UNIVERSITIES
UNIVERSITY OF BATH
www.bath.ac.uk
The University of Bath has a long history of close links with business, industry and public services, which reflect its origins as a trade school. Long before the majority of universities sought significant outside funding, Bath had close relationships with companies such as Ford, which has placed important research at the University for several decades.
With more than 550 academics and an annual research budget in excess of £20 million, Bath can help with research and development, generate new product and process ideas, provide testing and evaluation services, innovate your business processes through people, analyse your market and audit new technologies, deliver short course training and development, provide expert witness services.
BATH SPA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
www.bathspa.ac.uk
Bath Spa University recognises the importance of effective partnerships with businesses and the community. Providing a responsive service from which businesses and other organisations can access knowledge, expertise and opportunities for collaborative work. Bath Spa services are designed to enable a business to benefit from expertise and knowledge resources accommodating needs from technical assistance, support with R&D, through to help with a project or recruitment.
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY
www.bournemouth.ac.uk
Working with the business community is a key part Bournemouth University's strategy helping to develop business through access to grant funding, specialist consultancy & research, professional training, facilities, products for licensing and student recruitment. The University's Academics are available to provide bespoke consultancy and research services in their specialist areas of expertise particularly Product Design & Manufacture, Electronics, Intellectual Property Policy & Management, Information & Communication Technology, Marketing, Business Management, Computer Animation, Retail & Tourism, Environmental and Health.
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
www.bristol.ac.uk
The University of Bristol, as one of the leading research universities in the UK, offers the opportunity to tap into research excellence, leading facilities and world-class knowledge. The University is committed to combining its excellence in research and innovation with a vibrant enterprise culture and to encouraging the growth of knowledge-based businesses in the South West. The University has students and staff from over 100 countries and research links that span the globe. It prides itself on its teaching and research, its international outlook, its willingness to innovate and its importance to the economic and cultural life of the city and the region.
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
www.exeter.ac.uk
A dynamic and successful institution continually investing in leading edge technology and equipment. The University is in the midst of an investment programme worth £140 million. This includes new facilities and research centres focusing on areas such as Sediments, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Biocatalysis, Genomics in Society, and Finance and Investment. Academics work at the forefront of developments in their fields and 19 subjects are rated as internationally excellent. The University supports innovation through a diverse range of expertise. The on campus Innovation Centre is a gateway for inward investment, sustainable knowledge transfer and access to new markets.
UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
www.glos.ac.uk
The University of Gloucestershire is Britain's newest University - it received University status in 2001, but can trace its roots back to 1847. The University plays an important part in the regional economy offering a range of services to businesses, employers and organisations. The University Development Centre is the gateway to the University for businesses and organisations throughout Gloucestershire and the region offering assistance with market studies, impact assessment, environmental audits, and feasibility studies.
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY IN THE SOUTH WEST
www.open.ac.uk/south-west
The Open University's unique delivery method of supported open learning offers the flexibility for students to fit study around work and personal commitment. Many of the 600 tutors across the region are specialist staff from research establishments, higher education, business and industry. The University is at the forefront in the use of technology to improve both teaching and learning. The Open University Business School is the largest in Europe and has an AMBA accredited MBA programme.
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
www.plymouth.ac.uk
The University of Plymouth is one of the largest and most prominent universities in the United Kingdom. World-class facilities are available for small projects through to multi national collaborations. Extensive research projects frequently give rise to exciting new technologies, leading to enhanced business competitiveness. The broad portfolio of programmes, with their strong vocational emphasis, equips students with valuable intellectual, practical and personal skills. Strong links with business and opportunities for research are developed in a dynamic teaching and learning environment.
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND (UWE)
www.uwe.ac.uk
UWE is renowned for the quality of its teaching, with many courses reaching close to maximum scores in assessment by the Quality Assessment Agency. UWE is a knowledge transfer University, with excellence in user-driven research and consultancy, continuing professional development and professional practice, innovation and community engagement. UWE has provided knowledge transfer and consultancy services over many years, across a broad range of sectors both nationally and internationally. Key sectors include health, media, construction and planning, and aerospace.
Higher Education Colleges
THE ARTS INSTITUTE AT BOURNEMOUTH
www.aib.ac.uk
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth has been a provider of specialist education opportunities for over a century and is a college with a well established reputation, locally, nationally and internationally. It is one of only a few specialist providers within the Higher Education sector that focus exclusively on creative work in contemporary art, design and media. The institute has been recognised for its award winning courses receiving the Queen's Anniversary Prize for outstanding work and excellence in the fields of film, television and animation and more recently receiving accreditation from Skill set, the Sector Skills Council for the Audio Visual Industries. In 2005 the institute was designated as the first UK Screen Academy
COLLEGE OF ST MARK AND ST JOHN
www.marjon.ac.uk
The College of St Mark & St John is a Church of England voluntary college, with a history of over 150 years, is committed to being the community university college of the South West. Embedded in its philosophy of serving communities is also the desire to fill the needs of business and as a Higher Education Institute it works over a range of different specialisms - Management & Public Relations, Applied Sports Science & Coaching, Speech & Language Therapy, Creative Media Practice & Education. Research strengths include sport and leisure research, speech & language therapy, sustainable tourism, applied statistics and social mapping, early language acquisition and heritage management.
DARTINGTON COLLEGE OF ARTS
www.dartington.ac.uk
Dartington is a specialist university sector college for higher education and research in the arts. The College makes a nationally important artistic and economic contribution through Dartington Creative Enterprise, a dedicated team providing high quality, specialist knowledge to the creative industries in the South West. All Enterprise Fellows are also practitioners, able to relate creative business support to actual modes of practice. Working in music, performing arts, visual arts, publishing, participatory arts and arts & cultural management, the college supports new and established arts practitioners, creative businesses and arts organisations; from solo artists to major companies.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALMOUTH
www.falmouth.ac.uk
University College Falmouth specialises in art, design & media and offers services and specialist facilities to support businesses and freelance practitioners in all sectors. University College Falmouth is a leading specialist college with an international reputation for excellence in art, design and media. The College's expertise and facilities have helped organisations, businesses and freelancers working in all sectors, including marine, film, food and drink, medical as well as numerous individual artists, designers and makers. Together, the College's lecturers, researchers, technical staff and 2000 students provide a unique and exciting pool of creative talent. The College has benefited from substantial capital investment in recent years and so is able to offer access to some of the most up-to-date studios, facilities and equipment in the country.
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, CIRENCESTER
www.royagcol.ac.uk
The Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester has been at the forefront of agricultural development since 1845 and is a specialist Higher Education Institution offering expertise to serve the agricultural, land, food, business, equine and property industries, together with the heritage sector. The College also carries out an active programme of research and consultancy, often in association with other national and international academic and research centres.
COMBINED UNIVERSITIES IN CORNWALL
www.cuc.ac.uk
This collaboration between higher and further education providers in Cornwall is unique in the UK. CUC is the largest capital injection into higher education in modern times and will create 1,300 additional graduates a year by the end of the decade, as well new resources for research and learning to serve business in the west of the region. The major development is at Falmouth; but higher education resources in Cornwall's further education colleges will also be boosted, to take them close to local workforces.
The partners in CUC are Exeter and Plymouth Universities, Falmouth College of Arts, the Open University, and the College of St Mark and St John, together with Cornwall College, Truro College and Penwith College.
