dickens
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) and John Ryan (animator and creator of ''Captain Pugwash
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'').
* Authors and poets including Margery Allingham
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, Mary Jo Bang, George Barker, Samit Basu
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, Quentin Crisp
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, David Gascoyne
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, Mengistu Lemma
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Mengistu was born in Harar, to Aleqa Lemma Hailu and Wro Abebech Yilma. After undertaking traditional religious studies at the Tiqo Mekane Selassie church where his ...
and Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi.
* Business-oriented people including Sinclair Beecham and Julian Metcalfe
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(co-founders of Pret à Manger), Robert Bellinger
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(former director of Arsenal Football Club
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), Wilfred Cass (businessman and philanthropist), Moorad Choudhry
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Choudhry attended Claremont Fan Court School. He graduated from the University of Westminster (known as Polytechnic of Ce ...
(Managing Director at Royal Bank of Scotland plc), Michael Jackson
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(former controller of BBC1
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and BBC2
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, and Chairman of Universal Television
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), Tej Lalvani
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(CEO of Vitabiotics and dragon on ''Dragons' Den
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''), and Adar Poonawalla
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(CEO of Serum Institute of India
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...
).
* Entertainers and filmmakers including Raya Abirached
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(celebrity journalist
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, and host of the hit TV talent show
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'' Arabs Got Talent''), Charlie Brooker
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( BAFTA-nominated broadcaster), Andrew Dunn ( BAFTA winning cinematographer ''Edge of Darkness
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'', '' The Bodyguard'', '' Precious'' and ''The Butler
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''), Asif Kapadia
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Academy Award, BAFTA and Grammy winning director Asif Kapadia has made his name directing visually striking films exploring ‘outsiders’, characters living in extreme circumstances, fighting ...
(Oscar
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winning filmmaker '' Senna'' and ''Amy
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''), Arthur Max
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(Oscar
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* Oscar (Irish mythology), ...
nominated and BAFTA winning art director '' Se7en'', ''Gladiator
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'', ''Prometheus
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'' and '' The Martian''), Seamus McGarvey (cinematographer ''Atonement
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'', ''Anna Karenina
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'', '' The Avengers'' and ''The Greatest Showman
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''), Neal Purvis (scriptwriter James Bond
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series including '' Casino Royale'', ''Quantum of Solace
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'' and ''Spectre
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'') and Stanley Unwin.
* Fashion designers including Christopher Bailey (Chief Executive and Chief Creative Officer at Burberry
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), Markus Lupfer
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, Carri Mundane
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(founder and creative designer at CassettePlaya, Stuart Vevers
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(executive creative director at Coach
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) and Vivienne Westwood
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.
* Journalists and commentators including Mo Abudu
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(media mogul), Talal Al-Haj
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Al-Haj previously lived in the UK for over 30 years, where he studied and pursued his MA in Br ...
(New York bureau chief for the Al-Arabiya news network), Carrie Gracie
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(journalist and newsreader at BBC News
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), James King (BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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, British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster.
* Engineers and Scientists including Sir
(three-times Olympics gymnast).
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