A University of the West of England (abbrev. UWE, typically pronounced "you-we") occurs as university based in the English city of Bristol. Its independent campus is at Frenchay, about 5km north of the city centre by using the little campus at St Matthias, a nursing school at Glenside in north-north-east Bristol & an Art school, Bower Ashton college, near Ashton Court in south-west Bristol.

There are as well regional centres within Bath and Swindon, & an associate faculty specialising around agrarian and sports related courses around Hartpury, Gloucestershire. This satellite college has staged the European Young Rider Championship, a horse riding competition.

By owning in the area of 24,000 students and 1,000 academic staff, UWE is a larger of the two universities in the city (the hanker constituted University of Bristol has 15,000 students). 86% of students at UWE come from either state schools. A easily-stocked library on a Frenchay places is known as a Bolland Library, known as fallowing Dr Robert Bolland, the 1st director of Bristol Polytechnic from either 1969 to 1974. A independent Frenchay campus is placed roughly a M32 motorway, twenty minutes hike from either a easily-socially connected Bristol Parkway railway station; from there, Cardiff is half an hour away, & Birmingham of these hour & 15 proceedings.

A Chancellor of UWE is the Rt Hon Lady Justice Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, DBE.

Student Union
UWESU, a student union, is depending at a Frenchay Campus. It involves itself sustaining sport. Though these are non overtly political it boycotts Nestle. the Frenchay campus has the union shop, the jobshop, the laundromat, a NatWest bank & trey eating/drinking venues, and hosts the every week student nighttime, Crunchie. No sports centre or even outdoor ever-changing rooms, however the big floodlit unreal pitch. A Hartpury Campus rugger team, which has extensive sporting facilities in-hand, has experienced national profits.

A student magazine, Westworld, is published each month & a newspaper, American Eye, every two weeks. the student radio statiin, A Hub, is depending in The Rackhay in the centre of Bristol & broadcasts twenty 4 hours a day on the schminternet & on 1449AM through Bristol. It was began within September 2004.

History
UWE was founded within 1970 as Bristol Polytechnic, but might trace its roots back to the foundation of the '''Merchant Venturers' Navigation School''' in 1595; part of this institution (to which a Universities of Bristol & Bath also partly owe their origins) became a technical indicator college which, when merger by owning various more colleges, successively became the engineering school. Rather a more previous polytechnics, this gained University status and its present title following of the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act.

A Bower Ashton places wwhen formed inside 1969 as a West of England College of Art. the St Matthias places was a previous teacher how to videos college, & became a portion of Bristol Polytechnic in the area of 1976. A Avon & Gloucestershire College of Health (at present a Glenside Campus) & a Bath & Swindon College of Health Studies joined within January 1996. Hartpury joined inside 1997.

UWE is okay, regularly rated as a top troika "new university" inside league tables. the newly £75m places is presently existence built at the Frenchay campus which includes a sports centre & rooms for 2000 students, opening around late 2006.

Noted Alumni
Ian Cognito - Comedian
David Hempleman-Adams - Explorer
Dawn Primarolo - Labour MP - BA (Hons) Social Science
Jack Russell %28Gloucestershire cricketer%29
Lady Davina Windsor - Member of British Royal Family