Worcester College of Higher Education

University of Worcester

Motto	Ad Inspirandum Aspiramus
Motto in English	Aspire to Inspire
Type	Public
Established	1946 – Worcester Emergency Teacher Training College 1948 – Worcester Teacher Training College 1976 – Worcester College of Higher Education 1997 – University College Worcester (Given degree awarding powers) 2005 – University Status
Chancellor	Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Vice-Chancellor	Professor David Green
Academic staff	300
Administrative staff	700
Students	10,455 (2015/16)
Undergraduates	8,865 (2015/16)
Postgraduates	1,595 (2015/16)
Doctoral students	Up to 30 at any time
Location	Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom 52°11′52″N 2°14′35″W / 52.1977°N 2.2431°W / 52.1977; -2.2431
Campus	Urban
Colours	Blue and White
Website	www.worcester.ac.uk

The University of Worcester is a public research university, based in Worcester, United Kingdom. Worcester is the only university serving the English counties of Worcestershire and Herefordshire. With a history dating back to 1946, the university began awarding degrees in the 1997 and was granted full university status in 2005.

In 1946 an Emergency Teacher Training College for the University of Birmingham was established in Worcester on the site of one of the former RAF bases used during the Second World War. Henry Hines came to Worcester from the Canterbury Technical Institute as the principal of the College. E.G. Peirson followed Hines’s lead as the principal of the College from 1951 to 1978. During his time at the College, in the 1970s the Council for National Academic Awards validated the degrees for the Worcester College of Higher Education and the former Peirson Library, now The Peirson Study and Guidance Centre was opened. The third principal of the College, David Shadbolt, started his leadership in 1978 bringing a new system of organisation, based around three schools – Education and Teaching Studies, Arts and Sciences. In 1992, Dorma Urwin became the new principal and Coventry University agreed to validate the Institution’s degree courses. The Herefordshire and Worcestershire College of Nursing and Midwifery was absorbed in 1995. In 1997 the Privy Council affirmed the institution's degree-awarding powers and it subsequently became known as University College Worcester. In 2003, David Green was appointed as Dorma Urwin’s successor and later became the Vice Chancellor of the institution. In 2005 the Privy Council granted university status. The institution was renamed "University of Worcester" in September of that year. In 2010 the HM Privy Council conferred Research Degree Awarding Powers on the University. In the same year, the University opened the City campus in the renovated former Infirmary to create a home for the Business School. Two years later, in 2012, the University opened The Hive, a £60 million facility focused on learning resources, technology, social and study spaces. This facility is a joint venture between the University and Worcestershire County Council and was officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen.