Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Metropolitan University

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Motto	Many Arts, Many Skills
Type	Public
Established	1970 as Manchester Polytechnic
Chancellor	Dame Janet Smith
Vice-Chancellor	John Brooks
Students	21,000 fulltime and 10,000 part-time
Undergraduates	24,500
Postgraduates	6,000
Location	Manchester , United Kingdom
Affiliations	NWUA
Website	www.mmu.ac.uk

Manchester Metropolitan University is based in Manchester, England. It is the third largest university in Britain after the universities of London and Manchester, with over 21,000 full-time and 10,000 part-time students as of 2005, and hundreds of courses in over 70 subjects. It maintains five campuses in Manchester, as well as two in Crewe and Alsager in Cheshire.

It includes the following faculties:

• Faculty of Art & Design
• Faculty of Food, Clothing & Hospitality Management
• Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education
• Faculty of Humanities, Law & Social Science
• Faculty of Science & Engineering
• Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
• MMU Cheshire

Most undergraduate programmes lead to a degree, diploma or certificate; some lead to an award of the EdExcel Foundation (formerly the BTEC) or to membership in a professional body.

The university's sports facilities are excellent, partly as a legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. These are shared with the University of Manchester.

The Students' Union is called MMUnion. They have many busy student nights throughout the week culminating in the busiest night of the week at Double Vision. MMUnion has an independent advice centre available for all students at the University as well an activities centre that runs the sports clubs and societies at MMU. The union's magazine is called Pulp.

History

During the last third of the 20th century MMU grew through the combination of several colleges, some of which were founded in the 19th century.

The mergers began on 1st January 1970, when Manchester Polytechnic was formed from Manchester College of Art and Design, the Manchester College of Commerce and the John Dalton College of Technology. On the 1st January 1977, the Polytechnic merged with the Didsbury College of Education and Hollings College, and on 1st January 1983 with the City of Manchester College of Higher Education. Having previously been a local authority institution, the Polytechnic became a corporate body on the 1st April 1989, as allowed by the terms of the Education Reform Act 1988. It became a University under the terms of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992 under the new title of "Manchester Metropolitan University". This new title was approved by the Privy Council on the 15th September 1992. The university grew larger still when the Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education was merged on the 1st October 1992. The Alsager site is closing down and the land is being sold to fund development of the Crewe site. The overall plan is too move the entire Alsager campus to the Crewe one. However the town of Crewe refuses to grow with the university leaving little for the students to do, and with the increase of the local chav's in the area it makes for unpleasent meetings in the dark of the night. The university has also lied about the students to various commities claiming that the students are happy with the way the accomadation is run but this is far from the truth. The students plea's go unheard and the administration keeps it that way.

List of alumni

This partial list of alumni include those who attended institutions which became part of present-day MMU during its history.

• Steve Coogan
• Buda Dangol
• Jenny Eclair
• Thomas Heatherwick
• Mick Hucknall
• Phil Ineson
• Peter Saville
• Julie Walters
• Carey Young
• Matthew Kelly
• Burn Gorman
• Martin Parr
• Malcolm Garrett

External links and sources

• Manchester Metropolitan University website
• MMU summary from Study Overseas Ltd., a consultancy funded by universities
• MMU summary from The Guardian
• MMU summary and statistics from The Times
• MMUnion