Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys was a grammar school in Leicester , England, in existence from 1876 to 1976.
44-469: New Walk was a high quality poetry and arts print magazine published at Leicester University , Leicester , England , but with a national and international focus. The magazine was established in 2010 and closed in 2017. It was edited by Rory Waterman and Nick Everett , with the fiction edited by Libby Peake. New Walk mainly published poetry , but also included poetry book reviews, interviews with major poets, essays, fiction and artwork. Contributors to
88-701: A ULAS team exhumed the body of King Richard III , discovering it in the former Greyfriars Friary Church in the city of Leicester . As a result of that success Prof King was asked to investigate whether a skeleton found in Jamestown was that of George Yeardley , the 1st colonial governor of Virginia and founder of the Virginia General Assembly . In January 2017, Physics students from the University of Leicester made national news when they revealed their predictions on how long it would take
132-722: A tower containing offices and lecture theatres. Opposite the Fielding Johnson Building are the Astley Clarke Building, home to the School of Criminology and Sociology, and the Danielle Brown Sports Centre. The Ken Edwards Building, built in 1995, lies adjacent to the Fielding Johnson Building and is home to part of the School of Computing and Mathematical Science, the School of Modern Languages and learning spaces shared by
176-542: A variety of the university's schools. Built in 1957, the Percy Gee Building is home to Leicester University's Students' Union. Percy Gee was one of the first treasurers of the University College. The David Wilson Library was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 4 December 2008, following an extensive refurbishment with a budget of £32 million. The Bennett Building, Physics and Astronomy Building,
220-489: A year, two in spring and two in autumn. This article about a poetry literary magazine published in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Leicester University The University of Leicester ( / ˈ l ɛ s t ər / LEST -ər )
264-551: A zombie apocalypse to wipe out humanity. They calculated that it would take just 100 days for zombies to completely take over earth. At the end of the 100 days, the students predicted that just 300 humans would remain alive and without infection. In January 2021, around 200 UCU members at the university passed a no-confidence motion in Vice Chancellor Nishan Canagarajah because of proposed cuts putting 145 staff members at risk of redundancy. There
308-499: Is a public research university based in Leicester , England. The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park . The university's predecessor, University College, Leicester , gained university status in 1957. The university had an income of £368 million in 2022/23, of which £70.3 million was from research grants. The university is known for the invention of genetic fingerprinting , and for partially funding
352-551: Is accredited by the relevant professional institutions. The department also offers MSc courses. The department has around 350 undergraduate students, following either BSc (three-year) or MPhys (four-year) degree courses, and over 70 postgraduate students registered for a higher degree. The main Physics building is the primary base for two research groups — Planetary Science and Astrophysics – as well as centres for supercomputing , microscopy , Gamma and X-ray astronomy , and
396-520: Is also home to the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS). The School of Business was founded in 2016, bringing together the expertise of the School of Management and the Department of Economics. The new school now has approximately 150 academic staff, 50 from Economics and 100 from Management. In 2010 the former School of Management was ranked 2nd after Oxford University by
440-685: Is currently undergoing a £300+ million redevelopment. The new John Foster Hall of Residence opened in October 2006. The David Wilson Library, twice the size of the previous University Library, opened on 1 April 2008 and a new biomedical research building (the Henry Wellcome Building) has already been constructed. A complete revamp of the Percy Gee Student Union building was completed in September 2010. Nixon Court
484-529: The Guardian . The School of Business provides postgraduate and undergraduate programmes in Management, Accounting and Economics. The School of Business, is one of the approximately 270 Schools/Universities in the world accredited by AMBA . The School of English teaches English at degree level. The school offers English studies from contemporary writing to Old English and language studies. It contains
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#1732783765642528-639: The National Space Centre also located in Leicester. The department is home to the university's ALICE 3400+ core supercomputer and is a member of the UK's DiRAC (DiStributed Research utilising Advanced Computing) consortium. DiRAC is the integrated supercomputing facility for theoretical modelling and HPC-based research in particle physics, astronomy and cosmology. The college has 10 schools including: The School of Archaeology and Ancient History
572-619: The Swift UK Data Centre. Space Park Leicester, officially opened in 2022, is the main home of the Earth Observation Science and Space Projects and Instrumentation groups. The department also runs the University of Leicester Observatory in Manor Road, Oadby. With a 20-inch telescope it is one of the UK's largest and most advanced astronomical teaching facilities. The department has close involvement with
616-690: The University of Cambridge before receiving medical training at Guy's Hospital . He was the new president of the Literary and Philosophy society. Reaction was mixed, with some saying that Leicester's relatively small population would mean a lack of demand. With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, talk of a university college subsided. In 1917 the Leicester Daily Post urged in an editorial that something of more practical utility than memorials ought to be created to commemorate
660-588: The Victorian Studies Centre , the first of its kind in the UK. . Malcolm Bradbury is one of the department's most famous alumni: he graduated with a First in English in 1953. The School of Historical Studies is one of the largest of any university in the country. It has made considerable scholarly achievements in many areas of history, notably urban history, English local history, American studies and Holocaust studies. The school houses both
704-833: The Chemistry Building and the Adrian Building lie beyond the Charles Wilson Building. Across University Road, linked by pedestrian bridges, lie the Maurice Shock and Hodgkin Buildings. Further along University Road is the George Davies Centre building (built 2016), home to Leicester's Medical School. The Adrian Building was built in 1967 and designed by Courtald Technical Services which became W.F Johnson & Partners. It
748-458: The College of Business (previously known as the University of Leicester School of Business or ULSB) and the post-graduate centre. It was sympathetically renovated, with the original building being built in 1870 and was home to Thomas Fielding Johnson, the founder of the University of Leicester. Further along University Road and on Salisbury Road and Regents Road are the Department of Education and
792-704: The East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) and the Media Archive for Central England . The School of Law is one of the biggest departments in the university. According to the Times Online Good University Guide 2009, the Faculty of Law was ranked 8th, out of 87 institutions, making it one of the top law schools in the country. Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys It was succeeded by
836-694: The Fraser Noble Building. On Lancaster Road there is the Attenborough Arts Centre , the university's arts centre. Leicester's halls of residence are noteworthy: many of the halls (nearly all located in Oadby ) date from the early 1900s and were the homes of Leicester's wealthy industrialists. Accommodation on campus is at Freemen's Common and Nixon Court. In recent years, the university has disposed of some of its poorer quality property in order to invest in new facilities, and
880-867: The Leicester-Warwick medical school proved to be a success in helping Leicester expand, and Warwick establish. The partnership ran the end of its course towards the end of 2006 and the medical schools became autonomous institutions within their respective universities. The college comprises the following departments: There are also interdisciplinary research centres for Space Research, Climate Change Research, Mathematical/Computational Modelling and Advanced Microscopy. The department offers MEng and BEng degrees in Aerospace Engineering, Embedded Systems Engineering, Communications and Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and General Engineering. Each course
924-574: The Peter Williams lecture theatre and Ogden Lewis Seminar Suite in the lower storeys of the David Wilson main library building. The 18-storey Attenborough Tower is home to the College of Social Sciences and has undergone extensive renovation. The Engineering Building was the first major building by British architects James Stirling and James Gowan . This Grade II* listed building comprises workshops and laboratories at ground level, and
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#1732783765642968-762: The Revered James Went, headmaster of the Wyggeston Boys' School , and J. D. Paul, regularly called for the establishment of a university college However, no private donations were forthcoming, and the Corporation of Leicester was busy funding the School of Art and the Technical School . The matter was brought up again by Dr Astley V. Clarke (1870–1945) in 1912. Born in Leicester in 1870, he had been educated at Wyggeston Grammar School and
1012-413: The University College was granted its royal charter , and has since then had the status of a university with the right to award its own degrees. The Percy Gee Student Union building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 9 May 1958. Leicester University won the first ever series of University Challenge , in 1963. The university's motto Ut Vitam Habeant –"so that they may have life", is a reflection of
1056-556: The college, but also the boys' and girls' grammar schools. Further donations soon topped £100,000: many were given in memory of loved ones lost during the war, while others were for those who had taken part and survived. King George V gave his blessing to the scheme after a visit to the town in 1919. Talk turned to the curriculum with many arguing that it should focus on Leicester's chief industries hosiery, boots and shoes. Others had higher hopes than just technical training. The education acts of 1902 and 1918 , which brought education to
1100-412: The colleges were further restructured with the merging of Social Sciences and Arts, Humanities and Law to give the following structure: The college has the following academic schools: The research departments and institutes: The university is home to a large medical school, Leicester Medical School, which opened in 1971. The school was formerly in partnership with the University of Warwick , and
1144-642: The discovery and the DNA identification of the remains of King Richard III in Leicester. The first serious suggestions for a university in Leicester began with the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society (founded at a time when "philosophical" broadly meant what "scientific" means today). With the success of Owens College in Manchester, and the establishment of the University of Birmingham in 1900, and then of Nottingham University College , it
1188-485: The examinations for external degrees of the University of London . Two years later, it merged with the Vaughan Working Men's College , which had been providing adult education in Leicester since 1862. In 1931, Dr Rattray resigned as principal. He was replaced in 1932 by Frederick Attenborough , who was the father of David and Richard Attenborough . He was succeeded by Charles Wilson in 1952. In 1957,
1232-548: The later Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys. In 1927, new buildings were built, designed by James Miller . In 1970/1971, the school won the national Top of the Form radio quiz show, beating Harris Academy , Dundee, in the final on 2 January 1971. After the reorganisation of local government, the system of education in the City of Leicester became comprehensive, and the school closed in 1976 to be replaced by other schools, including
1276-448: The magazine included: Alice Oswald , J. M. Coetzee , Ian Parks , Alan Jenkins , William Logan , Alison Brackenbury , Timothy Murphy , Mark Ford , Andrew Motion , David Mason , Dawn Potter , Tom Pow , and Grevel Lindop . From 2017 onwards, after the closure of the magazine, Waterman and Everett published New Walk Editions: a series of "high-end poetry pamphlets", including both new and established poets. There were four pamphlets
1320-448: The masses was also thought to have increased the need for a college, not least to train the new teachers that were needed. Talk of a federal university soured and the decision was for Leicester to become a stand-alone college. In 1920, the college appointed its first official. W. G. Gibbs, a long-standing supporter of the college while editor of the Leicester Daily Post , was nominated as secretary. On 9 May 1921, Dr R. F. Rattray (1886–1967)
1364-422: The new university, and after it was due to be finished being used as a hospital for the wounded, Astley Clarke was keen to urge the citizens and local authorities to buy it. Fortunately, Clarke quickly learned the building had already been bought by Thomas Fielding Johnson , a wealthy philanthropist who owned a worsted manufacturing business. He had bought 37 acres of land for £40,000 and intended not only to house
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1408-628: The present-day Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College . After William Wyggeston 's death in 1536, his brother Thomas Wyggeston, as a trustee, used part of the money to establish a school for boys known as the Elizabethan Grammar School . This eventually became defunct in the 19th century, but was re-founded on the site of the old Wyggeston Hospital as the Wyggeston Hospital School , which took its first pupils on 30 April 1877. This school passed its name to
1452-561: The university is punctuated by three distinctive, towering, buildings from the 1960s: the Department of Engineering, the Attenborough Tower and the Charles Wilson Building. The Fielding Johnson Building was designed by William Parsons in a late Georgian provincial style as the Leicestershire and Rutland County Asylum. From 1921 the building was home to most of the university departments until purpose-built accommodation
1496-517: The university was selected as one of four sites for national high performance computing (HPC) facilities for theoretical astrophysics and particle physics. An investment of £12.32 million, from the Government's Large Facilities Capital Fund, together with investment from the Science and Technology Facilities Council and from universities contribute to a national supercomputer. In September 2012,
1540-455: The university when it opened its doors in October 1921: the principal, the secretary, three lecturers and nine students (eight women and one man). Two types of students were expected, around 100–150 teachers in training, and undergraduates hoping to sit the external degrees of London University. A students union was formed in 1923–24 with a Miss Bonsor as its first president. In 1927, after it became University College, Leicester, students sat for
1584-581: The war dead. With the ending of the war both the Post and its rival the Leicester Mail encouraged donations to form the university college. Some suggested that Leicester should join forces with Nottingham, Sutton Bonington and Loughborough to create a federal university college of the East Midlands, but nothing came of this proposal. The old asylum building had often been suggested as a site for
1628-543: The war memorial origins of its formation. It is believed to have been Rattray's suggestion. The university medical school, Leicester Medical School, opened in 1971. In 1994, the University of Leicester celebrated winning the Queen's Anniversary Prize for its work in Physics & Astronomy. The prize citation reads: "World-class teaching, research and consultancy programme in astronomy and space and planetary science fields. Practical results from advanced thinking". In 2011,
1672-481: Was anger at his claim that redundancies are needed to "continue to deliver excellence". In April, the UCU urged academics to boycott the university due to the planned redundancies, including encouraging people to not apply for jobs at Leicester or collaborate on new research projects. The main campus is a mile south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College . The skyline of
1716-529: Was appointed principal, aged 35. Rattray was an impressive academic. Having gained a first class English degree at Glasgow, he studied at Manchester College, Oxford . He then studied in Germany, and secured his PhD at Harvard. After that, he worked as a Unitarian minister. Rattray was to teach Latin and English. He recruited others including Miss Measham to teach botany, Miss Sarson to teach geography, and Miss Chapuzet to teach French. In all, 14 people started at
1760-479: Was created, and it was renamed the Fielding Johnson Building in 1964. It now houses the university's administration offices, Leicester Law School (including the original university library Harry Peach Law Library, the Legal Advice Clinic, moot court), and the university's council chambers. The south wing of this building includes the university's Accessibility service for disabled students and access to
1804-601: Was extended and refurbished in 2011. In the early 2020s the Freemen's Common accommodation was demolished, replaced with new accommodation named known collectively as both Freemen's Common and Freemen's, a multi-storey carpark and the Sir Bob Burgess Building, a building with learning facilities and offices that is shared across multiple departments of the university. The university's academic schools and departments are organised into colleges. In August 2015,
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1848-483: Was formed in 1990 from the then Departments of Archaeology and Classics, under the headship of Graeme Barker . The academic staff currently (as of January 2017) include 21 archaeologists and 8 ancient historians, though several staff teach and research in both disciplines. The School has particular strengths in Mediterranean archaeology, ancient Greek and Roman history, and the archaeology of recent periods; and
1892-549: Was named after Edgar Adrian the first chancellor of the university (1957–1971). The Charles Wilson Building was designed by Denys Lasdun and completed in 1967. It's distinctive brutalist silhouette created by the additional upper storeys and related structures have led to it being likened to the Transformer Optimus Prime by local residents and alumni. Along London road is the Brookfield campus home to
1936-424: Was thought that Leicester ought to have a university college too. From the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century university colleges could not award degrees and had to be associated with universities that had degree-giving powers. Most students at university colleges took examinations set by the University of London . In the late 19th century the co-presidents of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society,
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