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Entry: University of Manchester - A11604340
Author: HonestIago BA(Hons) got a 2.1! Keeper of Buffy's stakes and Willow's spells - U215204

For the Guide's alternative prospectus. This is only the second entry I've ever written so any advice or corrections are most welcome.

I'm a bit worried about the length, if people think it's appropriate I can get rid of the section on Student Life and put the info elsewhere

Iago

Hi Iago,

Don't worry about the length - its not that important. (Though if I was a girl, this would be a lie.)

I recall visiting my friend when he was doing law at Manchester in about 1979, he was staying in a block of flats, which was one of several identical blocks, it was called Moss Side - now that was rough - they used to take the handles off the doors, and use a spoon to open them - you couldn't hold down the handle and kick the door in.

Anyway - no mention of the Museum ?

Oh yeah - the museum and art gallery, I need to find a place for them.

good entry.

few notes.

1) It should be worth mentioning somewhere the orginal John Rylands Libarary on Deansgate that holds a lot of historial documents and is an amzing piece of architure

2) UoM owns Jodrel Bank in Cheshire, Europe's largest movable Radio Telescope, as seen in the Hitchhikers movies

3) I may be wrong on this but as far as I know it was only the strech between of Oxford Road between the station and the university that was the busiest bus route in Europe.

4) I thought the biggest disadvantage of the north Campus halls were that they were in the middle of a red light district (at least Fairfield & Lambert / Chandos are) and it has been known for students to be expelled after 'ladies of the night' were found in their rooms.

>>4) I thought the biggest disadvantage of the north Campus halls were that they were in the middle of a red light district (at least Fairfield & Lambert / Chandos are) and it has been known for students to be expelled after 'ladies of the night' were found in their rooms<<

I didn't know that - that's pretty funny! Just gives me another reason to avoid North Campus

Added points 1, 2 and 4. I'm pretty sure Oxford/Wilmslow Rd is the busiest all the way down to Withington where it splits - when you think about it, only the 53 and 111 turn off the road before then and they're too infrequent to make a real difference

the 250 and another Trafford Centre Bus / 86/87 and the 46/47 split at the university on their loops

the 111 / 14 / 15 / an Altringham bus that I can't rememeber split off at Whitworth Park

The 197 and 191 split at Grafton Street / Grovesnor street depending on direction

and the 44 splits at Fallowfield

Congrats on your degree! The_Jon_m- Scout,

Our eldest also went to 'Owen's' in the early 1980s, graduating BSc(Hons) in Biological Sciences. He went on to Bath U. for his PGCE, and later gained his MA in science education at London University's Institute of Education and is now the Assistant Deputy Head at a private school in Essex. He is also an acceptable baritone, and sings in amateur operatic roles.

It is among the finest of the so-called 'Red Brick' universities, having a high international academic reputation and many foreign students/graduates.

This is a fine Entry. I shall read it in greater detail soon!

I think honestlago desvers more of the praise, even if it is a BA


My degree is an 3rd BSc from UMIST 5 years ago. Thouhg I'm back at Man Met for a PGCE in a month

>>I think honestlago desvers more of the praise, even if it is a BA<<

Why I oughta...

I didn't think of those bus services turning down by the RNCM, I still think of Uni as around the John Owens building, I'll change it

The entry has been run through a spell-checker, picked up on a few things I missed.

Anything wrong with the structure, style, etc?

*is supprized to not see his name listed under Famous alumni of Manchester Victoria Uni* Is moberly hall still there or have they demolished it yet? Looks good and thorough

'...she is our current co-Chancellor' > the current co-Chancellor'

i.e. Remove the 'first person'.

Same for Leahy

Nicely comprehensive entry
well done

2legs, Moberly Tower is coming down as soon as the new refectory building is completed on the site of the old Maths tower.

Removed the first person references - I liked them, but knew they weren't really appropriate

ahh Moberly hall, most popular suicide spot on campus and a cheap source of meat for the refectory

Ref 'famous alumni', this is what the UoM website has to say:

'The University has a vast heritage of alumni who have become leaders in their field and an impressive 20 of our former staff and students are Nobel Prize winners. Our graduates include: philosopher Wittgenstein, flight pioneer Arthur Whitten-Brown, novelist Anthony Burgess, and women's rights campaigner Christabel Pankhurst. Today, our alumni can be found in the top positions in business, sport, politics and the arts. They include: The Chief Executives of Tesco and Vodafone; the President of Trinidad and Tobago; UK Cabinet Minister Margaret Beckett; international architect Norman Foster; and actors and writers Meera Syal and Ben Elton'.

I think you should include what it says about Nobel Prize winners

... also mention Arthur Whitten-Brown - full title Sir Arhur W-B...

He was the navigator when he and John William Alcock made the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean on 14 June 1919 in their Vickers Vimy biplane.

done BigAl, thanks.

Cheers to everyone for the feedback so far - keep it coming

I think you should expand what you say about Rutherford as well.

'Ernest Rutherford: scientist. One of Britain's most famous scientists, Rutherford has had a chemical element named after him, as well the largest physics lecture theatre in the University'... these facts are probably the least of his achievements!

He was in fact the first man to achieve what alchemists had only dreamed of achieving - the transmutation of one element into another. He did pioneering work into the structure of the atom and devised the 'solar system model' of the atom n which he recognised that all the positive carges of the atom, and nearly all its mass, were concentrated in the nucleus. (Previously it had been thought that the positive and negatuve charges were all mixed throughout the atom - the so-called 'raisin cake model'. He was one of the founders of nuclear physics and, as such, was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th Century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society, and held the Presidency of this highly august body from 1925-1930.