Some pics of recent development at the university! Good news about the refurb of Liverpool's original "red brick" college buildings!

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That area should look more ultra moderne when this is complete also.

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Isnt a Tescos going in the ground floor though?
I would have hoped something better could have been found to fill the site. It is right facing the uni tower after all.

A Tesco? What I would have done for a Tesco there a few months ago. Myself and a friend went to the uni to see a band. In that area there is nothing, NOTHING! The infrastructure is shite. It seems like a city that has no commerce in it when you're up there. No shops or anything. We went all around there trying to find a shop to buy a sandwich but couldn't find one. Perhaps there is more within the campus itself.

In the end, it turned out that we were supposed to be at the L2 Carling Academy next to Lime St, as oppposed to the Carling Academy 1 at the uni. We had to leg it between the two to make it on time. -Still, there were no shops until we got right by the station.

It will be handy for the students I guess.

There is a Spar just round the corner from Blackwells though facing the electrical engineering block.

well with the large amount of students in the area it does kinda make sense to put in somewhere that u can buy your food shopping

oh yeah, and i forgot, its a great development too, something that will hopefully attract even more people to come to live in the pool of life

In the end, it turned out that we were supposed to be at the L2 Carling Academy next to Lime St, as oppposed to the Carling Academy 1 at the uni. We had to leg it between the two to make it on time. -Still, there were no shops until we got right by the station.

You're by no means the first person to do that, and I'm sure you wont be the last. For the record, the L2, (Lomax) is the 'Carling Academy Liverpool' owned by and operated by MKG whilst up the hill is the 'Liverpool Academy'.

I think it was Liverpool Uni's attempt to try and keep MKG out of Liverpool in the year running up to when the Carling Academy opened up. Stupid if you ask me, they would have been better keeping the original names.

Or coming up with something different.

Check this planning decision below, which some may already know about. £26M new building and £200M for research and development from Bill Gates.

£226Million investment (http://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/Published/C00000282/M00004553/AI00019202/$RES32PembrokePlace.docA.ps.pdf)


P.s. I'm giving up on this forum for a few days so i can calm down, because the horrendously slow speed and inconsistent access is really annoying me... :bash: It makes broadband pointless, bring back carrier pidgeon...cluck.cooo.cooo.rrrp.cooo.gobble.gobble :runaway:

Have a look at this in the meantime:
www.stickcricket.com

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It will be handy for the students I guess.

There is a Spar just round the corner from Blackwells though facing the electrical engineering block.
That's the pokey little shop on Brownlow Hill. Missus and I stayed in the Ibis last week and it was the nearest shop I could think of nearby that sold wine! :bash:

just found this image of the new design academy ay JMU. Pretty small and not to clear, but thought Id chuck it in.


http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/NewsUpdate/index_69026.htm

There is a subway sandwich shop, a BSM driving school office and another shop (Can't remember which) on the ground floor now.

Next up, demolishing the little housing estate and replacing it with some mixed use 8-10 storey buildings. The area needs bulking up. Bungalows in the city centre just aren't right!

Next up, demolishing the little housing estate and replacing it with some mixed use 8-10 storey buildings. The area needs bulking up. Bungalows in the city centre just aren't right!
That has got to be the biggest mistake ever made by the council they have a cheek turning down modern stylish towers and building bungalows what went wrong there?

That has got to be the biggest mistake ever made by the council they have a cheek turning down modern stylish towers and building bungalows what went wrong there?

But on the other hand the area was a real eyesore back then and low rise though the little houses may be they brought people back into the city centre at a time (not so long ago) when it wasn`t cool to live in the city centre.......you`d still find it difficult to find a `corner late shop` so it wasn`t a picnic living there.

But with more high rise apartments and student density (not that students are thick - they just need educating) it will increase the need for all the things that people like, want and need when prefering to live down town.

Funny old world - a few years ago you couldn`t bus people in to live in the `inner city` - just shows you what a bit of `promo` does!

And loads`a student halls of residence - bless `em.

It helped `kick start` the city centre back into life and the Universities should be congratulated in helping to repopulate the down down.

I myself persuaded a work college in London to consider Liverpool University (she`d never been to Liverpool) rather than Leeds (sorry Leeds) and she eventually chose Liverpool and she has no regrets - loves the place.

http://www.downtownliverpool.org/

Designs for Rick Mather's stunning £23m new campus building for the new LJMU Design Academy at the RC Cathedral end of Hope Street have been unveiled. A monumental and breathtaking mass of white forms which could add a brilliant counterpoint to the modernist masterpiece of the Cathedral and start perhaps a new Modern Quarter for Liverpool..?

http://www.rickmather.com/html/news/liverpool%20jm%20win.htm

Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has selected Rick Mather Architects to design their new £21million Design Academy on a site adjacent to a major landmark of Liverpool, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.

Rick Mather Architects was competitively selected from a field of outstanding candidates, which included a final shortlist of Michael Hopkins Architects, Fielden Clegg Bradley Architects and Edward Cullinan Architects and a long list including Grimshaw, Gareth Hoskins, Wilkinsom Eyre and Austin Smith Lord.

Professor Michael Brown, LJMU's Vice-Chancellor said: "The outstanding calibre of architects who tendered for this project reflects the importance of the Design Academy to the University and the city of Liverpool."

He continued: "Rick Mather Architects are an exciting and adventurous firm. We are confident that they will design an inspirational building that will help the University advance the teaching of art and design while also reinforcing Liverpool's status as a capital of culture."

Rick Mather, said: "The Design Academy is a wonderful project and we are thrilled to be working on this exceptional site. The development of the new Academy will not only benefit the University and its students but it will bring a forgotten, disconnected area of Liverpool back into productive use for the city wide community."

The Design Academy will be developed on a site adjacent to a major landmark of Liverpool, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. The site is currently occupied by the St Nicholas Centre, currently used by LJMU's Departments of Architecture, Product and Interior Design. The proximity to the Cathedral is one of the factors that make this project so exciting, as Rick Mather explained: "The architectural and city potential of this site is fantastic. We plan to design a modern, memorable building that will be sympathetic to its wider surroundings and also offer a visual complement to the Cathedral."

Founded in 1825 as the Liverpool Mechanics School of Arts, LJMU's School of Art and Design is the oldest art school outside London. The School is currently spread across a number of different buildings which are no longer fit for purpose. The new Design Academy will bring all of LJMU's art and design programmes together in a stimulating new space, enabling more creative forms of teaching and research. It will also offer new facilities and services to the region's creative industries business sector.

The Academy will be developed using £15 million from LJMU plus a further £5.25 million from the Objective 1 programme (to be confirmed). This Objective 1 funding will support the growth of the creative industries on Merseyside by providing increased access to specialist University expertise, applied research, training and development facilities and information resources.

Building work is expected to begin in 2006 and LJMU intends to complete the new Design Academy by the summer of 2008 when Liverpool becomes European Capital of Culture.

check my post no.12 for a sneaky peek of the new centre Pietari, but keep an eye out for better renders

just found this image of the new design academy ay JMU. Pretty small and not to clear, but thought Id chuck it in.


http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/NewsUpdate/index_69026.htm


Been looking forward to seeing this one given the track record of the architects. So far: tantalizing. Planning Explorer seems to be offline as usual.

check my post no.12 for a sneaky peek of the new centre Pietari, but keep an eye out for better renders

Yabba dabba Buggie...... :)

http://www.british-publishing.com/Pages/Liverpool2004/fire.html

"Lighting the fire"

WB Yeats shrewdly observed that education should not be filling a bucket - but lighting a fire. And if the analogy holds, Liverpool has ignited a veritable inferno of learning and discovery.

Now held up as a national example in many areas of the education spectrum, Liverpool really has become a city where talents are nurtured and prized and where there is a rich supply of brain-food to stimulate the eager mind. Many people whose wit and wisdom has been honed here in Liverpool are also choosing to remain on Merseyside, setting up their own businesses or contributing in other ways to the intellectual and creative life of the city.

improvements teach the world a lesson
"A stunning transformation", "very good progress" and " a model of good practice" were among the glowing comments on Liverpool's end-of-school report. Independent inspectors OFSTED gave Liverpool's education service top honours, shortly after the Audit Commission announced its level of improvements made it the best in the country.

And Colin Hilton, the city's executive director for education says the transformation will also act as positive encouragement for those intending to come to Liverpool to live–or to set up in business. This is great news for every Liverpool parent, he says. OFSTED has officially graded Liverpool's education service as a '2'. And the appraisal is echoed in the actual achievements of children, with the number of pupils attaining five or more GCSEs at Grade C or above jumping from 31 per cent to 42.5 per cent: the equivalent of 700 more pupils gaining the top grades.

Another facet is the increase in the number of parents being able to send their children to their first-choice school–a statistic which has improved from 80 per cent to an impressive 93 per cent. Singled out for particular praise by OFSTED was special needs provision, the service is described as 'outstanding' and has leapt to the top quartile in the country.

OFSTED also sang the praises of Liverpool's music support service, which is enhanced by links with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, helping students to achieve a 100 per cent pass rate in practical music exams set by the Associated Board.

Of course, there is solid visible evidence of Liverpool's renewed commitment to education, too, in what has been the biggest programme of school building in Britain. Financed through a ground-breaking £72 million Public Service Initiative struck up with Jarvis PLC, 15 new schools have been built and three more substantially modernised in phase one of a programme which will ultimately cost £300 million.

Another enlightened approach to primary education involves language learning, with every child now entitled to the opportunity to learn not just French, but Spanish and German. The multi-lingual curriculum operates by using nine schools as 'hubs' with children with a particular aptitude or desire to learn extra languages being taught at their nearest centre.

The innovative idea, which is especially pertinent to children who will be growing up in a European Capital of Culture, has earned the LEA pathfinder status. Added to all these developments, nursery places are now available for all three year olds who need one.

Colin Hilton again: Some of our pioneering concepts are having worldwide influence. Our collective brains have been 'picked' by the University of Berkeley, California over school involvement in urban regeneration initiatives. And the ministry of education in our twin city, Shanghai, has sought Liverpool's advice on the use of ICT in schools.

Two new city academies are also scheduled–one which is faith-based, serving a multi-ethnic community, while the other will replace two existing high schools. Councillor Paul Clein, Executive member for Education, sums up the progress made: The hard work of children, parents, governors and teachers is reaping rewards and our priority is to continue our improvements and give every child in Liverpool the best possible start in life, he says.

uni-versally acclaimed
The establishment where the phrase 'redbrick' university (from Waterhouse's Victoria Building) was first coined has more than enough kudos to rank alongside the more 'classical' English Universities like Oxford, Cambridge and Durham...Liverpool University can lay claim to no less than eight Nobel Prize winners among its roll-call of distinguished alumni.

The first was Sir Ronald Ross, awarded the prize for his work on malaria in the nineteenth century and paving the way for Liverpool's worldwide reputation in the field of tropical medicine. Charles Barkla (physics, 1917), Sir Charles Sherrington (medicine, 1932), Sir James Chadwick (physics, 1935), Sir Robert Robinson (chemistry, 1947), HG Khorana (medicine, 1968), Rodney Porter (medicine, 1972) and Sir Joseph Rotblat, Peace, 1995) complete the names on the hall of fame and also demonstrate Liverpool University's particular strengths in sciences and medicine.

The £23 million Biosciences centre symbolises the importance of these disciplines, housing the amalgamated biochemistry, genetics and microbiology departments, where cutting edge research on topics like the human genome project is carried out. A clutch of academic firsts also bolsters the University's pedigree–including the first departments of biochemistry, veterinary science, oceanography, architecture and civic design. Liverpool also had the first full-time chairs in dentistry, Russian and Spanish, the first honours course in geography and social sciences, the first institute of coastal oceanography and tides and was the first university to have its own marine biological station.

There is a natural correlation between the character of the city and the preoccupations of its academics, with the emphasis on the sea, world links and languages. So it was almost inevitable that both Liverpool University and Johns Moores University would establish pop music as a credible subject for analytical study.

The University's Institute of Popular Music is internationally known and is one of two centres responsible for compiling the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World.

Other less conventional courses are available in Football Industries and IT and the prestigious new Management School has an MBA in Entrepreneurship as its flagship course.

Two of Liverpool University's most commercially successful former students, Robin Saxby and Paul Roy, senior vice-president of Merrill Lynch, returned to their undergraduate home to open the Management School. Robin Saxby, who read engineering in the 60s joined Motorola before founding ARM Holdings in 1990.

Among other notable alumni is Sir Brian Wolfson, who studied Law and went on to become MD of Granada at just 32. Phil Redmond, founder of Mersey TV, came to Liverpool University as a mature student and studied Sociology, after starting out in life as a quantity surveyor. Another small screen player from the Liverpool University stable is Channel Four presenter Jon Snow, who studied politics in the late 60s. Patricia Routledge, of Hyacinth Bucket and Hetty Wainthropp fame - took her BA in English in 1951 and credits Liverpool with playing a major part in her development. "I have very fond memories of Liverpool," she says. "It's the city that really formed me."

Tung Chee Hwa, who graduated in Marine Engineering in 1960, is now Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.
Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat CBE who gained his doctorate at Liverpool University won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. Lord Donald Nicholls of Birkenhead, who gained his LL.B in 1956 is currently one of only five Law Lords.

Margaret Simey (nee Todd) was Liverpool University's very first Sociology graduate in 1928 and went on to become legendary in her home city as a 'people's champion' and social reform campaigner.

Another distinguished former graduate, Professor Michael Thompson is now Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University. Over the next decade Liverpool University is making a major multi-million pound investment to lay the foundations for another century of excellent academic achievement. Through the establishment of the Centenary Foundation the University is seeking to raise £70 million to fund a new generation of learning facilities and to build a world-leading excellence centre.

The city of two football teams and two Cathedrals also has two major universities.

John Moores or JMU was created in 1992 with the former Liverpool Polytechnic as its basis and it is now one of the largest Universities in the country, with more than 20,000 students.

Cherie Booth is the University Chancellor while American physicist Professor Michael Brown has taken over Peter Toyne's mantle as vice-Chancellor. Included under the JMU umbrella are LIPA, the Performing Arts school, Liverpool Art School and ICDC – the International Centre for Digital Content.

Among the pioneering initiatives which have sprung from JMU are the Foundation for Citizenship, set up by Lord Alton to promote the concept of citizenship in the community and to foster an ethical culture in schools, and the Centre for Automotive Studies, which has set up an automotive e-community, runs the Merseyside Automotive Group and has inspired other similar groups nationwide.

JMU was the first University anywhere to offer a distance learning course in astronomy, using a 2 metre fully robotic telescope situated at La Palma in the Canaries, which can be remotely operated from the Astrophysics Research Institute in Liverpool.

A recent coup and highlight for the University was the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to accept an Honorary Fellowship and to deliver an address in the Anglican Cathedral, part of the Roscoe Citizenship lecture series. Another much-publicised venture is The Research Unit for Human Development and Ageing, the site of the UK's first major healthcare study aimed at slowing or reversing the ravages of the ageing process. Specialist health testing of 400 volunteers will map the normal physical development of children and provide key pointers in defining the onset of physical deterioriation in middle-aged and older people.

Professor David Goldspink, Director of the Unit, says: "With the help of the Merseyside community, this project will provide scientists around the world with vital baseline information in identifying the functional changes that occur during normal development and healthy ageing. We are supplying the necessary platform from which to study important medical conditions such as childhood obesity, diabetes and heart failure."

Finally JMU takes pride in the New Entrepreneur Scholarship programme which it has set up with the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. The programme is designed to provide tailored business education and one-to-one advice and guidance for people establishing new business ventures who have experienced social exclusion or who come from deprived parts of Liverpool.

Around 30 new businesses have been established, ranging from upholstery companies to IT consultancies. JMU has been the jumping off point for a cluster of multi-discipline New Media graphics agencies, whose founders have chosen to remain in Liverpool, handling high profile and corporate accounts which in the past would have automatically gone to London or Manchester.

Matt Johnson, the joint director of Mando, one of the largest of these new studios, left JMU with a business studies degree in 1997, teaming up with fellow graduate Ian Finch. Matt says, The thought of leaving Liverpool never entered my head. There is so much happening here.

Another of the class of '97, Chris Beer, settled in Blundell Street to form Splinter Design, much of whose business specialises in research into multi-media in education, producing, for example, a CD-rom, Echoes of Ireland, tracing Liverpool's links and allegiances with the province. National clients include the Learning and Skills Council and the Youth Justice Board. Chris says: We network, sharing ideas with other groups and companies so that overall we produce a quality of design which equals anything you can find in London.

Australian-born Robin Shannon, business studies graduate in 2002, collaborated with 'classmates' James Dunningham and Oliver Crook to set up Fresh Consultants, offering sales and marketing advice and purchasing and supply chain management. Within two years their turnover has topped £100K and the company works for more than 40 different organisations ranging from one man entrepreneurs to the Bibby Line and the Whitbread group. A winner of the JMU Citizenship Award, the group is also actively involved in a number of charity projects, such as the Young Enterprise Scheme in schools, where Robin and his fellow directors use their expertise in setting up business-style workshops.

There are sound commercial reasons for staying in what Robin describes as a 'booming' Liverpool, but these are not the only factors. I know this is going to sound like a cliche, but it's true – everyone is so friendly and welcoming.

furthering the education aim
Liverpool Community College – the city's only Further Education college, has around 28,000 students on 600 courses at any one time and plays an active part in Liverpool life and culture.

In the last six years the college has invested more than £40 million in its estate, building four new fit-for-purpose main centres, refurbishing a further two and developing neighbourhood provision access across the city.

The college has been awarded four 'Centre of Vocational Excellence' citations in Media and Journalism, Event and Performance Technical Management and Production, Tourism and
Hospitality and Building Services and Engineering.

COVE is a government initiative recognising high standards of training, good employer links and a commitment to sharing good practice in education. The original expectation was that 50 per cent of all colleges have at least one COVE by 2005. The college's new buildings offer quality venues for community groups, including the LEA Saturday Music School, summer dance and drama projects at the Arts Centre and the Arabic community centre and culture weekends at Clarence Street.

There are several dynamic collaborations and partnerships between the college and arts organisations which are gathering momentum and will increase towards 2008. Examples include a multi-media installation as part of the Liverpool Biennial and the new media station Toxteth TV, a collaborative project involving the college and Granada TV.

The diverse cultural communities of Liverpool all have links with the college, which has been chosen to develop an English for Speakers of Other Languages Pathfinder project. The college also has links with South Africa, where it has been encouraging the set-up of an inclusive FE system.

Liverpool Community College has been contributing to education of students in the townships and by 2008 expects to have a full staff and student exchange programme in place.

Euro-connections include a multi-national INTEGRA project developing adult guidance with partners from Greece, Italy and Portugal and the Anglo-German Transnational Exchange Programme in partnership with Trident Training and Liverpool Chamber of Commerce.

The Principal of the college, Wally Brown CBE, is one of Liverpool's educational leaders. He is on the board of the Capital of Culture company and its champion for 2004 Faith In One City.

Hope (Liverpool Hope University College) is a church foundation and unique as an ecumenical university college. With a holistic ethos which attracts students from a wide span of faiths and belief systems, Hope offers a 'village in the city' educational experience at its main campus, Hope Park in Childwall.

There are satellite 'Hopes', in Everton – on Shaw Street – as well as Hope on the Waterfront and Hope at Liverpool Airport. Hope at Everton is a creative arts campus and urban renaissance project based on The Cornerstone, a Grade II Listed Building and home to Hope's School of Creative and Performing Arts and St Francis Xavier church.

speaking volumes...
The latest statistics on book borrowing and reference inquiries proves that Liverpool is enjoying another new chapter in its history as a city which embraces literacy and learning. Contrary to the overall British trend, libraries in Liverpool seem to be becoming ever more attractive, with more than 2.5 million people
using them last year – as well as 3.6 million books being borrowed and 1.8 million inquiries fielded.
The facelift and facility upgrade is part of the overall revamp of the museum, Walker Art Gallery and City Council archives on William Brown Street.



Around £30 million is being spent creating more public space, bigger reading areas, a generally more inviting ambience and interior linkages between the impressive buildings. An allied venture being overseen by the library service is the Liverpool People project, involving the digitised history of more than 90 million people in a giant electronic database which will enable people all over the world to trace ancestors and other family members.

Work has just begun on the project – which will be completed in time for the 800th birthday celebrations and will be presented as the World Discovery Centre.

Liverpool's library service has also masterminded the opening of nine new or refurbished libraries recently and extended opening hours, with six libraries now opening on Sundays. Joyce Little, Head of Libraries says,For the past two years the library service has achieved Beacon status in recognition of the facilities' use as a community resource.

There are support workers in post to provide after-school activities and good links with Adult and Community Learning schemes.

city of storytellers
From the salty tang of seafarers’ tales to the gritty realism of modern day dramatists like Willy Russell and Alan Bleasdale, Liverpool has always harboured more than its fair share of creative genius.

The council’s Tourism unit which sits in the Liverpool Culture Company has produced a 20 page booklet presenting an overview of some of the key players in the various literary genres, as well as photographs, a map with relevant birthplaces and writing-linked venues. A series of collectable beer-mats with quotes from eight of the leading literati, which was launched at Dr Duncan’s pub on World Book Day, has been produced in collaberation with Cains brewery.

The mats feature examples from: ‘The Cruel Sea’ by Nicholas Monsarrat, ‘Her Benny’ by Silas K. Hocking, ‘Educating Rita’ by Willy Russell, ‘Still Here’ by Linda Grant, ‘No Trams To Lime Street’ by Alun Owen, ‘Redburn’ by Herman Melville, ‘George’s Last Ride’, ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’ by Alan Bleasdale and ‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections’ by Carl G. Jung.

Among the principal voices who have added richness to Liverpool writing are:

Poets: Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was priest at St Francis Xavier’s church in 1880/81. Felicia Hemans, whose ‘Casablanca’ contains the much-quoted line ‘The boy stood on the burning deck’ lived in Wavertree. Part of the 60s pop culture, the Liverpool Poets Roger McGough OBE, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten are enshrined in the top-selling anthology ‘The Mersey Sound’. Meanwhile Beat poet Allan Ginsberg hailed Liverpool "the centre of the consciousness of the human universe". In the basement of the Everyman Theatre, now the Bistro, the first ‘Liverpool Scene’ readings took place and regular performance poetry nights continue there. Moreover there are poetry-based events scattered across the city with increasing regularity. Modern poets including Carol Ann Duffy and Paul Farley – winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 2003 for The Landing Stage – were born in the area and Levi Tafari, Craig Charles, Deryn Rees-Jones and Matt Simpson add élan and imagination to the list.

Novelists: The popular Liverpool genre in fiction, spearheaded by Helen Forrester, harks back to the prototype tale of orphans and destitution in the nineteenth century city, ‘Her Benny‘. Less well-known is a Bronte connection to Liverpool – with ‘Wuthering Heights’ ‘ brooding hero Heathcliff having been rescued from the city slums. A plaque in Rodney Street marks the one-time presence of Nicholas Monsarrat,
author of ‘The Cruel Sea’. Once an actress at the Liverpool Playhouse, Beryl Bainbridge achieved far greater fame with the novels for which she was later pronounced a Dame. On the contemporary scene, Ramsey Campbell and Clive Barker are respected specialists in horror and fantasy respectively, while Neil Griffiths and Kevin Sampson deal in stark urban reality. Linda Grant, winner of the Orange Prize, drew on her experience of growing up in – and returning to–
Liverpool in ‘The Cast Iron Shore’ and ‘Still Here’. While children’s author Brian Jacques originally wrote the Redwall series for the Royal School for the Blind in Wavertree.

Playwrights: The triumvirate of Willy Russell (‘Educating Rita’, ‘Blood Brothers’ and ‘Shirley Valentine’), Alan Bleasdale (‘Boys from the Blackstuff’) and Jimmy McGovern (‘Liam’ and ‘Priest’) have shown time and time over that Liverpudlians have a special flair for dialogue – and for mirroring vital social issues. And Alun Owen’s ‘No Trams To Lime Street’ was one of the first plays to be written in the Scouse dialect. Another acclaimed dramatist born in Liverpool was Peter Shaffer, writer of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus’.

using knowledge, fostering excellence
Two further initiatives demonstrating this city’s recognition of knowledge and understanding of quality are the Liverpool Science Park and the Academy of Excellence in Customer Care.

North West Development Agency grants totalling £5 million have funded the first phase of the project to create the Science Park, next to the Catholic Cathedral on Mount Pleasant. The park is a collaborative venture involving Liverpool City Council and the two Universities and ultimately 70,000 square feet of incubation space for knowledge-based businesses will be created. There is also a tie-in with Bidwell Science Innovations – managers of the Cambridge Science Park – who have been awarded a three year contract to run the Liverpool park.

The Academy of Excellence in Customer Care has been newly set up to support employees in all businesses connected in some way with tourism – including the retail sector – to draw up a blueprint for high standards in customer care and to ensure that these are maintained across the city. The Academy’s mission includes encouraging unemployed people to apply for jobs within the sector, to positively promote the industry as a career choice and to achieve consistency and high levels of motivation across the private and public sector.

And at the heart of the Academy’s message is the desire to keep intact Liverpool’s justly held reputation for offering the hand of friendship and a genuine welcome to all.

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Liverpool scientists in bird flu breakthrough Oct 11 2005

EXCLUSIVE by Tony Mcdonough, Daily Post

CLINICAL trials will begin within weeks on a Liverpool-produced vaccine for the deadly bird flu virus which it is feared could kill millions of people worldwide.

Experts at the Chiron plant, in Speke, have spent several months working on a vaccine for the H5N1 avian flu virus.

A spokeswoman for the company told the Daily Post last night that thousands of doses would be shipped to the US in the next few weeks when scientists will begin testing it on humans.

Fears of a global bird flu pandemic grew over the weekend after a suspected outbreak at a turkey farm in Turkey and another possible case among ducks in Romania.

It is feared H5N1 could mutate and acquire the ability to pass from human to human, threatening the lives of millions of people worldwide.

Around 60 people in Asia have already died from the virus which was first identified at a chicken farm in South Korea in 2003. In May last year, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a contract to Chiron to produce 8,000 test vaccines against H5N1. The Chiron spokeswoman said: "The H5N1 test vaccines have been produced in Liverpool and will be supplied to NIAID for testing later in the autumn."

She added it would be difficult to say how long it would take before the vaccine would gain final approval.

"There is obviously a lot of focus on this right now, but it would depend on what the mechanism was for approval - it might be there is a variation on the normal," she said..

Experts at Liverpool have already produced a test vaccine for another strain of bird flu, H9N2, which has recently undergone trials in Italy.

At the end of last week, US President George Bush called in the chief executive of Chiron, along with representatives from other pharmaceutical firms, to the White House and urged them to speed up their efforts to head off a possible global pandemic.

The US Health and Human Services secretary, Mike Leavitt, said after the meeting: "We talked about what is necessary to get to the goal of having enough vaccine in the shortest possible time."

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The Liverpool School Of Tropical Medicine, an international centre of excellence for research, higher education, consultancy and training in tropical diseases.

A registered charity affiliated to the University of Liverpool, the School was founded in 1898, becoming the World's first institution devoted primarily to tropical health.

It has extensive links with UN organizations, health ministries, universities, non-governmental organizations and research institutions worldwide and is involved in numerous programmes to control diseases of poverty and to develop more effective systems for health care.

The School prides itself on its links with developing countries and is committed to increasing such partnerships.

http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/about/index.htm
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Architects impressions of the School's proposed new Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases.

History of the School
http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/about/History.htm

Sir Alfred Lewis Jones a Liverpool shipowner, together with members of the business community, founded the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1898, the first of its kind in the world. Between 1898 and 1913 the School despatched no fewer than 32 expeditions to the tropics, including Sierra Leone, the Congo and the Amazon.

Sir Ronald Ross became the first British winner of a Nobel prize for medicine when, in 1902, he was recognised for his discovery that malaria is carried by mosquitoes. The School's scientists also developed the first drug to treat malaria and pioneered treatments for sleeping sickness and relapsing fever.

Africa has been the setting for many of the School's outstanding achievements. These include the discovery of links between insects and onchocerciasis (river blindness) and elephantiasis and new organisms which affect humans, including some associated with HIV disease.

Sleeping sickness and meningitis are two of the serious diseases tackled recently in Uganda and Ghana - and in areas of conflict, including the Congo (Zaire), Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sierra Leone, the School's scientists have persevered against great odds to sustain crucial treatment and control programmes.

500 Students each year are welcomed from over 70 countries. These visitors include doctors, nurses, health managers and scientists who disseminate the School's work throughout the world.

Liverpool University (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16262492%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=university%2dto%2destablish%2dnew%2dcampus%2din%2dchina-name_page.html) has been granted initial approval to open an International Campus for 10,000 students in China.

^^ That's an interesting one, Paul. Nottingham are already setting up a campus in China, with a building modelled on their admin building in Notts.

I wonder if the new Liverpool Chinese University will have a replica of Waterhouse's Victoria Building?

Probably not, be a bit too pricey:


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http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16276020%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=voice%2dof%2dvoiceless%2dto%2dbe%2dheard%2dat%2dhope-name_page.html

Voice of Voiceless to be heard at Hope Oct 21 2005

By David Rutland Daily Post Correspondent

THE Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords is to be appointed the first Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University.

Human rights campaigner Baroness Caroline Cox of Queensbury will be installed to the post at the city's Metropolitan Cathedral in January, 24 years after she was made a peer by Margaret Thatcher in 1982.

The former nurse, age 68, is admired throughout the world for her constant quest for justice for those she describes as the persecuted and oppressed.

Known as the Voice for the Voiceless after the title of her own biography, she has travelled widely, often illegally crossing into countries to witness and document "man's inhumanity to man".

Yesterday, Hope University's Pro-Chancellor, Eileen Kelleher, announced the appointment, two months after the institute was granted official status to provide its own degrees, in August.

Ms Kelleher described Baroness Cox as "the embodiment of Hope's mission as a Christian ecumenical institution dedicated to educating the whole person in body, mind and spirit."

University vice-chancellor Professor Gerald Pillay added that the new Chancellor "cannot fail to to inspire our students".

Baroness Cox has a reputation for putting herself at risk for her cause.

On one occasion, she led a posse of lawyers and human rights workers into Azerbaijan to talk face to face with the native Azeris who had been looting and burning the homes of Christian Armenians in the country.

She was later awarded the Mkhitar Gosh medal by the President of the Armenian Republic in recognition of her services to their land and people.

Baroness Cox also visited the Sudan 27 times after she heard of a desperate shortage of nurses.

She is classed as a criminal by the Sudanese courts and in her absence was sentenced to five years imprisonment on charges of illegal entry.

She said: "I am honoured and delighted to accept the post of Chancellor at this exciting new ecumenical university.

"I greatly look forward to becoming involved with this new university, which to me, encompasses so many of the beliefs and aspirations for which I work."

The university became an accredited institution of the University of Liverpool in 1994, and changed its name to Liverpool Hope in 1995. Its mission is described as to "provide opportunities for the well-rounded personal development of Christians and those of other faiths."

The university's own accredited degree programmes will start in 2006, with the first students expected to graduate in 2009.

Degrees authorised by the University of Liverpool will be phased out over the next few years. The new Chancellor will serve for three years, starting on January 1, 2006.

Liverpool school of tropical medicine funding for new building and research.

Check link to LSTM website here (http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/about/NewsEvents.htm#N2)

Picture of new development from BBC News website. I think this is frontage shown on Pembroke place.
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Looks great, modern looking without being totally out of character for the area. If we could only get someone to develop that abandoned row of shops opposite, I think Pembroke Place would be quite a pleasant, lively area.

Published 20 October 2005 at 11:50

Sheppard Robson gets vet for animal magic – image


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Sheppard Robson has been given the green light for a new £9.6 million veterinary building for the University of Liverpool.

The single-storey facility will sit in the grounds of the historic Leahurst country house on the Wirral peninsula and will double the faculty’s current capacity.

Hidden behind a 100m curved sandstone wall, the new building will link up with an existing equine hospital and will provide state-of-the-art operating and imaging suites as well as a consultation centre for small animals.

Describing the scheme, a spokesman said: ‘Two corridors lit by horizontal roof lights run parallel to the sandstone wall.

‘These physically separate the reception and patient areas at the front from the wards, theatre and imaging wings to the rear, allowing natural light and ventilation deep into the building plan, responding to the sustainable strategy of the site.’

The practice, which is running the project out of its Manchester office, was chosen to design the new building back in 2004 following a competitive interview.

Work is expected to start on site next month and is due to complete in December 2006.

by Richard Waite

JMU Design Academy - Recommended approval

Could me a little gem this one. Good news in the offing methinks.

John Moores University, Great Orford Street, Liverpool 3 (Central Ward) PDF 44 K

To consider a recommendation that Application No 05F/2996 to erect five storey academic building with basement to include design studios, exhibition spaces, cafe, bookshop, multi-purpose hall and ancillary facilities following demolition of existing buildings, at John Moores University, Great Orford Street, Liverpool 3, be granted subject to the conditions proposed by the Planning Manager.

JMU Design Academy - Recommended approval

Could me a little gem this one. Good news in the offing methinks.

John Moores University, Great Orford Street, Liverpool 3 (Central Ward) PDF 44 K

To consider a recommendation that Application No 05F/2996 to erect five storey academic building with basement to include design studios, exhibition spaces, cafe, bookshop, multi-purpose hall and ancillary facilities following demolition of existing buildings, at John Moores University, Great Orford Street, Liverpool 3, be granted subject to the conditions proposed by the Planning Manager.

Due for approvel on Tuesday
Planning application (http://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/Published/C00000307/M00004712/AI00022337/$Item18JohnMooresUniversityGreatOrfordStreetLiverpoolL3.doc.pdf)

map of area (http://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/Published/C00000307/M00004712/AI00022337/gtorfordstL3amended.pdf)

Published 30 November 2005 at 11:49
Shepheard Epstein Hunter to join Spence at Liverpool uni – images

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Shepheard Epstein Hunter (SEH) has won planning permission for a major new library at the University of Liverpool.

The £20 million project will link Basil Spence’s Sydney Jones Library, built in 1974, and the late 1960s Senate House, designed by Tom Mellor.

Both buildings will be adapted and refurbished as part of a larger scheme to create a combined central library facility for the university.

SEH’s new link building will provide space for helpdesks and information points and will enable access to both buildings across all three storeys.

Once complete the three buildings will enclose a new urban space – dubbed the ‘library plaza’. This square will boast a new café terrace and will replace the existing, steeply sloped forecourt to the Sydney Jones Building.

The project is scheduled to start on site in spring 2006.

Not impressed with the design in the above depiction - too similar to an out of town travel lodge!

The University Arts Centre was given planning approval yesterday, £23m designed by award winning architect, Rick Mather, expected to start early next year and ready for CoC 2008, I like this building it looks great from the image in the DP.



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Its good to see that the university is maintaining its reputation for architectural innovation and excellence.

goodie goodie i like. the developments round the cathedral really are making the area look a lot better. i think the new entrance is the biggest improvement to the area.

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Brilliant, cheers Doug. This goes really well with the cathedral- a modern modernist piece of architecture!

Work starts on tropical medicine site Mar 8 2006




By Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo


WORK is under way on Liverpool's new £24m centre for tropical and infectious diseases.

Demolition has begun of a disused pub on the site adjoining the world-famous Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Rosemary Hawley, High Sheriff of Merseyside and chairwoman of the School of Tropical Medicine, joined the school's director Professor Janet Hemingway to officially start the building work with the aid of a 50ft, 50-ton high-reach grabber arm.

The new centre, being built with the help of an £18m government funding package, will enable research into new drugs and insecticides for life threatening diseases such as malaria.

A spokeswoman for the school of tropical medicine said: "This is an important milestone in the start of the new centre.




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"It will double the size of the school and the work done there, part of it funded by a $50m (£28.5m) grant from the Gates Foundation, should save millions of lives in the future."


Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates set up the foundation with his wife Melinda with the aim of ending the suffering caused by malaria.


It announced the multi-million pound grant last winter and the money will be used to produce new insecticides, anti-malarial drugs and vaccines.


The new centre for tropical and infectious diseases will bring together state-of-the-art equipment, laboratories, and scientific skills and will put the school of tropical medicine at the forefront of the global fight against malaria.


It is expected to be completed in 18 months.

i wonder if bill gates will open this himself when its officially complete?

http://www.liv.ac.uk/newsroom/press_releases/2006/03/thai_princess.htm

Thai princess to receive honorary degree in Liverpool

Liverpool, UK - 15 March 2006: Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand is to be awarded an honorary degree by the University of Liverpool this week.

Her Royal Highness is recognised for her role in pioneering the Plant Genetic Conservation Project – a national initiative set up to preserve and protect key plants and seeds endemic in Thailand for future use. Her interest in conservation and plant genetic research mirrors work being carried out at the University’s Botanic Gardens at Ness on the Wirral, where she will spend time during her visit.

The third child of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Thailand, Her Royal Highness is also renowned for her support of a wide range of cultural and humanitarian projects. In 2005 she was designated a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Goodwill Ambassador for the Empowerment of Minority Children, and was presented the Indira Ghandi Peace Award the previous year.

The Princess uses her work and experiences of travelling to indulge one of her main interests - writing poetry and prose. She has written many children’s and travel novels and regularly publishes accounts of visits to countries across the globe. Proceeds from her publications form the main source of income for the Princess’s Charitable Foundation, set up in 1979 to provide support and scholarships to needy students.

Her diverse range of interests is founded on her academic background. She graduated in History from Chulalongkorn University in 1976; she also holds postgraduate degrees in Oriental Languages and Education, and has qualifications in physical geography, agriculture and information technology. She is a gifted musician and regularly plays traditional Thai musical instruments.

The University’s Public Orator, Professor Chris Gaskell, said: “The University is privileged to recognise and honour the contribution of an educator of the calibre of Princess Sirindhorn. Her vast body of work reflects enormous commitment to the value of modern science, the importance of national heritage and culture, as well as the needs of the poorest in society.”

The University’s Chancellor, Lord David Owen will present Her Royal Highness with a Doctorate of Laws at a ceremony being held at the University’s Foresight Centre on Thursday, 16 March.

http://www.liv.ac.uk/newsroom/press_releases/2006/03/commissions.htm

Evaluation of UK commissions goes to House of Lords

Liverpool, UK - 16 March 2006: The role of UK commissions which debate issues such as the war in Iraq and the future of the monarchy will be evaluated by University of Liverpool Management School researchers at a special event at the House of Lords.


Professor Laura McAllister and Dr Mike Rowe have spent more than 12 months interviewing commission members across England, Scotland and Wales, investigating how they approach their duties and the impact their decisions have on government policy.

The team has assessed the role of the Butler Inquiry in investigating issues surrounding intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, as well as Royal Commissions looking at the reform of the House of Lords and the independent commission on the UK voting system.

Professor McAllister said: “When commissions are appointed they open up the possibility of unexpected or unwanted debate on policy issues and as a result they are in decline. Yet independent commissions, inquiries and reviews remain remarkably durable and make significant contributions to policy processes and outcomes.”

Dr Rowe added “It is important, therefore, that commission members share their experiences and achievements with one another. At the moment, because commissions tend to be of short duration, this is not happening and the experience of individual members, that others can benefit from, is lost.”

The seminar at the House of Lords will draw commission members together to discuss issues surrounding their role. It is hoped that this will produce significant good practice guidelines and make sure that commissions that are set up are distinctive and constructive in their work.

Participants at the seminar include Lord Richard, chair of Independent Commission on the Power and Electoral Arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales and Lord Sutherland, chair of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly, as well as Sir Michael Wheeler-Booth, member of the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords.

The Seminar on Commission of Inquiry will take place at the Palace of Westminster, at 2.00pm on Wednesday, 22 March.

Noticed that the site for the "Liverpool school for tropical medicine" extension is being cleared, the derelict pub demolished, and other buildings cleared. This is a great new modern development.

Check the images of the development here (http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/about/index.htm)

Noticed that the site for the "Liverpool school for tropical medicine" extension is being cleared, the derelict pub demolished, and other buildings cleared. This is a great new modern development.

Check the images of the development here (http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/about/index.htm)

I like this building Juxtapol,and this is the first time I've seen any pictures of it as well,I think it'll look good in that area and I'm glad too see it's on site now. :)

There's plenty of sixties shite that I'd like to see demolished at uni and to think that Georgian terraces were sacrificied for such inanity!

Did anyone notice the `chairs` in the second image (Green) very retro - don`t think they`ll happen lol.

This development will however put even more pressure on the London Road area to upgrade - which will put even more pressure on some of the buildings still worth retaining - in what is essentially a proposed new `work / live district`

London Road needs a drastic overhaul

It needs a higher police presence at night too. Much higher!

It needs a higher police presence at night too. Much higher!

Dunno - quite like the edge after watching the latest shite student band at the Academy.

I like this building Juxtapol,and this is the first time I've seen any pictures of it as well,I think it'll look good in that area and I'm glad too see it's on site now. :)

I'm slightly suprised they're still keeping that big brick building with no windows, hmm, wonder what happens in there???

Sshhhhhhhh!!!!

It`s probably the toilets.

http://www.liv.ac.uk/newsroom/press_releases/2006/04/MRC_Fellowship.htm

£1M fellowship awarded to Liverpool scientist for deadly brain virus research
Liverpool, UK - 6 April 2006:

A Liverpool scientist has been awarded a Fellowship of nearly £1M by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to carry out research into emerging brain viruses such as Japanese encephalitis.

Dr Tom Solomon, from the University’s Department of Clinical Science, has been honoured with a Senior Clinical Fellowship by the MRC to further his work on virus infections of the brain. Only one or two such Fellowships are awarded annually by the MRC.

The Fellowship will enable Dr Solomon and his team from the Viral Brain Infections Group to study brain damage caused by Japanese encephalitis – a deadly mosquito-borne virus, common in Asia. Infection with the virus results in swelling and inflammation of the brain.

The group will investigate how much brain damage is caused by the virus itself and how much is caused by the body’s attempts to fight it off. A better understanding of this could lead to the development of new treatments for the virus.

Dr Solomon said: "I am pleased that the Medical Research Council appreciates the growing importance of emerging viruses, such as Japanese encephalitis, and recognises our group's work. The award also enhances the University’s reputation as a centre of excellence for studying mosquito-borne viruses, which should support future expansion in this area."

The MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship is a highly prestigious award for clinical researchers of exceptional ability. Applicants are expected to be proven independent researchers, to be well-qualified for academic research and to demonstrate promise as future research leaders.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University, Professor Jon Saunders, commented: “This demonstrates the excellence of clinical research in Liverpool. Dr Solomon’s work involves significant collaboration between those interested in neurological conditions and those interested in infectious disease.

He added: “Some of the diseases of interest to Tom are transmitted to humans from animals and the Fellowship is therefore important in the context of the new National Centre for Zoonosis Research recently established at the University.”

Noticed that the site for the "Liverpool school for tropical medicine" extension is being cleared, the derelict pub demolished, and other buildings cleared. This is a great new modern development.

Check the images of the development here (http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/about/index.htm)
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The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is an international postgraduate centre of excellence, devoted to research, education and training, and consultancy.
A registered charity affiliated to the University of Liverpool, the School was founded in 1898, becoming the World's first institution devoted primarily to tropical health. It has extensive links with UN organizations, health ministries, universities, non-governmental organizations and research institutions worldwide and is involved in numerous programmes to control diseases of poverty and to develop more effective systems for health care. The School prides itself on its links with developing countries and is committed to increasing such partnerships.

I watched a nature programme on telly once and some fella got bit by a snake in Africa and they had to get the anti venom from the school of tropical medicine in Liverpool,I couldn't believe it. :eek:

I watched a nature programme on telly once and some fella got bit by a snake in Africa and they had to get the anti venom from the school of tropical medicine in Liverpool,I couldn't believe it. :eek:


Liverpool's School of Tropical Medicine is the oldest and one of the best in the world. Its expertise in such matters is second to none.

It was an essential part of the infrastructure of a global trading city, same as the banks, the shipping companies and the financial infrastructure that meant, for example Liverpool insuring the rebuilding of Chicago after their great fire, and also why we had more embassies than London, when trade and culture was more important than governmental contact.

Cities are the consumate human ecosystem and if that ecosystem reaches out worldwide then that system grows all sorts of elaborate and exotic parts to facilitate it.

Cue for the future?

"Cities are the consumate human ecosystem and if that ecosystem reaches out worldwide then that system grows all sorts of elaborate and exotic parts to facilitate it."

Take your pills.

Obviously suffering from `Liverpool Fever` a totally irrational desire to see `Liverpool` as the `Worlds Greatest City and cosmopolitan region` as against `Manchester Fever` who think that they are already there.

Just kiding :) :runaway:

Whilst `Liverpool Fever` may be cured and realised we can but pray for a cure of `Manchester Fever.`

:) :cheers:

If we do no more more than scratch nits we`ll be ok.

I have, I got them from the School of tropical medicine this morning!

Hee hee hee .... any left? :)

AN EXPLODING star astronomers hope will reveal secrets behind how the universe grows has been recorded by scientists in Liverpool.

The recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph) is 5,000 light years from earth and the phenomenon has never before been studied in so much detail.

It had last exploded 21 years ago, and astronomers including Professor Mike Bode from Liverpool JMU and Dr Tim O'Brien of Jodrell Bank Observatory, has been watching its progress. The explosion has happened five times in the last 108 years.

At its most intense, it produces 100,000 times more energy than the sun and can be seen with the naked eye.

The JMU team has been watching the nova through the Liverpool telescope - one of the most powerful on earth - in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
The evidence they gather could help scientists understand more about hypernova explosions, which are caused by the collapse of stars over 30 times the size of the sun and can take up to 10,000 years to happen - making them difficult for scientists to track.

Hypernova include Gamma Ray Bursters - the largest explosions since the Big Bang, which created the universe.

There are around 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, and over any 50-year period only one is expected to be a supernova.

Prof Bode said: "The expectation was that shocks would be set up both in the ejected material and in the red giant's wind, with temperatures initially of up to around 100 million degrees Celsius - nearly 10 times that in the core of the sun.

"We have not been disappointed." RS Oph, in the Ophiuchi constellation, consists of a white dwarf star in close orbit with a much larger red giant star.


The explosion on the white dwarf occurs "inside" its companion's extended atmosphere and the ejected gas then slams into it at very high speed. The remnants can still be seen rising in the morning in the east through a telescope.

Go-ahead for £3m Hope Uni revamp Apr 12 2006

THE £3m revamp of Liverpool's newest university will now go ahead after fears of parking chaos were calmed.

Plans for a new "front door" building for Liverpool Hope University were yesterday backed by councillors.

The scheme, earmarked for the Taggart Avenue campus in Childwall, had hung in the balance amid claims that it could lead to more students and staff parking in nearby streets.

But Liverpool council supported the scheme after councillors viewed the university's travel plan, which encourages people to use public transport.

Bishop Ian Stuart, the university's assistant vice-chancellor, said: "This development will be a wonderful addition to our provision for students.


"We are mindful of our ongoing responsibility to be considerate and responsible neighbours within the Child-wall community."


Last month, councillors said they were happy with the design of the building, where students will be able to get help with their work and finances.


But plans to set up new parking spaces on site - and any future introduction of charges for staff and students to leave their cars --raised fears that more motor-ists would park in surrounding streets instead.


Yesterday, councillors were told that the university would keep an eye on any parking problems as part of their travel plan.

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.


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Site of the extention thanks to Bill and Melinda Gates, another crane to add to the list.

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Oh is that what they call them, hmmm not exactley on a par with the `Shankley gates` are they...... :runaway:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/newsroom/press_releases/2006/04/carbohydrate_meeting.htm

University welcomes world's top scientists to Royal Society event
Liverpool, UK - 18 April 2006:

Some of the world's most respected chemists will travel to the University of Liverpool for the prestigious Royal Society of Chemists (RSC) meeting.

The University will host the annual meeting for the Carbohydrate Group of the RSC – the largest organisation in Europe for advancing chemical sciences. This year’s meeting will focus on carbohydrates at the chemical biological interface and will feature presentations by internationally-renowned chemists and biochemists at the forefront of carbohydrate research.

The two-day event will attract top scientists including Professor Ole Hindsgaul from the Carlsberg Laboratory in Denmark who will speak about new chemical tools to simplify glycomics – the function of carbohydrates, particularly in human cells – and Dr Anthony Fairbanks from the University of Oxford, who will discuss the assembly of carbohydrates using new methods of organic synthesis. He will also deliver the RSC’s Carbohydrate Award Lecture, sponsored by Dextra laboratories, Reading.

The Carbohydrate Group, established in 1966, is interested in the study of carbohydrates and proteins, which are vital to understanding the potential controls of many biological processes. They aim to further understanding of the relationship between human cells at their surfaces, through carbohydrates and their impact on the development of diseases.

Dr Andrew Stachulski from the University’s Department of Chemistry and Secretary of the RSC Carbohydrate Group, said: “We are delighted to be hosting this prestigious event for the first time in the city. We are keen to further understanding of the interaction between carbohydrates and proteins as this can it tell us a great deal about how diseases develop.”

The RSC Carbohydrate meeting will take place at the University of Liverpool on Thursday, 20 April and Friday, 21 April.

The university will satr expanding further into the city centre soon i think. The student population still increases each year..

LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY
LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY
LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY
LIVERPOOL LIPA
LIVERPOOL EDGE HILL


all together these mass up over 100,000 students i believe! The city is flooded in parts with halls, and campus sites. Well Liverpool is an educational world site. The new Plans for Hopes 3m new development are in the Liverpool Echo, and the rest on here..

GOOD STUFF

http://www.liv.ac.uk/newsroom/press_releases/2006/06/china_2.htm

New university in China given go-ahead .....

Liverpool, UK - 8 June 2006:

The University of Liverpool has been granted a licence by the Chinese Government to open a new University in China.

The University has been given the go-ahead – in partnership with Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), a Top 10 institution in China – to open a new University in September 2006 at Suzhou, 90km west of Shanghai.

University of Liverpool Vice-Chancellor, Professor Drummond Bone, said: “The Chinese Government has given enormous support to our plans. These are exciting times for the University of Liverpool and I am confident our new University will help meet the global demand for highly trained professionals and cement Liverpool’s reputation in China as a world leader in teaching and research.”

Suzhou is an ancient city with more than 2,000 years of history. Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU) will be located at Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). SIP is one of Asia’s most successful business parks and is a hub for foreign investors, attracting 2,100 international organisations, including 53 Fortune 500 companies.

The purpose-built campus will open to students in September 2006. In the first three years, the University will offer degree programmes in Computer Science, Electronics and IT – meeting the urgent need for highly trained individuals in throughout China.

The University will recruit students from across China and other parts of Asia. Students will be given the option to complete the latter part of their studies in Liverpool and will graduate with a full University of Liverpool degree.

An advisory committee comprising representatives from major multi-national companies will advise the University on its degree programmes to ensure they meet the needs of global manufacturing and service industries.

The University of Liverpool is rated highly in China and is 13th in the UK according to rankings compiled by Shanghai Jiaotong University.

The establishment of the new University in China is part of Liverpool’s overall international strategy that includes the recruitment of overseas students to its main campus in Liverpool, a series of off-campus ventures and the development of its innovative suite of e-learning programmes that enables students from all over the world to gain a degree on-line.

The new University will collaborate closely with the University of Liverpool in both teaching and research.
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Curry and chips :) :cheers:

Plastic fork optional although in order to avoid sucking your fingers probably mandatory. :nocrook:

And they say Liverpool has no `Global branding` ...... :)

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/CampusDevelopments/71610.htm

The Hope Street Portfolio .....

LJMU is in the process of disposing of four of its existing buildings, which currently primarily house the School of Art and Design and the School of Law: Hahnemann Building (42 Hope Street), 68 Hope Street, 2 Blackburne Place and Josephine Butler House.

Although these four properties are an important part of the University’s heritage, LJMU has a duty to create the best possible environment for its students and staff.

The sale of these buildings offers the University an opportunity to develop new buildings and facilities around Mount Pleasant that will benefit both the University and the wider community.

LJMU’s new £23 million Design Academy will bring all of the University’s art and design programmes together in a stimulating new space, enabling more creative forms of teaching and research. It will also offer the local community new public exhibition spaces and an art gallery plus a sculpture garden in a new public park around the Metropolitan Cathedral. Subject to receiving planning permission for the new Design Academy, the St Nicholas Building and its basement fitness suite, are scheduled to be demolished in the summer 2006.

Currently, teaching and research on all forms of art and design are scattered around various old buildings that are no longer fit for purpose and require substantial investment in maintenance and repairs.

68 Hope Street, for example, was last refurbished in 1910 and cannot provide the necessary facilities, technical infrastructure or disabled access required for contemporary teaching in art and design.

The University is committed to ensuring that appropriate future uses are found for these properties that both preserves and augments their unique character and that enriches that of Liverpool’s cultural quarter on Hope Street. That is why LJMU has instructed CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) to sell the buildings on our behalf.

CBRE are targeting developers and investors sensitive to the heritage and community value of these properties. It is expected that any future owners will make the investment required to bring these properties back to their former architectural splendour. CBRE intends to dispose of all four properties as a portfolio to a single party.

No covenants exist restricting the use of the buildings, which are suitable for a number of commercial and residential uses. LJMU and CBRE have worked closely with Liverpool City Council to identify the most suitable uses that will ensure the continued use of the buildings for the benefit of the wider community.
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Dillistone and Dean Patey Court .....

As part of its long term accommodation strategy, LJMU works closely with private providers to ensure the provision of high quality student accommodation. In line with this strategy, the University is currently investigating the viability of disposing of its Cathedral Campus student accommodation.

Cathedral Campus, located next to the Anglican Cathedral on Dillistone and Dean Patey Court, consists of 87 student houses with communal bathroom and kitchen facilities. Each of the properties can accommodate up to five students.

This type of shared accommodation no longer meets the needs of today’s students who prefer the en-suite accommodation offered in privately owned student accommodation across Liverpool.

LJMU currently holds a lease on the Cathedral Campus properties and the freeholder, the Dean and Chapter of Liverpool Cathedral, has been consulted and supports the University’s plans to review ownership of the properties.

Students renting rooms at Cathedral Campus during the 2005-2006 academic year will not be affected.

A decision on the possible disposal of Cathedral Campus will be made in December 2005.

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17261076%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=academy%2dpreview-name_page.html

Academy preview Jun 20 2006

By Jane Woodhead Education Reporter, Liverpool Echo

THIS is the first view of the controversial art and design academy being built by John Moores university.

Work will get under way on the £23.5m centre next month.

The five-floor academy is being built next to the grade I-listed Metropolitan cathedral on the site of the St Nicholas Centre.

It is expected to be open to celebrate Capital of Culture year in 2008.

But the new academy has caused controversy as it has involved the selling off of many key city centre buildings, including the art school attended by John Lennon.

To enable the academy to be built, the Hahnemann Building, 68 Hope Street, 2 Blackburne Place and Josephine Butler House, which are currently occupied by departments from the Liverpool School of Art and Design and School of Law, have been sold off.

The university says it will continue to work in these buildings until the new academy is complete.

Conservationists have raised concerns over what will happen to the buildings after the university moves out and have voiced worries about designs for the new building not being in keeping with the local area.

But Rick Mather Architects, which is responsible for the scheme, has assured people it has a track record and the new building will compliment the local area.

The academy, the largest project in the history of the university, will see all of the art and design facilities combined under one roof.

It is being funded by JMU. The upper floors will offer outstanding views across the city, while the lower floors will be dedicated to commercial and public facilities, including a caf?, suite of design workshops, meeting rooms, gallery, exhibition and conference arena.

The School of Law will be integrated with the rest of the Faculty of Business and Law in the John Foster Building.

Roger Webster, Dean of JMU's faculty of media, arts and social science, said: "The art and design academy will be a new landmark building for Liverpool and its opening will be one of the highlights of 2008, when the city is European Capital of Culture.

"The Academy will ensure LJMU, future generations of students and the city continue to play an influential role in creative arts in the decades to come."

as good as it is, it shouldnt be built next to the cathedral

Image from the DP.


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I think the new design acadamy is a great idea, and I really like the look of it. If you could see what's currently in that space you'd realise how much of an improvement it's going to be for the whole area. I'll try and post a picture up soon. The new extension to the visitors centre and coffee shop and the Liverpool Science park have both demonstrated how carefully designed modern buildings can sit really well alongside the beautifully futuristic cathedral. I'm all for this scheme and can't wait to see them knock down the old red brick hut on which it'll be built!

As for the buildings they're vacating I doubt any of them are in danger of being 'lost' or demolished, quite the opposite in fact. This will open up opportunity for new businesses to move into those areas and occupy those buildings, and they likely to keep them in good nick.

As for concerns about the new building not being 'in keeping' with it's surroundings, this is one of the worst places to apply that argument when you look at the low quality 60's and 90's housing which surrounds the site. The surroundings should be modified to be 'in keeping' with this new development I say!

How can they say not in keeping, when two big new modern buildings have just been constructed either side of the modern 60s Cathedral. Utterly stupid argument, wonder if this is in reference to the Wellington Rooms, which is currently derelict...!

p.s. I hope they build that proposed modern extension to a refurbished Wellington Rooms.

Image from the DP.


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I personally like this development much more than some others and I think it is very much in keeping with the area - thanks to the `Metropolitan` cathederal - modern and brash loud and proud in a quiet sort of way :)

Shhh.....there is a future tomorrow.

It might even be today and anything could happen in the next half hour :banana2:

I think it looks splendid.

and much needed. the art school of JUM is quite a raggerdly confusing set of buildings

One of it's attractions and genuine contributions to downtown life for me wormella.

It is not all corralled into a isolated 'campus' that does not engage with the rest of the city.... rather it is spread around amongst the urban fabric. JMU must in the main keep that going. Most of the students you see walking round town, and making it a more interesting and rwarding experience as a result will nearly all be JMU students... the Liverpool Uni ones all being confined to that 60s' utopia up the hill!

If anything I would compel Liverpool uni to sell off half their buildings on their campus for other uses, and then buy/rebuild replacements throughout the whole downtown area.

Shit heads know also that the campus... being isolated from the real flows of the city is an ideal place to ambush unwary students...

Any sort of zoning is bad for urban vitality... get it all mixed up

Ramble over!

Personally I think that, as Universities go, Liverpool is relatively well situated in relation to the city centre, being just a few minutes walk down the hill. I do like the fact that there is a distinct element to both John Moores and Liverpool Uni's and that they do, to some extent, stand alone but not too far from the centre of the city.

And the building of this new design centre shows how a univeristy is increasing to the structural diversity and density of the city, making good use of an otherwise desolate patch of land.

What needs to happen is that both universities need to grow out towards the city centre and vice versa with new developments and renovations so that the distance decreases gradually as the capacity of both the Universities and the city centre increases naturally. Brownlow Hill is a perfect example of a street which is just ripe for such development, and it is happening, very gradually - the new foundation building has moved the hub of the universities administration a step closer to town (albeit a very small step).

Rather than dispersing the universities througout the city, I think it's good to give them their own space to grow, and let them gradually send out tendrils towards the centre.

http://www.liv.ac.uk/newsroom/press_releases/2006/06/Global_Crime_Confere.htm

Liverpool, UK - 23 June 2006: The world's leading criminal profilers will meet at the University of Liverpool next week to discuss new ideas on the handling of dangerous lawbreakers.

Delegates at the international conference will address the behaviour of terrorists, sex offenders and football hooligans, as well as the increasing threat of gun culture.

Professor David Canter, Director of the University’s Centre for Investigative Psychology, said: “It is essential that law and psychology experts work together in advancing the criminal justice system. This will be an excellent forum in which to review everything from police interviewing of witnesses through to the presentation of cases in court, as well as effective management of convicted offenders from the perspectives of both psychology and the law.”

The four day event that will bring together over 200 experts will also focus on the use of lie detectors in the treatment of sex offenders, understanding mothers who kill their children, negotiating with hostage takers and cycles of domestic violence. Experts will also look at the use of geographical profiling designed by Professor Canter to track criminals.

The Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law will be held at the University of Liverpool School of Psychology, Eleanor Rathbone building, Bedford Street South, from Tuesday, 27 to Friday, 30 June.

For program details and a map of the site log onto www.i-psy.com

The University of Liverpool is one of the UK's leading research institutions. It attracts collaborative and contract research commissions from a wide range of national and international organisations valued at more than £90 million annually.

One of it's attractions and genuine contributions to downtown life for me wormella.

It is not all corralled into a isolated 'campus' that does not engage with the rest of the city.... rather it is spread around amongst the urban fabric. JMU must in the main keep that going. Most of the students you see walking round town, and making it a more interesting and rwarding experience as a result will nearly all be JMU students... the Liverpool Uni ones all being confined to that 60s' utopia up the hill!

If anything I would compel Liverpool uni to sell off half their buildings on their campus for other uses, and then buy/rebuild replacements throughout the whole downtown area.

Shit heads know also that the campus... being isolated from the real flows of the city is an ideal place to ambush unwary students...

Any sort of zoning is bad for urban vitality... get it all mixed up

Ramble over!

Thats a lovely idea but think of it from the students and lecturers point of view. There's no way you want to be dashing about town if you have a lecture in one building swifty followed by one the other side of town and then back again. It disrupts classes and it stops you being able to focus on studies.

JMU is nicely spread about town already: Marybone, I.M. Marsh, Edge Lane, Rodney street / Hardman Street / Hope Street - but too confusing and it works against the very people it's trying to provide for.

Thats a lovely idea but think of it from the students and lecturers point of view. There's no way you want to be dashing about town if you have a lecture in one building swifty followed by one the other side of town and then back again. It disrupts classes and it stops you being able to focus on studies.

JMU is nicely spread about town already: Marybone, I.M. Marsh, Edge Lane, Rodney street / Hardman Street / Hope Street - but too confusing and it works against the very people it's trying to provide for.

Whilst I have an element of sympathy for Tonys view I can`t help but think that places like `Cambridge` and `Oxford` etc have exactally the same problem from the local knob head no hope locals (I only have C.S.Es) who can`t be bothered to even read the `Echo` :) or their local equivalent newspaper and life just slips them by.

It is excellent news that Liverpool (LJMU) has managed in a very short space of time to dissemenate halls of residence and additional educational facuilties around the city in terms of intergration.

Liverpool is a place of education.

I think Liverpool University has responded less vigourously but is no less an educational manner and often the facilties merge across the campus and even with the Liverpool Community College and `Hope` University.

If some Liverpool male and female scallies still can`t see the value of `further education` well that at the end of the day is their problem.

The new Liverpolitans simply take up the offer of what is available and that offer should not be wasted.

JMU to close five courses Jun 28 2006

By Jane Woodhead, Liverpool Echo

FIVE John Moores University departments are closing, leaving hundreds of students in turmoil and staff fearing for their jobs.

The news comes days after the ECHO revealed the university's language academy was being axed.

Now it has emerged the schools of accounting, finance and economics; law and management and business Information are also closing.

Hundreds of students, due to start at the university in September, have been sent letters informing them their courses have been closed.

They will now have to choose an alternative university or enrol on a different course.

Union officials are today threatening industrial action over the moves which they described as "unlawful" and claimed would cost 35 lecturers' posts.

The university admitted some jobs would go, but refused to reveal how many.

Click here to see education reporter Jane Woodhead analyse the JMU cuts in a video report

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What a bummer .....

"Now it has emerged the schools of accounting, finance and economics; law and management and business Information are also closing."

Maybe the JMU Management should enroll on a few of their own courses.
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Faculty of Business and Law
28 June 2006
Clarification


There is to be a restructure of the Faculty of Business and Law and a small number of courses from the School of Modern Languages and the School of Business Information will not recruit from September 2006.

However, for clarity and contrary to statements in the local press, this will have no impact for students currently registered on all programmes within the Faculty.

Equally, with the exception of the courses to be withdrawn, the rest of the programmes offered within the Faculty will continue to recruit as normal.

For further information on courses within the Faculty of Business and Law please contact admissions on 0151 231 3815 or central recruitment on 231 5090.

Gaddafi's son city graduate Jul 5 2006

THE eldest son of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi was today graduating from the University of Liverpool.

Colonel Gaddafi was not expected to attend but other members of the family were reported to be coming to watch Mohammed Muammar Al Gaddafi's graduation.

The 34-year-old, eldest of Colonel Gaddafi's eight children, has completed a Phd in engineering and management.

Gaddafi's son city graduate Jul 5 2006

THE eldest son of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi was today graduating from the University of Liverpool.

Colonel Gaddafi was not expected to attend but other members of the family were reported to be coming to watch Mohammed Muammar Al Gaddafi's graduation.

The 34-year-old, eldest of Colonel Gaddafi's eight children, has completed a Phd in engineering and management.


Wasn't he trying to buy into LFC at one time?

Wasn't he trying to buy into LFC at one time?

Yeah he's a Liverpool fan. :colgate:

Yeah he's a Liverpool fan. :colgate:

I'm not sure if this is the son who played for Perugia but I know that Gaddafi had shares in Perugia whilst his son was there and then later they put money into Juventus with a sponsorship deal (TAMOIL).

Link here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Saadi_Qadhafi

Given Juventus' present predicament they'd be better off putting money in another club... even Liverpool :naughty:

Discover the Design Academy
13 July 2006

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MKG_Global_Images/DA_hope_st.jpg

Open invitation to view LJMU's plans for the new Art and Design Academy


Liverpool John Moores University is saying goodbye to its St Nicholas Centre, which is making way for a new £23.5 million Art and Design Academy.

With work due to start on site in two weeks' time, we would like to give you the chance to find out more about this new Academy, which is certain to become one of Liverpool's newest architectural landmarks when it opens in 2008.

Between 12 noon and 2 p.m. on Friday 14 July at the St Nicholas Centre (Great Orford Street, Liverpool L3 5YD) you'll be able to see architectural plans plus a scale model of the new development.

You'll also be able to talk to staff from our School of Art and Design and Property Services Division who'll be able to tell you all about the Academy, including its new public art gallery, sculpture garden and cafe.

LJMU believes the new Academy will revolutionise the teaching of art and design in the city while also giving the Metropolitan Cathedral the truly great setting is so rightfully deserves.

Everyone is welcome, so please come along.

Light refreshments will be served.

This looks great, I'll definately pop over for a quick shuftie.

One important question - what are they going to do about replacing the gym they've knocked down? A major sports-orientated Univeristy with no gym within walking distance...? Not looking good.

Just two hours public viewing and 'consultation' on a friday afternoon and presented at short notice.........very impressive. Sorry, but for a major public body and publically funded body, that's a very poor show. You have to ask yourself whether they really do want to meet the great unwashed.

Fame School on track to be a university Jul 21 2006

SIR Paul McCartney's Fame School is on track to becoming a university after winning higher education status from the Government, the Daily Post can reveal.

It means the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts can now apply directly for state funding and could join the city's three other universities by giving out its own degrees by 2008.

It is believed to be the first institute to win the designation after setting up from scratch, and the news timely coincides with its 10th anniversary.

Founding principal Mark Featherstone-Witty said: "This is great news. It is what we have been working towards. It's poetic it has happened in our 10th year.

"It means the city now has four higher education institutes - the three universities and us.


"It shows confidence in Lipa's ability to manage itself. We can now apply directly for Government schemes when before we had to approach JMU to do it on our behalf, which sometimes led to a conflict of interests.We have always had a very good relationship with JMU but this means no one has to compromise.


"It is the first time a brand new institution has achieved this. Student achievement always comes first, things like Sandi Thom getting to number one are bigger celebrations. But in terms of bureaucracy it will be much better."


Lipa opened in 1996, offering undergraduate degrees in the performing arts, in acting, music, and dance, and non-performance degrees, in management, sound technology and theatre, technology and design.


The building, which was Sir Paul's former school, took £20m and five year's work to complete.

It started initial preparations to become independent from John Moores University, which now accredits its degrees, last year.

But from next month it will officially become a higher education institute, allowing it a direct funding relationship with the Government.

Its degrees will still be awarded through JMU but by 2008 Lipa hopes to have full university status.

A spokeswoman for JMU said: "For LIPA to achieve formal higher education institute status is a great achievement for them, LJMU and the city of Liverpool."

samlister@dailypost.co.uk

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So that will be 4 universities? What other UK cities have 4?

So that will be 4 universities? What other UK cities have 4?

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/alpha.html

Well London for a start.....

However Liverpool does have a sizeable number of places of Higer Education and world renowned firsts and speciality subjects that certainly give some of the historical `University Towns` a run for their money. :)

From the FT today. Letter from L'pool U's vice chancellor. I think old Boner is losing it. UK universities - publically owned, overwhelmingly publically financed, all of their employees members of public sector unions, etc.

From Prof Drummond Bone.

Sir, While perhaps having some sympathy with the view Sir Digby Jones is expressing ("When chief executives should be able to go on and on", July 26), I am disappointed at the implication that universities are in the public sector. There are those in power who, from time to time, might wish it to be thought that we are public sector bodies, but that is emphatically not the case - and that is why some 67 universities are in fact members of the CBI.

Drummond Bone,

President, Universities UK

Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool

Drum an bone, that`s why we have education.....

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/alpha.html

Well London for a start.....

However Liverpool does have a sizeable number of places of Higer Education and world renowned firsts and speciality subjects that certainly give some of the historical `University Towns` a run for their money. :)
london doesnt have 4 universities. i believe theres actually 42 many of them smaller institutions on a similar scale to lipa though lipa is incredibly fortunate at having a great repuation attracting students from all over the world and has the advantage of being in a smaller city like liverpool. affordability is a great edge for places to have these days and not one that the capital has... many londoners travel to leeds/liverpool/manchester for their studies due to the high costs and debts that would be incurred from studying in their home town with a large part of london university places being taken up with international students as apposed to british

Hey Magz - where did you get the figure of 42 universities for London from? Are you including all the constituent colleges of the University of London or what?

the university of london isnt really a university as such. its merely a governing body that many london universities are a part of. (though alot of the larger more elite ones such as kings and lse anre constantly considering leaving) ucl left last year i believe. the reason london has so many is because of alot of smaller specialist unis and foreign private ones such as the european business school ect. i think in terms of larger universities the figure is under twenty for the capital

Universities are actually what are known as Exempt Charities. Not public sector, although they get public funds.

I work for a charity that is part funded by the public sector and some charities can actually be wholly run by local authorities.

The line can get a wee blurred from time to time and you might expect.

John Moores has recently put up a funky little flash site, which gives a good overview of the new design academy, as well as an interesting history of the Liverpool School of Art and Design. There's also a webcam of the site

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ada/flash/main.htm

This is what they have to say about the new building

The Art and Design Academy will be a high quality signature building reflecting the leading edge teaching, research and knowledge transfer that LJMU undertakes in art and design.

Professor Roger Webster, Dean of LJMU's Faculty of Media, Arts and Social Science, explains:

"The £23.5 million Art and Design Academy encapsulates LJMU's vision for a new way of working - with our students, academic staff, business, industry and the general public. It is more than just bricks and mortar, more than just another academic building. The Art and Design Academy will be a catalyst for new creative ventures, for innovative thinking, 365 days a year and 24/7.

"The Academy will provide a vital new space enabling LJMU to open the doors of learning to everyone thanks to an invigorated portfolio of art and design programmes, new public facilities, exhibition spaces and galleries and through new networks and services that will enable all sectors of the economy to harness the power of the University's research and professional expertise.

"Scheduled to open in 2008 when Liverpool is European Capital of Culture, the Art and Design Academy will ensure that future generations of students and the city itself continue to play an influential role in the creative industries for generations to come."

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Suffice to say, I think this is a great project, and as I work just over the road it'll be great to see this site utilised, and have the back of the Cathedral opened up with genuine public accessibility, at the moment it's just an alleyway leading to knowhere. With this development and the new Liverpool Science Park it's gonna be a smart end of town before too long. Bring it on! :)

I like that, the green space opened up, and making the area all around the Cathedral look welcoming is great.

Yeah, loving that green space.

What is technically not a small building makes the Met cathedral by comparison look even bigger even though the Anglican is.

Where are the paths?
Imagine the muddy quagmire that will be the reality... as with so many other 60s' inspired projects.... we naad a bit of the hard stuff in there too!

Where are the paths?
Imagine the muddy quagmire that will be the reality... as with so many other 60s' inspired projects.... we naad a bit of the hard stuff in there too!

I was thinking the same thing Tony - also, where are the car parks?

I came to the conclusion that they've simply grassed the whole lot on the renders while they decide which bits they're going to concrete. Looks like a stalling tactic, would be very surprised if it was all grass!

I'll try and post up some pictures next week, showing what's currently there, and how this developement is going to open up Brownlow Hill in a totally new and exciting way. The two Universities are almost begining to merge now!

I would like to see this scheme provide an easy and obvious link betwwen Hope St and London Rd amongst other things!

Where are the paths?
Imagine the muddy quagmire that will be the reality... as with so many other 60s' inspired projects.... we naad a bit of the hard stuff in there too!

Could be grasscrete!
Had a quick gander down there today - there is a just a 'non road' there isnt there and they are demolishing the building to make way as we speak.
I dont understand the great desire to make a seamless swathe of grass from the bottom of the steps.
A quality mix of hard and soft would be much more pallatable than just grass which as you have pointed out will be mud in winter and brown bleurgh in the summer.
Get Landscape Projects do carry on the good work they did round the front.
There is hard landscaping and HARD landscaping and grass in an urban enviroment (especially a heavily trodden one) is never a good idea IMO.

the landscapers who still aspire to 'soften the hard and nasty urban edge',to
' do away with the city, or pretend it isn't there' still get jobs!

John Moores has recently put up a funky little flash site, which gives a good overview of the new design academy, as well as an interesting history of the Liverpool School of Art and Design. There's also a webcam of the site

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ada/flash/main.htm

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ada/assets/images/da_cathedral.jpg



On the other hand we keep talking about the city center / downtown needing more parkland.....hey ho.

It would be a rather nice place for a picnic though.

"Ham sandwich anyone?" :)

I dare say that these renders are at the moment just to emphasise the project and that the public space will be different upon completion.

I do like this development and it`s going to radically change the area and how the `Metropolitan Cathedral` meets the street in just the same way as the `Piazza Steps` did which are in themselves impressive and are handled extremerly well IMHO.

Aye Pie, you're right.... but even Sefton Park is chock full of pathways!

Aye Pie, you're right.... but even Sefton Park is chock full of pathways!

but only the main ones are properly maintained.

Love the new renders of this project.

That bit of town will be looking a lot smarter with the Science building, new Cathedral entrance and now the Arts building.

And don't forget the new faculty of engineering building (replacing the existing stubby tower) - I'll post a pic as soon as I get one. This is shaping up to be a great area, old meets new and it all looks fantastic!

And don't forget the new faculty of engineering building (replacing the existing stubby tower) - I'll post a pic as soon as I get one. This is shaping up to be a great area, old meets new and it all looks fantastic!

This is shaping up to be a great area, old meets new and it all looks fantastic!

It can be done..... :)

Some pictures of what the site currently looks like from Brownlow Hill.

Grassy verge, not inviting, back of cathedral essentially closed off
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No real access to the former site from Brownlow Hill - no obvious passage through to Mount Pleasant.
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The site itself, the old B2 gym, nasty building looking better already!
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Real potential - if the old Irish Centre is developed (boutique hotel has been mentioned) and those ghastly Maisonettes are demolished this end of town is going to be spectacular.
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Edge Hill celebrates student success

EDGE Hill University is celebrating a strong performance in the National Student Survey.

The 2006 survey, commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and conducted in 131 universities and colleges across the UK, saw Edge Hill's Law and criminology department rated joint second in the UK for academic support, joint third for teaching and assessment and feedback, and sixth overall.

Social work studies was ranked fifth overall, joint top in learning resources and second for overall satisfaction, while biology was rated joint top for both learning resources and teaching, and 13th overall.

Elsewhere, English enjoyed a top 20 finish - including a joint second rating for learning resources - with teacher training also faring well.

Edge Hill University's vice-chancellor Dr John Cater said: "It is very pleasing to receive positive feedback from our students, whose honest opinion matters most as we continue to provide them with a first-class higher education experience."


Also rated above the national average are scores relating to students' development of communication skills, access to IT resources, improved self-confidence, delivery of tutorials and staff enthusiasm. Edge Hill students were also happy with personal development planning, with this category rated joint fourth among all universities.

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Record numbers want to study in Liverpool Sep 12 2006

By Kate Mansey Daily Post Staff

RECORD numbers of students are picking Liverpool as their first choice when deciding which university to go to.

While popular institutions across the country have seen a dip in the number of applications, due to the introduction of top-up tuition fees, Liverpool has seen a boost in applications.

Figures also show an increase in the number of students picking Liverpool as their first choice on UCAS forms while the number of students coming to the city through the clearing process has halved. Liverpool Hope University has seen the biggest increase in the number of students, with applications up by 11.4%.

The city's newest university offers scholarships of £2,000 for the brightest students who have achieved three Grade As or equivalent at A level.

It also offers bursaries of between £400 and £1,000 as incentives to students.

John McCarthy, director of marketing at Liverpool Hope University, said: "All of the extra applications at Hope have come from outside Liverpool, and that's partly to do with raising the profile of the university and the city.

"The new courses we offer in social work and forensic science are very popular and while applications are up by more than 11%, the number of people picking it as their first choice has risen by 14%.

"This shows that Liverpool is now starting to claim its crown as the place to be.

"Sheffield and Leeds have been seen as popular student cities for years, but Liverpool is now starting to make a comeback."

Similarly, Liverpool John Moores University bucks the trend by recording an increase in applications of 0.7%.

Carolyn Williams, LJMU's Director of Student Recruitment and Widening Access, said: "Overall, we are pleased with how student recruitment has gone this year, particularly given the introduction of the new tuition fees.

"There are many reasons for this, including our high-quality vocational courses,

our commitment to widening access, and our new range of bursaries and scholarships.

"But you can't under-estimate the Liverpool effect either, because this city's student experience is justifiably ranked as one of best in the country."

The University of Liverpool has seen the number of applications drop 4.6% according to the new figures, but that is a smaller drop than many other big city institutions.

However, the number of places it has to offer during clearing has also dropped from around 10% last year to 5%, meaning that more students applying are actually accepting course places offered to them.

Claire Brown, Director of UK Student Recruitment at Liverpool University, said: "The buzz about the city is certainly helping us in terms of attracting students to the university.

"Things like Capital of Culture have helped create the right impression for the city and made it the sort of place people want to go to. A similar thing happened to Manchester in the '90s and it's happening here now.

"We are also seeing a rise in the number of people who accept places when offered, which means we are attracting the right people for the courses we offer. It is a good position to be in and it's good for the city overall."

Clearing has also halved at Liverpool Hope University in the last year from 12% of the student body to less than 6%.

Sonia Kearns, President of Liverpool John Moores Student Union, said: "I think the Capital of Culture year has attracted more students to the city but it's also a great draw for students because it's a vibrant city with lots of restaurants, clubs and bars.

"It's also down to the fact that Liverpool John Moores is an up-and-coming university and has offered a number of new courses.

"But numbers of students will inevitably drop in Liverpool like they have done elsewhere if the institutions continue to demand tuition fees."

But business experts say we need to do more to keep students in Liverpool once they graduate.

Steve Pearse, policy specialist at Liverpool's Chamber of Commerce, said: "In the short term an increase in students in Liverpool is great news because they are good for the economy.

"But we need to make sure that there are opportunities to hold on to them once they graduate by looking at the variety of employment in Merseyside."

kate.mansey@liverpool.com

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I actually suggested to a girl I worked with in London (She lived in Harrow) to consider Liverpool Uni, she originally wanted to go to Leeds as one of her friends had been offered a place there.

Anyway she took my advice and went to a Liverpool Uni open day, she applied for a place and she now goes to Liverpool Uni and loves it not least of all because she loves `Theatre` and will no doubt be mixing with `LIPA` students and the like..... :)

More development on the new design academy site

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/8194/imgp1885mk8.jpg

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2705/imgp1884mi2.jpg

I didn't even realise it was approved.

I didn't even realise it was approved.

Well, I sure hope it is, otherwise someone's going to have a lot of explaining to do!

Anyone have a render of the academy?

Well, I sure hope it is, otherwise someone's going to have a lot of explaining to do!


LoL there's a couple of great renders for this building I really like it.

Anyone have a render of the academy?


http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/3545/dacathedralzj7.jpg



http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/1462/damountpleasantqw8.jpg



http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/371/dapublicspaceof7.jpg

Westie, Tom has posted a load of them on the previous page. :)

Paul D has just posted them as well. :D

You can also find them all here, along with a live webcam! http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ada/flash/main.htm

The £7.5m restoration of the University of Liverpool's famous redbrick Victoria Building, transformed into an art gallery and museum, has been timed to coincide with 2008. It will become the new home for art and heritage collections acquired by the university throughout its 100-year history.


Highlights include the skeleton of Manifesto, one of the racing world's most famous horses and winner of the 1899 Grand National, as well as dinosaur footprints, X-rays of Tutankhamen's mummified body and death masks.


Matthew Clough, director of arts and heritage collections at the university, said: "Most of this material has never been seen before. It is going to be a fantastic gallery and exhibition space."

School of tropical medicine coming along nicely.
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/5415/ztropicalmedicine19vm.jpg

Wow awesome cladding!!!!!

I've got a whole series of shots of the new school of Tropical Medicine throughout it's construction, going to load them all up when it's finished, she really is a beaut though!

School of tropical medicine coming along nicely.
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/5415/ztropicalmedicine19vm.jpg

That`s absolutely shot up.

If only some of the other developments could follow suite, ie, Lime Street Gateway.....

I went past the Victoria Bulding today and there was a LOT of builder activity gonig on.

Also, the building adjacent to it has been boarded up read for development.

Chugging along nicely.

Strangely content posting going on from most member recently. Must have been the fog. Or that twat who riled us all earlier.

Or that twat who riled us all earlier.

He'll be sitting at home now with chunks of hair in his hand stabbing images of the Liverpool skyline now he's in the brig.:lol:

I went past the Victoria Bulding today and there was a LOT of builder activity gonig on.

Also, the building adjacent to it has been boarded up read for development.


What? The white engineering tower building?

What? The white engineering tower building?

Yep, the University are investing £30M in a major refurbishment of the research laboratories and in building new teaching facilities, pulling down the old Engineering tower and replacing it with a sleek oblong block..

So it's goodbye to this..
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4210/eng1rb0.jpg

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/2619/imgp1858to3.jpg

And hello to this...
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9680/image1yv8.jpg

That's a big improvement we're certainly on a roll.:)

Between this, the school of tropical medicine and the new design academy the whole area is a massive development site! Will post more pics up shortly...

A few more photos of the old engineering building which is about to be demolished..

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5315/imgp2946xm8.jpg

A gaping hole in the side!
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9982/imgp2944bu9.jpg

Latest pictures from the site

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1479/imgp2948ow1.jpg

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4572/imgp2947bo1.jpg

Looking more and more like the renders! I've got a whole catelogue of construction photos which I'll post up somewhere once it's finished...

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/341/imgp2938mp9.jpg

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7656/imgp2939lh2.jpg

A couple of classy buildings going up in this area,thanks for the pictures Tom.

Cheers Paul, the STM really is an impressive building and has made a massive impact on London Road.

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Yes I agree I went past it recently for the first time and was totally impressed with it,I'm over the moon with this one.:)

Be a real coup for Liverpool if Bill and Melinda opened the new building, the Echo should put this idea to the uni.

Tom, thanks for the pics.

Last week

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/985/imgp3241pa9.jpg

That's how City Square should've looked IMO. I hate that Weetabix cladding is currently has.

I agree, I really dislike the cladding on city square, very bland and uninspiring - this however is glass class!

Work progressing on the new bridge linking the Sydney Jones library and Senate House

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2928/imgp3403fo4.jpg

Work progressing on the new bridge linking the Sydney Jones library and Senate House

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2928/imgp3403fo4.jpg

Actually, the Sydney Jones Library is being extended into the former Senate House. All of the University admin moved out of Senate House last year.

Where or what's City Square?

London Road way?

Tithebarn Street, next to Moorfields station.

Images from today

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/7312/imgp3718fh0.jpg


http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6978/imgp3724ca4.jpg

Good to see that one getting going, Tom. It's gonna be one of the best new builds, I think.

Good to see that one getting going, Tom. It's gonna be one of the best new builds, I think.

Totally agree, can't wait to see this one rise - it's going to completely transform that area.

Foundations going in on the Design Academy site

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5689/dsc00004jo0.jpg


Work started on dismantelling the old Engineering tower

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/8831/dsc00007jp6.jpg

Is this the tower with a mosaic down one side? If so, it's a shame that the mosaic is to disappear (not the tower though).

Is this the tower with a mosaic down one side? If so, it's a shame that the mosaic is to disappear (not the tower though).

Do you mean this mosaic?

http://www.liv.ac.uk/engfac/images/faculty_home.jpg

If so - no, it's not that building. It's the large whiteish tower on Brownlow hill.


http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/830/eng1fo8.jpg

Going to be this

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7633/image1lw0.jpg

Thanks for the reassurance!
However, isn't it just where the last render is??? I'm getting confused, I must get back on the 79 and take a look.

To answer your question, look at this map, the building that's being renovated is building 23 on Brownlow Hill, the building with the mosiac is building 10 (both highlighted)

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5937/asad6.jpg


Building 10 is just visible in the left hand side of these new renders I found on the Engineering website
http://www.liv.ac.uk/science_eng_images/erp/Day_2bg.jpg


I love the look of the new lighting
http://www.liv.ac.uk/science_eng_images/erp/Night_2bg.jpg


http://www.liv.ac.uk/science_eng_images/erp/st_bg.jpg


More info on the Engineering departments £30M refurbishment of facilities

In parallel with Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008 we will have a dramatic new set of buildings and a newly focussed set of programmes of study for all our students. The emphasis will be on active learning for our students, who will have access to one of the largest and best-equipped learning laboratories in Europe. Our internationally-renowned research groups will benefit from state-of-the-art laboratories within the historic buildings which have housed Engineering at Liverpool for more than 100 years. All teaching programmes will be offered in the context of CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate - see www.cdio.org), an international movement for the improvement of engineering education.

You will be able to view the progress (at least of the external work) on our webcams . The first phase involved the rationalisation of our Materials laboratories in the lower floors of the George Holt Building and is now complete. This will be followed by the building of our new entrance in the Harrison-Hughes Building and the total refurbishment of the laboratories in this building and the original Walker Building. The upper floors of the tower will be removed and the Active Learning Lab will be built at second floor level along the Brownlow Hill frontage, with splendid views to both cathedrals. In parallel with this work the tower which currently houses the Department of Civil Engineering will be converted to house many of our lecture rooms and two of our research groups.

Thanks Tom for the information, really progressive stuff.

For a short while I worked in the white building next to the Victoria Building (Electrical Engineering?) - this was about 10 years ago so my memories of the area are fading fast.
What hasn't faded though is the memory of the antics of the MD that I worked with. It was an open plan office and whenever he thought he'd had a good idea, he rang a small bell that he had on his desk and called everybody to him, even it was something like 'let's have a rota for who goes to the sandwich shop at lunchtime'. Happy days, honestly!

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Great pics TOM, looks like a nice clean erection :lol:

:puke: No comment Wooly.

Christ Woody, what's got into you today? Over on the Central Docks thread you're going on about arse bandits in Whitehall. Now this... :ohno:

He ate his sheep. It was either sexual gratification or sustainance.

At least he's got a full belly tonight. :)

A couple of weeks progress on the new Engineering Building

Week 1
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5702/imgp3716rs6.jpg

Week 2
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4882/dsc00186cn2.jpg

Week 3
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6118/dsc00317kc7.jpg

does anyone have pictures of the new architecture buiding for JMU?

does anyone have pictures of the new architecture buiding for JMU?

See pages 2,4,5,6 of this thread for images of the building i think you are after (Art and Design academy).

Speaking of which... the foundations are in and you can see the outline of the main structure taking shape, this is about to start flying up!

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/3199/dsc00318uu2.jpg


http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8391/dsc00321oi4.jpg


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good stuff

the new school of tropical medicine building is nearly complete its looks nice

good stuff

the new school of tropical medicine building is nearly complete its looks nice

Indeed it is, and indeed it does...

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9132/dsc00312zc9.jpg


http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3069/dsc00313fx5.jpg

See pages 2,4,5,6 of this thread for images of the building i think you are after (Art and Design academy).

yeh thats the one thanx

i will be studying in that building when it opens hopefully

The green covering on this building shows that with creative cladding and a bit of colour, this block could have become a distinctive landmark.

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1281/zuniversityblockbrownlobn6.jpg

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7651/zmetropolitananduniverszx7.jpg

More progress on the Design Academy site, foundations are in (and almost dry) and a crane is about to be added to the site so we should start to see the building fly up in the next few weeks

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Progress on the new engineering block, a few 'before and after' shots

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Work has finally started on the linking bridge between the old SoTM and the new building.. and about time! That old medical centre (which anyone who's ever had to travel outside of Europe will probably have visited to get their jabs) is an utter disgrace, it's effectively a three storey building without a single window! Can't wait to see the new cladding... oh and the rest of the new building is looking pretty sweet too...!

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Cheers for the update shot's Tom.

That 3 storey block.....:puke:

Did any thinking go into that design externally....probably not much.

The cladding should be an improvement.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/3351/dsc00932og7.jpg

I`m a lttle sad to see this building go as it often caught my eye on that walk up the hill.

I`m a lttle sad to see this building go as it often caught my eye on that walk up the hill.

I know what you mean Pie, but it was getting a bit old and tired, especially when you got up close to it, and it was pretty bleak from the street level. The new extension is going to look fantastic, one of the few occasions where I actually approve of a height reduction!

Yes Tom, I know what you mean.

Just a pity it couldn`t have been added to a bit and turned into a trashy tart.....:)

Here's what it's gonna look like!




Building 10 is just visible in the left hand side of these new renders I found on the Engineering website
http://www.liv.ac.uk/science_eng_images/erp/Day_2bg.jpg


I love the look of the new lighting
http://www.liv.ac.uk/science_eng_images/erp/Night_2bg.jpg


http://www.liv.ac.uk/science_eng_images/erp/st_bg.jpg


More info on the Engineering departments £30M refurbishment of facilities

In parallel with Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008 we will have a dramatic new set of buildings and a newly focussed set of programmes of study for all our students. The emphasis will be on active learning for our students, who will have access to one of the largest and best-equipped learning laboratories in Europe. Our internationally-renowned research groups will benefit from state-of-the-art laboratories within the historic buildings which have housed Engineering at Liverpool for more than 100 years. All teaching programmes will be offered in the context of CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate - see www.cdio.org), an international movement for the improvement of engineering education.

You will be able to view the progress (at least of the external work) on our webcams . The first phase involved the rationalisation of our Materials laboratories in the lower floors of the George Holt Building and is now complete. This will be followed by the building of our new entrance in the Harrison-Hughes Building and the total refurbishment of the laboratories in this building and the original Walker Building. The upper floors of the tower will be removed and the Active Learning Lab will be built at second floor level along the Brownlow Hill frontage, with splendid views to both cathedrals. In parallel with this work the tower which currently houses the Department of Civil Engineering will be converted to house many of our lecture rooms and two of our research groups.

More shots of the new bridge linking the existing Clinic to the new School of Tropical medicine building

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/7879/dsc01005vq6.jpg


http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1445/dsc01012gf1.jpg

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From Brownlow Hill
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8564/dsc01030ca6.jpg

They`re not wasting any time on this one are they!

RIP `Engineering` long live the `New Engineering`.....:)

The old engineering tower is almost gone!
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/8928/dsc01226xd1.jpg

A quick peep over a wall and you can see the new open space and the frame for a new section of the building
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2799/dsc01227oz2.jpg

Fron the back
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/3617/dsc01224kw3.jpg

From the front, bridge and cladding on the old clinic coming on a pace
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/6038/dsc01229lo0.jpg


http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/8526/dsc01231vb8.jpg


Cladding still ongoing
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I never realised they were re cladding that disgracefully ugly previous extension....that's really cheered mr up.......two for the price of one, so to speak.

I never realised they were re cladding that disgracefully ugly previous extension....that's really cheered mr up.......two for the price of one, so to speak.

Ah, we all like a bargain.....:cheers: :cheers:

University delight at Tutu visit

LEGENDARY South African church leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to visit Liverpool.

Archbishop Tutu will be at Liverpool Hope University on June 26.

The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner will officially give his name to the university’s centre for war and peace studies.

And the cleric, who shot to global fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid, will also open the university’s Gateway to Hope Building which provides students with advice on finance, accommodation and careers.

Vice-chancellor Prof Gerald Pillay said: “I’m absolutely delighted to be welcoming someone of the calibre of Archbishop Tutu to Liverpool Hope. He has been a global voice for peace and reconciliation.

“It’s with great pride we use his name in conjunction with our Centre for War and Peace Studies.”


Following a tour of the building, Archbishop Tutu will meet staff and students before giving a civic lecture at the Metropolitan Cathedral.


The centre was established in 2004 by a team of academics from English literature, history, media, politics, psychology and theology to study, research and offer undergraduate courses in the causes and consequences of war.


Earlier this year Archbishop Tutu was awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize.

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I can't say I found the building particularly pleasing to look at, but I went in there a few times to the drawing offices on the fifth floor. I always thought it had a bit of character inside, so it's sad to see it go. At the same time all these redevelopments at the University are a good thing. I just wish I'd photographed the old workhouse buildings (over the road by the Cathedral) properly before they got demolished...

The new JMU Design Academy is begining to rise out of it's foundations

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/6590/dsc01241hh0.jpg

I just wish I'd photographed the old workhouse buildings (over the road by the Cathedral) properly before they got demolished...

I can't seem to find any photos of those buildings anywhere online

They're in this picture, top left of the central block...

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Liverpool/Liverpool1.jpg

Also here in the extreme foreground. I think this picture was taken from the roof/clock tower of the Victoria Building.

http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/poorlaw/brownlowhill.jpg

The new bridge connecting the school of tropical medicine to the health centre is nearly complete, looks a damn site better than that red brick monstrosity...

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3430/dsc01247ma3.jpg

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/5010/dsc01249xn3.jpg

Aren't they going to cover the whole view of the red brick structure with that new cladding?!

Looks stupid and unfinished

Aren't they going to cover the whole view of the red brick structure with that new cladding?!

Looks stupid and unfinished

But would cost more money for no great reason when you are a `reseach` facility amongst othar things.......

Aren't they going to cover the whole view of the red brick structure with that new cladding?!

Looks stupid and unfinished

There's no point really, it's primarily functional rather than asthetic, providing a new linking bridge between the two buildings, but it has served an asthetic role as well. Trust me when you see it in the 'flesh' the new school is impressive enough for you to not notice the red brick building at all..

Apologies if I've posted this in the wrong thread.

more (http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200businessfarmingnews/tm_headline=new-degree-focuses-on-microsoft-technology&method=full&objectid=19406872&siteid=50061-name_page.html)]
LIVERPOOL Hope University is to become the first British academic institution to offer a degree in Microsoft technology.

The BSc Honours degree in Microsoft.NET Technologies will give students skills in desktop, server and mobile technologies.

The course will take its first intake of about 25 students in September 2008, and will give them cutting edge technology expertise in the world's most widely used computer software.

The new degree is a direct response to the dominance of Microsoft in the world of commerce and business.

Undergraduates on the course are prepared for a career in any area of information technology, but are given additional depth of expertise in Microsoft.NET technology.

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I really like this building,thanks for the update Tom.:)

It's flying up!

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Tom, thanks mate excellent pics and progress

The first pieces of the new engineering building are literally being bolted on to the old structure..

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Really nice pictures Tom.:cheers:

The nearly completed 'bridge' which will extend the library into the old Senate house

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1114/dsc01299zh1.jpg


New paving, lighting and access
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2760/dsc01300as8.jpg

Tom, great pics, it not often you see an existing building stripped down to its skeleton and rebuilt. Keep those pics coming, I should add this area of the city to our usual itinerary on our next walk-about, assuming of course that it stops raining:ohno:

I know Woody, it's been amazing to watch. Especially when you realise that these sorts of modern buildings are essentially just a steel framed core, everything else is just 'padding'..

How tall will it be, the engineering one

Damn! The idiots have changed the original design... from a sleek, slender new building with integrated ground level openings, to a short, stubby box! :bash:

This is what it was going to be

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7010/day2bgco3.jpg


http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1373/night2bghp2.jpg


This is what it's now going to be


http://www.liv.ac.uk/science_eng_images/furniture/homepage_images/erp_home.jpg

Basically a short, stubby version of the old tower! Idiots. :ohno:

What the...? :?

That brick wall looks really depressing.

I thought this design change was already established? No?

It was purely for monetary reasons. The original design was too expensive for the university to fund. I know somebody working on the project.

gutted!

I thought this design change was already established? No?

It was purely for monetary reasons. The original design was too expensive for the university to fund. I know somebody working on the project.

I wouldn't have minded so much if they'd kept the integrated features on the street level, but fuzi's right, that is such a depressing wall to walk along and the new Design Academy on the other side of the road is going to piss all over this... Liverpool Uni are shooting themselves in the foot, they should have done their sums before touting the new design far and wide..

Just found a good quality live webcam which shows the progress on the Engineering tower

http://www.liv.ac.uk/facilities/project_management/webcam.htm

Let me know when you spot the huge robotic pigeon arrive, ready to do a massive cubic birdpoo on the podium base.

My brother in law is working on the job and apparently the design was changed because, in order to build the full length first floor, they needed to pile directly over the rails going into lime street, and there isn't enough depth to do so. Unfortunately that means that we are left with the stubby box addition!

JMU sports thingy in Fontenoy St. just about finished, I think this looks pretty good.


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Nice one Paul that looks great.

Thanks Paul.

Just found some great images from inside the Victoria Building showing the work in progress to turn it into a museum

http://www.liv.ac.uk/admin_images/artgall/heating_ground_16Feb07.JPG

http://www.liv.ac.uk/artgall/vgm/building_work_archive.htm

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Progress on the Design Academy

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/218/imgp1245tf2.jpg


http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/976/imgp1246xp5.jpg

And the engineering building

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Blink and you miss it - with so much going on :) :cheers:

Cheers Tom.

You sure do Pie!

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School of Tropical Medicine, final cladding going up on the back of the building, which means they've got all the major internal fittings in place.

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Gem of a building home to a precious collection

AS RESTORATION work on one of Liverpool’s architectural jewels nears completion, curators are preparing to fill it with some of the University of Liverpool’s most precious artworks.

The £8.5m revamp of the Victoria Building is well under way and expected to be open to the public next June.

It will house a museum and art gallery, showcasing pieces from the university collection, including reliefs of dinosaur footprints, X-rays of Tutankhamen’s mummified body and artwork from international artists.

Building work started earlier in the year and is due to finish in November, when the collection will start to be brought together.

Matthew Clough, Director of Art and Heritage Collections, said: “It is all starting to take shape.

“Contractors came on site in January and a lot has been achieved.

“The building was design by Alfred Waterhouse and is a beautiful piece of architecture – the interior will be stunning once it is finished.

“You can start to see the details, like the cornices, taking shape already.”

The first floor of the building will house the university’s art collections, including early English watercolours, ceramics, fine art, silver and furniture.

Tate Hall, on the second floor, originally created as a library using funds provided by sugar magnate Henry Tate, will also be restored to accommodate items from the university’s heritage collection.

The skeleton of the 1899 Grand National winner, Manifesto, will also be exhibited at Tate Hall.

The heritage collection also includes some of nature’s most unusual creatures, such as a Tasmanian Devil and a rare reptile from the southern hemisphere known as a sphenodon.

The main entrance hall, which is extensively decorated with Victorian tiles, will provide an impressive opening to the building.

The original women’s common room, with spectacular windows and Victorian tiled pillars supporting Gothic arches, will become home to the ceramics and silver collections.

Paintings by Joseph Wright, JMW Turner and the largest collection outside the US of oil paintings by the seminal American wildlife artist John James Audubon, will feature alongside works by 20th century artists including Jacob Epstein, Lucien Freud and Elizabeth Frink in the new gallery.

As well as a striking new entrance on Ashton Street, there will be a cafe and a glass lift installed inside the building’s clock tower, which is currently being constructed.

The ground floor will also accommodate headquarters for the university’s Widening Participation team, which encourages and supports non-traditional potential students and people who would not normally consider going to university.

Primary and secondary school children taking part in Widening Participation projects will also be able to explore the museum and gallery collections.

Mr Clough added: “Our art collections used to be housed in a Georgian house on Abercrombie Square and there was not much space, so it will be fantastic for the city and the university to have this building finished in time for the Capital of Culture.”

Bravo!

anyone here going to be studying at JMU this year?

Progress on the Design Academy

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:banana: im going to be studying in this building next yr lol

anyone here going to be studying at JMU this year?

i'm going into my last year

JMU design academy from Mount Pleasant.

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went to see the academy today. it was looking good.

went to see the academy today. it was looking good.


Ah...Good one...you have volunteered to take your camera with you at all times and post regular updated photos of this project, and some from inside when complete.....:cheers: :okay:

Engineering building today. New scaffolding going up, presumably for the external cladding. I'm still a bit gutted that they had to drop the original redesign, but I will be interested to see the new glass cladding.
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Ah...Good one...you have volunteered to take your camera with you at all times and post regular updated photos of this project, and some from inside when complete.....:cheers: :okay:

:lol: i will do..............soon

Tom, I always look foreward to your UNI photos, :cheers: I must try and have a wander up the hill before the winter:lol:

Keep them flowing:cheers:

[QUOTE=woody;15390840]Tom, I always look foreward to your UNI photos, :cheers: QUOTE]


Only days after admiring Toms progress shots, a serious accident stops work.
Six men injured when a scaffold collapses. After a few years in Liverpool with very few incidents, a spate over the past year is very alarming . Unfortunatly the national statistics on death and injury is also on the up. For the year ending April 2007. 77 men died on construction sites

I think we're in the same building zeeshanney. Perhaps even on the same course?

^^ architecture?

btw, the the JMU art academy just laid the floor of the 4th floor yesterday. i will try to post pictures over the weekend.

Beat ya to it Zee...

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Not convinced by the integration of the new entrance..
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This obsession with minty green frosted glass is really starting to grate. Looking back I expect it'll be one of the biggest regrets of the last 10 years of modern architecture.. it's like the architects polyfiller - wherever there's a gap which they don't know what to do with.. plug it with pale green glass. But here of all places, next to one of the most famous architectural construction materials in the country (the traditional 'red brick').. someone needs to be shot over this.. :gunz:

Loving the new chimney's - looking very modern industrial...

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Notice what you mean by seeing it, as your photo doesn't show the colour well, those white panels are actually minty green......:ohno:

I think this section would have been better in clear glass, or something different, to show off the side of ther older building more, less of an abrupt change to 60s modern.

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I think the School of Tropical Med extension has vastly improved the London Rd area, and what with other developments going on, then the remaining derelic/fire ravaged sites will be developed soon. Would love to see the ugly Dentist building replaced.

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This shot shows just how large those chimneys are!
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Tom, fantastic set of photos. cheers

do we know if any of these developments will actually mean more student places.... i'd be quite pleased to see a growth in our student population

do we know if any of these developments will actually mean more student places.... i'd be quite pleased to see a growth in our student population

I agree entirely but just as important is to see growth in the retention of them once they've graduated.

agree Joe, if we attract more in the 1st place we stand a better chance!