Brunel

Posted August 2nd, 2007 by csc104

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Brunel University Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3PH

Contact number:

01895 274000

Website:

http://www.brunel.ac.uk

Brief history:

The University originated from Acton Technical College, which was divided in 1957 to form Acton Technical College and Brunel College of Technology. The name Brunel comes from Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the British engineer who created the Great Western Railway, a collection of famous steamships and many important bridges.

In 1961, the institution was awarded the status of College of Advanced Technology and so had to expand. Uxbridge, Hillingdon housed new buildings and brought with it further ambition to achieve University status. This aim was achieved in 1966 when the Royal Charter was awarded on the June 9th.

University Life

Accommodation & Surrounding Areas:

Availability
- 1st years guaranteed accommodation even if they are local.

Costs
- Self catered en suite rooms cost students between £92 and £97 per week
- Self catered standard room with basin costs students £79 per week.
- No catered accommodation although a 100 meal voucher will cost students £350.

Contract period
- 36 weeks

Location
- Most halls are relatively close to campus however there is an RAF off campus hall which just isn't pretty.

Facilities
- Utilities included.
- Internet access included.
- Insurance cover included.

Resources:

Library
- 1000+ study places
- 400 000 books
- 14,000 journals (of which over 12,000 are electronic)
- Media centre
- Assistive learning technology

Opening Times
- 62 weekday hours
- 13.5 weekend hours

IT
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- 24 hour access

Welfare:

Services
- Counselling service
- Chaplaincy
- Medical centre on campus
- Student advice centre
- Nightline
- External childcare available near campus

Safety
- 24 hour secuirty service
- CCTV
- Student Crimeline

Sporting facilities:

Brunel have spent £14 million on sports facilities over the past 3 years!

Netball hall (Home to England Netball & Middlesex Basketball)
- 300 spectator capacity & electronic scoreboard
- Badminton court
- Basketball court
- Volleyball court
- Netball court
- Handball court

Excercie studio
- Fitness Classes
- Fencing
- Dance
- Yoga
- Table tennis
- Gymnastic equipment

Sports hall
- Climbing wall
- Cricket nets
- Indoor archery
- Trampoline
- Frisbee
- Mini tennis
- Badminton
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- Netball
- Handball

Brunel's Indoor Athletics Centre (IAC)
- 132m, 6-lane sprints and hurdles straight
- 2 long jump/triple jump pits
- Pole vault
- High jump
- Throws nets
- Strength and conditioning area
- Medical and rehabilitation facilities
- Meeting room
- Coach's and administration offices

Outdoor
- 6 full size football pitches
- 1 floodlit
- 2 full size rugby pitches
- 2 state of the art synthetic pitches

Pavillion
- 6 refurbished Tennis courts (not floodlit)
- 4 Netball courts
- Sports pavilion
- Male/Female changing rooms
- Shower facilities
- Disabled toilets & showers
- Bar & Sky-TV

Costs

Sports Clubs
- Athletics
- Football
- Badminton
- Netball
- Basketball
- Riding
- Climbing
- Rugby
- Capoeira Skydiving
- Cricket Snow Club
- Dance Scuba Diving
- Fencing Tennis
- Hockey Trampolining
- Martial Arts Volleyball

Boring but important

Fees and bursaries:

Undergraduate fees
- All courses set at £3070
- Thick sandwich placement year set at £1920
- Thin sandwich placement year set at £770
- Foundation years set at £1535

Bursary
- The University of Brunel Bursary;

Gross Income -------------- Brunel Bursary
£17,910 or less-------------- £1,000
Approx £35,100------------- £500
Approx 38,330 -------------- £0

Scholarships
- Excellence Scholarships; Awards from a fund worth a minimum of £1.3 million per year for students who achieve 300+ tariff points in their A-levels. 360+ points will land you £3000 per annum, 340+ will land you £2000 and 300+ will entitle you to be considered for a £2000 award. This guarantee applies to all courses except Law and all MEng programmes (Aerospace, Aviation, Civil, Motorsport and Space Engineering, and the MEng Mechanical Engineering routes) where you need to obtain 360 tariff points (36 IB points) to guarantee a scholarship.

- Music Awards; 5 awards for budding ingers and instrumentalists who are not studying Music as part of their academic course. Successful students may have all or part of the cost of their music tuition covered throughout their period of study at Brunel.

- Sports Scholarships; The University awards scholarships annually to students of particular sporting ability who are not registered on a Sport Sciences course. The scholarship package includes a financial incentive, physiotherapy and assistance with expenses for national and international competition. From 2008 successful students will also be offered accommodation adjacent to the sports facilities.

Future plans and investment:

Hpw much?
- £170 million campus facelift mostly complete

On what?
- A larger library
- Assistive technology centre for disabled students and a café.
- Sports facilities
- Lecture centre with high tech equipment
- Health studies building
- Expansion of accommodation halls; 700 new en-suite rooms and another 750 rooms have just been completed.
- The Students' Union; refurbishments in the bars, nightclub and foodhall, and new shops, balcony, café and central atrium.
- Refurbishments; teaching areas for business, design, education and sport have all been extensively refurbished, and new facilities provided for the School of Arts and the Arts Centre.
- Landscaping; new lighting, paving and landscaping.

Notible alumni:

- Tony Adams the former Arsenal and England footballer
- James Cracknell the rowing champion and Olympic gold medallist
- Audley Harrison the boxer and Olympic gold medallist
- Richard Hill the rugby player
- Catherine Murphy the athlete
- Kelly Sotherton the athlete
- Jo Brand the comedian

Visiting

Other things to do or see:

The walk from Uxbridge tube and bus stations is approximately one mile.

From Uxbridge Tube Station, skirt around the Old Market past HSBC bank into Windsor Street. At the bottom of Windsor Street, turn left and cross the dual carriageway via the light-controlled crossing.

Bear left and then walk straight on, avoiding the subway, into Whitehall Road.

It is then a 15-minute walk along Whitehall Road and over the crossroads into Cleveland Road. The University Reception is on the left opposite the pond.

Rail:

West Drayton (First Great Western Link) is the nearest main-line station (approx. 1.5 miles from the campus) services from London Paddington or the West (Bristol). From West Drayton station take a bus towards Uxbridge: 222 (alight Cowley Road), U5 (alight Station Road), or U3 (alight Cleveland Road).

West Ruislip Station (Chiltern Railways) is the main-line service from London Marylebone and the North (Aylesbury, Banbury and Birmingham) and is approx 4 miles from the campus. From West Ruislip Station take the U1 bus towards Hillingdon Hospital, alight Cleveland Road.

Road:

Parking on the Uxbridge Campus and in the local area is very restricted. Barriers control access to the site and all vehicles must display a valid permit. On arrival, visitors (NOT Open Day visitors who will be given details prior to arrival) may apply for a permit for the day from the main Reception Desk in the Wilfred Brown Building, alongside the Cleveland Road entrance. In addition, pay-and-display parking is available on site near the Cleveland Road entrance. Clamping is in operation for illegally parked vehicles.

M4:
- Leave M4 at Junction 4 and follow signs to Uxbridge (A408). Straight across first set of traffic lights, continue on A408, crossing four roundabouts. Turn right at the next set of major traffic lights. Continue ahead to next set of lights and, almost immediately take the right filter lane at second set of traffic lights into Station Road. After 300 metres turn left into Cleveland Road and, after about 150 metres, right into the University.

A40/M40:
- At Swakeleys Roundabout take B483 exit to Uxbridge. Follow signs across two mini-roundabouts. At major roundabout bear left onto A4020 (Brunel sign), straight ahead at the first lights, then almost immediately take second right filter turn onto Kingston Lane (signposted Brunel). The main entrance to Brunel is right at the next roundabout. follow signs for Main Reception as you enter the campus.

M25:
- (From North or South) Join M40 or M4 then see above.

Access by Car for Registered Disabled Visitors
- Disabled parking bays are available at various locations around the campus. Please collect a permit from Main Reception, Wilfred Brown Building,

Buses:

Uxbridge
- From Heathrow Central: A10 "Heathrow Fast", every 15 minutes, journey time approximately 25 minutes (alight The Greenway and use river path).
- From Stockley Park: A10 "Heathrow Fast" as above, journey time approximately 10 minutes.
- From West Drayton railway station: U3 (alight Cleveland Road), 222 (alight Cowley Road and use path via University flats).
- From Uxbridge (underground) station: U1, U3 (alight Cleveland Road), U4 and U7 (alight Kingston Lane), 207 (alight The Greenway and use river path), 607 express (alight The Greenway and use river path), 222 and U5 (alight Cowley Road and Use path via University flats).

Underground:

For Uxbridge Station take the Metropolitan Line from Baker Street (and Piccadilly Line during peak hours). Then take a taxi or U1, U3, U4 or U7. Alternatively use the 1-mile walking route shown below