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  bretton
Bretton Hall Campus is the current home of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries.
LUU at Bretton Hall Campus consists of the Bretton Hall Officer, a member of the Executive Committee and the Campus Committee which is made up of nine students who are elected to represent you in all campus issues.
Bretton's KB Bar plays host to the ever popular Open Mic Night where you get the chance to perform your talents alongside your fellow Brettoners.
www.luuonline.com /assemblies/bretton.php   (531 words)

  
  Bretton Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bretton Hall is a stately home in West Bretton in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Wakefield.
The Hall is set in 500 acres (2 km²) of lakes and parkland which is also the home of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
In June 2006 it was annunced that Bretton Hall was to be sold to Wakefield Council.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bretton_Hall   (407 words)

  
 Bretton Hall Study Abroad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bretton Hall and the University merged fully on August 2001.
The Bretton Hall Campus is situated in an area of outstanding beauty between Wakefield and Sheffield, Leeds is a 30 minute drive up the M1.
Bretton Hall is also adjacent Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which houses the largest collection of Henry Moore sculptures in the world, along with other significant work.
www.leeds.ac.uk /students/study-abroad/bretton_hall.htm   (279 words)

  
 Parip/Practice as Research in Performance
Bretton Hall Campus combines the heritage of an English country house with up to date technology and facilities providing an ideal venue for residential summer schools and events.
The Bretton Hall Campus is currently home to the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, a School within the Faculty of Performance, Visual Art and Communications at the University of Leeds.
By Train: Bretton Hall is roughly equidistant from Barnsley and Wakefield stations with Wakefield Westgate being on the direct GNER London route.
www.bris.ac.uk /parip/info_bretton.htm   (492 words)

  
 Guardian | Campus closure prompts student anger
New students at the rural Bretton Hall campus, which has an international reputation for the performing arts and design, were shocked to learn that the Palladian mansion has been recommended for closure before they finish their degrees.
But it is already facing opposition from Bretton students, who have printed Save Bretton Hall T-shirts and draped parts of the 18th century mansion and outbuildings with protest banners.
Bretton Hall was founded in 1949 by Sir Alec Clegg, chief education officer of the West Riding county council, as a higher education college which came to specialise in arts teaching and practice.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5037018-103690,00.html   (588 words)

  
 Bretton Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bretton Hall is one of the affiliated colleges of the University of Leeds.
Situated in the Yorkshire Pennines foothills midway between Sheffield and Leeds Bretton Hall is one of the leading colleges in the UK for Arts and Education.
The Bretton Hall campus is one of the most beautiful in Britain with an 18th century mansion surrounded by 260 acres of lakes, woods, parkland and formal gardens.
www.chem.leeds.ac.uk /faraday113/Bretton.html   (89 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Arts & Humanities | Performing arts college to close
Bretton Hall college is to be shut down and sold in 2007, the University of Leeds has confirmed.
The Bretton Hall campus to be sold off includes a purpose-built performing arts centre, and is set within Yorkshire Sculpture Park, home to works by artists including Anthony Goldsworthy and Barbara Hepworth.
An 'implementation' team supported by a number of working groups is being set up to ensure that staff and students are fully involved in the relocation, disruption is kept to a minimum and that all issues are given proper consideration, including teaching provision, facilities, support, resources, accommodation, communications and human resources.
education.guardian.co.uk /higher/artsandhumanities/story/0,12241,1374337,00.html   (577 words)

  
 West Bretton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West Bretton is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Wakefield.
It is the home of Bretton Hall and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, consisting of 0.80 km² (200 acres) of landscaped ground with a large collection of sculptures, including some by Elisabeth Frink, Rodin, and Barbara Hepworth, born in Wakefield.
In Bretton Country Park there are many sculptures by Henry Moore, born in Castleford.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Bretton   (111 words)

  
 BBC - Bradford and West Yorkshire - Music - Bretton Hall bonanza!
Bretton Hall in Wakefield might be under threat of closure, but students there are pledging that they won't let it close without a bang!
It was confirmed in December 2004 that Leeds University's Bretton Hall Campus will close in 2007, with teaching and research currently carried out at the campus being moved to Leeds.
With some great support from people at Bretton Hall and the enthusiasm shown for the idea in the local community, the idea really came to life.
www.bbc.co.uk /bradford/music/raw_talent/features/bretton_hall_12.shtml   (752 words)

  
 AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust Projects - University of Leeds Bretton Hall Campus
The unique focus of the Bretton Hall project is its focus on partnership teaching in science.
The Bretton Hall project is proving to be a highly effective and popular programme of in-service training.
Science co-ordinators in the schools are impressed with the quality of the input and the expertise and commitment of the Bretton Hall team.
www.azteachscience.co.uk /code/trust/bretton.asp   (726 words)

  
 University of Leeds | For the media | Press releases | Bretton and Wakefield review
Bretton activities should be relocated to the University’s main campus in Leeds, a report to academic development committee has concluded.
Bretton students are being assured they will complete courses they have embarked upon.
Bretton Hall College (of higher education) merged with the University in August 2001.
reporter.leeds.ac.uk /press_releases/current/bretton.htm   (917 words)

  
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Established nine years ago, Bretton Hall College Nursery is registered as a private nursery with the City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council and Social Services, to provide pre-school education for twenty-six children between the ages of two and five years.
The nursery is situated in the grounds of the 260 acre campus of Bretton Hall College near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
The nursery is very well supported by the academic and administrative staff of Bretton Hall College who make a valuable contribution to the management of the setting and the provision of advice relating to the development of the curriculum.
www.ofsted.gov.uk /reports/521/521653.htm   (6938 words)

  
 Powered by unofficial-guides.com - University College Bretton Hall
Bretton Hall campus is a 500 acre estate accomodating just 150 students in single rooms.
Bretton Hall has the one big library on Bretton Campus, it's got loads of specialised stock for the Bretton courses as well as video editing suites, colour copiers, scanners and study areas.
Bretton Hall students can then hope to have better labs near to or inside their accomodation blocks.
telegraph.unofficial-guides.com /guides/bretton-mini.html   (597 words)

  
 BBC - Bradford and West Yorkshire - Music - Bretton Hall bonanza!
The festival's being held in response to last year's news that the Bretton Hall campus, which is part of Leeds University, is set to close in 2007 as it is said to be 'no longer sustainable financially or academically'.
Bretton Hall is legendary for producing such luminaries as John Godber and the comics behind the hit BBC series The League Of Gentlemen.
A really big team of people has been forged now including a whole technical team at Bretton who are dealing with lighting and sound, together with stage managers and front-of-house staff who'll need to be in the venues on the weekend and lots of other people whose jobs will be various.
www.bbc.co.uk /bradford/music/raw_talent/features/2005/bretton_hall_3.shtml   (741 words)

  
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Bretton Woods is today remembered mainly for the World Economic Conference of 1944, when President Roosevelt invited 42 governments to send representatives to the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, for three weeks to discuss World economic problems.
In 1772 Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall was granted, along with 82 others, a parcel of land covering 24,640 acres in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire by Governor John Wentworth (portrait on the left).
However, links have been established once again with the State of New Hampshire, and Bretton Hall has set up academic associations with the University of New Hampshire and Plymouth State College, so the link established nearly 230 years ago is commemorated through these partnerships.
naea.leeds.ac.uk /BH_Estate/Bretton_woods.htm   (574 words)

  
 Quality Assessment Report for Bretton Hall
Bretton Hall was founded in 1949 by Sir Alec Clegg.
Bretton Hall is a constituent college of the University of Leeds.
The peaceful countryside ambience of the Bretton Hall campus, with its ornamental lakes and sculpture park, is conducive to learning and quiet reflection.
www.qaa.ac.uk /reviews/reports/subjectlevel/q75_98_textonly.htm   (4133 words)

  
 The League of gentlemen Web site
While at Bretton Hall they were taught how to comb their hair, mime eating apples and pears, and also had to attend a 'Kissing Workshop'...
Bretton Hall is part of the University of Leeds, Founded in 1949, Bretton Hall College specialised in innovative courses in design, music and the visual and performance arts.
Bretton Hall Campus is not open to the public itself but it is adjacent to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
www.leagueofgentlemen.co.uk /newfaq.shtml   (1615 words)

  
 Bretton - The American Brettons
Little Bretton was explained as being the former “North Bretton” (of which we had never seen a mention) and it explained it as being in (near to) High Hoyland.
The Brettons and the Beaumonts were branches of the same Bretton ancestors in the distant past and the Beaumonts and the Crosslands inter-married.
Certainly a Bretton was involved in a deed of trust or “use” there from the Wentworths in the late 1400's and it is highly possible that they still retained some connection with it in the 1600's.
www.bretton.org /the_american_brettons.htm   (9137 words)

  
 John Utans | Works | Bretton Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bretton Hall (1998) was created during the 1998 International Course for Professional Choreographers and Composers.
(Bretton Hall a former mansion, now forms part of The University of Surrey's Yorkshire campus.
Bretton Hall (1998) was presented at the Vault, Contemporary Arts Space, Bundaberg Arts Centre in August 1999.
www.johnutans.com /bretton.html   (399 words)

  
 midgleyeast
The term "hall" is a particularly Anglian one originally referring to the large and long building used by the lord and for formal gatherings and occasions.
New Hall farm is today defended on its south and eastern sides by a moat which would indicate that it was at one time a moated manor.
Halls were being established in the late 1500's in the district e.g.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Lane/8771/midgleyeast.html   (2635 words)

  
 Reporter 462, 26 February 2001
The biggest merger in the history of the University - with Bretton Hall College - paves the way for the creation of a cultural axis of the North, with centres of excellence in fashion and design, music, drama and fine art.
The future of Bretton is now secure as a national player in performance, the cultural industries and the arts.
The Bretton campus will become a specialist academy for performance, visual arts and sculpture, building on the strong relationship between Bretton Hall and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which has attracted significant European and lottery funding.
reporter.leeds.ac.uk /462/s5.htm   (643 words)

  
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Bretton Hall's courses are awarded/validated by the University of Leeds.
Proposals to merge Bretton Hall and the University of Leeds with effect from 1 August 2001 are currently at an advanced stage of negotiation.
If the merger is effected, an application to Bretton Hall will be treated as an application to the University of Leeds.
www.ucas.ac.uk /instit/i/rightb66.html   (143 words)

  
 Chris Rawson-Tetley - statement and work
Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds.
School of Art and Design, Textile Design School; Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds.
September 1999 'Consumerdome' Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds.
www.uwe.ac.uk /amd/lan2d/crtetley.html   (755 words)

  
 Campusweb | Obituaries news item
In 1984, she was awarded the PGCE with Special Commendation and went on to teach Drama and English at secondary schools in Barnsley and Huddersfield for a number of years, quickly coming to be regarded as an outstanding and inspiring teacher.
She returned to Bretton Hall on her appointment as Lecturer in Drama in 1991 and for the next five years taught drama across a range of programmes in both the Education and Arts Faculties, also serving for a period as the Drama course leader for the PGCE.
One year later, she was appointed to a new post at Bretton Hall, as Senior Lecturer in Drama and Drama Education In this capacity, she taught practice and theory on single and combined honours programmes, including Theatre Acting, Theatre Studies, Arts and Education, Drama within English and Performing Arts.
campus.leeds.ac.uk /newsincludes/newsitem792.htm   (481 words)

  
 History of The Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, NH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bretton Woods is part of a land grant made in 1772 by Royal Governor John Wentworth.
Two hundred and fifty Italian craftsmen, skilled in masonry and woodworking, were brought to Bretton Woods and housed on the grounds.
The 1896 Bretton Arms Inn, a Victorian inn located on the Hotel grounds, was also awarded National Historic Landmark status as part of the designation given The Mount Washington Hotel.
www.mtwashington.com /hotelinformation/index.cfm?edit_id=37   (608 words)

  
 Quality Assessment Report for Bretton Hall
The School of Music is committed to a holistic approach to the performing arts, emphasising the integration of theory and practice and, through this, the encouragement of thinking musicians and performing musicologists.
Bretton Hall claims to provide an excellent education in music.
The assessors come to the overall conclusion, based on the assessment visit and an analysis of the self-assessment, together with the statistical indicators, that the quality of education in music at Bretton Hall is satisfactory.
www.qaa.ac.uk /reviews/reports/subjectlevel/q210_95_textonly.htm   (2538 words)

  
 The Bretton Hall Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The text of this Internet version of the Statutory Instrument which is published by the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament has been prepared to reflect the text as it was Made.
A print version is also available and is published by The Stationery Office Limited as the The Bretton Hall Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2001, ISBN 0 11 029386 X. The print version may be purchased by clicking here.
On 1st August 2001 the corporation shall be dissolved and all of its property, rights and liabilities shall be transferred to and vest in the University of Leeds.
www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2001/20011340.htm   (562 words)

  
 The Rundown | News - Bretton Hall campus to close
Bretton Hall, the performing arts college run by Leeds University, is to close in 2007.
First years will still be able to finish their degrees at Bretton Hall following last month's announcement that the closure would be postponed from 2006 to 2007.
From 2007, subjects taught at Bretton Hall will be relocated to the main university campus in Leeds.
www.therundown.co.uk /news/1103565753   (206 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | West Yorkshire | Bretton campus to close in 2007
Bretton Hall campus is to close in 2007 and the building will be sold, Leeds University has confirmed.
"We recognise the affection in which Bretton is held by generations of staff and students," he added.
Current undergraduates will be able to complete their studies there and those recruited in 2005 and 2006 will move in 2007.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4084851.stm   (288 words)

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