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  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 College found itself in financial difficulties, and, with the support of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), it merged with the University of Leeds in August 2001.
In June 2006 it was annunced that Bretton Hall was to be sold to Wakefield Council.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bretton_Hall   (404 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.
A member of the college's academic staff carries out the role of link tutor with responsibility for monitoring the curriculum and the quality of the provision, as well as ensuring that the nursery's action plan is implemented.
www.ofsted.gov.uk /reports/521/521653.htm   (6938 words)

  
 Bretton Hall Study Abroad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Building on the expertise and experience of Bretton Hall, the University of Leeds is one of the leading institutions in the country offering degrees in the arts.
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)

  
 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 Hall College (of higher education) merged with the University in August 2001.
At the time of the merger, the future of the college was in significant jeopardy and the union was warmly welcomed by the funding council.
reporter.leeds.ac.uk /press_releases/current/bretton.htm   (917 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.
The comedian Mark Thomas, another Bretton Hall alumni, told the Leeds student newspaper in October: "The great thing about Bretton Hall is that everyone was interested in what each other was doing.
education.guardian.co.uk /higher/artsandhumanities/story/0,12241,1374337,00.html   (577 words)

  
 unofficial-guides.com - University College Bretton Hall
The Lodge is a small complex in the villiage of Kettlethorpe, which is four miles from the Bretton Hall campus and two miles from Manygates.
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.
www.unofficial-guides.com /guides/bretton-mini.html   (587 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)

  
 Rufford - Organisations and Links
Bretton Hall - College of the University of Leeds
Ceramics at Bretton Hall offers the unique opportunity to explore the versatile and emotive qualities of the ceramic medium with a fine art emphasis.
As well as fostering the development of a passion for the medium within a fine art agenda, Ceramics at Bretton Hall gives the scope to explore and investigate a broad and varied range of ceramic techniques and disciplines which facilitate personal response and relationship to the material.
www.ruffordceramiccentre.org.uk /ceramic/organis/eduview.asp?select=2   (820 words)

  
 Education | Performing arts college to close
"Bretton - academically - is a pioneering beacon for widening participation.
There are plans to build a new £1.5m theatre on the Leeds University campus and refurbish empty space in the physical education building to provide rehearsal rooms and design studios for the students.
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 /print/0,,5086457-108229,00.html   (577 words)

  
 Campusweb | Obituaries news item
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.
With the merger between the College and the University in 2001 and the establishment of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, she took a leading part in the development of new school and taught on the Acting and Dramaturgy programmes, linking them with her extraordinary talent for communication and organisation.
campus.leeds.ac.uk /newsincludes/newsitem792.htm   (481 words)

  
 Breton - Design and Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
College subject specialists visit schools and there is an extensive programme of mentor training and partnership development for professional mentors, subject mentors and new mentors to support the professional development and special interests of partnership schools.
College subject leaders are responsible for linking subject and professional strands of the training, subject links with schools and quality assurance in all aspects of their subject course.
Appropriately targeted tasks are set by the college tutor to ensure that trainees focus on their weaker aspect of the subject and trainees make good, and sometimes very good, progress in improving their knowledge, skills and understanding.
www.ofsted.gov.uk /reports/ittreports/1308.htm   (6050 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.
At the heart of the merger is a new faculty of music, visual and performing arts, forged together by the University and Bretton and drawing upon existing strengths at both centres.
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 College: Bretton Hall is currently merging with the University of Leeds, meaning that the current curriculum offered on the site will shrink quite dramatically; the current plan is for the college to become the University of Leeds site for Performing and Visual Arts.
The Bretton guidance workers reported that the college has a good retention rate, and interestingly they were the only HEI interviewed who ran a personal tutor pastoral system on similar lines to the usual FE practice.
Two colleges in the area reported having a large interest from their student cohort relating to taking creative arts subjects at HE level, but found that these were not provided by all of the HEIs in the WPP.
www.shu.ac.uk /services/ssc/participation/advice/reports/guidance-report.doc   (4473 words)

  
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Project outcomes Although the college has ceased to offer teaching in physics at undergraduate level, the part-time BSc in physics continues to be provided at UCL under the terms of the transfer agreement between the college and UCL.
A permanent Dean of FE and Principal of Harrogate College was appointed on 1 February 1999.
All 17 universities and eight colleges of higher education with campuses in the region are members, paying a subscription proportional to their FTE student totals on those campuses.
www.hefce.ac.uk /Pubs/HEFCE/2000/00_30s3.doc   (12812 words)

  
 Mary Washington College name change | MetaFilter
Or worse still, give a call to alumni of Morris Brown College here in Atlanta and ask them how their degrees are faring from a college that lost its accreditation because of financial difficulties.
Colleges, companies and buildings from sea to shining sea bear the names of men, many long dead, and no one blinks.
Wondering what future idiot interviewers might think of the name of your college and not the quality of the education that you received there is as stupid as the MWC coach who claims that teams avoid playing Mary Washington because they might lose to a "girl" team.
www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/25702   (1754 words)

  
 Bretton Hall College Review
“Bretton Hall is one of the most beautiful university sites in the world.
The courses are enriched by each student's personal contribution to the work, dialogue and discourses that shape and maintain all our programmes of study.
Bretton Hall Art and Design work relies upon the autonomy and personal interests and intentions of each student.
arc.co.uk /414146.arx   (221 words)

  
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In spite of a serious back injury, she achieved a first class honours degree, and her final year choreography was selected and filmed for Talent 2000 on BBC television.
She is currently studying for a PhD in dance-making on the Internet at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds.
In addition to lecturing part-time on under- and post-graduate courses at Bretton Hall College, Popat is Dance Consultant on the Curriculum Group for the NotSchool Project at ULTRALAB, Anglia Polytechnic University.
dpa.ntu.ac.uk /dpa_search/result.php3?Project=84   (575 words)

  
 Biography
In the autumn of that year I was invited as Artist in Residence and Teacher to the Richard Attenborough Centre at the University of Leicester.
In 1998 I completed Post Graduate Certificate in Education at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire.
This began while I was a student at the National College of Art and Design Dublin, where I studied for a degree in Craft Design majoring in ceramics from 1989-93.
www.touchart.com /biog.htm   (1317 words)

  
 National Arts Education Archive: UNESCO Culture Sector
The National Arts Education Archive was established in 1985 at Bretton Hall College to provide a documentary trace of the development of Arts Education, in the UK and worldwide.
It is based in the Lawrence Batley Centre, and now holds some 100 collections of children's and students' work in the Arts.
The National Arts Education Archive is open to all, and particularly welcomes academic researchers and students.
portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8212&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html   (67 words)

  
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World premiere of string quartet version 1996, Bretton Hall College, Yorkshire by the Bingham Quartet.
Vaguely premiered at Bretton Hall College, 1995 by the composer.
Premiere at Bretton Hall College, 29th July 1998.
www.cs.kent.ac.uk /people/staff/cgj/pages/compositions.html   (353 words)

  
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 Current News - Lenoir-Rhyne College
She then continued her arts studies in England, earning a Master of Art in Fine Art from Bretton Hall, College of the University of Leeds in Wakefield.
She has been a public school teacher, has taught in the community college system and most recently taught at ASU and served as director of the ASU/Public School Partnership.
Annual gifts of $25 to $100 made by an AAL member to a participating Lutheran elementary or secondary school, college or seminary are matched dollar-for-dollar by AAL.
www.lrc.edu /news/newsarchive/2000/news_1_11_00.htm   (1187 words)

  
 Sita Popat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Sita began her professional dance training in 1985 at London College of Dance and Drama, Bedford, England.
She returned to dancing in 1995 when she started her undergraduate dance degree at Bretton Hall College, Wakefield, England.
She also lectures part-time on the MA and undergraduate courses at Bretton Hall College.
dpa.ntu.ac.uk /archive/satorimedia/sita.htm   (232 words)

  
 The ADDISON GROUP OF SINGERS: Staff
DAVID WORDSWORTH studied at Bretton Hall College of Leeds University, The City University and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
In 1995 he was appointed to the staff of The Centre for Young Musicians Morley College and the Kensington and Chelsea College.
In September 1995 David was made Musical Director of The Addison Singers, and under his direction the choir has sung a number of important UK/London and world premieres by composers as diverse as Mark-Anthony Turnage, Ned Rorem, Gavin Bryars and Colin Matthews as well as many works in the standard choral repertoire.
www.addison-singers.org.uk /staff.htm   (1074 words)

  
 Aurora 3/2000 : Anu enjoyed her stay in England
She spent three months as an exchange student in Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds, Wakefield, England.
"Bretton Hall College specialises in art, drama, music and the performing arts.
During the time Anu spent as an exchange student, she had the opportunity to learn more about drama education.
www.utu.fi /aurora/3-2000/22en.html   (634 words)

  
 HOLYGROUND RECORDS : : : Last Thing On My Mind
Mike thought this would be the last album he would be able to make and sell as he would lose not only the contact with Bretton musicians when he left college that Summer, but he would also lose his ready made customers, thus the title borrowed from the folk song of the same name.
As virtually all of Holyground musicians were drawn from the college folk or rock scene I failed to appear on the earliest recordings.
However, after leaving college I gravitated towards the drunken hedonism that was the post college folk scene and played many a long and lively evening accompanying Dave Nuttall.
www.holyground.co.uk /last   (3069 words)

  
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These works draw their theme from a variety of sources, that include personal history and music, but are predominantly conceived through the exploration of landscape.
I studied Art and design Foundation at Leicester Polytechnic, and Visual Arts (Sculpture) at Bretton Hall Collage, University of Leeds.
Sporadic sculptures and occasional journeys by Lambretta, Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds
www.axisartists.org.uk /seCVFU.aspx?ARTISTID=403   (219 words)

  
 Meet the Dancers (Project 3)
I'm also a soon to be Bretton graduate, I'm 21 and live in York with a house full of cats.
Hi, I am a third year dance student, and I've just completed the final year of a BA (hons) degree at Bretton Hall College, UK.
Before Bretton Hall I was at Barnsley College where I studied B.A (Hons) Band Studies, majoring in Electroacoustic Composition in my final year.
www.satorimedia.com /hands_on/dancers3.htm   (467 words)

  
 The League of Gentlemen Website! - The Gents
Steve studied at Bretton Hall Drama College in the University of Leeds.
Reece also went to Bretton Hall, but was in the year below, which makes him the youngest of the four gents.
Jeremy met up with the rest of the gang during their Bretton Hall years although he was studying Philosphy at the time.
www.lofg.com /thegents.php   (951 words)

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