Liverpool John Moores University

Liverpool John Moores University
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Liverpool John Moores University (brevis: LJMU is a attainable assay university in the city-limits of Liverpool, England with added than 24,000 accepting — 20,410 undergraduate accepting and 4,270 postgraduate students, authentic it the bigger university in Liverpool by amateur citizenry – as able as accepting the twentieth bigger in the United Kingdom. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, acclimatized in 1823 authentic it a antagonist as the third-oldest university in England; this afterwards adulterated to become Liverpool Polytechnic. In 1992, after an Act of Parliament the Liverpool Polytechnic became what is now Liverpool John Moores University.[ It is a associate of the University Alliance, a mission accession of British universities which was acclimatized in 2007. and the European University Association.


History
Origins
Originally founded as a babyish mechanics academy (Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts) in 1823, the academy grew over the centuries by advancing and amalgamating with adapted colleges afore eventually adequate Liverpool Polytechnic. The University aswell has a connected history of accouterment training, apprenticeship and assay to the amphibian industry, dating ashamed to the accession of the Liverpool Nautical College in 1892.

The academy afresh became a university below the acceding of the Further and Higher Apprenticeship Act 1992 below the new appellation of "Liverpool John Moores University". This new appellation was acclimatized by the Privy Council on 15 September 1992. The university took its name from Sir John Moores, the artisan of the Littlewoods empire. Moores was a abounding accepter in the apperception of befalling for all, which embodies the actualization of LJMU in accouterment educational routes for bodies of all ages and from all backgrounds. This accepting led Sir John Moores to beforehand in the academy and facilities, such as the John Foster Building (housing the Liverpool Business School), brash by and declared afterwards able artisan John Foster With the institution's backgrounds dating ashamed as far as 1823, abounding of the university barrio date ashamed also, with aesthetically ambrosial Georgian and Victorian barrio activate on a few of the campuses.

Present day
The James Parsons Building at LJMU's City-limits Campus
LJMU now has added than 24,000 students[citation needed]. LJMU was awarded the Queen's Ceremony Prize in 2005.

Currently, Liverpool John Moores University is accepting added applications than avant-garde seen; according to abstracts in 2009, the complete bulk of applications submitted to LJMU was 27,784.

On 14 April 2008, Dr Brian May CBE was inducted into the university as the fourth Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Dr May is aswell the beforehand guitarist for the basement cast Queen. He replaced attainable Chancellor Cherie Booth QC, wife of aloft Prime Minister Tony Blair. Honorary admiral in actualization at the celebration included Sir Patrick Moore and Pete Postlethwaite. May was succeeded as Chancellor in 2013 by Sir Brian Leveson.

LJMU is a founding associate of the Northern Consortium, an educational charity, ancient by eleven universities in the chill of England. Alongside LJMU, this accession was co founded by The University of Bradford, The University of Huddersfield, Leeds Metropolitan University, The University of Leeds, The University of Liverpool, Manchester Metropolitan University, The University of Manchester, The University of Salford, Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield.

Campuses
The university is based primarily on three campuses:
City Campus, accommodation barrio from abounding commonsense in and about Liverpool city-limits centre
Mount Pleasant Campus, abutting to the city-limits centre, home to the adeptness of Business and Law
I M Marsh Campus, in Aigburth accommodation the Education, Community and Leisure faculty
Academic profile
Faculties
Liverpool Business School
Liverpool School of Art and Design
School of Natural Sciences and Psychology
The university is organised into four commonsense (which are ceremony aperture into schools or centres), a lot of of the commonsense are based at a authentic campus website however, with abounding accumulated honours degrees and some accustomed degrees, the commonsense overlap acceptation students' degrees are from both faculties. The four commonsense are:
Adroitness of Arts, Professional and Social Studies
Liverpool Business School
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Liverpool Screen School
School of Humanities and Social Science
School of Law
Adroitness of Education, Health and Community
Centre for Attainable Health
School of Education, Leisure and Sport Studies
School of Nursing and Allied Health
School of Teacher Apprenticeship and Professional Learning
Adroitness of Science
Astrophysics Assay Institute
School of Natural Sciences and Psychology
School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Adroitness of Technology and Environment
School of the Built Environment
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
School of Engineering, Technology and Amphibian Operations
Teaching
In Engineering the Times Good University adviser ante Liverpool John Moores University at 23rd in the UK for Mechanical Engineering and 17th for General Engineering[citation needed].
LJMU is aswell one of the UK's top universities for teaching and assay in Sports and Exercise Sciences The Higher Apprenticeship Funding Council for England (HEFCE) awarded LJMU £4.5 amateur over 5 years for the achievement of a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)[citation needed]. The CETL approval recognises LJMU's annual for Physical Education, Dance, Sport and Exercises Sciences. LJMU is the abandoned United Kingdom university to be awarded an Ofsted Grade A in Physical Apprenticeship and it is aswell the able academy for both teaching and assay in Sport and Exercise Sciences.
LJMU was aswell declared (ahead of the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University) to buck the bookish accessory of a borough adjustment declared the New Entrepreneurs Scholarship, which is authentic by Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and The Prince's Trust[citation needed

Research
Mount Pleasant Campus Centre
According to the UK Assay Appraisement Exercise 2014 (RAE 2014), LJMU every aggregation of appraisement we submitted was rated as at diminutive 45% internationally able or better.
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 key LJMU results
• LJMU demonstrates World-leading assay in 77% of submitted disciplines (ie. 13 out of 17 UoAs acquire 4* research) • On the abject of the admeasurement of World-leading and internationally able (4*+3*) research, LJMU is ranked 61st of the 128 UK universities that submitted added than a alone UoA • LJMU assay appulse is rated as internationally able in all answerable areas • All 17 UoAs acquire internationally able assay and 96% of LJMU assay submitted to REF 2014 is of all-embracing above or bigger • LJMU has about angled the admeasurement of activity rated internationally able or aloft (34% in RAE2008 to 66% in REF2014) • 72% of the institution’s assay appulse activity is rated as internationally able or world-leading • Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism able 97% of assay activity 3* & 4* all-embracing • The University added than angled the accumulated of 4* (world-leading) activity (from 8% in RAE2008 to 18% in REF2014) .