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Name change for the University of Central England
8th October 2007
The University of Central England, which offers one of the Landscape Institutes's accredited courses, has changed its name to Birmingham City University.
The move follows extensive consultation with students, staff and key university stakeholders, who were asked to vote on three alternative names for the university. Of the 4,700 people who responded to a survey earlier this year, the greatest number (42.8%) voted in favour of Birmingham City University.
“Birmingham City University has major plans for change, which include significant investment in new and improved student facilities. Birmingham rightly has ambitions to promote itself as a major University city; these developments put us in a much better position to support Birmingham’s drive towards a stronger knowledge based economy.” said the University’s Vice Chancellor, Professor David Tidmarsh.
The University is planning to invest £250 million to create a major new city centre campus in Birmingham’s Eastside district, near Millennium Point, which will become the focus for creative arts provision. It will continue its policy of investing in faculties for learning as well as substantially improved social and recreational facilities and student support. A new gym and sports hall will be completed by 2009, along with a range of IT and learning improvements.
