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De Montfort triumphs at AUDE Awards
DE MONTFORT University Estates Management Team, right, were named Team of the Year in this year’s Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) Awards. The AUDE Chair’s Award for Long Term
Contribution went to Sue Holmes, Director of Estates at Oxford Brookes University, below, with Gyles Brandreth, Patrick Finch, Director of Estates and Bursar at the University of Bristol, and Clive Wilson, Director of Estates at the University of Bradford.
The awards were announced at the
annual AUDE conference, this year held at the University of Kent. They celebrate and highlight the achievements of universities and best practice in the industry, including those who lead the way in estate and facilities management. Umesh Desai, Director of Estates at De
Montfort University, has led a Campus Transformation Programme two-thirds funded (£90m) by the development of a new type of bond. With the university campus buildings interwoven so regularly with historic Leicester, it has been a key
part of the university’s strategy to work under the theme “Promote and Improve Our City”. The University of Bristol’s Working Well
campaign won the Impact Initiative Award. Sinead O’Toole (Sheffield Hallam University) and Sean MacEnri (University of Chichester) were joint winners of the Emerging Talent Award. And “Give It Don’t Bin It”, the re-use and recycling campaign run in a cross-city partnership by the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University, won the AUDE Reaching Higher Award.
Students value university academic rankings more than ever
NEW research from the Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) has found the importance of university academic rankings has doubled over the last 25 years. Nearly a third (30%) of current
university students say the academic ranking of their university was a key factor in influencing their choice, double the number for students who attended university 25 years ago (15%). The research compared the values of
today’s university students and of those 25 years ago. The university course came out on top as the number one reason for choosing an institution, (50% now vs 62% 25 years ago), with distance from home
second (27% now vs 38% 25 years ago). Mike Clark, AUDE’s Chair, and Director
of Estate & Facilities Management at the University of Brighton said; “We commissioned this survey to help us better understand what it is students want from their university experience and how this has changed over the last two decades. The university estate is evolving and as directors of estates it is our job to make sure we meet the demands of current and future students. Improving 24-hour access and digital connectivity is clearly an area we should be focusing on.” The library (55%) and accommodation (36%) are the most valued facilities by
both generations, but today’s scholars place nearly the same amount of importance on 24-hour access to facilities (38% now vs 22% past). Digital connectivity is expanding, having improved by 14% over the last 25 years (73% of current students say they have good digital connectivity vs 59% from those 25 years ago). The research also found, when it
comes to the look and feel of buildings, nearly half (45%) of students favour a mix of the old and new. Over a third (38%) favour the advanced technology in new buildings, but over half (50%) prefer the look of heritage buildings because of the beautiful architecture.
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