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, mottoeng = Let us follow the Light , established = 1870 (Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and Art) , type =
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, budget = £282.5 million (2020/21) , chancellor = Karen Blackett , vice_chancellor = Graham Galbraith , students = 28,280 HE (2020/21) , undergrad = 22,170 (2020/21) , postgrad = 6,110 (2020/21) , other_students = , city =
Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most d ...
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The University of Portsmouth is a
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Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most d ...
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. It is one of only four universities in the South East of England rated as Gold in the Government's
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. With approximately 28,280
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and
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students, the university is the 25th largest in the
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student enrolments. Comprising five faculties, 24 schools and several other services, the university employs approximately 3,500 staff. In the 2023 edition of the
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– compiled by
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– the university ranked 62nd out of the 132 universities in the United Kingdom. In the Times Higher Education REF ranking, the university was ranked third in research power for modern post-1992 universities. Research conducted by the university has a significant global impact; in the latest edition of the Research Excellence Framework, 77 per cent of research submitted by the university was ranked as world-leading or internationally excellent, with impacts across society, health, culture and the environment.


History

The roots of the university can be traced back to the Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and Art. which opened in 1870 and was funded by subscription. Technical education (including science-based subjects) later became the responsibility of the local authority, which founded Portsmouth Municipal Technical Institute in 1894 to fulfil this function. However, the city required a permanent purpose-built home for technical education and as a consequence Portsmouth Municipal College was constructed on a site behind Portsmouth Guildhall. Portsmouth Municipal College opened in 1908 (the new college replaced Portsmouth Municipal Technical Institute, although many of the staff transferred to the new institution) and the building also incorporated the College of Art, Portsmouth Day Training College for teachers and a public library. The original college building is still in use by the University of Portsmouth and is now known as Park Building. In 1911 two student unions were established for male and female students; as early records from the student union newspaper ''The Galleon'' show. From 1945 to 1960 the college diversified its syllabus adding arts and humanities subjects after World War II, in response to a decline in the need for engineering skills. In 1953 the institution changed its name to Portsmouth College of Technology. The college was renamed Portsmouth Polytechnic after it gained polytechnic status in 1969 and by the late 1980s was one of the largest polytechnics in the UK. On 7 July 1992 the inauguration of the University of Portsmouth was celebrated at a ceremony at Portsmouth Guildhall. As a new university, it could validate its own degrees, under the provision of the
Further and Higher Education Act 1992 The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 made changes in the funding and administration of further education and higher education within England and Wales, with consequential effects on associated matters in Scotland which had previously been ...
. On Friday 4 May 2018, the University of Portsmouth was revealed as the main shirt sponsor of
Portsmouth F.C. Portsmouth Football Club is a professional football club based in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, which compete in . They are also known as ''Pompey'', a local nickname used by both HMNB Portsmouth and the city of Portsmouth; the ''Pompey'' nick ...
for the 2018–19, 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons. In December 2022, an employment tribunal ruled that when the university failed to reappoint Dr Kajal Sharma to her job, it had racially discriminated against her.


Campuses

The university is split between the University Quarter, which is centred around the Portsmouth Guildhall area, and the Langstone Campus.


Langstone Campus

Langstone is the smaller of the two campuses, located in Milton on the eastern edge of
Portsea Island Portsea Island is a flat and low-lying natural island in area, just off the southern coast of Hampshire in England. Portsea Island contains the majority of the city of Portsmouth. Portsea Island has the third-largest population of all ...
. The campus overlooks Langstone Harbour and it is home to the university's sports grounds. Langstone Campus used to be home of the university's School of Languages and Area Studies, which has since moved into Park Building in the University Quarter. It also used to be home to three halls of residence: Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (QEQM), Trust Hall and Langstone Flats. These used to house 565 students, however these have now been closed, in favour of those closer to the majority of the university buildings. These have now been demolished.


University Quarter

The University Quarter is a collection of university buildings located around the centre of the city. This area contains most of the university's teaching facilities and nearly all of the Student Halls of residence (except the Langstone student village and two halls (Rees Hall and Burrell House) located on Southsea Terrace). The University Library (formerly the Frewen Library) was extended in 2006 at a cost of £11 million. It was opened by the crime writer
P. D. James Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring th ...
. The university has also recently invested in the Faculty of Science, in particular by renovating the aluminium-clad main building, St Michael's. A new faculty called "Creative and Cultural Industries" was opened in September 2006. File:Anglesea Buildings - geograph.org.uk - 698718.jpg, Anglesea buildings File:Greethamhalls.jpg, Greetham halls File:James Watson Building, University of Portsmouth - geograph.org.uk - 497542.jpg, James Watson building File:New University Building - Portsmouth - geograph.org.uk - 767592.jpg File:Park Building, University of Portsmouth - geograph.org.uk - 548659.jpg, Park building File:Portsmouth University House.jpg, University House File:Sports field in front of University of Portsmouth Halls of Residence - geograph.org.uk - 1071294.jpg, Sports fields File:St Michael's Building, Portsmouth University - geograph.org.uk - 497526.jpg, St Michael's building File:University of Portsmouth Dennis Sciama building.JPG, Dennis Sciama building File:EldonPortsmouth.jpg, Eldon building File:University of Portsmouth Library, Ravelin Park - geograph.org.uk - 498244.jpg, Library File:University of Portsmouth Ravelin House.jpg, Ravelin House File:Portsmouthbusinessschool.jpg, Richmond Building


Military Technological College of Oman

On 7 June 2013, the University of Portsmouth announced its partnership with the Military Technological College of
Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ...
. This involves the University of Portsmouth providing academic guidance and academic accreditation for the education of 4,200 students with technical roles in armed services and a few civilian employers in the Sultanate of Oman. This has been criticised by the student
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Society and by
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who consider Oman an authoritarian regime, likely to use military capabilities on their own citizens or in regional conflicts.


Organisation and structure


Governance

Portsmouth is formally headed by the
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, currently Karen Blackett. The Chancellor is largely a ceremonial role; Portsmouth is run day-to-day by the
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, presently Graham Galbraith, along with a single integrated decision-making body known as the University Executive Board https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/university-executive-board. This includes Pro Vice-Chancellors, the Director of Finance and the Executive Deans of Faculties, together with the Chief Operating Officer, the Director of Human Resources and the University Secretary and Clerk.


Faculties

The University of Portsmouth is composed of five faculties divided into 29 departments: Faculty of Business and Law :Portsmouth Business School, with subject groups: * Accounting and Financial Management * Accounting with Finance * Accounting, Economics and Finance * Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management * Marketing and Sales * Operations and Systems Management * Strategy, Enterprise and Innovation * Portsmouth Law School Faculty of Technology * School of Civil Engineering and Surveying * School of Computing * Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation * School of Energy and Electronic Engineering * School of Mechanical and Design Engineering * School of Mathematics and Physics * Department for Learning at Work Faculty of Science and Health * School of Biological Sciences * School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences (includes
Palaeontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
) * Dental Academy * School of Health and Care Professions * School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences * Department of Psychology * School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences * Institute of Criminal Justice Studies * School of Education and Childhood Studies * School of Languages and Applied Linguistics * School of Area Studies, History, Politics and Literature Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries * Portsmouth School of Architecture * School of Art, Design and Performance * School of Film, Media and Communication * School of Creative Technologies


Finances

The University of Portsmouth is worth £1.1 billion to the British economy and brings £476 million to the city, an independent assessment in 2017 has shown.


Academic profile

Portsmouth offers more than 200 undergraduate degrees and 150 postgraduate degrees, as well as 65 research degree programs. The university formerly validated BSc (Hons) degrees in
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and MSc courses in
Traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", with the majority of its treatments having no logical mechanism of acti ...
that were carried out by the ''London College of Traditional Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine,'' a private education provider that collapsed in early 2011.


Research

Over 60% of research submitted by the university to REF2014 was rated as world-leading and internationally excellent. In two subject areas respectively - Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy, and Physics - 90% and 89% of all research submitted was rated as world leading and internationally excellent. In 2017 Alessandro Melis and Steffen Lehmann created the interdisciplinary project CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices: Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. This is a £1.6 million research project funded by Horizon 2020, Belmont Forum, ESRC and other funding bodies. University of Portsmouth is leading the project. The partners are five universities from Miami, Eindhoven, Gdansk, Uppsala and Taiwan. Crunch involves universities, local authorities and small business.


Rankings

The University of Portsmouth is one of only four universities in the south east to achieve the highest Gold rating in the
Teaching Excellence Framework The Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) is a controversial government assessment of the quality of undergraduate teaching in universities and other higher education providers in England, which may be used from 2020 to determin ...
(TEF). Most recently, in the 2022 edition of the Good University Guide – compiled by The Times and Sunday Times – the university was ranked near the bottom at 88 out of 132. Internationally, the university was ranked 98th in Times Higher Education's ‘100 under 50’ rankings of international modern universities 2017 but did not make the list in any subsequent year. Portsmouth was rated in the top 501 – 600 universities in the world by the
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2022.


Student life

The University of Portsmouth Students’ Union (UPSU) is a registered charity that represents and supports all UoP students, who automatically become members upon registering for their course. The Students’ Union offers members support services, development opportunities and represent them at different levels throughout the university, in the community and beyond. The earliest record of the Union is in the September 1911 edition of ''The Galleon'' student magazine. From 1965, the Union was based in Union House - now St Paul's Gym - on St Pauls Road. In 1983, it moved to the ex-
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building, Alexandra House, where it remained for 19 years. Since 2002, the union has been situated at the north end of Ravelin Park. The Union previously housed two nightclubs, Lux and , but these were closed and redeveloped for other uses in 2009. The Union Advice Service offers confidential, impartial and non-judgemental support. The service delivers a range of academic & non-academic, information, advice, and guidance to the students of the University of Portsmouth and partner institutions. The service also undertakes other activities and events throughout the year to promote the health and wellbeing of students. The Advice Service is based in Gun House at The Union, next door to Cafe Coco. Portsmouth was named the UK's most affordable city for students in the Natwest Student Living Index 2016.


Societies and sports clubs

The Union supports a range of over 150 student-led groups that provide extra-curricular opportunities to students, including sports clubs, societies, media groups and volunteering opportunities. Students can also create new societies with the support of the Union. The Students' Union offers a range of sports clubs which are administered by the Athletic Union The sports range from traditional team games like athletics,
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...
,
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...
,
rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
,
netball Netball is a ball sport played on a court by two teams of seven players. It is among a rare number of sports which have been created exclusively for female competitors. The sport is played on indoor and outdoor netball courts and is specifical ...
,
trampolining Trampolining or trampoline gymnastics is a competitive Olympic sport in which athletes perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. In competition, these can include simple jumps in the straight, pike, tuck, or straddle position to more co ...
, and
table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
to octopush (a form of underwater hockey),
lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...
,
polo Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small ha ...
and
pole dancing Pole dance combines dance and acrobatics centered on a vertical pole. This performance art form takes place not only in gentleman's clubs as erotic dance, but also as a mainstream form of fitness, practiced in gyms and dedicated dance studios ...
. As of October 2020 there are 38 different sports clubs . The Students' Union runs a number of volunteering projects, such as HEFCE's Volunteering Team of the Year. In 2010, the Union was awarded a £15,000 grant to work with elderly residents in the city.


Student media

The university has two functioning student media outlets. ''Spyglass'', the student magazine, and ''Pure FM'', the student radio station, which works alongside local radio stations including Express FM. The university formerly had an active newspaper, The Galleon, as well as a video production society called Victory Studios.


Notable people


Faculty

* David Martill, professor of palaeontology *
Nizar Ibrahim Nizar Ibrahim (born in 1982) is a German-Moroccan vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist. He is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. Ibrahim has led several expeditions to Africa's Sahara and is notable for ...
, professor of palaeontology * Claudia Maraston, professor of astrophysics and winner of the 2018
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* Alessandro Melis, professor of architecture innovation and curator of the Italian Pavilione at the XVII Venice Biennale * Neil Rackham, visiting professor at Portsmouth Business School and award-winning author *
David Wands David Wands is Professor of Cosmology at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, in the University of Portsmouth. He was educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read Natural ...
, professor of cosmology at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation


Alumni

Notable students of the University of Portsmouth and its predecessor institutions include: * Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, former head of the Police of Nigeria *
Paola Arlotta Paola Arlotta (born 1971) is the Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and chair of the Harvard Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB). Her research focuses on the development of neuron types in t ...
, chair of the Regenerative Biology Department at
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*
Simon Armitage Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. He has published over 20 collections of poet ...
, poet, playwright and novelist who was appointed
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in 2019 *
John Armitt Sir John Alexander Armitt (born 2 February 1946) is an English civil engineer, and current chairman of the UK's National Infrastructure Commission. From 2007 Armitt was chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the body which successfully bu ...
, civil engineer and chairman of the
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* Ian Bishop,
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* Jonathan Bullock, former
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for the
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constituency * Nira Chamberlain, principal consultant at
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and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications * David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey, Liberal Democrat politician and former
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for Eastleigh * Ron Davies, former
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and
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for
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* Chuck Easttom, computer scientist, author, and inventor * John Flint, British banker and former
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of
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* Ben Fogle, broadcaster, writer and adventurer * Christine Foyer, professor of plant science at
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*
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, former police officer who served as
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* Casyo 'Krept' Johnson, London-based musician and half of Krept and Konan *
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, Royal Navy officer and campaigner * Nick Kennedy, retired rugby union player and former director of rugby at
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* Rachel Lowe, businesswoman and developer of the
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board games * Diana Maddock, Baroness Maddock, former
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and
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for
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* Ehsan Masood, science writer, journalist, broadcaster, and lecturer at
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* Andrew Miller, former
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for Ellesmere Port and Neston *
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, politician and hereditary peer *
Darren Naish Darren William Naish is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author and science communicator. As a researcher, he is best known for his work describing and reevaluating dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles, including '' Eotyrannus'', '' Xenop ...
, vertebrate palaeontologist, author, science communicator, and scientific advisor to
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*
Tim Peake Major Timothy Nigel Peake (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member. He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to b ...
, Army Air Corps officer,
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astronaut, and former
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crew member *
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, contemporary artist, writer, broadcaster, and recipient of the
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* John Rees, national officer of the
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and Visiting Research Fellow at
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* Vernon Ross,
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*
Carol Smart Carol Christine Smart (born 20 December 1948) is a feminist sociologist and academic at the University of Manchester. She has also conducted research about divorce and children of divorced couples. Smart is an important figure within the femi ...
, feminist sociologist and academic at
Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
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Lauren Steadman Lauren Steadman (born 18 December 1992) is a British Paralympic athlete who has competed in four Summer Paralympics, in both swimming and the paratriathlon. She competed at both the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing and the 2012 Summer Paraly ...
, Paralympic athlete who competed in three summer
Paralympics The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...
in both swimming and the paratriathlon *
Anthony Tucker-Jones Anthony Tucker-Jones (born 1964) is a British former defence intelligence officer and a widely published military expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armoured and aerial warfare.Martin Whitmarsh Martin Richard Whitmarsh (born 29 April 1958) is a British businessman and Group CEO of the Aston Martin Performance Technologies team since 21 September 2021. Whitmarsh is best known to motorsport insiders, media and fans for his long and succ ...
, businessman and chief executive of McLaren Racing


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Armorial of UK universities The armorial of British universities is the collection of coats of arms of universities in the United Kingdom. Modern arms of universities began appearing in England around the middle of the 15th century, with University of Oxford, Oxford's bei ...
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List of universities in the UK This is a list of universities in the United Kingdom (alphabetical by substantive name). Below that are lists of university colleges and other recognised bodies (institutions with degree awarding powers), followed by a list of defunct institution ...
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Post-1992 universities In the UK, a post-1992 university, synonymous with new university or modern university, is a former polytechnic or central institution that was given university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, or an institution that ...


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University of Portsmouth , mottoeng = Let us follow the Light , established = 1870 (Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and Art) , type = Public , budget = £282.5 million (2020/21) , chancellor ...
1992 establishments in England
Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most d ...
Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most d ...