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] '''University of Bedfordshire''' is a ] ] with campuses in ] and ], England. The university has roots in further and higher education from 1882: it gained university status in 1993 as the '''University of Luton'''. The university changed its name to the University of Bedfordshire in 2006, following the merger of the University of Luton with the Bedford campus of ].
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It is spread across five campuses: there are three in Bedfordshire, in ] and ]; and two in Buckinghamshire, in ] (for students studying ] and ]), and in ]. It is also active in ] and ], as well as globally, with a growing portfolio of international partnerships as far afield as Trinidad and Tobago, ], ], ] and ].
The '''University of Bedfordshire''' is a university created by the merger of the ] campus of ] and the University of Luton, on ] ].

The university entered the ] in 2014 and achieved an improvement of 22 places in the REF Power Ranking – the fourth largest improvement in the sector with nearly half of its research considered to be world leading or internationally excellent.<ref>{{Cite web|title=University praised for REF 2014 results – beds.ac.uk {{!}} University of Bedfordshire|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2014/december/university-praised-for-ref-2014-results/|access-date=2021-08-03|publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>{{update inline|date=September 2023}}

In 2012, it achieved ] status.<ref name="peopleandplanet.org">{{cite web|url=http://peopleandplanet.org/green-league-2012/tables?ggl12profile=8787&test=71a5bb|title=People & Planet Green League 2012 – University Profile – People & Planet|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref> The university has also come eighth in the UK in the People and Planet University Green League in 2019 and received the Eco Campus Platinum award in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=University awarded EcoCampus Platinum standard {{!}} University of Bedfordshire|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2021/january/university-awarded-ecocampus-platinum-standard/|access-date=2021-08-03|publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>

The University of Bedfordshire has around 20,000 students from over 100 countries, with around 40 academic partners, both in the UK and overseas, to deliver a range of course from foundation degrees to doctorates. More than 40% of its student population come from families with no history of participation in higher education. Around 70% are mature returners to education and over half are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite web|title=Our University {{!}} University of Bedfordshire|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/about-us/our-university/|access-date=2021-08-03|publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>

Appointed in 2020, the current Vice Chancellor is ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=University of Bedfordshire appoints new Vice Chancellor {{!}} University of Bedfordshire|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2020/october/university-of-bedfordshire-appoints-new-vice-chancellor/|access-date=2021-08-03|publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref> The current Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire is ], who was appointed in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarfraz Manzoor announced as University of Bedfordshire Chancellor {{!}} University of Bedfordshire |url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2023/february/sarfraz-manzoor-announced-as-university-of-bedfordshire-chancellor/ |access-date=2024-02-09 |publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-03-01 |title=Springsteen movie writer from Luton becomes university chancellor |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-64805997 |access-date=2024-02-09 |publisher=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>


==History== ==History==
The '''University of Luton''' was a ] based in ], ], a northern ]. The institution was founded as the Modern School in the 1890s. It became Luton College of Higher Education with the merger of Luton College of Technology and Putteridge Bury College of Education in the mid-seventies. With the passing of the ] it converted to university status in 1993. On the ] ], the University announced that it was taking over the Bedford campus of De Montfort University. With permission from the ], the preferred name of the University of Bedfordshire came into effect on the ] ]. The University of Luton had its roots in the Luton Modern School, which was established in 1908 and the Luton Modern School and Technical Institute which opened in 1937. This became Luton College of Higher Education following the merger of Luton College of Technology and ] College of Education, in 1976. It obtained university status in 1993.
The Bedford campus of De Montfort University was originally part of the ], which stemmed from Bedford Teacher Training College, founded in 1882, and Bedford Physical Training College, founded in 1903. The university was created by the merger of the University of Luton and the Bedford campus of ] in August 2006, following approval by the ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-08-03 |title=Luton University: Taking on a new identity |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/luton-university-taking-on-a-new-identity-410287.html |access-date=2020-06-19 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>


==Campuses== ==Campuses==
The university has three main campuses: Luton (in the town centre), ] (on the outskirts of Luton), and Bedford (on Polhill Avenue). There is also teaching for ] and ] degrees on satellite sites at the Luton and Dunstable, Bedford ] and High Wycombe General hospitals. The university's two main campuses are in ] and ]. In Buckinghamshire, the dedicated ] ] campus for Healthcare students opened in February 2020 at ], in partnership with ] (BHT).
A smaller fourth campus at Milton Keynes became part of the university in 2012, offering a variety of degree courses as well as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes.<ref name="UCMK2012">{{cite web|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2012/april/university-college-milton-keynes-to-open-in-2012|title='University College Milton Keynes' to open in 2012 – beds.ac.uk|publisher=University of Bedfordshire|access-date=23 March 2018}}</ref>


On the outskirts of Luton, is the university's Putteridge Bury campus. The campus is situated in approximately 30 acres of landscaped gardens. The current building was completed in 1911 and was designed by architects Sir ] and ] in the style of ], having had various redesigns and rebuilds over the years.<ref>James Dyer, The Stopsley Book, Book Castle, 1998, {{ISBN|1-871199-04-2}}, pp. 56–64.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-163103-putteridge-bury-luton-college-of-higher-|title=Putteridge Bury (Luton College of Higher Education) – Offley – Hertfordshire – England – British Listed Buildings|author=Good Stuff|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref>
==Faculties==
The University of Bedfordshire has four faculties, encompassing a number of schools, departments and divisions.
* Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science
** Computing and Information Systems
** Education Studies
** Media, Art and Design
** Psychology
** Science
** Sport and Exercise Science
* Faculty of Education and Contemporary Studies
** Business and Applied Social Sciences
** Education
** Performing Arts and English
** Physical Education and Sports Sciences
* Faculty of Health and Social Science
** Applied Social Studies
** Healthcare (Nursing and Midwifery)
* University of Bedfordshire Business School
** Business and Marketing
** Language and Communication
** Law, Accounting and Strategy
** Tourism, Leisure and Human Resource Management


The site is utilised for University events including graduations, academic research symposia and seminars, The University of Bedfordshire Business School's postgraduate programmes, as well as a wide variety of public and private events including conferences, weddings, funeral receptions and public holiday functions.
== Educational partner institutions==


===Luton Campus===
The University works together with a number of partner institutions to offer a wide range of courses.


The university's Luton campus is located in the town centre and is home to a purpose-built ] building, seven-storey library, a Postgraduate & CPD Centre, as well as facilities to support each of the courses on offer. These include the Media Arts Centre, a Moot Court, Business Pods, Healthcare Simulation Suites, a Campus Gym and a three-storey art studio with designated fashion and photography studios.
* ] College
* Bedford College
* British School of Osteopathy
* Broxtowe College, Nottingham
* Dunstable College
* Grantham College
* Leicester College
* Luton Sixth Form College
* Milton Keynes College
* Oxford and Cherwell Valley College
* Tresham Institute of Further and Higher Education


The university's Campus Centre, at Luton, opened in October 2010. It houses a 240-seat lecture theatre, an exhibition area for displaying student work, a Student Information Desk and Students' Union support services.
== Student body==


The Postgraduate and Continuing Professional Development Centre was completed in early 2013
In 2004-05, Luton/Bedfordshire had 11,815 students, 70 per cent from the UK, and 30 per cent from abroad<ref>http://www.hesa.ac.uk/holisdocs/pubinfo/student/institution0405.htm</ref>.
Such a high proportion of overseas students seems to have caused anxieties in official circles. In April 2005, the ''Guardian'' reported that the ] (HEFCE) was monitoring Luton/Bedfordshire because it feared it was 'at risk' of financial failure. It alleged that a HEFCE document had labelled the university as "heavily dependent on overseas students, with a poor public and press image". The ''Guardian'' also noted the University’s reaction:
'Professor Les Ebdon, vice-chancellor of Luton University, confirmed it was being monitored by HEFCE. He described the language in the document as inflammatory and said they had improved recruitment of home students last year by 60%: "A lot of that has to do with the fact that our reputation has turned around"'<ref>http://education.guardian.co.uk/universitiesincrisis/story/0,12028,1460256,00.html</ref>


The dedicated STEM building opened in 2019 and is set out over four storeys of teaching space including four computer laboratories and workshops for subjects such as ], ] and ], along with three large teaching labs, and four specialist containment labs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Luton campus {{!}} University of Bedfordshire|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/about-us/campuses/luton/|access-date=2021-08-03|publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>
The latest performance indicators show that Luton was above its benchmark for the number of young students it takes from low-participation neighbourhoods (where there are few people going to higher education). Its intake is 18.2 per cent against a benchmark of 14.2 per cent.


===Bedford Campus===
Its proportion of state school students is 99.5 per cent against a benchmark of 95.6 per cent and it admits 43.4 per cent from the lowest social classes against a benchmark of 35.7 per cent. Hand in hand with financial viability, the university became much better at attracting students.


The Bedford campus includes a Physical Education and Sport Science Centre used to train athletes in the ], and a Bedford Campus Centre boasting a 280-seat theatre, dance studios, a restaurant and social spaces for students. Liberty Park, on-site accommodation, offers 500 en-suite study bedrooms.
It has also become better at retaining students. It increased its home and European recruitment of students by 59.9 per cent. "We made ourselves a more welcoming and friendly university," says Ebdon. "We really transformed our open days. We became much more customer-focused."


The Library was designed by ] as a gateway to the campus. The building was completed in 2001 and provides approximately 360 individual study spaces, teaching space, staff work areas and traditional library services.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vhh.co.uk/projects/poll.htm |title=De Montfort University, Pollhill Information Centre – van Heyningen and Haward Architects |access-date=25 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926144217/http://www.vhh.co.uk/projects/poll.htm |archive-date=26 September 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> There is also the Gateway building which offers teaching and informal learning spaces, lecture theatres and a student service centre over three storeys.
But the vice chancellor is not resting on his laurels or on the unsolicited praise he received from Charles Clarke when the former Education Secretary said "Everyone knows that the teaching quality at Luton is bloody brilliant". It will be a challenge to find students this autumn with a combination of the new name, the arrival of top-up fees and with applications from mature students taking a hit. Forty-three per cent of Luton's student body are mature.<ref>http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/article1210272.ece</ref>


=== Mary Seacole, Aylesbury Campus ===
== Investment==


The university's Mary Seacole Campus opened in February 2020 at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury and in partnership with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT). 
In recent years, the University has continued to invest heavily in its facilities, adding a £5.5m media arts centre, an £8.2m learning resources centre and a £20m accommodation block. It estimates that, by 2007, £45m will have been spent on the Luton and Bedford campuses. <ref>http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/graduation/story/0,,1837541,00.html</ref>


The three-storey building, located on the hospital site, provides a specialist skills lab, set out as a hospital ward with state-of-the-art audio visual technology. There are also a suite of classrooms, a library, social learning spaces and computer study facilities.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aylesbury campus – beds.ac.uk {{!}} University of Bedfordshire|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/about-us/campuses/aylesbury/|access-date=2021-08-03|publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>
In 2005, the ''Times Higher Education Supplement'' noted that some of the University's investment plans were not proceeding as anticipated. Luton/Bedfordshire had announced, amidst much publicity, that it was to build a multimillion pound student plaza, but it had then decided not to proceed, in the process writing-off £750,000. Basic financial practice, the paper reported, had been repeatedly ignored: indeed, depositions released under the Freedom of Information Act showed that the institution had made four separate serious breaches of its own financial regulations during the early stages of the project, 'including failing to put contracts out to tender and failing to have signed contracts in place'. Amongst other things, it was revealed that the University had paid out £500,000 in invoices despite the fact that there were no corresponding purchase orders. Roger Kline of the teaching union NATFHE commented: '"One wonders how many jobs might have been saved if proper financial procedures had been in place at the time"' (see Phil Baty, 'Luton's plan broke basic finance rules', ''Times Higher Education Supplement'', 4 March 2005).


===Milton Keynes Campus===
== Quality issues ==
The Milton Keynes campus was originally established with the long-term aim of becoming a new, independent university in Milton Keynes.<ref name="Guardian"> – '']''</ref>


]
Assessments by the government's quality watchdog, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), between 1997 and 2000 judged courses at Luton to be good (TQA scores of 22 or above in six subjects - Building (1997), Communication and Media studies (1998), Biosciences (1999), Nursing (1999), Psychology (1999) and Art and Design (2000)), but since then the University has made 64 academic staff compulsorily redundant, and completed voluntary redundancy agreements with at least 77 others, and has featured in several articles in the ''Times Higher Education Supplement'' about declining standards (for example, '40% of Luton students would not recommend alma mater', 24 September 2004, and 'Caught in vicious cycle of declining standards', 19 November 2004). On 8 February 2004, a story in the ''Sunday Telegraph'' about Luton was headlined 'Is this the worst university in Britain?' (see also earlier story on same theme in issue dated 21 December 2003). The University claims that recent confidential QAA 'Developmental Engagement' reports about some of its taught subjects are broadly positive, especially about teaching quality. However, on 19th November 2004, the ''Times Higher Education Supplement'' reported:
The institution began as 'the University Centre Milton Keynes' (UCMK), part of ] and supported by the University of Bedfordshire, the ] and the ]. It was opened on 29 September 2008, with start-up funding provided by the ], which purchased the initial building (a former office block) in ].


In October 2009, the University of Bedfordshire (acting as lead academic partner) made a successful bid to the ] to expand provision at UCMK, one of just six such centres to have achieved this.<ref> – ''Business Weekly''</ref>
<blockquote>"In April, the governors were told that after a private inspection of law courses ,the Quality Assurance Agency had expressed concern about the 'demands being made on academic staff, whom it regarded as streched to the limit to deliver the range of subjects required'. In June, the academic board heard that an inspection of nursing courses had raised similar concerns. (see 'Caught in vicious cycle', ibid.)".<ref> 19 Nov 2004 </ref> </blockquote>


In September 2012 the centre ceased to be part of MK College and became a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Bedfordshire.<ref></ref> The university announced plans for a new campus in the city, with the new name of the institution being 'University Campus Milton Keynes', and this was opened at Saxon Court on Avebury Boulevard in September 2013.<ref> – ''BBC''</ref><ref></ref>
What is certain is that when the QAA conducted a thorough institutional audit of the University as a whole in 2005, it came to the following overall conclusion:


Since March 2017, the brand 'UCMK' is no longer in use and the campus now operates as University of Bedfordshire Milton Keynes Campus.
<blockquote>
"As a result of its investigations, the audit team's view of the University is that: limited confidence can be placed in the soundness of the University's current and likely future management of the quality of its academic programmes and the academic standards of its awards. " <ref>http://www.qaa.ac.uk/reviews/reports/institutional/Luton1105/RG162UniLuton.pdf</ref>
</blockquote>


Today, under the operation of the University of Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes campus offers foundation degrees, ]s and ]s.<ref>https://www.beds.ac.uk/milton-keynes {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
The ''Times Higher Education Supplement'' commented: "the report means that Luton is only the fourth higher education institution to receive a 'limited confidence' judgement from more than 100 audits so far carried out"<ref>'QAA queries Luton quality' ,''Times Higher Education Supplement'', 11 November 2005</ref> <ref>'Inspectors find failings at University of Luton', ''Guardian'', 4 November 2005</ref>.


==Organisation and structure==
Luton's performance in the ''Times'' newspaper ''Good University Guide'' annual league tables (which are based upon official figures)is also worth recording. In 2003-04, the University was 75th overall, in 2004-05 74th overall, but in 2005-06 it came 92nd, and in 2006-07 118th (second from last). Looking more closely at the 2006-07 results, it is notable that the University came fourth from bottom as regards student satisfaction and second from bottom as regards 'graduate destinations' (i.e. the proportion of UK graduates entering 'graduate level' employment)<ref>see tables in ''Times Higher Education Supplement'' on 9 June 2006</ref>. Commenting on the 2006-07 results, the University's Vice Chancellor, Les Ebdon, reportedly told the local ''Luton Today'' newspaper: "'I don't think anybody takes them seriously. Readers of the ''Times'' expect to see certain universities at the top and certain universities at the bottom. It's a snob's table'". He alledged that "the national newspaper adjusted criteria in its report to guarantee institutions like Cambridge and Oxford always maintained their position at the front while Luton and other newer places brought up the rear"<ref>'New Uni to start life with a low ranking. But boss hits out at 'snobs' league table', ''Luton Today'', 18 June, 2006</ref>.
The university has four faculties: Creative Arts, Technologies and Science; Education and Sport; Health and Social Sciences; and the University of Bedfordshire Business School.


==Academic profile==
In the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise the university came last although it received a grade of 3b for Communication, Cultural and Media Studies. In the 2001 RAE it moved up six places with grades of 4 (History) and 3a (Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Linguistics, Social Work and Business and Management).
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In 2000, the University of Luton was ranked 83 out of 93 British universities by ''The Times''<ref name="whichuniversitybest.blogspot.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://whichuniversitybest.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/times-university-ranking-2000.html|title=Times University Ranking 2000 – Good University Ranking Guide|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref> in their annual university ranking, rising to 72 out of 101 two years later.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://whichuniversitybest.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/times-university-ranking-2002.html|title=Times University Ranking 2002 – Good University Ranking Guide|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref>


''The Sunday Times'' awarded the University of Luton the title of Best New University in 2004 (prior to the purchase of the Bedford campus and rebranding).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.icknield.beds.sch.uk/bbc%20school%20report/Articles.html |title=Untitled Document |access-date=23 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507075401/http://www.icknield.beds.sch.uk/bbc%20school%20report/Articles.html |archive-date=7 May 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The QAA conducted a thorough institutional audit of the university as a whole in 2005 (prior to the merger of the university), which resulted in the audit team's questioning of the academic standards of its awards and its lack of confidence in the university's quality standards.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926121409/http://www.qaa.ac.uk/reviews/reports/institutional/Luton1105/RG162UniLuton.pdf |date=26 September 2007 }}</ref> However, after the audit was taken, the QAA was provided with information that indicates that appropriate action was taken by the university in response to the findings of this report. As a result, the audit was signed off in July 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qaa.ac.uk/reviews/reports/institutional/Luton1105/summary.asp|title=Institutional audit – University of Luton<!-- Bot generated title -->|website=qaa.ac.uk|access-date=23 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230102230/http://qaa.ac.uk/reviews/reports/institutional/Luton1105/summary.asp|archive-date=30 December 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The university was subsequently commended by the QAA for the high quality and standards of our higher education provision in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|title=University of Bedfordshire awarded Quality Mark for higher education – beds.ac.uk {{!}} University of Bedfordshire|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2015/august/university-of-bedfordshire-awarded-quality-mark-for-higher-education/|access-date=2021-08-03|publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>
However, the University closed down its History Department in the same year that it became the highest ranked subject for research. Also in 2001, the University shut down almost all its teaching in Politics, Foreign Languages, English, Mathematics, Geoography, Environment and a number of other subjects.


The university appears in Times Higher Education World University rankings, is ranked as one of the top 300 universities in the world under 50 years old in the Young University rankings, and was awarded Silver in the first ever Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in 2017.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>
Alfred Vella, the university’s former associate dean for computing research and development told the Times “Misplaced Pages is not an advertising medium, and Bedfordshire is still the Luton of old”


The university hosts the National Centre for Cyberstalking Research, opened in 2012,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.beds.ac.uk/research/irac/nccr |title=The National Centre for Cyberstalking Research – beds.ac.uk |access-date=14 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718191700/http://www.beds.ac.uk/research/irac/nccr |archive-date=18 July 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which carried out the first British study of cyberstalking and other forms of harassment online.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/8630244/Social-networks-should-do-more-on-cyberstalking.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Social networks 'should do more' on cyberstalking | date=11 July 2011}}</ref> In 2012, it established a UNESCO chair in New Media Forms of the Book to analyse trends in the use of electronic media, mobile media, and Internet technologies<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org.uk/unesco_chair_in_new_media_forms_of_the_book,_university_of_bedfordshire_(2012)|title=UK National Commission for UNESCO|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref> through research and practice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://augmentedwonder.blogspot.co.uk/|title=augmentedwonder|author=emplod|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref>
Commenting on some of the advertising hype that Luton and now Bedfordshire put out, former Associate Dean, Computing Research and Development, Dr Alfred Vella, claims to have witnessed the bullying of students and staff by a senior manager as well as the fabrication of documents to show Luton in a better light than deserved.


===Teaching quality===
Dr Vella said:
In 2004 The Sunday Times awarded the university the title of 'Best New University'<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/eu/studying |title=Studying at the University of Bedfordshire – beds.ac.uk |access-date=17 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720184048/http://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/eu/studying |archive-date=20 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and in 2007 it was short-listed for the ] Supplement's University of the Year 2007.<ref name="thes">{{cite web|url=http://www.thes.co.uk/upload/2038492/AwardsShortlist2007.pdf|title=Times Higher Education|access-date=16 July 2015}}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
<blockquote>
"Administrative staff have claimed to have been forced to take Luton courses to boost student numbers and inflate the University's record on widening participation.
</blockquote>


===Awards===
Staff and students have complained about racism at Luton.
* Awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.queensawardsmagazine.com/awardwinners/university-of-bedfordshire|title=University of Bedfordshire «|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref>
* Outstanding Finance Team winners in the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/search|title=Search|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|access-date=23 March 2018}}</ref>


===Educational partner institutions===
For example, in 1999-2000: a) a technician plus the Head of Technical Services plus the Head of Computing and Information Systems were amongst those who complained about the Dean of a faculty. b) amongst students who complained about racisms was a Greek studying in the same faculty."
The university works together with a number of partner institutions to offer a range of courses:<ref>{{Cite web|title=Academic Partners {{!}} University of Bedfordshire|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/centre-for-academic-partnerships/academic-partners/|access-date=2021-08-03|publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>


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Dr Alfred Vella was dismissed from Luton in 2000 for 'gross misconduct' - for whistle-blowing. He subsequently continued to help his PhD students until they graduated this year.
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* Institute of Family Therapy
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* Pen Green Leadership Centre
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* Executive Business and Computational Institute, Mauritius
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* Kaplan Higher Education, Hong Kong
* Majan College, Oman
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* ], Egypt
* Music Production and Dance Academy, Italy
* Middle East University, Jordan
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* Oxford College of Business, Sri Lanka
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* SHEL School of Higher Education Limited, Trinidad and Tobago
* SLIIT Academy, Sri Lanka
* STI Myanmar
* Westminster International College, Malaysia
* Asian Centre for Management and Technology Ltd (LSC Dhaka), Bangladesh
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* Roots IVY International Schools, Pakistan{{div col end}}


The university was a co-sponsor of ], a ] which operated in ] from 2012 to 2016.
A spokeswoman for the university says that its lawyers are on the case, adding that Vella left the university six years ago.


==Student Union== ==Student life==
The University of Bedfordshire Students' Union is affiliated to the ], which represents students nationwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/theblend/docs/blenddone/1?mode=a_p|title=ISSUU – The Blend Summer edition by Bed SU|author=Bed SU|work=Issuu|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref>
UBSU, the student union, provides the MainBar and SubClub at its main base in Luton, as well as an ever-increasing presence in Bedford. The student radio station, ], broadcasts over the internet and in May every year on 87.9FM in Luton Town Centre.


In 2020, ]—the university's affiliated community radio station—won two ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Radio LaB are Winners at Community Radio Awards 2020 |url=https://radiolab.beds.ac.uk/winnerscras2020/ |website=Radio LaB 97.1FM |access-date=13 July 2021}}</ref><ref name="Noms2020">{{Cite news |date=2020-11-15 |title=Community Radio Awards 2020 shortlist revealed |language=en-GB |url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2020/11/community-radio-awards-2020-shortlist-revealed/ |access-date=2020-11-17}}</ref>


== Notable alumni ==
==Alumni==
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* ] - Presenter of BBC's ] - Media Performance.
* ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Abbey makes up for lost time {{!}} Nationwide 1 {{!}} Football {{!}} Sport {{!}} Telegraph |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fsport%2F2001%2F01%2F21%2Fsfgnor22.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524233510/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fsport%2F2001%2F01%2F21%2Fsfgnor22.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 May 2007 |website=The Telegraph |date=24 May 2007}}</ref>
* Gemma Hunt - Presenter of ] - Media Performance.
* ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Media student success stories – beds.ac.uk {{!}} University of Bedfordshire |url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/departments/media-and-performance/student-experiences/media |publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>
* Charlie George - Presenter on MAX TV - Media Performance.
* ]
* Matt Fisher - Presenter on ] - Media Performance with Radio.
* ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Gemma Hunt: BA Hons Media Performance – beds.ac.uk |url=http://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/departments/bim/studentprofiles/gemma-hunt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022015727/http://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/departments/bim/studentprofiles/gemma-hunt |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 October 2013 |publisher=University of Bedfordshire |date=22 October 2013}}</ref>
* Debbie Randle - News Editor for ] - Modern English Studies.
* ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Becky Jago: BA Hons Media Performance – University of Bedfordshire |url=http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/mediaartdesign/studentprofiles/becky-jago |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927022019/http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/mediaartdesign/studentprofiles/becky-jago |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2007 |publisher=University of Bedfordshire |date=27 September 2007}}</ref>
* Marie Kemp - Presenter on ] Radio Berkshire - Media Performance and Radio.
* ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Graduation season at Bedfordshire comes to an end in Luton – beds.ac.uk {{!}} University of Bedfordshire |url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2017/july/graduation-season-at-bedfordshire-comes-to-an-end-in-luton |publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>
* Peter Paddon - Systems Security Administrator for the ] - Media Production, Video Production and Animation.
* ]<ref>{{cite web |title=3am Interview: FUCKING THE BOOKS – AN INTERVIEW WITH BEN MYERS |url=http://www.3ammagazine.com/musicarchives/2004/aug/interview_ben_myers.html |website=3ammagazine.com}}</ref>
* Paul Woloszyn - ] Digital Text - Modern English Studies.
* ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Melvin Odoom – beds.ac.uk {{!}} University of Bedfordshire |url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/case-studies/melvin-odoom |publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>
* ]{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}
*]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dami Olonisakin – beds.ac.uk {{!}} University of Bedfordshire|url=https://www.beds.ac.uk/news/case-studies/dami-olonisakin|access-date=2021-01-13|publisher=University of Bedfordshire}}</ref>
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==Photo Gallery== ==Photo gallery==
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Image:Universityofbeds.JPG|University of Bedfordshire, Luton campus
Image:Bedford_campus.JPG|University of Bedfordshire Bedford campus
Image:Bedford_campus_trees.jpg|University of Bedfordshire Bedford campus
Image:Putteridge_bury.jpg|University of Bedfordshire Putteridge Bury campus
Image:Uol_subclub.jpg|Student Union 'SubClub' Nightclub, Luton campus
Image:Bar_soviet_bedford.jpg|Student Union 'Bar Soviet', Bedford campus
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University of Bedfordshire
TypePublic
Established1882 – Bedford Teacher Training College
1993 – University of Luton gained University Status
2006 – renamed to University of Bedfordshire after merging with the Bedford campus of De Montfort University
ChancellorSarfraz Manzoor
Vice-ChancellorRebecca Bunting
LocationBedford, Luton, Aylesbury and Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, UK
51°52′40″N 0°24′41″W / 51.87778°N 0.41139°W / 51.87778; -0.41139
CampusUrban
Websitebeds.ac.uk Edit this at Wikidata

The University of Bedfordshire is a public research university with campuses in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England. The university has roots in further and higher education from 1882: it gained university status in 1993 as the University of Luton. The university changed its name to the University of Bedfordshire in 2006, following the merger of the University of Luton with the Bedford campus of De Montfort University.

It is spread across five campuses: there are three in Bedfordshire, in Bedford and Luton; and two in Buckinghamshire, in Aylesbury (for students studying Nursing and Midwifery), and in Milton Keynes. It is also active in London and Birmingham, as well as globally, with a growing portfolio of international partnerships as far afield as Trinidad and Tobago, Egypt, Vietnam, Oman and Mauritius.

The university entered the Research Assessment Exercise in 2014 and achieved an improvement of 22 places in the REF Power Ranking – the fourth largest improvement in the sector with nearly half of its research considered to be world leading or internationally excellent.

In 2012, it achieved FairTrade status. The university has also come eighth in the UK in the People and Planet University Green League in 2019 and received the Eco Campus Platinum award in 2020.

The University of Bedfordshire has around 20,000 students from over 100 countries, with around 40 academic partners, both in the UK and overseas, to deliver a range of course from foundation degrees to doctorates. More than 40% of its student population come from families with no history of participation in higher education. Around 70% are mature returners to education and over half are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds.

Appointed in 2020, the current Vice Chancellor is Rebecca Bunting. The current Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire is Sarfraz Manzoor, who was appointed in 2023.

History

The University of Luton had its roots in the Luton Modern School, which was established in 1908 and the Luton Modern School and Technical Institute which opened in 1937. This became Luton College of Higher Education following the merger of Luton College of Technology and Putteridge Bury College of Education, in 1976. It obtained university status in 1993.

The Bedford campus of De Montfort University was originally part of the Bedford College of Higher Education, which stemmed from Bedford Teacher Training College, founded in 1882, and Bedford Physical Training College, founded in 1903. The university was created by the merger of the University of Luton and the Bedford campus of De Montfort University in August 2006, following approval by the Privy Council.

Campuses

The university's two main campuses are in Luton and Bedford. In Buckinghamshire, the dedicated Mary Seacole Aylesbury campus for Healthcare students opened in February 2020 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, in partnership with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT). A smaller fourth campus at Milton Keynes became part of the university in 2012, offering a variety of degree courses as well as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes.

On the outskirts of Luton, is the university's Putteridge Bury campus. The campus is situated in approximately 30 acres of landscaped gardens. The current building was completed in 1911 and was designed by architects Sir Ernest George and Alfred Yeats in the style of Chequers, having had various redesigns and rebuilds over the years.

The site is utilised for University events including graduations, academic research symposia and seminars, The University of Bedfordshire Business School's postgraduate programmes, as well as a wide variety of public and private events including conferences, weddings, funeral receptions and public holiday functions.

Luton Campus

The university's Luton campus is located in the town centre and is home to a purpose-built STEM building, seven-storey library, a Postgraduate & CPD Centre, as well as facilities to support each of the courses on offer. These include the Media Arts Centre, a Moot Court, Business Pods, Healthcare Simulation Suites, a Campus Gym and a three-storey art studio with designated fashion and photography studios.

The university's Campus Centre, at Luton, opened in October 2010. It houses a 240-seat lecture theatre, an exhibition area for displaying student work, a Student Information Desk and Students' Union support services.

The Postgraduate and Continuing Professional Development Centre was completed in early 2013

The dedicated STEM building opened in 2019 and is set out over four storeys of teaching space including four computer laboratories and workshops for subjects such as automotive engineering, cyber-security and robotics, along with three large teaching labs, and four specialist containment labs.

Bedford Campus

The Bedford campus includes a Physical Education and Sport Science Centre used to train athletes in the 2012 Olympic Games, and a Bedford Campus Centre boasting a 280-seat theatre, dance studios, a restaurant and social spaces for students. Liberty Park, on-site accommodation, offers 500 en-suite study bedrooms.

The Library was designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects as a gateway to the campus. The building was completed in 2001 and provides approximately 360 individual study spaces, teaching space, staff work areas and traditional library services. There is also the Gateway building which offers teaching and informal learning spaces, lecture theatres and a student service centre over three storeys.

Mary Seacole, Aylesbury Campus

The university's Mary Seacole Campus opened in February 2020 at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury and in partnership with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT). 

The three-storey building, located on the hospital site, provides a specialist skills lab, set out as a hospital ward with state-of-the-art audio visual technology. There are also a suite of classrooms, a library, social learning spaces and computer study facilities.

Milton Keynes Campus

The Milton Keynes campus was originally established with the long-term aim of becoming a new, independent university in Milton Keynes.

The original University Centre Milton Keynes building at 200 Silbury Boulevard.

The institution began as 'the University Centre Milton Keynes' (UCMK), part of Milton Keynes College and supported by the University of Bedfordshire, the University of Northampton and the Open University. It was opened on 29 September 2008, with start-up funding provided by the Milton Keynes Partnership, which purchased the initial building (a former office block) in Central Milton Keynes.

In October 2009, the University of Bedfordshire (acting as lead academic partner) made a successful bid to the Higher Education Funding Council for England to expand provision at UCMK, one of just six such centres to have achieved this.

In September 2012 the centre ceased to be part of MK College and became a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Bedfordshire. The university announced plans for a new campus in the city, with the new name of the institution being 'University Campus Milton Keynes', and this was opened at Saxon Court on Avebury Boulevard in September 2013.

Since March 2017, the brand 'UCMK' is no longer in use and the campus now operates as University of Bedfordshire Milton Keynes Campus.

Today, under the operation of the University of Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes campus offers foundation degrees, bachelor's degrees and master's degrees.

Organisation and structure

The university has four faculties: Creative Arts, Technologies and Science; Education and Sport; Health and Social Sciences; and the University of Bedfordshire Business School.

Academic profile

Rankings
National rankings
Complete (2025)129
Guardian (2025)122
Times / Sunday Times (2025)129
Global rankings
THE (2025)1001–1200

In 2000, the University of Luton was ranked 83 out of 93 British universities by The Times in their annual university ranking, rising to 72 out of 101 two years later.

The Sunday Times awarded the University of Luton the title of Best New University in 2004 (prior to the purchase of the Bedford campus and rebranding). The QAA conducted a thorough institutional audit of the university as a whole in 2005 (prior to the merger of the university), which resulted in the audit team's questioning of the academic standards of its awards and its lack of confidence in the university's quality standards. However, after the audit was taken, the QAA was provided with information that indicates that appropriate action was taken by the university in response to the findings of this report. As a result, the audit was signed off in July 2007. The university was subsequently commended by the QAA for the high quality and standards of our higher education provision in 2015.

The university appears in Times Higher Education World University rankings, is ranked as one of the top 300 universities in the world under 50 years old in the Young University rankings, and was awarded Silver in the first ever Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in 2017.

The university hosts the National Centre for Cyberstalking Research, opened in 2012, which carried out the first British study of cyberstalking and other forms of harassment online. In 2012, it established a UNESCO chair in New Media Forms of the Book to analyse trends in the use of electronic media, mobile media, and Internet technologies through research and practice.

Teaching quality

In 2004 The Sunday Times awarded the university the title of 'Best New University' and in 2007 it was short-listed for the Times Higher Education Supplement's University of the Year 2007.

Awards

  • Awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2011.
  • Outstanding Finance Team winners in the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2011.

Educational partner institutions

The university works together with a number of partner institutions to offer a range of courses:

The university was a co-sponsor of UTC Central Bedfordshire, a university technical college which operated in Houghton Regis from 2012 to 2016.

Student life

The University of Bedfordshire Students' Union is affiliated to the National Union of Students, which represents students nationwide.

In 2020, Radio LaB 97.1FM—the university's affiliated community radio station—won two Community Radio Awards.

Notable alumni

Photo gallery

See also

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