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Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as Trent Polytechnic (later Nottingham Polytechnic) in 1970 before gaining its university status in 1992. It is one of the largest new universities in the United Kingdom with over 24,000 students.

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1 Campuses

1.1 Structure

2 Recent Developments
3 Vice-Chancellors
4 History
5 See Also:
6 External link

Campuses

The Nottingham Trent University is split into three campuses.

The City Campus, located to the North of Nottingham City Centre.
Clifton Campus, located just outside Nottingham.
Brackenhurst Campus

Structure

The university is currently split into eight Schools and Faculties.

Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design
Nottingham Business School
Faculty of Construction, Computing and Technology (FACCT)
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Humanities
Nottingham Law School
Faculty of Science and Land-based Studies

Recent Developments

The City campus recently benefitted from the completion of the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) light rail system which provides a stop outside the Boots Library.

The university also recently joined forces with Microsoft to form the Offical Education Support Centre (ESC) for the UK educational sector.

October 2004 saw the introduction of the University's new identity (rebranding) which included the amalgamation of faculties into new schools, the introduction of a new logo and the dropping of the definate article from the offical university name.

Vice-Chancellors

2003- Professor Neil Gorman, BVSc., Ph.D., FRCVS., DACVIM (Oncology)

History

1843 - Nottingham Government School of Design opened
1858 - The Nottingham Government School of Design moved to Commerce Square
1865 - The Nottingham Government School of Design moved to Waverley Building
1881 - University College was established. It later became the new university's Arkwright Building.
1945 - Nottingham and District Technical College was designated.
1958 - Nottingham Regional College of Technology was opened.
1964 - The Regional College was officially launched.
1966 - Nottingham College of Art and Design was linked with the Regional College - as a Polytechnic designate.
1970 - Trent Polytechnic was granted polytechnic status.
1975 - Trent amalgamated with Nottingham College of Education at Clifton.
1988 - The official name change to Trent Polytechnic Nottingham took place.
1989 - Nottingham Polytechnic Higher Education Corporation was founded.
1992 - The Nottingham Trent University was launched.

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