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Manchester Metropolitan<br />
University<br />
Please contact us<br />
for more information<br />
Manchester campus<br />
All Saints<br />
Manchester<br />
M15 6BH<br />
0161 247 2000<br />
marketing@mmu.ac.uk<br />
mmu.ac.uk<br />
July 2016
We are a great modern university,<br />
in a great global city, here to make an<br />
impact on Manchester, our nation<br />
and beyond, with a driving ambition to<br />
discover and disseminate knowledge,<br />
and make higher education as accessible<br />
and beneficial to all those with the<br />
passion and ability to succeed.<br />
We work closely with our city, with<br />
business, the community and our<br />
academic peers – locally, nationally and<br />
internationally – to be inventive and<br />
creative, generate great opportunities,<br />
and enable our students, colleagues<br />
and everyone whose lives we touch to<br />
make an impact.<br />
Professor Malcolm Press<br />
Vice-Chancellor<br />
We take young people<br />
who’ve got vision,<br />
and ambition, and we<br />
allow them to realise<br />
their potential, to<br />
achieve their personal<br />
best, to hit the goals<br />
that they aspire to hit.<br />
Welcome to Manchester Metropolitan<br />
University, one of the UK’s most ambitious,<br />
exciting and inspiring universities, in one<br />
of the world’s most creative, energetic and<br />
inventive cities.<br />
Here, we are setting out both the current<br />
reality of our university and our vision for<br />
its future.<br />
You’ll get a sense, too, I hope, of our energy<br />
and drive, sharing the inventive and<br />
entrepreneurial spirit of Manchester, and<br />
its many different civic, economic, ethnic,<br />
artistic, scientific and cultural communities.<br />
And finally, at the heart of our university,<br />
is our desire to empower and enrich the<br />
world of knowledge and the lives of those we<br />
work with and teach, doing all we can to<br />
help students and everyone at the University<br />
realise their personal and professional<br />
aspirations and ambitions.<br />
This is our time.<br />
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Lord Peter Mandelson<br />
Chancellor<br />
Manchester is a great<br />
national city that is<br />
now on the global map.<br />
It’s the heart of the<br />
northern powerhouse<br />
concept.<br />
Manchester is a major hub for innovation<br />
and has the biggest creative and digital<br />
sector in the UK. Combined with the close<br />
proximity of MediaCityUK, this is<br />
attracting key players from the creative,<br />
digital and media industries to the city.<br />
The University works with the creative<br />
industries in a number of ways,<br />
placing us at the centre of the region’s<br />
cultural output.<br />
Manchester has<br />
always been a hugely<br />
important city in<br />
Britain, with its roots<br />
in finance, textiles,<br />
engineering, the best<br />
of industry.<br />
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36,000 students<br />
Over 800 undergraduate course options<br />
£350m investment in world-class facilities<br />
The buildings are first<br />
rate. The estate is<br />
impressive. We are in a<br />
fantastic city but it’s the<br />
people that really make<br />
the difference. Professor Malcolm Press Vice-Chancellor<br />
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A leading, modern university with a<br />
history of higher education since 1824.<br />
Our buildings have won more<br />
Royal Institute of British<br />
Architects (RIBA) awards in<br />
the last five years than any<br />
other university.<br />
Following a £350 million investment,<br />
we have created a world-class learning<br />
environment with some of the best<br />
teaching and learning facilities in the UK.<br />
Manchester Metropolitan is a great<br />
modern university, in a great global city,<br />
and we share the same drive and spirit<br />
to explore, create, invent, re-invent and<br />
make the world take notice.<br />
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4<br />
Our buildings<br />
1. Manchester School of Art<br />
Study spaces in the School of Art’s<br />
Benzie building<br />
2. Brooks building<br />
Study spaces and Spanish steps<br />
3, 4. Business School<br />
Exterior of building and group<br />
working spaces<br />
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Award-winning<br />
Globally respected<br />
Making an impact<br />
I was knocked out<br />
by how ambitious<br />
everyone was, the drive<br />
that was in the place –<br />
‘We’re going to do this,<br />
achieve that, build<br />
the other’. Lord Peter Mandelson Chancellor<br />
Award-winning Business School<br />
Graduate Fashion Week Gold Award Winner<br />
We try to embody everything that<br />
Manchester is – it’s a city that’s cutting<br />
edge, creative, innovative, known for<br />
firsts – those are things we want to embed<br />
in our students.<br />
We are sector leading with new degree<br />
apprenticeships. We work with global<br />
employers HSBC, GSK, Network Rail,<br />
HMRC, and with some of these employers<br />
we’ve got exclusive relationships.<br />
The University’s Manchester Fashion<br />
Institute showcases world-class academic<br />
programmes and professional<br />
connections that enable our students<br />
and staff to raise their profile, consult<br />
with the industry’s biggest brands and<br />
collaborate on ground-breaking<br />
research projects.<br />
We have an integrated and diverse sport<br />
offer, founded on academic excellence<br />
in unique learning environments and<br />
complemented by partnerships with<br />
leading sports organisations. All of this<br />
right here in Manchester – a great<br />
global sporting city.<br />
The University has established<br />
partnerships with Manchester City<br />
Football Club, being the Higher Education<br />
partner for Manchester City Women’s<br />
Football Club; and in basketball, we have<br />
a unique partnership with Manchester<br />
Giants to provide scholarships.<br />
Our Business School has recently been<br />
awarded the prestigious international<br />
AACSB accreditation – the hallmark of<br />
excellence in business education. This<br />
places us in the top 5% of business<br />
schools worldwide.<br />
Biomedical science research<br />
Established Art School since 1826<br />
Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy DBE<br />
Exclusive relationships with global employers<br />
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“I’VE GROWN MASSIVELY AS A PERSON,<br />
I THINK SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE’VE<br />
BEEN ENCOURAGED TO DO AND BEEN<br />
PUSHED TO DO HAVE ACTUALLY CHANGED<br />
WHO I AM... FOR THE BETTER.”<br />
Andy Page<br />
BA (Hons) Graphic Design<br />
“INSPIRING CONFIDENCE<br />
IN STUDENTS IS<br />
REALLY IMPORTANT,<br />
PARTICULARLY SINCE<br />
I BELIEVE CONFIDENCE<br />
DRIVES SUCCESS.<br />
CONFIDENCE IS ABOUT<br />
BELIEVING THAT YOU<br />
CAN DO SOMETHING,<br />
BELIEVING THAT IT’S<br />
NOT OTHERS WHO<br />
CAN SUCCEED BUT YOU<br />
THAT CAN SUCCEED.”<br />
“I’M MOST PROUD OF<br />
MANCHESTER MET<br />
FOR ITS WILLINGNESS<br />
TO TAKE RISKS AND<br />
TO TAKE ON NEW<br />
IDEAS. IT’S A<br />
UNIVERSITY THAT<br />
WILL FLING ITS DOORS<br />
OPEN, WELCOME<br />
PEOPLE IN.”<br />
“MY FUTURE, I THINK,<br />
WILL BE EXTREMELY<br />
DIFFERENT. I THINK<br />
BECAUSE I’VE COME<br />
HERE AND I’VE<br />
ALLOWED MYSELF<br />
TO GROW PERSONALLY,<br />
I THINK I WILL<br />
ACTUALLY GO INTO<br />
WHAT I SAID I WANT<br />
TO DO. I WANT TO BE<br />
A TEACHER.”<br />
“THE PAST THREE<br />
YEARS HAVE BEEN<br />
A GREAT EXPERIENCE.<br />
I WAS EVEN LUCKY<br />
ENOUGH TO GO ON A<br />
FIELD TRIP TO<br />
TANZANIA. NOW THAT<br />
I HAVE GRADUATED<br />
AND AM PUTTING<br />
ALL THE SKILLS I HAVE<br />
DEVELOPED INTO<br />
PRACTISE, I AM<br />
AMAZED AT JUST HOW<br />
MUCH I HAVE LEARNT.”<br />
Professor Malcolm Press<br />
Vice-Chancellor<br />
Poet Laureate,<br />
Carol Ann Duffy DBE<br />
Cerise Woodhouse<br />
BA (Hons) English and Philosophy<br />
Catherine Johnson<br />
BSc (Hons) Biology<br />
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Examples of recent key achievements<br />
by our staff and students<br />
Here are the themes<br />
which drive Manchester<br />
Metropolitan and make<br />
us the bold, ambitious,<br />
creative and innovative<br />
university we are today.<br />
Ambition<br />
Setting the bar higher to make more of an impact<br />
We are ambitious and happy to shout<br />
about it. Ambitious for our students.<br />
Ambitious for our staff. For our partners.<br />
And for ourselves as an academic<br />
institution. We expect a lot from everyone<br />
who studies and works here. Set high<br />
standards and measure our success by the<br />
impacts we make academically, and in<br />
business and society.<br />
Our curriculum produces talented, work-ready<br />
graduates with the skills demanded by today’s<br />
employers. Fine Art student and sculptor<br />
Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton was recently awarded<br />
the prestigious Woon Art Prize – the graduate<br />
equivalent of the Turner Prize. She picked up<br />
£20,000 and a free studio for a year.<br />
Place<br />
A university with all the drive and spirit of a great global city<br />
You can feel the energy. In the place.<br />
In the buildings. In the students and staff.<br />
You can sense the determination to<br />
succeed. Manchester Metropolitan is a<br />
great modern university, in a great global<br />
city, and we share the same drive and<br />
spirit to explore, create, invent, re-invent<br />
and make the world take notice.<br />
Our students brought an alternative reality to<br />
life as part of a pioneering exhibition of a vision<br />
of Manchester that was never realised, using<br />
town plans from the 1960s. Five teams of Masters<br />
students from the Manchester School of<br />
Architecture worked from detailed maps, plans,<br />
sketches and archival sources to design and<br />
build 3D models of parts of the city navigated<br />
using game controllers.<br />
Partnership<br />
Reaching out to push the boundaries of the possible<br />
Education, and particularly higher<br />
education, should always be a collaborative<br />
process and here at Manchester<br />
Metropolitan, our world is enriched and<br />
our achievements made more effective<br />
through partnership at every level.<br />
Our nurse education expertise is supporting the<br />
ground-breaking Care England Teaching Care<br />
Home project, a nurse-led initiative to improve<br />
the learning environment for staff working in<br />
homes, undergoing nurse apprenticeships and<br />
all learning placements in care homes.<br />
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Examples of recent key achievements<br />
by our staff and students<br />
First Generation Campaign<br />
Community<br />
Making a contribution not just to one community, but to many<br />
Sustainability<br />
We are an active, energetic and engaged<br />
university, putting our thinking and ideas,<br />
our research and knowledge to work in<br />
the real world. So our staff, students and<br />
alumni contribute not only to the<br />
Manchester Metropolitan community, but<br />
to all the communities and lives we touch.<br />
We are boosting the job prospects of Cheshire<br />
school pupils with special needs through a<br />
ground-breaking work experience programme.<br />
The Bridging the Gap initiative has enabled<br />
pupils to gain valuable work experience in our<br />
Catering, Facilities, IT Services, Students’<br />
Union, Sports Science Department and Library.<br />
A number have used this opportunity as<br />
a springboard to secure an apprenticeship or<br />
a paid position.<br />
Working hard now and in the future to help craft a better world<br />
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Higher education exists in an increasingly<br />
dynamic, demanding and competitive world,<br />
where to stand still is to go backwards.<br />
At Manchester Metropolitan, we have a<br />
conscious cultural commitment to<br />
maintaining our energy levels and continuing<br />
to drive up academic and creative<br />
standards, achievements in research, and<br />
engagement in the community.<br />
Our Centre for Enterprise and the Department<br />
of Food and Tourism Management joined forces<br />
with Stockport-based Robinsons Brewery to<br />
identify how pubs, restaurants and bars can<br />
become greener and more profitable. The<br />
resulting handbook offers advice on how to reduce<br />
food and drink waste, maximise energy and<br />
water efficiency and generate an income from<br />
trade waste such as cardboard and cooking oil.<br />
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GENERATION<br />
CAMPAIGN<br />
Transforming lives<br />
Manchester Metropolitan<br />
University is committed to being<br />
a fully inclusive institution, open<br />
to all with the talent to succeed,<br />
regardless of background.<br />
The First Generation Campaign<br />
will fund a new scheme to<br />
help bright, young people from<br />
backgrounds that do not<br />
usually enter higher education<br />
to secure an undergraduate<br />
place at Manchester Metropolitan<br />
and then provide them with<br />
continued financial, professional<br />
and personal support throughout<br />
their studies, to graduation and<br />
into employment.<br />
The scheme will be unique:<br />
we are combining existing<br />
best practice from our widening<br />
participation pre-entry<br />
programmes with the very best<br />
activities from our on-course<br />
careers and student support<br />
teams. Added to these will be<br />
new on-course elements, funded<br />
by the campaign donors and<br />
directly benefiting the student<br />
participants. We aim to give<br />
these students the confidence,<br />
knowledge, professional skills<br />
and network opportunities to<br />
transform their lives.<br />
We aim to provide 50 places<br />
in the first year of the First<br />
Generation Scheme, in 2017.<br />
Donations to the First Generation<br />
Campaign will fund the new<br />
activities that directly benefit the<br />
student participants and help<br />
to transform young lives.<br />
To make a donation or to find out<br />
more about the First Generation<br />
Campaign, please contact:<br />
Rachel Charnock,<br />
Alumni and Development<br />
Email: giving@mmu.ac.uk<br />
mmu.ac.uk/giving<br />
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