Main article: University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus Tremough campus (University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus) Students at Exeter are represented by a
Guild of Students, which exists to raise money for five nominated charities, and collects in town centres around Britain every weekend. RAG events are run by students, under the co-ordination of a full-time member of staff. The main aim of these societies and activities groups is to provide opportunities for student development. The Guild of Students was renamed the Students' Guild in 2005.
There are over 100 affiliated student societies, ranging from the Theatre Company and Creative Writing to the
LDYS,
Conservative Future, and
Socialist Students societies. There are a large number of sports clubs, although the
Athletic Union (AU) is now a separate body from the Students' Guild but strong links remain. The Debating Society which predates establishment of the university, started life in
1927 as The Exeter Debating Society, with the inaugural speaker being
Anthony Eden.
Students are represented by a sabbatical team consisting of a President, Deputy President (based at the
St. Luke's Campus), Finance, Activities and Trading Officer (FATO, Formerly General Secretary), Education Officer, Welfare and Equal Opportunities Officer and the Athletic Union President. There are also other non sabbatical officers representing areas of the student population and student activities areas. These are elected by students in a series of elections throughout the academic year.
Students' Guild Since late 2006, the Exeter Students' Guild has been in dispute
Evangelical Christian Union disputes The University has undergone an investment programme worth more than £235 million
[1] in recent years. £38 million has been invested in new student accommodation, including the new Holland Hall, named after the former vice-chancellor of the same name. £8m has been invested in sports facilities, including a professional-standard tennis centre. A £1m upgrade has been carried out to the students' union building and nightclub and £1.5m has been spent improving access for people with disabilities. In October 2002, The
Peninsula Medical School, a partnership between the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, admitted its first students of medicine. In 2005, the new
Xfi Centre for Finance and Investment opened, the result of a multi-million pound gift from an anonymous donor. Thanks to a donation of £650,000 from the Ruler of
Sharjah, His Highness Dr Sheikh
Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi, an extension has been added to the also recently constructed Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Building. In 2006, the Department of Drama completed a major renovation. The Department of Drama's state-of-the-art £3 million Alexander Building was named after the former University Chancellor Lord Alexander. A new £28 million
Peninsula Dental School, a partnership between the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, will open its doors in October 2007. The dental school will have places for 62 graduate entry students each year. The South West of England Regional Development Agency is investing £9.7m in phase II of the University of Exeter Innovation Centre. The project is currently under construction and will create a 38,000 square ft building for use by new and growing businesses within the development and research sectors at the university's Streatham campus. Phase I of the Innovation Centre was finished in 2000 and houses high-tech businesses from the software, biomedical sectors to advanced manufacturing and internet firms.
New developments For nearly 40 years Exeter was the only university in the south-west peninsula, and as such it sought to offer the maximum number of academic disciplines. By 1995 the University had nearly 50 separate departments and centres. Its
Research Assessment Exercise performance in 1996 was poor, and this was widely attributed to the absence of large strong units. As a result, an internal working party recommendation a reorganisation into a smaller number of Schools (18, now reduced further to 11, though the two schools of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry have been added), with the abolition of the traditional
Faculties of Arts, Science etc.
Despite this internal reorganization, the University again entered the 2001 RAE with substantially more disciplines than most comparable universities, and consequently with smaller units. Since 2000, the University has therefore undergone a further process of restructuring in order to focus on areas of strength. In 2004, it closed two departments (
chemistry and
music) that had been suffering low student demand for a long period, and had failed to achieve a 5-grade in any of the RAEs. At the same time, the University stopped offering
single honours degrees in
Italian, also a subject with poor RAE performance and low student demand. Although similar moves elsewhere had attracted little attention, a media storm blew up around this issue at Exeter, perhaps because of the high profile that the Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Steve Smith, was taking in UK university politics at the time (for example, he had just been appointed as Chair of the 1994 Group). There was also protest within the institution. The closures eliminated 130 jobs, and the
AUT questioned the University's financial figures.; shortly afterwards, his own institution, the
University of Sussex, made a similar proposal, though this is currently stalled.
Restructuring In 2006, the University commissioned a
feasibility study into the future of the St Luke's site, the location of the Schools of Education and Lifelong Learning, the School of Sports and Health Science, and the university's part of the
Peninsula Medical School. The Vice-Chancellor stated that the "problem is one of success, that is if these three Schools achieve their planned expansion ... then we will simply run out of space at St Luke's.", the consultants' advice was that the middle path of moving one School was the most financially sensible, and it is likely that this is what university management had always intended.
The future of St Luke's See also: Category:Academics of the University of Exeter NB Vice-chancellors are listed above and are not repeated here John Adair, Management (Leadership)
Neil Armstrong, Sport and Exercise Science (leading expert on obesity in children)
Barry Barnes, Sociology
Jeremy Black, History
Adam Curle, Psychology and Education
Edzard Ernst, Complementary Medicine
Timothy Gorringe, Theology
Alex Haslam, Psychology
Philip Hensher, Creative Writing
Paul Kline, Psychology
Alastair Logan, Theology
Linda Long, Biochemistry
Richard Lynn, Psychology
Colin MacCabe, Film Studies
Moelwyn Merchant, English
Richard Overy, History
Philip Payton, Cornish Studies
Nicholas Rodger, History
Roy Sambles, Physics
Richard Seaford, Classics
Dikran Tahta, Mathematics educator
Andrew Thorpe, History
Malcolm Todd, History
Sir
John Tooke, Medicine
Paul Webley, Psychology
Ted Wragg, Education
Notable current and former staff members See also: Category:Alumni of the University of Exeter Exoniensis is the formal adjective meaning "of the University of Exeter", this is abbreviated as Exon. in post-nominal letters for alumni.
Notable alumni Steve Bell - cartoonist (PGCE 1975, St Luke's)
Stanley Donwood - artist and writer
John O'Farrell - author
Marcus D. Gregio - Shakespeare scholar
Kate Lock - author
Roger Nash - Philosopher and Poet
J. K. Rowling - author of Harry Potter books
Robert Shearman - writer for Doctor Who
Carol Shields - author and Pulitzer Prize winner
Writers and Artists James Brokenshire - Conservative MP
David Burrowes - Conservative MP
Martin Cauchon - Former
Minister of Justice in Canada
Michael Frendo - Foreign Minister of Malta
Vilmundur Gylfason - Former Icelandic politician, historian and poet
Philip Ian Hope - Labour MP and vocational education minister
Mark Lancaster - Conservative MP
Andrew Lansley - Conservative MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Health
Caroline Lucas - Green Party MEP
Roy Perry - Conservative Politician and former MEP
Andrew Slaughter - Labour MP
Lau Kong Wah - Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Jeremy Wright - Conservative MP
Derek Wyatt - Labour MP
Politicians Jonathon Band -
First Sea Lord and chief of the Naval Staff (head of the
Royal Navy)
Military Sultan ibn Muhammad Al-Qasimi - Ruler of
Sharjah.
Peter Phillips - eldest grandson and first grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Zara Phillips - eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.
Infanta Elena of Spain - eldest daughter of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía.
Royalty Toby Amies - T.V presenter
Emma B -
Heart 106.2 drivetime presenter
Nick Baker - Wildlife TV expert
William Bemister - Emmy award winning documentary film maker and journalist
Lesley Collier - Television presenter, producer and author
Frank Gardner - BBC Security Correspondent
Paul Jackson- Television Producer
Ted Kravitz - Formula 1 Commentator
Isobel Lang - BBC Weather presenter
Tim Montgomerie - Editor of
ConservativeHome Henry Staunton - media mogul
Katie Hopkins - BBC's The Apprentice
Ruth Lovell - BBC Radio Devon News Fluffer (nightshift)
Tim Footman - journalist and author
Mark Power - journalist and photographer
Media and journalism Andre Bonifay - Welsh Scriptwriter/Director
Adam Campbell Jones - actor
Stephen Dillane - actor
Jeremy Meadow - theatre director/producer
Nicholas Pegg - actor/director
Julian Richings - actor
Christopher Smith - American actor and improviser
Actors/Directors Felix Buxton of
Basement Jaxx Martin Fielding - Musician and record producer
Simon "sHack" Shackleton - half of
Lunatic Calm Thom Yorke - singer
Radiohead Will Young - singer and actor
Musicians Sam E. Jonah - President of
AngloGold Ashanti Entrepreneurs Patrick Kwateng Acheampong –
Inspector General of Police of the Ghana Police Service Justice Goldring - Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission
Keith Weston - Former head of Police International Counter Terrorism Unit
Sir Robert Owen - Head of the Western Circuit
Dr. Wasim Kausar - former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Motorway Police Pakistan;now promoted to the post of Inspector General (IG) and awaiting posting.
Law and order Andy Beattie - England rugby player
Richard Dawson - Yorkshire and England cricketer
Paul Downton - Former England cricketer
Richard Hill -- Former England Rugby Captain
Samantha Smith - tennis player and commentator
David Sole - Former Scottish Rugby Captain
Sport Stephen J. Ceci - cognitive psychologist
William Wakeham - vice-chancellor of Southampton University
Owen White- specializes in the history of modern France and the French Empire.
Ted Wragg - educationalist and former Professor of Education at Exeter from 1978 to 2003
Others Debbie Aldridge - Character in radio soap opera
The Archers, played by
Tamsin Greig.
The Banker - Character in popular TV Show
Deal or No Deal.
One of the characters in
Jonathan Coe's novel
The Rotters' Club
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