这样的人员组成让学校成为一个真正的国际集体。诺丁汉特伦特大学实习一年的学生人数位居英国大学的前3位(HESA,2004/05)。70多门学位课程都允许学生在行业内实习一年。这也成为很多人的成功事业的起点。 诺丁汉特伦特大学与全球6000多家公司都建立了广泛的联系,包括英国石油(BP)、微软、汇丰银行、联合利华、西门子、施乐、玛莎百货、劳斯莱斯、丰田、Capita Consulting和英国广播公司等等。为企业客户专门设计课程,满足他们的特殊商业目标,并进行培训,一直都是我们的强项,取得了有目共睹的佳绩。 所有这些成就和学校在教学和科研方面享有的盛誉,使诺丁汉特伦特成为英国领先的现代化一流大学。
诺丁汉特伦特大学有三个校园: 城市校园;克利夫顿(Clifton)校园(距诺丁汉7公里);布莱克恩赫斯特(Brackenhurst)校园(距诺丁汉22公里)。学校的学习环境一流。 数百万英镑的校园建设项目已于最近动工。 这意味着除了现有设施外,你还将拥有最好的图书馆和学习区,遍布整个城市校园的无线网络,世界一流的虚拟学习环境,最先进的艺术实验室和设计室,及质量最好的宿舍。校语言中心开设了学期前英语语言课程。我们还和诺丁汉特伦特国际学院建立了伙伴关系,为希望为就读的学生提供学位前和硕士预科课程。
院系设置
诺丁汉特伦特大学分为10个学院:动物、乡村和环境科学院;建筑、设计和人造环境学院;艺术与设计学院;文科、传播和文化学院;生物医学和自然科学院;诺丁汉商学院;计算机与信息学院;教育学院;诺丁汉法学院;社会科学院。诺丁汉特伦特的教学和科研上声誉卓著。 在高等教育质量保障局对教学质量所做的评估中,NTU获得了一系列的“优秀”。科研水平评估中,4个研究领域都被评为5,所有科研单位的工作也都达到了国内或国际先进水平。 大学非常重视科研,不仅在校内积极开展科研活动,还和其他大学及校外机构一起合作。通过这些“放眼外界”的科研活动,对社会、文化和公众利益做出了极大的共享。
大学特色
诺丁汉特伦特大学以教学质量高、注重联系实际而赢得了广泛的赞誉。该校化学系以及商业系被英格兰高等教育资助委员会评为“优秀学系”。最近的研究表明,该校是全英最受欢迎的大学之一。
大学与全球六千多家公司保持着密切的联系,其中包括BP石油、Boots、Rank Xerox和马莎等著名公司。
诺丁汉特伦特大学是英格兰地区就业率排第一位的大学,超过98%的本校毕业生在六个月的毕业期之内受到雇佣。
学校荣誉
2010年 Times艺术与设计专业排名英国第14名
2010年 Times传媒类专业排名英国第15名
2009年 Times建筑类专业排名英国第10名
2010年 Times土木工程专业排名英国第21名
2009年 Times食品科学专业排名英国第10名
入学要求
IELTS 6.5
费用
学费:9000英镑
生活费:7500英镑
诺丁汉特伦大学寄语
It is with great joy and pride that I stand before you as First Chancellor of this University. But I must tell you I feel slightly fraudulent. My education consisted of attending school for the minimum time required by the law. I was encouraged in this enterprise by Sir Winston Churchill, who once said: “My education was interrupted only by my schooling.”
I didn't so much leave Barnsley grammar school as flee the premises. Once, when asked about my time at that establishment, I said it did for my education what myxomatosis did for the rabbit. So why did I accept this great honour? Well of course, I was flattered for one thing. But I also felt that in a curious way my lack of qualifications made me the ideal candidate. I arrive at the job without a preconceived opinion of what is involved, and if the starting point of education is ignorance then I am the perfect choice, the willing pupil, which is what I want to be.
I want to find out what I missed, to maybe speculate on how my life would have changed had I not left school at 16. As it was, I spent what would have been my university years serving an apprenticeship as a reporter on a local newspaper while dreaming, like Michael Vaughan, of playing cricket for Yorkshire.
When I wasn't playing cricket, nor studying at university, I was pursuing another ambition to write about sport while at the same time demonstrating to my bosses I was a cut above the average as a sports writer. In other words, I showed off - always a dangerous conceit.
So I wrote of a Barnsley player called Roy Cooling, that he bore a distinct resemblance to the American novelist Scott Fitzgerald - thereby revealing to my public and my employers my intimate knowledge of both soccer and contemporary American literature.
Alas, when published in The Barnsley Chronicle my report read: “The inspiration of the Barnsley team was Roy Cooling who bears a distinct resemblance to Scott of the Antarctic.” When I complained I was told nobody in Barnsley knew who Scott Fitzgerald was but everyone had heard of the great Arctic explorer, even if he looked not a bit like Roy Cooling.
Then I was claimed by national service as part of this apprenticeship and sent to a war. That was definitely a time when I would have much rather been at university. Ever after, during my career in the media, I often entertained the thought of becoming a mature student. And, in a sense, that is how I see myself now. A very mature student, with a fascinating role to undertake at this university.
The point is, I intend to take out of this experience as much as I put in. I believe young people and old people have a special link, being as they are at the beginning and the conclusion of life's mysteries. It is that bit in the middle, the bit between youth and old age, that's the problem – surviving that. How do we negotiate that journey; what is it we are seeking? How do we get there?
That's where I might come in handy, only because I've spent a lifetime asking people what was the secret of their success. How did they become the best at their chosen profession?
I had some interesting answers.
Roald Dahl said he believed the golden rule was not inspiration but hard work, making the most of what you had. He gave as an example the great composer Stravinsky's reply when an interviewer asked him: “Maestro, where do you get your inspiration? Walking in the woods, in the bath, while shaving?” Stravinsky replied: “At the piano.”
Gary Player, the great golfer, was once asked what part luck played in success. He replied: “What I have noticed is the more I practise, the luckier I get.”
The best definition of a life well spent came during my favourite interview of them all, which occurred in 1974 with an academic called Professor Jacob Bronowski. He was a scientist, part of the team that developed the atomic bomb, and the author of the documentary series The Ascent of Man, which remains to this day one of television's towering achievements.
At the end of a long and fascinating interview I asked him a deliberately provocative question. I said: “Why should we take any notice of anything you have told us tonight?” His reply has remained with me ever since. “My life has been happy because I never had any uncertainty about the meaning of the word ‘good', the meaning of the word ‘true', the meaning of the word ‘beautiful' and the meaning of words like ‘original' and ‘new'.
“I've always had a tremendous pride in being a human being and being born into the 20th century. I'm terribly sad that 30 years from now I shall be dead, not because anybody will miss me, but because so many more marvellous things will be known. Now, should you listen to me? Yes, you should.
“Not because you have to believe any single thing I say, but because you have to be pleased that there are people who have lived happy and complete lives, who feel that they can speak out of a full heart and a full mind, all in the same frame.”
It is that thought of a properly fulfilled life, a life well spent: a full heart and a full mind all in the same frame that I find so attractive. An idea worth pursuing – worth leaving university with. That thought will define my position as Chancellor, as much as hopefully it will inspire the ambition of every young person of every person graduating from this establishment.
Vice Chancellor, Mr Chairman, my fellow graduates, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for making today such a memorable and splendid one in my life. I look forward to it being a long and fruitful relationship.