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Keynote speech: OSC Dialogue Conference
Keynote speech OSC Dialogue Conference
Canada | | November 2020
Walied Soliman
The following is an abridged version of a keynote speech given by Walied Soliman, Canadian Chair of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP and Chair of the Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce, at the OSC Dialogue Conference on November 4, 2020.
Whenever I speak about the capital markets, I like to reflect on the incredible privilege we have of being practitioners and stakeholders in this area. In just over 100 years, Ontario has developed what is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated capital markets regulatory frameworks in the world. Ontario was five years ahead of the federal government in the United States in regulating the capital markets in an organized manner.
We were ahead. We cannot fall behind.
It was with this backdrop that Premier Doug Ford and Minister Rod Phillips had the vision to form the Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce, reporting to the Minister of Finance, to conduct a broad review of the state of our capital markets in Ontario and determine what we can do to modernize the regulatory framework and ensure that we continue to be global leaders.
That vision was focused on ensuring that we are a safe and secure capital market for people saving for their retirement and equally a market that efficiently marries capital with opportunity. This latter objective is critical: it is how we create new head offices in Ontario, how we ensure that our capital markets contribute to wealth creation and, most importantly, how we create new jobs in this province.
As stakeholders we cannot forget this imperative. Capital markets regulation is not some end in itself. There is a critical social good, a critical main street public policy objective, to the advancement of capital markets regulation, and that is the economic prosperity of our province.
For almost nine months now, Taskforce members – Melissa Kennedy, Wes Hall, Cindy Tripp, Rupert Duchesne and I – have done a lot of listening. Over one hundred stakeholder meetings and dozens of internal meetings later, we have learned a lot, including many positive things.
First, our regulators are driven, hard working and intelligent individuals who are truly focused with the resources they have on creating fair and efficient capital markets.
Second, the regulation of wealth management is generally working well. The regulatory framework is relatively efficient, and the Client Focused Reforms will significantly enhance much of what already occurs in practice and provide further confidence to Ontarians saving for retirement.
We have learned that there is strong consensus around many areas of reform, some of which have been discussed for decades. Governance reform is an example. The Taskforce's final report will contain a definitive recommendation to separate the adjudicative functions of the Ontario Securities Commission from the regulatory and administrative functions. We envisage in short order a capital markets authority with an oversight and governance board, an independent chair and a CEO with executive and regulatory responsibility for the OSC. We envisage a separate adjudicative body of administrative experts.
While we have all witnessed the debate on the approach that should be utilized in a merged Mutual Fund Dealers Association and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, there is wide consensus that creating efficiencies between these two securities regulatory organizations is critical.
There are many other areas where wide consensus was found: prohibiting short selling in connection with prospectus offerings and private placements, developing a well-known seasoned issuer model that will be subject to a less burdensome shelf registration process, many of the proxy plumbing and proxy advisory proposals, the expansion of the regulatory sandbox initiative, and many more.
We received well over 130 detailed submissions in response to our consultation report. The views were enthusiastically presented and the consensus on so many of the proposals was emblematic of a stakeholder community ready to move forward.
Some of our proposals, while discussed in parts of the community for many years and advanced by stakeholders during our consultation, made for intriguing dialogue within the community over the summer.
The first proposal in our consultation report was an expansion of the mandate of the OSC to include fostering capital formation and competition in the markets. You heard the former chairs of the OSC discuss this issue this morning. Such an expanded mandate is not novel. Other securities regulators such as the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Monetary Authority of Singapore all have capital markets growth and competition mandates, which allow these regulators to reduce systemic barriers to growth, including fees and anti-competitive behaviour.
Capital markets regulation is not an end in itself. Our capital markets regulator is a critical organ in the prosperity of Ontarians. Amplifying a growth and competition mandate to supplement the all critical investor protection imperative was quite easy. I expect that this recommendation will proceed to our final report.
We proposed strengthening the SRO accountability framework through increased OSC oversight. The reasoning here was quite simple: in an already fragmented capital markets regulatory framework, it is critical that public policy makers in Ontario have direct oversight over all regulation of capital markets participants in Ontario. There were many radical ideas on how to effect this. We will be recommending that the Ministry of Finance and the OSC work even more closely with IIROC, the MFDA and whatever eventual organization emerges to ensure that business plans and regulations align with the public policy direction of the day for capital markets in Ontario. We hope that this will lead to an aligned public policy framework where all capital markets regulators in Ontario are rowing in the same direction and that duplication of regulation will be eliminated.
Proper governance, a new mandate, aligned regulators. You would think that would be enough. But stakeholders, realizing the unique opportunity that the Premier and Minister Philips had given the community, asked for much more.
An alarming and recurring theme in the comments we received was the belief that there has been a decline of new issuers, new initial public offerings and new reverse take-overs in Ontario. I cannot emphasize enough how significant a problem this is. We heard many theories on why this is the case: the rise of private capital, the strength of capital markets in other parts of the world, and our regulatory framework. We could spend years disagreeing on the exact reason why this decline has occurred, but the truth is that we do not have the time. If we are not careful, a dearth of new issuers can very quickly turn the OSC into a wealth management regulatory body, with the occasional interesting new issuer.
We cannot allow this to happen. In many respects, I personally measure the success or failure of this Taskforce using simple metrics, one of which is a natural growth of new issuers in the next five to ten years.
We have carefully tackled this issue by making recommendations reducing the regulatory burden on junior issuers, creating new private placement exemptions, and streamlining disclosure requirements (including by introducing semi-annual reporting, moving to an access equals delivery model, and other recommendations).
We heard from numerous stakeholders that in order to incubate the next Canadian issuer success story, we need to increase the number of independent intermediaries whose focus is on marrying capital with junior opportunities. We heard that the number of active independent dealers has fallen – largely, in the view of many stakeholders, due to a business model where independent dealers were losing out to bank-owned dealers with commercial lending capabilities. We will be making recommendations in our final report designed to spur the growth and establishment of more independent dealers. We view this as a critical component to growing the number of issuers in our province. We have, however, listened carefully to bank-owned dealers in Ontario, and we look forward to adjusting the framework we have proposed to ensure that enhancing the incubation market does not result in unintended consequences to Canadian bank-owned dealers who operate in an extremely competitive global environment.
In the same vein, we heard from retail investor advocates on the importance of ensuring that wealth management distribution channels allow easy access to competitive and independent wealth management products. It is clear that the OSC's Client Focused Reforms are going to have a significant impact on the contents of the retail shelf. We heard time and again from reputable name brand registrants on the difficulties they face accessing the shelves of the most important wealth distribution channels in Canada. This is simply wrong and cannot continue. We have been working hard on refining our recommendations on shelf access and are looking forward to presenting a recommendation that will deliver on more competition while ensuring that the very careful fiduciary framework put in place by our larger distributors is not compromised.
Speaking of measurements of the Taskforce's success, let me add this one: growth in the number of active independent dealers and growth in the number of creative registrants in this province over the coming five to ten years is critical. When I started practising securities law just under twenty years ago, it was not uncommon for a young managing director and a few friends to leave a larger dealer to establish a new investment bank or registrant. There were two elements that made such an undertaking possible.
First, setting up a new investment bank or registrant was not expensive from a regulatory perspective. In the past, the legal fees associated with setting up an exempt market dealer were less than $10,000 and a full Investment Dealers Association dealer less than $150,000. Today, set-up costs would be several multiples of those amounts, putting the regulatory cost out of reach of a skilled young person absent investors or a wealthy family.
Second, and more importantly, whether setting up a dealer or a registrant, there was a clear path in the market for a business plan to succeed. Today, there are structural barriers to the business plans of new entrants. When combined with high entry costs, these structural barriers have a significant impact. Our final recommendations will be addressing these issues, and it is our hope that we will look back at these changes as being catalysts for an energized intermediary and registrant business and that this will lead to a re-energized incubation market and greater choice on the shelves for retail investors.
The consultation report also contains twelve proposals on the role of enforcement, which principally originated with the defense bar and the enforcement branch of the OSC, and we will be considering additional proposals. Let me start off by saying this unequivocally: we have full confidence in the enforcement team at the OSC. Their job is not easy. If they are more delicate, they are accused of allowing a loose regime. If they are tougher, they are accused of overreach. We are continuing to carefully refine our recommendations. The net result will include enhanced powers for the enforcement branch that are focused on investor protection. The recommendations will also include enhanced certainty and clarity for the defense bar on issues that they have long sought such clarity.
Throughout our review and analysis, every single recommendation we made was viewed through the lens of investor protection. While growth and competition imperatives were critical, investor protection was primary and guiding.
In addition to many others, we have recommended that amounts collected by the OSC pursuant to disgorgement orders be deposited into court for distribution to harmed investors.
We have also recommended enhanced powers for the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments. We received many comments on this and we are mindful of the different views expressed therein. Our final report will contain recommendations for an enhanced, binding dispute resolution process with appropriate guardrails for both investors and dealers.
Confidence in our markets is critical. Investors need to feel safe. Issuers need efficiency. I would therefore be remiss if I did not address efforts around a national Canadian securities regulator. For more than 45 years, the vast majority of studies have come out in favour of establishing a national regulator, beginning with the Porter Report in 1964 and the Kimber Report in 1965. Every Taskforce member is in favour of a national regulator. Clearly, this must be the goal. Our national reality poses challenges to achieving that goal. Our federation is complex both geographically and culturally, with varying capital markets objectives across the country. The political will needed to accomplish the goal of a national regulator does not currently exist. One of the largest issuers in this country recommended to the Taskforce that we abandon the national securities regulator project. While we disagree, we understand what would drive such a strong position: in pursuing and being the strongest advocate for a national regulator, there are many who believe that Ontario has fallen behind. Our final report will not contain any recommendation that will detract from the work of the Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System. In fact, we are excited at the prospect of additional recommendations – drawing on the extraordinary work of the people who have been working on the CCMR – that we feel will set the stage much better for a future national regulator.
However, it is time for Ontario to lead. Our recommendations will be designed to put Ontario in a position to do just that.
What comes next? We continue to actively engage with stakeholders and are working diligently with the Ministry of Finance and the OSC on developing our final recommendations. We anticipate delivering to the Minister a final report sometime in December. From there, the Minister of Finance and the government will review our final report and work to advance the recommendations that they choose to accept as government policy.
The opportunity here is unique. The government of Ontario has signalled its seriousness about working with the Taskforce and the community on making changes to our capital markets regulatory framework that will have a positive generational impact.
As a community, it is incumbent upon us to embrace this opportunity.
So, what do we ask of stakeholders?
First, we must understand that change is coming. We truly appreciate the community's engagement and ask that you continue to send us your ideas, comments and criticisms. We want to hear from everyone. We have made ourselves available and we will continue to do so.
We need every capital markets stakeholder to adopt an Ontario capital markets first approach to your comments and engagement. We want to know how our recommendations will impact your business, but more importantly we want to hear from you as experts on the impact our recommendations will have on the public policy objectives of the broader capital markets.
We want to see the SRO's work together to help the regulatory community come up with the right solutions for our capital markets. No agendas. The output of a more efficient SRO framework is clear. Concurrent with our efforts and those of the Canadian Securities Administrators, we encourage stakeholders to make joint recommendations.
The stakeholder community needs to engage on diversity. We are very proud of our colleague Wes Hall who founded the BlackNorth Initiative, which has resulted in over 380 organizations signing its BlackNorth Pledge. However, after a decade of discussing gender diversity, we have made few gains. Our report will include recommendations on increasing diversity in our issuer and regulatory community. We want to hear from you; we want to get this right, and we hope that the necessary change will come organically.
We have an exciting opportunity ahead of us. We look forward to presenting our final report. In 1928, Ontario was ahead of its time in capital markets regulation. We intend on delivering a report that will once again put us at the front of the pack.
Chair, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
walied.soliman@nortonrosefulbright.com


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Latin: Et augebitur scientia[1]
Motto in English
And knowledge will be increased
1831 – Leeds School of Medicine
1874 – Yorkshire College of Science
1884 - Yorkshire College
1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University
1904 – University of Leeds
£77.2 million (as of 31 July 2018)[2]
£706.2 million (2017-18)[2]
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33,300 (2016/17)[4]
8,955 (2016/17)[4]
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www.leeds.ac.uk
The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884 it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Yorkshire College. It became part of the federal Victoria University in 1887, joining Owens College (which became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool).[6] In 1904 a royal charter was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.[7]
For 2017-18 Leeds is ranked nationally between 10th (Times and Sunday Times) and 14th (The Guardian; The Complete University Guide).[8][9][10] The university is ranked as the 31st best in Europe and was ranked 93rd in the QS World University Rankings for 2019.[11] Leeds was ranked in the top three in the UK and the top 20 in the world for graduate employability (QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2016), and it was also ranked as the fifth most targeted British university by the UK's top graduate employers in 2016-17.[12] Leeds was ranked 10th in the UK for research power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework,[13] the best result in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.[13] The university was named the 2017 Sunday Times University of the Year, having been runner-up in 2016.[14]
The university has 33,300 students, the fifth largest university in the UK (out of 167). From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked within the top 5 (alongside the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Nottingham and the University of Edinburgh) in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received.[15] Leeds had an income of £706.2 million in 2017/18, of which £137.1 million was from research grants and contracts.[2] The university has financial endowments of £77.2 million (2017–18), ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment.[2]
Notable alumni include former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, Piers Sellers (NASA astronaut) and six Nobel laureates.[16][17]
1.1 Prior to formation
1.2 Origins of the Leeds School of Medicine and the Yorkshire College
1.3 Victoria University and royal charter
1.4 2000 to present
2.1 Parkinson Building
2.2 Maurice Keyworth Building
2.3 Great Hall
2.4 Post-war buildings
2.5 Modern expansion
2.6 Public art
3 Academic profile
3.2 Computing
3.4 Medicine
3.5 Rankings and reputation
3.6 Affiliations
3.7 Admissions
3.8 Nobel Prize winners
4 Organisation and governance
4.2 Governance
4.3 International partners
4.5 Vice-Chancellor
5 Student life
5.1 Students' Union
5.1.1 Student newspaper
5.1.2 Leeds Student Radio
5.1.3 LSTV (Leeds Student Television)
5.1.4 Awards
5.3 Accommodation
6.1 Alumni
6.2 Honorary graduates
7 Other history
8 Partner institutions
Prior to formation[edit]
An early view of the Great Hall, next to the Clothworkers' Court
The university's history is linked to the development of Leeds as an international centre for the textile industry and clothing manufacture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. The university's roots can be traced back to the formation of schools of medicine in English cities to serve the general public.
Before 1900, only six universities had been established in England and Wales: Oxford (founded c. 1096–1201), Cambridge (c. 1201), London (1836), Durham (1832), Victoria (1880), and Wales (1893).
The Victoria University was established in Manchester in 1880 as a federal university in the North of England, instead of the government elevating Owens College to a university and grant it a royal charter. Owens College was the sole college of Victoria University from 1880 to 1884; in 1887 Yorkshire College was the third to join the university.[6]
Origins of the Leeds School of Medicine and the Yorkshire College[edit]
In 1831, the Leeds School of Medicine was established with the aim of serving the needs of the five medical institutions which had been established in the city. In 1874, the Yorkshire College of Science was created to provide education for the children of middle-class industrialists and merchants. Financial support from local industry was crucial in setting up the College and aiding the students.[7] The university continues to recognise these elements of its history; for example, there is still remains a Clothworkers' Court on campus.
The College of Science, modelled on Owens College, Manchester, was established in 1851 as non-sectarian, and was open to Protestant Dissenters, Catholics and Jews (though not then to women) since Oxford and Cambridge restricted attendance to members only of the Church of England. University College London was non-sectarian. The religious qualification ceased in the 1850s but the classics-based education continued at Oxford and Cambridge. The Northern colleges continued to promote themselves as offering a general education that was progressive and pragmatic in nature as were the technical colleges of Germany and the ancient universities upon which they were modelled.
The Yorkshire College of Science began by teaching experimental physics, mathematics, geology, mining, chemistry and biology, and soon became well known as an international centre for the study of engineering and textile technology (due to the manufacturing and textile trades being strong in the West Riding). When classics, modern literature and history went on offer a few years later, the Yorkshire College of Science became simply the Yorkshire College. In 1884, the Yorkshire College absorbed the Leeds School of Medicine and subsequently joined the federal Victoria University (established at Manchester in 1880) on 3 November 1887.[18] Students in this period were awarded external degrees by the University of London.[19]
Victoria University and royal charter[edit]
The Parkinson Building, named after Frank Parkinson, a major benefactor to the university
Yorkshire College blue plaque 1879
Leeds was given its first university in 1887 when the Yorkshire College joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November. The Victoria University had been established by royal charter in 1880; Owens College being at first the only member college.[20] Leeds now found itself in an educational union with close social cousins from Manchester and Liverpool.
Unlike Owens College, the Leeds campus of the Victoria University had never barred women from its courses. However, it was not until special facilities were provided at the Day Training College in 1896 that women began enrolling in significant numbers. The first female student to begin a course at the university was Lilias Annie Clark, who studied Modern Literature and Education.[citation needed]
The Victoria (Leeds) University was a short-lived concept, as the multiple university locations in Manchester and Liverpool were keen to establish themselves as separate, independent universities. This was partially due to the benefits a university had for the cities of Liverpool and Manchester whilst the institutions were also unhappy with the practical difficulties posed by maintaining a federal arrangement across broad distances. The interests of the universities and respective cities in creating independent institutions was further spurred by the granting of a charter to the University of Birmingham in 1900 after lobbying from Joseph Chamberlain.
Following a Royal Charter and Act of Parliament in 1903, the then newly formed University of Liverpool began the fragmentation of the Victoria University by being the first member to gain independence. The University of Leeds soon followed suit and had been granted a royal charter as an independent body by King Edward VII by 1904.
2000 to present[edit]
The Parkinson Building campanile, which features prominently in the university logo and publications after re-branding in 2006.
The Victoria University continued after the break-up of the group, with an amended constitution and renamed as the Victoria University of Manchester (though "Victoria" was usually omitted from its name except in formal usage) until September 2004.[21] On 1 October 2004 a merger with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology was enacted to form The University of Manchester.[22]
In December 2004, financial pressures forced the university's governing body (the Council) to decide to close the Bretton campus. Activities at Bretton were moved to the main university campus in the summer of 2007 (allowing all Bretton-based students to complete their studies there). There was substantial opposition to the closure by the Bretton students. The university's other satellite site, Manygates in Wakefield, also closed, but Lifelong Learning and Healthcare programmes are continuing on a new site next to Wakefield College.[23]
In May 2006, the university began re-branding itself to consolidate its visual identity to promote one consistent image. A new logo was produced, based on that used during the centenary celebrations in 2004, to replace the combined use of the modified university arms and the Parkinson Building, which has been in use since 2004. The university arms will still be used in its original form for ceremonial purposes only. Four university colours were also specified as being green, red, black and beige.[5]
Leeds provides the local community with over 2,000 university student volunteers. With 7,726 staff currently employed, the university is the third largest employer in Leeds and contributes around £1.23bn a year to the local economy - students add a further £211m through rents and living costs.[3]
The university's educational partnerships have included providing formal accreditation of degree awards to Leeds College of Art and Leeds Trinity University College, although the latter now has the power to award its own degrees. The College of the Resurrection, an Anglican theological college in Mirfield with monastic roots, has, since its inception in 1904, been affiliated to the university, and ties remain close. The university is also a founding member of the Northern Consortium.
In August 2010, the university was one of the most targeted institutions by students entering the UCAS clearing process for 2010 admission, which matches undersubscribed courses to students who did not meet their firm or insurance choices. The university was one of nine Russell Group universities offering extremely limited places to "exceptional" students after the universities in Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford declared they would not enter the process due to courses being full to capacity.[24]
On 12 October 2010, The Refectory of the Leeds University Union hosted a live edition of the Channel 4 News, with students, academics and economists expressing their reaction to the Browne Review, an independent review of Higher Education funding and student finance conducted by John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley. University of Leeds Vice-Chancellor and Russell Group chairman Michael Arthur participated, giving an academic perspective alongside current vice-chancellor of Kingston University and former Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education at the University of Leeds, Sir Peter Scott. Midway through the broadcast a small group of protesters against the potential rise of student debt entered the building before being restrained and evacuated.[25][26]
In 2016, The University of Leeds became University of the Year 2017 in The Times and The Sunday Times' Good University Guide. The university has risen to 13th place overall, which reflects impressive results in student experience, high entry standards, services and facilities, and graduate prospects.[27]
In 2018, the global world ranking of the University of Leeds is No.93. There are currently 30,842 students are studying in this university. The average tuition fee is 12,000 - US$14,000.
Campus[edit]
The Roger Stevens Building
The university has 1,230 acres (498 ha) of land in total, with the main campus taking up 98 acres (40 ha).[9] The main campus is located 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Leeds city centre and compromises of a mixture of Gothic revival, art deco, brutalist and postmodern buildings, making it one of the most diverse university campuses in the country in terms of building styles and history. It is within walking distance of both the city centre and Headingley, a popular residential area for students wishing to live off campus. The main entrance to the campus for visitors by car is on Woodhouse Lane (A660), near the Parkinson Building. The former Woodhouse Cemetery is within the campus, now a landscaped area known as St George's Fields.[28]
Parkinson Building[edit]
The Parkinson Building is a grade II listed[29] art deco building and campanile named after the late Frank Parkinson, a major benefactor of the university who oversaw many new build projects from 1936 onwards. These commitments culminating in the official opening of The Parkinson Building (to which Parkinson donated £200,000) on 9 November 1951.[30] The tower of the building is a well-known landmark in the city of Leeds and is used in the university logo and as a university symbol.[30] The campanile is the highest point of the building and stands at 57 metres (187 ft) tall, making it the 17th tallest building in the city of Leeds.
Maurice Keyworth Building[edit]
The Leeds University Business School is housed in the renovated 19th-century buildings (known as the Maurice Keyworth Building), which used to belong to Leeds Grammar School on the Western side of the University of Leeds campus. The university have also constructed further modern buildings on the business school area of campus known as the Innovation Hub; costing £9.3 million. The building is a three-storey building of 4350 m2 (gross capacity), with the third floor accommodating the Innovation Hub.[31]
Great Hall[edit]
The Great Hall is the venue for graduation ceremonies
The university's Great Hall building is one of the most prominent buildings on campus alongside the Parkinson Building and the numerous brutalist buildings which are Grade II listed. The Great Hall was built on a site of Beech Grove Hall Estate which was purchased in 1879 by the then Yorkshire College when joining the Victoria University. This was later demolished in 1884, to become the site of the Clothworkers buildings of the Baines Memorial Wing and the Great Hall. The buildings were designed by the renowned Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse R.A in red pressed brick and had dressings of Bolton Wood stone in a Gothic Collegiate style. The cost of the build was £22,000 and was raised partially by public appeal and served as the university library until the opening of the Brotherton Library. The Great Hall is now primarily used for examinations, meetings and graduation ceremonies.[32]
Post-war buildings[edit]
EC Stoner Building
In June 2010, post-war buildings at the University of Leeds were recommended by English Heritage to become Grade II listed buildings. The modernist and brutalist buildings being recognised include the newly Grade II* listed Roger Stevens Building, whilst the EC Stoner Building, Computer Science Building, Mathematics/Earth Sciences Building, Senior Common Room, Garstang Building, Irene Manton Building, Communications and Edward Boyle Library (formerly the South Library) and Henry Price Building have been recognised as Grade II listed buildings. These additions join the already listed 1877 Great Hall and Baines Wing, the School of Mineral Engineering, the Brotherton Library and the Parkinson Building which are Grade II listed.[33]
In addition to the main campus, there is also a satellite location at Wakefield. Until the 2006–07 academic year, some courses were taught at the Bretton Hall campus in West Bretton. The site closed in summer 2007 after which the courses taught there were relocated to the main campus in Leeds.
Leeds railway station is approximately 1 mile south of the main campus. There are numerous bus routes which serve it. The proposed Leeds Supertram would have run past the campus. The currently proposed Leeds Trolleybus (northern line) will run past the campus, linking it with the city centre, Headingley and Lawnswood. The Leeds Inner Ring Road also lies close to the campus.
The University of Leeds Conference Auditorium, located next to the Sports Hall, was once the original West Yorkshire Playhouse. It was refurbished in 2003 to become two lecture theatres; one for 320 and one for 550, making it the largest capacity facility on the university campus.[34]
The university's Muslim Prayer Room is located in the Conference Auditorium building and able to accommodate up to 300 people at any one time. The prayer room has undergone refurbishment after half a million pounds was allocated towards its development.
Modern expansion[edit]
The Ziff Building, which houses student services as of 2008
Street map of the main campus
The university has engaged in a wave of modern expansion since 2008, and has invested more than £300 million in transforming its campus over the coming years, resulting in new state-of-the-art educational, research, residential and leisure facilities with a further £80 million being spent to improve current assets. The programme of this expansion constitutes one of the largest capital investment projects in British higher education.[35][36]
Earth and Environment improvements included a phased refurbishment and construction of this £23 million development which is already completed. These renovations included refurbished laboratory space in the west wing which opened for staff and students in April 2009, and the completion of the remaining elements of the scheme, both new build and refurbished, followed in November 2009.[35][36]
Charles Morris Hall student accommodation renovations started with the demolition of the previous Mary Ogilvie House, the existing 108 bed student accommodation block, and construction of a new 500-bed, £27.1 million building began in March 2009, the new halls were completed in the summer of 2010, with the first students moving in for the new academic year in September 2010.[35][36]
The Childcare Centre building work has also been completed and led to the creation of a new 140 place staff/student childcare centre and a new landscaped green square on adjoining plot. Work on the £3.6 million project lasted approximately 12 months with the official opening in April 2010.[35][36]
Swimming pool and fitness centre improvements (known as The Edge) started in 2009 and consisted of the construction of the new £12.2 million swimming pool/gym complex on the south-western edge of campus. The facility was due for completion by the end of February 2010 however was delayed until being officially opened in May 2010.[35][36]
The Law Building is a £12 million project which was completed in early 2011. Work on the project started September 2009 and completion was initially planned for late 2010. The new building is located on the western side of the university campus alongside the Leeds University Business School and is adjacent to the new Michael Marks Building which features the Marks & Spencer archives, including over 60,000 artefacts from London and Leeds (where the company was founded).[35][36] This new collection of buildings forms the 'Professional' campus of the university, housing business, economics and law functions.
The Edward Boyle Library £28 million redevelopment of the library was approved by the university and a consultant design team appointed, with a view to work commencing late 2010. However, budget cuts resulted in the project being put on hold [35][36] until 2015. The refurbishment began in summer 2015 and was completed in late 2016.
The Energy Building, is a £12.5 million development extending the engineering complex. Build work began in late summer 2010, and was completed in March 2012.[35][37]
Public art[edit]
Simon Fujiwara's 2015 cast jesmonite A Spire, outside the Laidlaw Library
Works of public art on campus range from Eric Gill's controversial 1923 World War I memorial Christ driving the Moneychangers from the Temple in the foyer of the Rupert Beckett Building to Simon Fujiwara's 2015 9 metres (30 ft) A Spire outside the Laidlaw Library and Liliane Lijn's 2019 Converse Column at the south east entrance to the campus.[38][39][40] The university has a Public Art Strategy developed with the Contemporary Art Society.[41]
Academic profile[edit]
During the 2016/17 academic year, 33,300 students were enrolled.[4] There were around 560 different first-degree programmes and approximately 300 postgraduate degree programmes in 2009-10.[3]:6 Whilst maintaining its strengths in the traditional subjects (for example more students studying languages and physical sciences than anywhere else in the UK), Leeds has also developed expertise in more distinctive and rare specialist areas such as Colour Chemistry, Fire Science, Nanotechnology and Aviation Technology with Pilot studies.
The Edward Boyle Library, one of numerous Brutalist buildings linked by a series of interconnected skyways.
The university library is spread over five locations, and holds, in total, 2.78 million books, 26,000 print and electronic journals, 850 databases and 6,000 electronic books: making it one of the largest research libraries in the UK.[42] The main arts and humanities library is the Brotherton Library, located in the Parkinson Building. The main science, social sciences and engineering library is the Edward Boyle Library, located in the centre of the campus. Medicine, dentistry and healthcare students are served by the Health Sciences Library, located in the Worsley Building, and there is an extension of this library at St James's University Hospital. The Laidlaw Library on the main campus, serving the needs of undergraduates, opened in May 2015. It is named after Lord Laidlaw who gave £9,000,000 towards its construction.[43]
The university library houses numerous archives and rare books in its Special Collections, ranging from the 15th century through to the 21st century.[44] Special Collections holds five collections designated as outstanding by the Arts Council England.[45] These are the English Literature Collections, the Leeds Russian Archive, the Liddle Collection, the Cookery Collection and its Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections.[46] The repository contains William Shakespeare's First Folio (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories. & Tragedies) published in 1623.[47][48] Special Collections holds Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published 5 July 1687 and Oscar Wilde's manuscript of The Duchess of Padua from 1883.[49][50] It also has locks of hair from the influential Classical era composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.[51]
Computing[edit]
There are 9,000 personal computers available across the campus along with 150 Sun computers and servers, 8 high performance Sun servers and 256 supercomputers. There are 29 centrally managed computer clusters of varying sizes spread across the different sites, along with others managed by specific departments. Five of these clusters are available 24 hours a day.[52]
Research[edit]
Many of the academic departments have specialist research facilities, for use by staff and students to support research from internationally significant collections in university libraries to state-of-the-art laboratories. These include those hosted at the Institute for Transport Studies, such as the University of Leeds Driving Simulator which is one of the most advanced worldwide in a research environment, allowing transport researchers to watch driver behaviour in accurately controlled laboratory conditions without the risks associated with a live, physical environment.[53]
With extensive links to the St James's University Hospital through the Leeds School of Medicine, the university operates a range of high-tech research laboratories for biomedical and physical sciences, food and engineering – including clean rooms for bionanotechnology and plant science greenhouses. The university is connected to Leeds General Infirmary and the institute of molecular medicine based at St James's University Hospital which aids integration of research and practice in the medical field.[53]
The university also operate research facilities in the aviation field, with the Airbus A320 flight simulator. The simulator was devised with an aim to promote the safety and efficiency of flight operations; where students use the simulator to develop their reactions to critical situations such as engine failure, display malfunctioning and freak weather.[53]
In addition to these facilities, many university departments conduct research in their respective fields.[54] There are also various research centres, including Leeds University Centre for African Studies.
Medicine[edit]
Main article: Leeds School of Medicine
The Leeds General Infirmary (pictured) and St James's University Hospital incorporate the Leeds School of Medicine
The Leeds School of Medicine is one of the largest medical schools in Europe, with over 250 medical students being trained in each of the clinical years and over 1,000 teaching, research, technical and administrative staff.[55] The school has centres of excellence split down into Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics (LIGHT), Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (LIHS), Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME) and The Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine (LIMM).[55] In 2010–11 university guides, the Leeds School of Medicine was ranked as the 11th best medical school in the country by The Guardian[56] and 14th by The Complete University Guide in association with The Independent.[57]
The medical school has close links with the NHS and works closely with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, comprising 6 hospitals and numerous primary care training practices in Yorkshire and the Humber.[58]
The Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital, Leeds are the main teaching hospitals in the West Yorkshire region with St James's University Hospital being one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe.[59] The main university campus is adjacent to the Leeds General Infirmary and is directly connected via the Worsley Building of the Leeds Medical School.
Leeds General Infirmary is a centre in the UK for neurosurgery, and one of only 10 centres in the UK for Paediatric cardiology. The hospital features a rooftop landing pad for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service.
Rankings and reputation[edit]
Complete (2020)[60]
Guardian (2020)[61]
Times / Sunday Times (2020)[62]
Global rankings
ARWU (2019)[63]
CWTS Leiden (2019)[64]
QS (2020)[65]
THE (2020)[66]
British Government assessment
Teaching Excellence Framework[67]
Leeds was ranked joint 19th (along with the University of St Andrews) amongst multi-faculty institutions in the UK for the quality (GPA) of its research[68] and 10th for its Research Power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.[69]
Between 2014-15, Leeds was ranked as the 10th most targeted British university by graduate employers, a two place decrease from 8th position in the previous 2014 rankings.[12]
The 2016–2017 the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Leeds as 133rd in the world. The university ranks 117th in the world in the CWTS Leiden Ranking.[70][71] Leeds is ranked 116th in the world (and 14th in the UK) in the 2016 Round University Ranking.[72] Leeds has also been named University of the Year 2017 by The Times and The Sunday Times' Good University Guide. In 2019, it ranked 150th among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings.[73]
The university won the biennially awarded Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2009 for services to engineering and technology. The honour being awarded to the university's Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) which for over forty years has been a world leader in transport teaching and research.[74]
Affiliations[edit]
The university is a founding member of the Russell Group, comprising the leading research-intensive universities in the UK, as well as the N8 Group for research collaboration,[75] the Worldwide Universities Network, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the White Rose University Consortium, the Santander Network and the CDIO Initiative. It is also affiliated to Universities UK. The Leeds University Business School holds the 'Triple Crown' of accreditations from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Association of MBAs and the European Quality Improvement System.
Admissions[edit]
UCAS Admission Statistics
Applications[76] 58,560 52,110 51,855 53,560 48,435
Offer Rate (%)[77] 73.5 72.9 75.4 72.5 74.0
Enrols[78] 8,250 7,390 7,150 6,985 6,810
Yield (%) 19.2 19.5 18.3 18.0 19.0
Applicant/Enrolled Ratio 7.10 7.05 7.25 7.67 7.11
Average Entry Tariff[79][a] n/a 166 427 430 430
For 2016 entry, Leeds received over 50,000 applications for undergraduate courses, making it the 4th most popular university by volume of applications.[80][failed verification] Leeds had the 18th highest average entry qualification for undergraduates of any UK university in 2015, with new students averaging 427 UCAS points,[81] equivalent to just below ABBab in A-level grades. The university gives offers of admission to 75.4% of its applicants, the 14th lowest amongst the Russell Group.[82]
The University of Leeds welcomes more than 9,000 international students from over 170 countries each year, making its campus one of the most diverse and multicultural in the UK. [83]
19.6% of Leeds' undergraduates are privately educated, the eighteenth highest proportion amongst mainstream British universities.[84] In the 2016-17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 77:4:18 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 61:39.[85] Figures for graduates in the 2016-17 year showed that 30% of undergraduates gained a first-class honours degree, 57% gained a 2:1, 12% gained a 2:2 and 1% gained a 3rd.[86]
Nobel Prize winners[edit]
A number of Nobel Laureates have worked or studied at the University.
Sir William Henry Bragg, OM, KBE, PRS (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915), for his services (with his son William Lawrence Bragg) in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
George Porter, OM, FRS (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967) – University of Leeds graduate - for studies of extremely fast chemical reactions (flash photolysis).
Wole Soyinka (awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986) – University of Leeds graduate - the Nigerian writer was awarded for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Archer John Porter Martin (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952), was an English chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge.
Richard Laurence Millington Synge (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952), was a British biochemist, and shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. It was during his time in Leeds that he worked with Archer Martin, developing partition chromatography, a technique used in the separation mixtures of similar chemicals, that revolutionized analytical chemistry.
Piers Forster – University of Leeds staff member – contributed to the reports of the IPCC, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.[87]
Organisation and governance[edit]
Faculties[edit]
The various schools, institutes and centres of the university are arranged into eight faculties, each with a dean, pro-deans and central functions:
Arts, Humanities and Cultures (English; History; Philosophy, Religion and History of Science; Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; Leeds Humanities Research Institute; Institute for Medieval Studies; Languages, Cultures and Societies; School of Media and Communication; Design; Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies; Music; Performance and Cultural Industries)
Biological Sciences (School of Biology; School of Biomedical Sciences; School of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Undergraduate School of Biological Sciences; Graduate School of Biological Sciences)
Business (Accounting and Finance; Economics; International Business; Management; Marketing; Work and Employment Relations)
Education, Social Sciences and Law (Education; Law; Politics and International Studies; Sociology and Social Policy; Graduate School)
Engineering and Physical Sciences (Chemical and Process Engineering; Civil Engineering; Computing; Electronic and Electrical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering); Chemistry; Food Science and Nutrition; Mathematics; Physics and Astronomy)
Environment (Earth and Environment; Geography; Institute for Transport Studies)
Medicine and Health (Leeds Dental Institute; Healthcare; Medicine; Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics; Leeds Institute of Health Sciences; Leeds Institute of Medical Education; Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine; Institute of Psychological Sciences)
Governance[edit]
The Court serves as a mechanism for the university's accountability to the wider community and to stakeholders, making sure that the university is well managed, properly governed and responsive to public and local interests and concerns. It is made up of mainly lay members.
The Council is the governing body of the university, consisting of mainly lay members along with representatives of staff and students. It is responsible for the proper management and financial solvency of the university, with major policy decisions and corporate strategy being subject to its approval.
The Senate is the principal academic authority of the university. It oversees academic management and sets strategy and priorities, including the curriculum and maintenance of standards.
International partners[edit]
The university holds a number of formal links with institutions from around the world to share teaching and research and facilitate staff and student exchanges. Numerous European universities participate in the Erasmus Programme which permits learning across the many institutions in this region. Students at Leeds may choose from twinned European universities, with each faculty having particular university affiliations.[88]
Chancellor[edit]
The Chancellor acts as a ceremonial figurehead and sits on the University Court. Leeds has had seven chancellors since gaining its royal charter in 1904.
Chancellors
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon 1904–1909
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire 1909–1938
Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire 1938–1950
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood 1951–1965
Katharine, Duchess of Kent 1966–1999
Melvyn Bragg, the Lord Bragg 1999–2017
Dame Jane Francis, DCMG 2017–
The Pro-Chancellor deputises for the Chancellor. The first, named in the 1904 charter, was businessman and chairman of the Council of the Yorkshire College,[89] Arthur Greenhow Lupton, of a prosperous and prominent family long connected with Leeds. His mother, Frances Lupton, was a pioneering educationalist and more than one of his relatives were Lord Mayor of Leeds. In 1924, Arthur was a Member for Life of the university and had made substantial donations - £10,000 - to the university, as had his parents and brothers: Charles, Hugh and F.M. Lupton, with the family of Leeds University graduate, solicitor R. Noel Middleton - F.M. Lupton's son-in-law - also donating generously. Arthur Lupton's uncles, nieces, nephews and first cousins, including Mrs E. (Baroness von) Schunck, née Lupton, had also been generous donators and in 1924, her son-in-law, The Right Hon. Lord Airedale, was a Member of the Court of Leeds University, having been nominated by the Crown.[90][91][92]
Vice-Chancellor[edit]
The Vice-Chancellor of the university acts as the chief executive. The current Vice-Chancellor is Sir Alan Langlands, who was previously the Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. A number of former Vice-Chancellors have had university buildings or halls of residences on the campus named after them. Examples of such dedications include The Edward Boyle Library, Bodington Hall (accommodation named in honour of the first Vice-Chancellor) and The Roger Stevens Building.
Vice-Chancellors
Sir Nathan Bodington 1904–1910
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler 1911–1923
Sir James Black Baillie 1924–1938
Bernard Mouat Jones 1938–1948
Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere 1948–1963
Sir Roger Stevens 1963–1970
Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth 1970–1981
William Walsh (Acting Vice-Chancellor) 1981–1983
Sir Edward W. Parkes 1983–1991
Sir Alan G. Wilson 1991–2004
Michael Arthur 2004–2013
Sir Alan Langlands 2013–present
Student life[edit]
Students' Union[edit]
Main article: Leeds University Union
The Leeds University Union is a National Union of Students affiliated body, located on the main university campus. The union's main purpose is to support Leeds students through providing socialising opportunities, societies and group support, help and advisory services and to aid students wishing to volunteer, campaign and engage with the local communities.[93] The Leeds University Union is also a founding member of the Aldwych Group, which represents the students' unions of the members of the Russell Group.[94]
The University of Leeds Refectory is the university's main canteen during the day, serving a range of hot and cold food whilst in the evenings it is converted into one of Leeds's largest music venues, having a 2,100-person capacity for live events. Many famous bands and musicians have played at the University of Leeds Refectory throughout their careers. These include The Who who recorded Live at Leeds at the venue (originally in 1970, and then returned in June 2006 to recreate the original show), Bob Marley and the Wailers (as heard on the remastered 2004 Deluxe edition of Burnin' ), Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and more recently Muse (recorded and played on MTV), The Strokes, Bloc Party, Manic Street Preachers, KT Tunstall, Arctic Monkeys, The Coral and Paul Weller.[95]
Student newspaper[edit]
Main article: The Gryphon
The Gryphon (formerly known as the Leeds Student) is the weekly student newspaper, published free every Friday during term-time and distributed around the University of Leeds. The articles are written by students, and are largely about local and student based issues. It is one of the country's most active university newspapers and regularly wins national student media awards. Leeds Student was formed in 1970 by the merger of the Leeds University Union newspaper (Union News) and the then Leeds Polytechnic Students Union newspaper, but in November 2005 Leeds Metropolitan University students voted to disaffiliate from Leeds Student, citing under-representation. The name was changed to The Gryphon in 2014.
Leeds Student was the 2009 winner of The Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year award and short-listed for The Guardian Student Magazine of the Year. Former editors of the newspaper include Paul Vallely (The Independent) and Nicholas Witchell (BBC News).
Leeds Student Radio[edit]
Main article: Leeds Student Radio
Leeds University Union also operates the student radio station Leeds Student Radio, broadcasting live on their website from 9 am to midnight every day during term time.
LSTV (Leeds Student Television)[edit]
Main article: Leeds Student Television
LSTV (Leeds Student Television) is a student television station run by students from the University of Leeds. LSTV produces weekly video content such as Entertainment programme 'On Campus', Sport programme 'Sideline' and News programme 'The Essential', which focuses on local and University news affecting Students at the University of Leeds and the local Leeds community. Their content is broadcast every Wednesday at 2 pm around Leeds University Union and streams live online.
Leeds University Union (LUU) won the award for the Higher Education Students' Union of the Year at the NUS Awards 2009. In 2008, the union was voted runner up for the award of Higher Education Students' Union of the Year however did win first prize for Equality and Diversity.[96]
In 2008, the Leeds University Union became the first student union to achieve Gold Status in the Students' Union Evaluation Initiative (SUEI). A feat only matched by the University of Sheffield Union of Students in mid 2010.[97][98]
Sport[edit]
Weetwood Playing Fields
The university has teams that compete regularly in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) leagues and as of 2016 was ranked 14th in the country.[99]
Each year the university supports over 20 elite athletes, providing a funding, support services and an interface with university academic departments, to ensure elite athletes have the infrastructure that allows them to compete at the highest level whilst studying. The university also offers sporting scholarships to elite athletes in conjunction with Npower whilst offering Olympic scholarships to prospects preparing to compete at future Olympic Games.[100]
The university competes annually in the Christie Cup, a competition dating back to 1886 which sees the former Victoria Universities of Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester participate in 28 different sports. After the rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge, the Christie's Championships is the oldest inter–university competition on the sporting calendar.
The university is a member of the MCC University Centres of Cricketing Excellence alongside the Cardiff, Cambridge, Durham, Loughborough and Oxford, where talented young cricketers can further their academic education whilst receiving an expert levels of cricket coaching and competitive match play.[101]
University of Leeds Sport offer a wide range of competitive and participation sports, which is used by the student and local population of Leeds who may use certain university facilities. Alongside fitness classes such as yoga and aerobics, the university offers over 36 different sporting clubs, including cricket, football, rugby union, hockey, basketball and badminton which have achieved league and cup wins in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) league.[102][103]
Whilst the university operated performance and elite level sports, there is an intramural recreational sport programme which is one of the largest of any Higher Education institution in Britain. The Leeds University Union has over 60 sports clubs which range from Cycling to Sailing.[citation needed]
A £20 million spending plan was sanctioned with the aim to add facilities to the university's sporting provisions, including a 25m, 8 lane swimming pool and a 200 station health and fitness centre (known as The Edge) which opened in May 2010. The Gryphon Sports Centre opened in 2008 after a £2.5 million refurbishment, and caters for racquet sports including badminton and squash whilst the Weetwood Playing Fields are used for football, rugby union, rugby league and hockey.[104] The Brownlee Centre and Bodington cycle circuit were opened in April 2017 and named after alumni Alistair and Jonny Brownlee. Construction was funded by Sport England, UK Sport, British Cycling, British Triathlon and the University.[105]
The university also offers a range of sporting opportunities for students to gain experience and develop their skills by volunteering within the local community. Volunteers can take up posts that include coaching, events organisation, stewarding and sports administration.[106]
Accommodation[edit]
Mary Ogilvie House (now demolished), student accommodation on the main campus
Main article: University of Leeds accommodation
The university provides accommodation in either catered or self-catering rooms, mostly reserved for first year undergraduate students but also for international students, postgraduates, staff and undergraduates who have been unable to find alternative accommodation.
Four of the halls (Charles Morris Hall, Henry Price Building, Ellerslie Hall and Lyddon Hall) are on the campus, while other halls and self-catering accommodation are located throughout the city. Bodington Hall is approximately four miles north-west of the campus, Devonshire Hall is situated just under a mile off the main campus,[107] and other accommodation includes Carr Mills, Liberty Dock, James Baillie Park, Leodis Residences, Lupton Residences, Montague Burton Residences, North Hill Court, Opal 3 Residences, Oxley Residences, Sentinel Towers, The Tannery, Shimmin, St Marks Residences.[107]
In addition to providing university-owned accommodation, the university works with external accommodation providers such as Unite and Opal who provide private accommodation for both undergraduate students and postgraduates.
The university guarantees first year undergraduates, international undergraduates, undergraduate exchange students and international postgraduate students places in university-owned accommodation on condition that they meet the relevant application deadlines. In common with other institutions, it also runs schemes for students choosing Leeds as their firm or insurance choice through UCAS, with clearing students being supported once accepted.[108]
The university's Disability Team (based within its Equality Service) arranges and provides academic support services for students who are deaf or have hearing impairments, are blind or partially sighted, have a specific learning difficulty (e.g. dyslexia), have a physical impairment or mobility difficulty, have a long-term medical condition or have a mental health difficulty.
The university is one of the few universities in the UK to include an on-campus Transcription Centre, managed in conjunction with the RNIB. The Transcription Centre produces information in a range of accessible formats (including braille, large print, e-text and audio formats) for blind and partially sighted students and staff members – both at Leeds and at other universities, colleges and schools.
Notable people[edit]
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Alumni[edit]
Main article: List of University of Leeds people
Alumni from the arts include musicians Dan Smith, Kyle Simmons and Chris Wood of the band Bastille,[109] Mark Knopfler of the band Dire Straits[110][111] and Simon Rix, bassist of Leeds-based band the Kaiser Chiefs, singers Corinne Bailey Rae[112] and Little Boots, and the band members of alt-J. Film director Shona Auerbach, impersonator and actor Alistair McGowan, screenwriter Jeremy Dyson, actress Emma Mackey and poet Tony Harrison are also alumni of the university.
Alumni from the humanities and social sciences include author Sir Ken Robinson, author, academic and critic Robert Anthony Welch and the philosopher and author Paul Crowther.
Alumni from the media and related areas include CNN international business correspondent and presenter Richard Quest, political cartoonist Steve Bell, world music broadcaster Andy Kershaw and 6 Music DJ Liz Kershaw, BBC News journalist Nicholas Witchell, foreign correspondent Mark Brayne, television presenter Jenni Falconer, Sky Sports News presenter Georgie Thompson, BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed and IMDb founder Col Needham.
Alumni involved in politics include the former and current UK Cabinet ministers Jack Straw, Clare Short and Sayeeda Warsi. Other politicians include Ken Hind, Paul Truswell, Eric Illsley, Nambaryn Enkhbayar former President of Mongolia, Gidado Idris, Former Secretary to the Government of Nigeria, and Secretary General of the Red Cross Bekele Geleta.
Piers Sellers, veteran of three space shuttle missions.
Former students in the field of science and technology include NASA astronaut Piers Sellers, Nobel Prize winner and President of the Royal Society George Porter, researcher into breast cancer and the development of cancer drug Tamoxifen V. Craig Jordan, marine ecologist Rose Crichton and Edmund Happold, founder of Buro Happold.
Former students in sport include England rugby union players Tom Palmer and Alex Lozowski, cross country runners and triathletes Alistair Brownlee and brother Jonathan Brownlee, ocean rower, polar explorer, and Conservative Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire Daniel Byles.
Honorary graduates[edit]
Main article: List of Honorary Graduates of the University of Leeds
Since the university was granted its own Royal Charter in 1904, the university has awarded honorary degrees (honoris causa) to notable individuals as part of their yearly graduation ceremonies. The degree awarded itself can vary but is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the university.
Other history[edit]
St George's Field, part of the University of Leeds campus, is the former Woodhouse Cemetery, where is buried Pablo Fanque (William Darby),[citation needed] who was a black circus proprietor for 30 years during the Victorian period.[113][114] Fanque's wife, Susannah Darby, is also buried at the cemetery. There is a monument that Fanque erected to her, and a smaller monument to him. John Lennon referenced Fanque in The Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" on the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. On 8 October 2010, the Leeds University Union, as part of the university's annual Light Night celebration, unveiled a commemorative plaque at Fanque's and Darby's gravesite.[115][failed verification]
There are several Blue Plaques on the campus, including those awarded to Clifford Allbutt and William Henry Bragg.
Blue Plaques at Leeds University (8499078268)
Partner institutions[edit]
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia[116]
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Gruys decided, on March 26th 2011, to swear of mirrors for a year! While that's pretty BOLD, in and of itself, there's one BIG catch: her wedding is on October 1st of this year! That means that, not only will she be avoiding the everyday events of putting her makeup on, checking her appearance, and fixing her hair, but pivotal points in her wedding planning will also be a bit more challenging. Just think about preparing for a wedding without looking at your hair, makeup, and dress! The confidence needed to walk down an aisle amongst dozens of onlookers alone, is incredible. Imagine how terrifying it might be without the assurance of a quick glance in the mirror!
Bold Magazine: OK, Kjerstin, how do you plan to swear off mirrors for a full year, especially those other than your own?
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BM: Your confidence is so evident with your idea to step away from the mirror. How did you develop this confidence?
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Insider: The day IU receiver Nick Westbrook forgot his knee brace changed everything
The Hoosiers don't have a quarterback yet but Westbrook's return adds to a deep receiver group
Insider: The day IU receiver Nick Westbrook forgot his knee brace changed everything The Hoosiers don't have a quarterback yet but Westbrook's return adds to a deep receiver group Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://indy.st/2LVhVIj
Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star Published 3:11 p.m. ET Aug. 3, 2018
Indiana Hoosiers football kicks off in Bloomington
Indiana Hoosiers running back Ronnie Walker Jr. (23) participates in drills during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Brandon Dawkins (13) throws a pass during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers wide receiver's Whop Philyor (22) and Jacolby Hewitt (82) walk to a drill during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers athlete Reese Taylor (2) stretches during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Michael Penix Jr. (9) throws a pass during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers tight end Matt Bjorson (89) catches a pass during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers wide receiver Nick Westbrook (15) stretches during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Brandon Dawkins (13) jogs off the field during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers tight end Austin Dorris (83) catches a pass during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers wide receiver Nick Westbrook (15) watches a drill during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018. Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar,
Indiana Hoosiers wide receiver Nick Westbrook (15) watches a drill during IU's practice at Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., on Friday, August 3, 2018.(Photo: Bobby Goddin/For IndyStar, )Buy Photo
BLOOMINGTON – Wednesdays were change-of-direction days for IU football players this summer, and Nick Westbrook always made sure to bring his knee brace. The day he didn't changed everything.
Indiana's new conditioning staff introduced methods meant to address not just strength this offseason, but speed as well, appealing to a wide receiver. Westbrook, nearly a 1,000-yard receiver two years ago but a spectator for almost all of 2017 because of an ACL tear, always wanted to be careful.
"One of the days, I forgot (the brace), but didn't even realize it, so I went through the whole day, cutting, everything, without my knee brace. I looked down, and it didn't even feel any different," Westbrook said. "It kind of (knocked down) that mental block. Ever since then, I've felt 110 percent. There isn't really anything slowing me down."
That will be welcome news for IU coach Tom Allen, and a staff working to improve on last season's inconsistent performances on offense.
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Westbrook looked like an important piece of that offense heading into 2017. The season before, as a sophomore, he caught 54 passes for 995 yards and six touchdowns, helping the Hoosiers to a 6-6 record and a Foster Farms Bowl appearance.
His yardage exceeded the best single-season total ever posted by recent former Hoosiers Shane Wynn, Damarlo Belcher and Tandon Doss. His 18.4 yards per catch marked the best such number for any Hoosier since Versie Gaddis, in 2000.
But a non-contact knee injury suffered covering a kickoff in the season opener against Ohio State robbed Westbrook of his 2017 season, and Indiana of one of its best offensive playmakers.
"It was definitely tough for him," said Luke Timian, one of Westbrook's position mates and close friend. "He wanted to be able to play on Saturdays so bad, but there was nothing he could control about that situation."
Westbrook is healthy again, and prominent among a group of receivers IU will count on heavily as it sorts out its quarterback battle.
IU wide receiver Nick Westbrook suffered a torn ACL in the Hoosiers' season opener last year and was out for the rest of the season. (Photo: Robert Scheer/IndyStar)
Simmie Cobbs is gone, but Timian, Westbrook, Donavan Hale and erstwhile freshman sensation Whop Philyor return. Injuries slowed or outright sidelined several wideouts last season, not just Westbrook, adding motivation for the autumn ahead.
"I really just think we could have three 1,000-yard receivers," Westbrook said. "It sounds crazy, but I don't think there's anything that should stop us. That's what I want to emphasize during camp, is that we all realize we are some of the best receivers in this conference."
Who's throwing passes on Saturdays remains to be determined by the next month's work.
But when IU opened fall camp on Friday morning in helmets and jerseys, there was Westbrook at the front of the line in every receiver drill. His No. 15 jersey was bright white — not the non-contact blue he had to wear in spring practice that meant he couldn't hit, while his injury continued to mend.
There was no knee brace in sight.
"I've been waiting on this moment since I had surgery on Sept. 13 (of last year)," Westbrook said. "It's just been a long time coming, a long process. I've kind of seen the steps throughout the way. At first, I couldn't walk at all, and now I feel 110 percent. I feel like I could do anything.
"There's no holding me back. I'm ready to just get started playing the game I love."