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44-556: The college was founded in 1966, and closed in 1990; initially it was proposed that it would be merged with the Thames Polytechnic , but eventually it was dissolved under the 1988 Education Reform Act . Most of the college's staff and faculty moved to the South Bank Polytechnic . 51°26′06″N 0°08′17″W  /  51.435°N 0.138°W  / 51.435; -0.138 This article about

88-533: A London building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Thames Polytechnic The University of Greenwich is a public university located in London and Kent , United Kingdom . Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic . The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College , which along with its Avery Hill campus,

132-634: A bedroom. Here he painted The Rape of the Sabine Women , a vast panorama of mounted warriors carrying off the Sabine women to Rome. He chooses to feature strongly Hersilia , who was deified for her loyalty to her Roman husband, Romulus , as against her Sabine family - a deliberate reference to Mary , lauded by the Whigs for supporting her Protestant husband, William , against her Catholic father, James . At Hanbury Hall , beneath an imposing view of both

176-542: A café, canteen, shop, launderette, bicycle parking, and a gym. Medway Campus has 350 rooms across five halls of residence dedicated to student accommodation. Greenwich Students' Union is the university's students' union. In October 2019, the GSU Student Assembly voted to ask the university to declare a climate emergency and for the university and union sustainability strategies to consult with students in creating them. This call to action aimed to speed up

220-483: A computer-aided design studio and a training dispensary. The Drill Hall Library has computers, study areas and teaching rooms. Social facilities include a sports hall, bar, gym and outdoor tennis courts. The university is a member of Universities at Medway , a partnership of educational establishments at Chatham Maritime that is developing the area as a major higher education centre in the Medway region. Greenwich Campus

264-722: A full faculty of the university. Formerly a UK government research agency, the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) was incorporated into the university in 1996. In 2001, the university gave up its historic main campus in the Bathway Quarter in Woolwich, relocating to its current main campus in Greenwich . Academic disciplines at Greenwich are organised into four faculties which host a range of subject expertise within them: The university also has

308-475: A general shop and a launderette. The Dome, in the centre of the complex, houses a food outlet and gym. Rugby, football, indoor pitches, netball and tennis courts, are also on Avery Hill campus. The facility, which was built by Wimpey Construction under a PFI contract, was completed in 1996. The Medway Campus is located on a former Royal Navy shorebase (called HMS Pembroke ) opened in 1903 at Chatham Maritime, Kent. The Faculty of Engineering and Science

352-583: A large library at Stockwell Street which houses an extensive collection of books and journals, language labs and a 300-PC computing facility. Other facilities include specialist computer laboratories, including one at Dreadnought centre, a TV studio and editing suites. The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, in the Stockwell Street building, showcases the work of contemporary artists and is linked to the School of Design. The award-winning Dreadnought Building hosts

396-527: A member of Thornhill's second academy from the beginning. On 23 March 1729 he married Thornhill's daughter Jane . Thornhill was with Hogarth when he went to see Sarah Malcolm in Newgate prison just days before her execution. This was in order that Hogarth might record her portrait. In June 1718 George I made Thornhill court painter, and in March 1720 Serjeant Painter , succeeding his former master Highmore in

440-444: A moral Anglican nationalism". The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison , is said to have remarked: "I am no judge of painting, but on two articles I think I may insist: first that the painter employed be a Protestant; and secondly that he be an Englishman". The Weekly Packet said that the decision to award Thornhill the commission would "put to silence all the loud applauses hitherto given to foreign artists". The eight scenes in

484-642: A number of professional service directorates that support students and the Faculties. Greenwich Campus is located mainly in the Old Royal Naval College , into which it moved in the 1990s when the premises were sold by the Royal Navy . The campus is home to the Business School, the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and The Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences. The campus also includes

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528-529: A typical 80-hour week, all workers joined UVW union . After four strike days in October 2019, and protests disrupting the annual graduation ceremony and a board meeting, Greenwich University announced in early January 2020 that all outsourced cafe workers, cleaners and security guards would receive the London living wage of £10.55, in addition to the same sick pay and annual leave as university staff. In 2018,

572-501: Is based here, as is the Natural Resources Institute, a centre for research, consultancy and education in natural and human resources. It is also the home of Medway School of Pharmacy, a joint school operated by the Universities of Greenwich and Kent. The Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences also offers a number of its courses at Medway, including Midwifery and Paramedic Sciences. Facilities include laboratories, workshops,

616-538: Is located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich . Greenwich also has a campus in Medway , Kent, as part of a shared campus . The university's range of subjects includes architecture, business, computing, mathematics, education, engineering, humanities, maritime studies , natural sciences, pharmacy and social sciences. The university dates back to 1890, when Woolwich Polytechnic , the second-oldest polytechnic in

660-804: Is near 74-hectare Greenwich Park , home to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich . The Stockwell Street Building opened in 2014 and is now home to the campus library, film and TV studios, and editing suites. In 2015, it was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for architecture. The Dreadnought Building is a central hub for the Greenwich Campus and hosts the Greenwich Students Union and Student Services. The Student Village at Avery Hill Campus provides accommodation for around 1,000 students. On-site facilities include

704-669: The City of London College (1988) were incorporated. In 1992, Thames Polytechnic was granted university status by the Major government (together with various other polytechnics) and renamed the University of Greenwich in 1993. On 1 January 1993, the Thames College of Health Care Studies, itself a merger of three local nursing and midwifery training schools, officially merged with the newly designated University of Greenwich, becoming

748-708: The Olympian Gods and the story of Achilles which dominates the ceiling of the main staircase, Thornhill added a small portrait of Rev Henry Sacheverell , a Tory propagandist put on trial for sedition by the Whig government in 1710, being cast to the Furies to be burnt. In 1716, Thornhill painted the ceiling of the Great Hall in Blenheim Palace for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , newly returned to

792-662: The Royal Arsenal ; William Anderson , director-general of the Ordnance Factories, was a trustee and later a member of the board of governors. Its premises were also used for day schools – the first Woolwich Polytechnic School was established in 1897. In 1970, Woolwich Polytechnic merged with part of Hammersmith College of Art and Building to form Thames Polytechnic . In the following years, Dartford College (1976), Avery Hill College of Education (1985), Garnett College (1987) and parts of Goldsmiths College and

836-739: The Cardinal Virtues, personified as naked children – survive. In his native Dorset Thornhill decorated the reredos at St. Mary's Church, Weymouth, with a picture of the Last Supper . Thornhill was also a notable portraitist . He also carried out a commission in Worcestershire painting the walls and ceiling around the grand staircase at Hanbury Hall. In 1711, Thornhill was one of the twelve original directors of Sir Godfrey Kneller 's academy at Great Queen Street , London. In 1716, he succeeded Kneller as Governor there and held

880-523: The Government. He presented to the church an altarpiece painted by himself. In 1718 Thornhill took a large house on Covent Garden Piazza, and in 1725 he renovated Thornhill House in the south of Stalbridge , near Sturminster Newton , Dorset , in the Palladian manner. In 1720 he tried his hand at architecture. Along with Giacomo Leoni , he designed Moor Park , for which he also painted

924-910: The Greenwich & Kent Students' Unions Together (once the Universities at Medway Students Association, UMSA). Greenwich Students' Union has a mascot called The Cutty Shark and a presence at Avery Hill, Greenwich and Medway campus. Greenwich research seeks to influence and enhance health , education , science , engineering , computing and social policy , and attracts international agencies, government departments and global corporations (for example, Pfizer , GlaxoSmithKline , BAE Systems , Airbus , GE Aviation and Merck Consumer Health ) from over 50 countries. Significant areas of research and consultancy include landscape architecture, employment relations, fire safety, natural resources, tourism and hospitality, social network analysis, education, training, educational leadership and public services. The university

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968-512: The Greenwich Learning and Simulation Centre (GLASC) which replicates NHS wards, a critical care unit, a simulated pediatric and birthing centre and operating theatre. GLASC enables student trainees and experienced health professionals to gain hands-on experience and learn new clinical skills by engaging in multi-professional simulation activities. The student village complex at Avery Hill provides student self-catering accommodation,

1012-555: The Greenwich Maritime Institute, a specialist maritime management, policy and history teaching and research institute, and the Institute for Lifecourse Development. The Old Royal Naval College includes "The Painted Hall", painted in the 18th century by Sir James Thornhill , with over 40,000 square feet of painted surfaces including 200 painting of kings, queens and mythological creatures. The campus has

1056-673: The Students Union and the Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences. It has psychology and neuroscience laboratories, an early years simulated classroom, a gym, a bar, a cafe, computer laboratories, and teaching and social spaces for students. The building was formerly the Dreadnought Seaman's hospital, named after the HMS Dreadnought quarantine and hospital ship which was moored on the Thames at Greenwich in

1100-597: The UK and internationally; in 2015 it won a prize for work on the cassava crop in Africa. In 2023, the university has been classified as Gold in Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) of Higher Education. In 2019, the university's main cafeteria was operated by BaxterStorey, which paid its workers £9.25 per hour without contractual sick pay. After a chef had collapsed on his way home from a shift during

1144-622: The United Kingdom, opened in Woolwich . It was founded by Frank Didden, supported by and following the principles of Quintin Hogg , and opened to students in October 1891. Like Hogg's pioneering venture in London's Regent Street, it initially combined education with social and religious functions. In 1894 it focused on an educational role, concentrating on higher technical education appropriate to its location close to Woolwich Dockyard and

1188-591: The University of Greenwich started a partnership with Charlton Athletic F.C. Prominent alumni of the university and its predecessor organisations include Nobel Laureate Charles Kao , who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009 for his work on transmission of light in fibre optics, and Abiy Ahmed , who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize . In June 2021, representatives from multiple countries called for

1232-602: The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Abiy to be re-considered because of the war crimes committed in Tigray. Two British government ministers, Richard Marsh and Gareth Thomas , are also graduates. A more extensive list is given below. James Thornhill Sir James Thornhill (25 July 1675 or 1676 – 4 May 1734) was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition. He

1276-553: The cartoons are now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum , London. Thornhill's copies of the cartoons were sold by auction by Christopher Cock on 24 and 25 February 1735 at his room in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden . The full-sized copies of the cartoons were bought by the 4th Duke of Bedford for £200, a very small sum which was less than the cost of the canvas and other materials used in making them. In 1800

1320-722: The country after being prosecuted by the Tory ministry in the last years of Queen Anne . The subject is, inevitably, the Duke's 1704 victory at the Battle of Blenheim , during the War of the Spanish Succession . His last major commission was to paint the chapel at Wimpole Hall ; he started work on the preliminary sketches in 1713 and the work was finished by 1724. The north wall has fictive architecture and four Trompe-l'œil "statues" of

1364-464: The dome (1716–19), executed in grisaille , show episodes from the Life of St. Paul . Thornhill's vast murals in great houses often related to topical events, as seen through the eyes of his mainly Whig patrons. At Chatsworth, during 1707-8, Thornhill painted a number of walls and ceilings, the most notable being the continuous wall and ceiling painting of the Sabine room, then a lobby, but since used as

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1408-541: The entrance hall ceiling and other rooms. Towards the end of his life Thornhill was receiving no major commissions, so he began to copy the Raphael Cartoons , then at Hampton Court . Apart from full-size copies, completed in 1731, he made a set at half-scale, plus 162 smaller studies of heads, hands and feet intending to publish them in printed form for the use of art students, but left this work unfinished at his death. The original small wash designs of details of

1452-764: The four Doctors of the Church . The east wall above the altar is painted with the Adoration of the Magi . In 1725 he offered to paint decorations for the ceiling of the New Council Chamber at the Guildhall in the City of London. He gave his services free, although he was rewarded with a valuable gold cup. The chamber was later demolished, though some of the paintings – an Allegory of London , and representations of

1496-544: The latter role. On 2 May 1720, the king knighted him, the first native artist to be knighted. In the same year, he was master of the Painters' Company and in 1723 fellow of the Royal Society. Thornhill was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Melcombe Regis at the 1722 British general election . He was returned in a contest at the 1727 British general election . During his time, he voted regularly with

1540-515: The mid 19th century. HMS Dreadnought had previously been a ship of the line and fought at the Battle of Trafalgar . The Avery Hill Campus is situated in Eltham , south of the 86 acres (35 ha) Avery Hill Park in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, south-east London. The campus is home to student accommodation and to the Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences. Courses taught at

1584-427: The post until 1720. He then established his own private drawing school at Covent Garden , but this soon closed. In November 1724, Thornhill made a second, more successful, attempt to establish a new free academy in his private house at Covent Garden. One artist that Thornhill is very likely to have influenced is the draughtsman and mathematical instrument designer Thomas Carwitham . William Hogarth seems to have been

1628-403: The site include Teacher Training, Nursing (Adult, Child, Mental Health, Community, Learning Disability), Midwifery, Paramedic Science, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, PE and Sport, and Sports Science. Facilities include a 220-seat lecture theatre, computer laboratories, a library, sports pitches, strength and conditioning laboratories, as well as a sports hall. The site also hosts

1672-498: The university was rated as the greenest in the UK by People & Planet Green League Table. In 2019, it was ranked 14 in UK, and third in London. The University has gained many national awards, including four Queen's Anniversary Prizes, nine Times Higher Education Awards and two Guardian University Awards. In 2019, the university's Natural Resources Institute was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for its research in pest management and control to combat human and animal diseases in

1716-461: The university's efforts at becoming carbon neutral . At the Medway campus in Kent there is a partnership between the University of Greenwich Students' Union, Canterbury Christ Church and University of Kent Union on the Medway campus. Greenwich Students' Union has been leading the partnership since July 2021 and manages The Hub space, previously The Student Hub when it was looked after by GK Unions –

1760-636: Was apprenticed to Thomas Highmore (1660–1720), a specialist in non-figurative decorative painting. He also learned a great deal from Antonio Verrio and Louis Laguerre , two prominent foreign decorative painters then working in England. He completed his apprenticeship in 1696 and, on 1 March 1704, became a Freeman of the Painter-Stainers' Company of London. Thornhill decorated palace interiors with large-scale compositions, with figures commonly shown in idealized and rhetorical postures. In 1707, he

1804-589: Was at 10, up 10 places since 2021. Forensic Science (9), Criminology (10), Mechanical Engineering (12), and Education (48) also moved up significantly. In Center for World University Rankings World University Rankings 2020–21 – University of Greenwich was ranked 76 in the UK. In 2022, University of Greenwich was ranked in the 750-800 range globally by QS World University Rankings . In the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2020, Greenwich performed well in several categories: In 2012,

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1848-625: Was given the commission to decorate the Hall now known as the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College (1707–1727). The scheme of allegorical wall and ceiling decorations of the hall depicts the Protestant succession of English monarchs from William III and Mary II to George I . On 28 June 1715, Thornhill was awarded the commission to decorate the dome of St Paul's Cathedral by "a whig, low-church dominated committee inspired by

1892-557: Was ranked 94 out of 121 UK institutions according to The Guardian University Guide 2022 league table. For 2023, the University of Greenwich was ranked 60 according to Times Higher education (THE). Moreover, University of Greenwich ranked first in London for Events, Tourism and Hospitality by the Guardian’s 2023 university rankings. Subjects taught at Greenwich have seen rises in the Guardian university league tables for 2022: Chemistry

1936-544: Was responsible for some large-scale schemes of murals, including the " Painted Hall " at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, the paintings on the inside of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral , and works at Chatsworth House and Wimpole Hall. Thornhill was born in Melcombe Regis , Dorset, the son of Walter Thornhill of Wareham and Mary, eldest daughter of Colonel William Sydenham , governor of Weymouth . In 1689 he

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