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Our Campuses Oxford Brookes University operates on three campuses in Oxford: Headington, Harcourt Hill and Wheatley, with a smaller campus in Swindon, focused on nursing education and operating department practice. Headington Campus comprises three sites. The Headington Hill site is set in mature parkland and home to Headington Hill Hall, a 19th century former manor house. A 15-minute walk away, the Marston Road site is a hub for healthcare teaching on the campus. The flagship £132m John Henry Brookes Building opened on the Gipsy Lane site in 2014. Winning a number of awards, it has transformed the experience of students and the wider University community. It houses the main central services at Headington, including the library, social study space, student support services, catering facilities and Brookes Union. The Business School relocated to refurbished premises at the end of 2017. Brand new teaching spaces and industry-standard science laboratories also opened in 2017, alongside landscaping of external spaces, and the new Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall. Harcourt Hill Campus is home to a range of humanities and sports teaching. The original Westminster College, founded in 1851, has had a home at Harcourt Hill since the 1950s and merged with Oxford Brookes University in 2000. The Westminster Hall student residence also sits on the campus, alongside sports facilities, including a swimming pool. Wheatley Campus became part of the then Oxford Polytechnic in 1975. Over recent years, the campus has seen
Oxford is a beautiful city with a rich cultural history. The city is famous for education and architecture, museums and green spaces. It has a population of 161,300 and is currently the 12th fastest growing city with one-third of the population aged 18-29. There are 4,750 businesses in Oxford providing 120,000 jobs. Key sectors of industry are health, education, research, technology, tourism, car manufacturing and publishing. Oxfordshire is amongst the top five technology innovation ecosystems in the world and home to over 1,500 high tech companies employing around 43,000 people. Oxford Brookes is proud of its home in Oxford and proud to make a significant economic, social and cultural contribution to the city; from contributing £1m per day to the UK economy, through our links with the high-skill regional economy to the expertise of our nurses and teachers in local hospitals and schools. We partner up to raise aspirations in schools, widen access to those under-represented in higher education and to provide high-level consultancy to small and medium sized enterprises. Tourism is a thriving economy in the city, generating more than £780m annually. In 2016 Oxford was the seventh most visited city in the UK for overnight visits. Oxford is only an hour from London by train and many placements and field trips make the most of this easy access. The University is well served by a regular coach service to central London and to Heathrow and Gatwick airports. More information about the city of Oxford and the surrounding area is available at www.experienceoxfordshire.org
investment in engineering spaces and in 2017 saw further investment in key student and staff areas, including the creation of a new gym. Swindon Campus opened the newly refurbished Joel Joffe building in August 2016, almost two decades after the University first had a presence in the town. The Joel Joffe building provides clinical skills labs in a modern teaching location. Our future plans At Oxford Brookes we are continually investing in our campuses. Over the next ten years we are spending £220m to create further inspiring spaces for our staff and students. The plan sets out a significant programme of refurbishment along with some new build, and will see some of our academic and professional services activity moving to a different campus. Two exciting schemes include: Headington Hill site Oxford Brookes has set out proposals to enhance STEM and creative industries activity on its Headington Hill site. Our vision is to create a facility that not only allows our students and researchers to flourish, but brings the Oxford Brookes community together, boosts local collaboration and helps meet the needs of industry. Clive Booth Student Village The University has been granted planning permission (November 2021) to redevelop part of Clive Booth Student Village. A separate planning application to enable improvements to the footpath that connects the site to our Headington Hill site was approved in January 2022.
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