INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ENABLES FLEXIBILITY
We are upgrading IT to increase our connectivity, flexibility and security. Our Healthcare and Sports science students are to benefit from more advanced technical facilities, and plans have progressed on the proposed development of an academic and civic hub with student housing.
As part of our commitment to infrastructure that enables flexibility, we have identified that networks today need the flexibility to support blended working, meet high levels of demand and that management and troubleshooting should be straightforward.
An entirely new wired and wireless network replaced the previous system, benefiting staff and students alike, thanks to our £5 million Network Transformation Programme which commenced in 2019. The system is now being configured and security is being tightened further using Software Defined Networking. This allows a network to be managed by consistent policies and services from a central system, improving network security, flexibility and manageability.
Our Finance and Student systems have been upgraded as part of our continued systems maintenance and upgrade activities. Work on a tender for our website content management system has started. We continue to keep our systems security arrangements under review, and strengthen these in line with our Cyber Security Strategy. A major development this year has been the rollout of Multi-Factor Authentication to staff and students who use our Microsoft infrastructure.
In preparation for students and staff returning in greater numbers from September 2021, we developed a summer 2021 programme of work to deliver improvements across our Hendon campus and within core buildings. Projects included the reconfiguration and relocation of specialist photography, video, sound and digital equipment KitHub within the Grove Building, the creation of a Postgraduate Research Hub for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, and the reconfiguration and refresh of a number of open plan staff offices in Fenella and Grove Buildings to prepare for blended working. We worked with our catering provider Chartwells to improve and refresh our catering outlets in MDX House, the main student meeting and entertainment space on campus. Our estate is supported by a continuous programme of maintenance and development.
Looking to the long term we are in the early stages of planning for the development of accommodation at Platt Hall and Writtle House. MDX Living Pavilion, which last year was a runner-up for a Guardian University Award in Teaching Excellence, will see further development next year as a practice-based project for our Architectural Technology students.
A PLACE FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
At Middlesex we harness technology to support students in a tailored and meaningful way. For our Police Apprenticeship programme, which is delivered with three police forces and three other universities, we have implemented a new apprentice management system and issued more than 1,000 iPads for the apprentices to use.
A new, state-of-the-art clinical and sports science facility in Copthall is due to welcome students and academics in September 2022, now that construction has started on West Stand as a result of our long term partnership with Saracens Rugby Club.
The facility will contain clinical premises that replicate exactly the settings in which our healthcare students will work during their professional careers – including two four-bed bays – as well as simulation suites and skills rooms.
Our Sports students work at all levels, from elite, academy to community, in developing the competitive edge needed for competition and in enhancing performance. The West Stand facility will also expand the specialist space for our London Sport Institute, where our students gain a thorough grounding in the science underpinning sport, exercise and health using the latest technologies. These include 3D motion, video analysis, force-sensing plates embedded in walls and floors and full-body scanning which capture a range of high resolution data to measure and improve several elements of our athletes’ performance and health and to reduce risk of injury.
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