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Queen Margaret University
File:Qmu logo.gif
TypePublic
Established1875 (as The Edinburgh School of Cookery)
PrincipalProf. Anthony Cohen FRSE
Students5,410 [1]
Undergraduates4,295 [1]
Postgraduates1,100 [1]
Other students
20 further education[1]
Location
Musselburgh
,
Scotland, UK
Websitehttp://www.qmu.ac.uk/

Queen Margaret University (formerly Queen Margaret University College and Queen Margaret College) is a Modern University located in Musselburgh, Scotland. It is named after Saint Margaret, wife of King Malcolm III of Scotland, and was founded in 1875. In January 2007, it was awarded university status.[2] The University is currently in the process of moving from its current campuses in Edinburgh, to a new purpose-built site located in Musselburgh, to the East of the City.

History

Queen Margaret University was founded in 1875, as The Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, by Christian Guthrie Wright and Louisa Stevenson,[3] both members of the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association. The School was founded as a female only institution, with the twin aims of improving women's access to higher education, and improving the diets of working class families.[3] Teaching was initially delivered via lectures at the Royal Museum, supplemented by a programme of public lectures and demonstrations delivered nationwide, but in 1877 the School established a base at Shandwick Place, in Haymarket.

The School moved in 1891 to Atholl Crescent, expanding its courses and offering residential places to students. In 1909, the School was designated a Central Institution and brought under the public control of the Scotch Education Department. The first Principal appointed was Ethel De la Cour.[4] De la Cour retired in 1930, and in the same year the School became the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science.[5]

In 1961, the College acquired its current (Corstorphine) campus, purchasing a portion of the Clermiston estate from developers. The campus was first occupied by the College in 1970.[3] In 1972, the name Queen Margaret College was adopted, to dissociate the College from the narrow field of domestic science.[3] Thereafter, the College broadened its range of courses, especially in the paramedical and healthcare fields. The following institutions have since been absorbed by Queen Margaret College:[3]

  • The Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama (established 1929, joined 1971)
  • The Edinburgh School of Speech Therapy (established 1946, joined 1975)
  • The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh School of Physiotherapy (established 1940, joined 1978)
  • The Astley Ainslie Hospital Occupational Therapy Training Centre (established 1937, joined 1979)
  • The Edinburgh Foot Clinic and School of Chiropody (established 1924, joined 1984)
  • The Edinburgh School of Radiography (established 1936, joined 1992)
  • The Edinburgh University Settlement School of Art Therapy (established 1992, joined 1997)
File:Queen Margaret Univ Musselburgh cgi.jpg
A computer-generated impression of QMU's new Musselburgh campus.

In 1992, the Privy Council granted Queen Margaret College powers to award its own taught degrees, and in 1998, the College was granted full degree powers, which enabled it to award its own research and higher degrees.[5] As a result, in 1999 the College took the name Queen Margaret University College. After further improvements in the college, including a new campus currently underway to centralise all courses, in January 2007 the institution was awarded full university status, becoming Queen Margaret University (QMU). QMU is scheduled to relocate from its current three campuses to a brand new purpose-built campus near Musselburgh, just to the east of Edinburgh, in September 2007.[6]

Schools

The University is divided into four Schools:

  • The School of Business and Enterprise
  • The School of Drama and Creative Industries
  • The School of Health Sciences
  • The School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication

School of Business and Enterprise

The School of Business and Enterprise offers courses in consumer studies; management; marketing, entrepreneurship and retail; and tourism, hospitality and events.[7]

School of Drama and Creative Industries

The School of Drama and Creative Industries offers courses in drama and performance, and production and cultural management.[8] The School is also home to the Gateway Arts Industry Network (GAIN), a centre which offers short courses and taught masters' programmes in arts administration.

The Gateway Theatre is the current home for the Bachelor of Arts in Acting & Performance along with the BA (Hons) in Theatre Productions (lighting, sound, set design and stage management) courses. They are the only courses at QMU in which students are required to spend up to 8 hours per day, Monday to Friday in class.[citation needed] The Acting course is accredited in the UK by the National Council for Drama Training,[9] as is the Theatre Production course.[10]

School of Health Sciences

The School of Health Sciences offers courses in dietetics, nutrition and biological sciences; nursing; occupational therapy and art therapy; physiotherapy; podiatry; Radiography; and music therapy.[11]

School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication

The School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication offers courses in media, communication and sociology; psychology; and speech and hearing sciences.[12]

The School is the only institution in Scotland that is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations to deliver the postgraduate CIPR Diploma in Public Relations.[13] The School's BSc courses in psychology and health psychology are accredited by the British Psychological Society.[14]

The subject area of Speech and Hearing Sciences won the Queen's Anniversary Prize for research in 2002.

Campuses

Corstorphine Campus

Located just outside Edinburgh to the West, this is the main base for the University and is the largest of the three current sites.

Leith Campus

Providing a base for most of the health services courses. It is located near the heart of the city, with great public transport links to the centre of Edinburgh, and also to Corstorphine.

Gateway Theatre

Opened in 1999, the ex-television studio (previously owned by Scottish Television) is the home to many of QMU's Art, Acting, Performance, and Technical Theatre students. It is situated on Elm Row, Leith Walk, Edinburgh. Students in the BA Theatre Production & BA Acting courses put on approximately four performances per term. The performances are completely run by students from these two courses, with the only exception being an outside director, employed by QMU. The performances are becoming more of a struggle to produce, due to the in-house theatre being shut-down, however they still have the use of the small Pend Studio space, and two of these productions (per term) usually travel to another location (e.g. the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews, and the St. Brides Centre, Edinburgh)

Musselburgh Campus

The university will move to a new purpose-built campus located in Musselburgh, just to the east of Edinburgh. Set to open in the autumn of 2007, the campus will centralise all three of QMU's current campuses into one, in this new multi-million pound development.[15]

Notable alumni

Famous acting graduates from QMU include:

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2005/06". Higher Education Statistics Agency online statistics. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
  2. ^ Award of full university status
  3. ^ a b c d e "History: From Edinburgh School of Cookery to Queen Margaret University". Queen Margaret University. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  4. ^ Tom Begg, ‘Cour, Ethel Maud De la (1869–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP, 2004 accessed 11 April 2007
  5. ^ a b "Consultation on Award of University Title to Queen Margaret University College". Scottish Executive. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  6. ^ QM relocates
  7. ^ "Business & Enterprise". Queen Margaret University. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  8. ^ "Drama and Creative Industries". Queen Margaret University. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  9. ^ "Accredited Course List - Details: BA/BA (Hons) Acting". National Council for Drama Training. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  10. ^ "Accredited Course List - Details: BA/BA (Hons) Stage Mgmt & Theatre Production". National Council for Drama Training. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  11. ^ "Health Sciences". Queen Margaret University. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  12. ^ "Social Sciences, Media and Communication". Queen Margaret University. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  13. ^ "The CIPR Diploma in Public Relations". Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  14. ^ "Undergraduate Psychology Courses: Queen Margaret University". British Psychological Society. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  15. ^ QMUC relocates main campus

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