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University of Lincoln jumps up the league tables again

The University of Lincoln has experienced a meteoric rise in the 2013 Guardian University Guide rankings. Lincoln is now ranked 47th in the table which is ten places higher than last year and a staggering increase of 42 places over the last three years.

Media and Communication was ranked 17th and Business was placed 35th in the individual subject tables – a testament to the University’s commitment to its students and academic programmes.

Professor Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln said “To have reached this position is truly remarkable and a real reflection of the dedication our staff have shown in making this University such a special place to learn. I hope we can continue to build on this fantastic success in the coming years.”

Lincoln continues to rise up league tables

The University of Lincoln has gone up the ranks in this year’s Complete University Guide league table. The University sits at 53rd in the table, improving on last year’s rankings by 14 places.

The Complete University Guide evaluates 116 institutions in nine different areas: student satisfaction; research assessment; entry standards; student: staff ratio: academic services spend; facilities spend; good honours; graduate prospects; completion rates.

Lincoln is the only university to have improved its ranking in the Guide every year since its inception in 2007. Since it was first published, the University has jumped a total of 56 places – the highest leap of all the universities featured in the Guide.

Recognition for the Lincoln School of Journalism

The University of Lincoln’s School of Journalism celebrated high profile wins at two recent awards ceremonies.

Siren FM’s Managing Editor Andrew David and Deborah Wilson, Principal Lecturer in the School of Journalism, have won two Edward R Murrow awards for hard news and feature reporting.

The Edward R Murrow awards are named in honour of the celebrated American news reporter and anchor who worked for CBS for 3 decades from the 1930s.

Following the announcement, Andrew said, “This is a great honour and proves that it’s the quality of broadcasting not the size of the radio station that counts, and an award like this is a fantastic inspiration for everyone involved.”

Siren FM is Lincoln’s first community radio station and had been broadcasting since 2007. The station is based at the University of Lincoln and both students and members of the community are involved with the station.

Holly Collas and Simon McKnight won a regional Royal Television Society award for a short investigative documentary.

Holly, who along with Simon graduated last year, said they felt “very honoured to be recognised for the work that they did whilst at the University.”

They picked up the regional award for “Undergraduate Factual” at an awards ceremony in Birmingham and will now wait to see whether they will win a national award as well.

Dean of the Faculty of Media, Humanities and Performance, Professor David Sleight, was at the event to see the students receive their prize. He said: “We are really proud of all of our students, and Holly and Simon’s success is the icing on the cake this year for the School of Journalism.”

Both graduates are already in employment: Holly is news editor for a specialist magazine and Simon is working as an assistant transmission editor for ITV in the Channel Islands.

Study an MBA at the University of Lincoln

The Lincoln Business School

An MBA can further career prospects and advance business expertise and knowledge. The MBA programme at the University of Lincoln provides students with the global perspective, grounding and relevant skills needed to be an influential, successful leader in industry.

The Pre-Masters Programme in Business and Management at the Lincoln International Study centre offers international students degree progression to an MBA at the Lincoln Business School.

International students who enrol on the MBA at Lincoln in 2012/12, following the successful completion of their Pre-Masters Programme, are eligible for the £2,000 international scholarship.

Students are required to have two years of work experience to study the MBA. However, students with less than two years work experience and a strong personal statement will be considered.

Students studying the MBA programme at the University of Lincoln are guaranteed a real consultancy project with businesses and assigned an individual dissertation supervisor. The MBA can also offer industrial placements for students on the course.

The Lincoln Business School delivers a range of Business programmes and underwent a £5million refurbishment in 2011. The school was ranked 5th in the recent National Study Survey and courses consistently rank high in the annual review that is voted by students.

Best of British Photography Competition

The University of Lincoln International Study Centre ran its first facebook competition at the end of January to coincide with HRH Princess Anne’s visit to the University. Students were encouraged to submit photographs that were representative of Lincoln and the United Kingdom as part of the ‘Best of British Photography Competition’. Entrants uploaded their pictures onto the official University of Lincoln ISC facebook page and the best entry won a mystery prize.

Katana Sean, who is studying the International Year One in Media Studies at the ISC, scooped the first place accolade for his photograph (as pictured above) and won a British themed mug for his efforts.

A Royal visit to the University of Lincoln

The Engineering Hub at the University of Lincoln

The Engineering Hub at the University of Lincoln will be officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal on Thursday 19th January 2012. Her Royal Highness will arrive at the Lincoln Engineering School on the University’s Brayfield Campus at lunchtime. She will visit the facilities in the school before unveiling a plaque to celebrate her visit.

The new Lincoln Engineering School building welcomed its first intake of undergraduate students in September 2011. The School offers courses for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and it was the first purpose-built engineering school to be opened in the UK for more than 20 years.

Lincoln awarded Best Street in the UK title

Lincoln’s Steep Hill has won the title of Best Street in the UK, beating off competition from Glasgow and Edinburgh. This fantastic accolade for Lincoln was announced at the Academy of Urbanism Awards on November 11th.

Michael Armstrong from the Lincoln Business Improvement Group said he was delighted that Lincoln won.

"We've got so much to offer here," he said.

"This street is so unique and here's our chance now to really maximise that opportunity, to tell everyone, to shout it from the rooftops that Lincoln's got the best street.”

Poet, Ian McMillan wrote the following to mark Lincoln’s achievement:

"Steep Hill

Halfway up or halfway down your breath begins to pull,
Your legs start to feel like you’ve been dancing for a month
Non stop.

Hold onto the handrail as you negotiate Steep Hill
And pause, take your time, gaze in the window of a café
Or a shop,

And picture people from the past or the years yet to come
Who took their time up this slope, paused and stood and looked
Or who will.

And celebrate the fact that some places simply aren’t the same
As each other. They’ve got a handrail for instance. They’re unique,
Like Steep Hill."

Lincoln graduates are more employable

More good news for students at Lincoln as our graduates employability level soared above the national average. Graduates from the University of Lincoln are proving themselves to be highly sought after even in the difficult economic climate.

A national survey by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) showed that nine tenths (93%) of alumni from the summer 2010 graduates were employed or in further studies by 6 months of graduating. This marks an 8% increase from last year. Furthermore, two thirds of the jobs were into a graduate role, which is also a rise up from the previous year.

This rise places Lincoln alumni in the Top 50 most employable graduates and is a testament to the continuing success of the university and its career-focussed approach to learning.

Continued success in university rankings

Following Lincoln's leap up the Guardian university rankings, the University has also reached its highest position in the Times Good University Guide.

In the 2012 Guide Lincoln was ranked 55th out of 116 higher education institutions. The university has jumped another 7 places in the league table after last year's huge rise which makes a total rise of 48 places in the last three years.

This latest ranking secures Lincoln's reputation as the UK's most up and coming university, climbing the rankings faster than any other university in the UK.

The Guide attributed Lincoln's success to new developments including the new School of Engineering and the relocation of the Lincoln Business School. Students can access degrees at these schools from both the International Year One and the Pre-Masters offered by the International Study Centre.

Lincoln street up for best street in the UK title

Stepp Hill, Lincoln

Lincoln's Steep Hill has been shortlisted for the UK's best street title in the Academy of Urbanism Awards. Steep Hill is one of three UK streets which will be assessed from July to September before the winning street will be announced in November.

Steep Hill is an ancient medieval street that links the modern downtown shopping area of Lincoln with the cathedral quarter. The cobblestone street is a steep walk but there is a handrail to assist on the steepest part. There are plenty of reasons to stop along the way with unusual shops, boutiques and tea rooms to explore. Other attractions on the street include some of the city's oldest buildings such as the 12th century Jew's House which is linked to the City's historic Jewish community and now houses a popular restaurant.

Anyone who lives or has lived in Lincoln will have been up Steep Hill at some point and they all have their own stories to tell. visit BBC Lincolnshire for anecdotes from Lincoln inhabitants.

League table success

The University of Lincoln has moved up 15 places in the Guardian University Guide league table. The 2012 rankings released this week placed Lincoln 57th out of 119 Universities, securing the University a place in the top half of the table for the first time.

The rankings assess the universities on factors such as teaching quality as rated in the National Student Survey (NSS), spending per student, staff-student ratio and career prospects. Lincoln performed particularly well in Art and Design and Media and Communication both ranked in the top 30 and Business and Management ranked 32nd in the country.

The University's vice chancellor, Professor Mary Stuart said, “It is great to see that we are performing well across a range of faculties, with Art and Design, Media and Communications, Business and Management and Biosciences subject groups all sitting comfortably in the top third of the Guide’s subject rankings. “Our continued success in the national rankings is great news for our students and for the city.”

This latest success in university rankings follows on from last year when Lincoln leapt 24 places in the Times Good University Guide and achieved fantastic results in the NSS results, ranking top in the country for accounting.

International students who study the International Year One or Pre-Masters in Business and Management or Engineering are guaranteed a place on a degree at the University of Lincoln on successful completion of their preparation programme.

Lincoln media student attracts huge YouTube following

A third year Media Production student at the University of Lincoln has attracted a huge online following for a series of spoof University of Lincoln adverts.

Tom Ridgewell created a series of short films entitled 'banned university of Lincoln adverts' depicting a dinosaur attack on the city, a lecture theatre of fire and a zombie invasion. The clips have already been viewed over a million times in three weeks.

Despite the title of 'banned' adverts, the University are very supportive of the videos and Tom's success. Communications manager, Thirzah Wildman said "We've been watching with fascination as Tom's adverts have received attention from hundreds of thousands of people around the world. They're extremely funny and creative. But then we are used to seeing brilliance from our school of media students – many of whom have won national awards and gone on to fantastic careers."

Tom said "I just came up with the ideas in a lecture and we decided to make them. "I love Lincoln and the university, so I hope the videos make it stick in people's minds when it comes to applying for universities."

International students can follow in Tom's footsteps and join the fantastic Media Department at the University of Lincoln through the International Year One in Media Studies.

Watch the videos below and visit Tom's YouTube channel for more videos

Siemens and Lincoln:Engineering ‘Highly Commended’ in IET Innovation Awards

The beneficial collaboration between the University of Lincoln and Siemens has been recognised at the IET Innovation Award. Lincoln and Siemens have together pioneered the first engineering school in the UK for more than 20 years.

The hard work put in by the University of Lincoln School of Engineering and Siemens Industrial Turbochargers Ltd. in Lincoln has been recognised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology at a gala dinner in London on Wednesday evening.

The Lincoln collaboration was shortlisted for the ‘Team ‘ Award, which looked for innovation in areas including:

Delivery of the project/programme
Reflecting market needs and the development needs of the organisation
Structural, organisational and team processes
Fostering and encouraging teamwork
Championing and communicating the initiative
Encouraging stakeholder engagement
Capturing and measuring the benefits projected at the outset

Entries also needed to demonstrate how they have successfully organised a multi-disciplinary and potentially dispersed team to deliver the project or programme requirements. Finalists in this category were:

Siemens/University of Lincoln
Digital TV Group
EADS Astrium
NATS and Airbox Aerospace Ltd
Stingray Geophysical Ltd.

The Lincoln team were ‘Highly Commended’ and awarded a commemorative plaque.

Head of Lincoln: Engineering said, “We are all delighted by the recognition we are beginning to get at both national and international level for the innovation and novelty which both sides of this collaboration have developed. The Siemens – University of Lincoln collaboration is now being perceived as a model of best practice in both academia and industry. We have just completed our first year of operation, and feel we have made outstanding achievements already, across teaching, research and enterprise. Both partners in this venture are really excited about the potential which we are unlocking”.

Students studying the Foundation Certificate in Engineering can progress on to the BEng or MEng at the School of Engineering. From September 2011 this will be replaced by the International Year One in Engineering, leading to direct entry to the second-year of the BSc in Engineering at Lincoln. Students will be able to benefit from the Engineering School's relationship with Siemens by applying for career, sponsorship and work opportunities.

Lincoln Excells in National Student Survey

2010 has seen the University of Lincoln's best ever NSS results with a total of 10 of its courses ranked in the top 10 nationally. Of particular merit are:

Accounting - ranked top for the second year running
Tourism and Marketing - ranked 2nd
Business Studies and Management - joint 5th

The University has also risen up the institutional rankings, moving to 36th place for combined subject and overall student satisfaction, out of 153 Higher Education Institutions. This places the University in the top 25% of all Higher Education Institutions in the UK.

International students can prepare for their degree at Lincoln at the International Study Centre which has now opened its doors to the first intake of students. Courses include the Foundation Certificate in Engineering, Foundation Diploma in Business and Management or Computing, and the Pre-Masters.

Lincoln leaps up Times University ranking

The University of Lincoln has moved dramatically up the rankings in the Times Good University Guide. The university has leapt 24 places up the table, more than any other UK university.

The University’s Vice-chancellor, Professor Mary Stuart, said of the news: “The University is delighted with its rise in the league tables. It demonstrates the considerable amount of work undertaken by all staff to achieve an excellent student experience and a strong growing research profile entwined with business.

“Lincoln has a culture of ambition and we are determined to continue to develop our profile as an up and coming quality institution.”

The university has performed particularly well in the student satisfaction category, with three courses ranked in the top five by students. Lincoln’s Accounting and Finance programme was rated the 2nd best in the country based on student satisfaction. International Students can progress directly on to the Accounting and Finance degree from the Foundation Diploma in Business and Management at Lincoln International Study Centre.