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Newman University College

Contact Address
Genners Lane
Bartley Green
Birmingham
B32 3NT

Telephone
0121 476 1181

Email
d.l.morgan@newman.ac.uk

Website
www.newman.ac.uk

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Founded in 1968 by the Catholic Education Service to train teachers, Newman University College has significantly expanded and diversified its portfolio into a wide range of single and joint honours degrees and a number of foundation degrees. The University College continues, however, to provide the individual attention to students and a focus on high quality teaching that exemplify the founding principles.

Situated on the outskirts of South West Birmingham, Newman University College’s campus is based in Bartley Green, some 8 miles from the city centre, and overlooks Bartley reservoir and the Worcestershire countryside beyond. Its location makes it convenient for access to both the M5 and M42 motorways. As a small University College, Newman is committed to providing excellent student support and welcoming new students into our friendly community. Class sizes are relatively small and lecturers are able to give students greater individual support. Newman University College’s history and reputation for teacher training ensures that lecturers understand the importance of providing a quality learning experience for students. At Newman University College students get the benefits of a small institution combined with a partnership with the University of Leicester, a top-twenty rated research university

Ensuring the degrees offered are relevant to the modern world is also a key feature at Newman University College. All full-time degrees have a work placement module and an important part of the curriculum is developing transferable skills useful for further study or employment after graduation. We believe this is why Newman University College consistently has one of the best graduate employment rates of UK colleges and universities. Being founded as recently as 1968, the buildings are modern and purpose-built. The campus is arranged around a series of inner quadrangles of lawns and trees with the attractive octagonal chapel at its centre. Halls of residence provide single study-bedrooms for some 250 students, conveniently adjacent to the teaching areas and well-stocked library. Currently the campus is being upgraded and developed to ensure that the environment is appropriate for the twenty first century.

Over the years a strong sporting tradition has developed in the University College: there is a large sports hall, a gymnasium, squash courts and a health and fitness centre on site. The University College attracts students from all parts of the United Kingdom. Over the years students from many different backgrounds have studied here and have enriched our communal life. Newman University College promotes equality of opportunity for every member of the University College community in all aspects of the life and work of the University College.

Newman University College is named after John Henry Newman (1801-90), one of the intellectual giants of the 19th century. His life was marked by a constant struggle for integrity and truth at considerable cost to himself. Newman was an extraordinary thinker whose creative and lively mind engaged with the process by which men and women come to knowledge and truth. His explorations of the human intellectual and spiritual journey anticipate much of the contemporary work on multiple modes of intelligence and understanding that underpin the way we learn and teach at Newman University College. In his famous lectures The Idea of the University Defined and Illustrated he emphasised the main role of the university to train the mind rather than to diffuse useful knowledge. To this end he developed the tutorial system which again we use to good effect here at Newman University College. A deeply spiritual man, he was always available to the people of Birmingham, rich and poor, who came to him for advice and instruction. When he died the streets of Birmingham were lined with thousands whose lives he had touched and inspired. He died a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, honoured internationally, but it is his ability to touch and enlighten the hearts of so many, from so many different walks of life, that make him such a fitting patron for our College and its mission in contemporary British society.

Newman University College’s mission reflects the Catholic and human values of tolerance, respect and inclusion. As a Catholic College, Newman University College welcomes staff and students of all faiths and none and from a wide variety of backgrounds. Diversity is seen as a strength and an asset.