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University in Aberdeen, Scotland

The Robert Gordon University

Motto	Latin: Omni Nunc Arte Magistra
Motto in English	Now by all your mastered arts
Blazon	Public
Established	1992 (origins mid-18th century)
Endowment	£i.9 meg (2015)[1]
Budget	£103 meg (2014)[2]
Chancellor	Dame Evelyn Glennie
Main	Professor Steve Olivier
Academic staff	662[3]
Administrative staff	933[3]
Students	xvi,787[iv]
Undergraduates	ten,576[4]
Postgraduates	6,211[four]
Location	Aberdeen , Scotland, United Kingdom
Campus	Suburban (principal campus)
Colours	Regal and White Celebrated Colours: Majestic Blue, Red and Gold
Affiliations	EUA
Website	www.rgu.air-conditioning.united kingdom

Robert Gordon University, commonly called RGU, is a public university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It became a university in 1992, and originated from an educational establishment founded in the 18th century by Robert Gordon, a prosperous Aberdeen merchant, and diverse institutions which provided adult instruction and technical education in the 19th and early on 20th centuries. It is i of ii universities in the city (the other is the University of Aberdeen). RGU is a campus university and its unmarried campus in Aberdeen is at Garthdee, in the s-w of the city.

The academy awards degrees in a wide range of disciplines from BA/BSc to PhD, primarily in professional person, technical, health and artistic disciplines and those nearly applicable to concern and industry. A number of traditional academic caste programmes are also offered, such as in the social sciences. In improver, the university'south academic and research staff produce research in a number of areas.^[5]

History [edit]

Master plaza at Garthdee campus (2013)

The university derives from Robert Gordon'southward Hospital, an institution fix in the mid-18th century to provide the poor with a basic didactics and reasonable start in life, and the various educational institutions which developed in Aberdeen to provide adults with technical, vocational and creative training, mostly in the evenings and part-fourth dimension.^[6] Post-obit numerous mergers between these establishments, it became Robert Gordon'south Technical Higher in 1910, and so following further developments became Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology in 1965 and began to conduct increasing amounts of enquiry and provide degree-level education (by now mostly offer day classes to full-fourth dimension students). Finally, it became a university in 1992. Unlike some modern universities in the United kingdom which were created following the government reforms of 1992, it has never been a polytechnic (these were never part of the Scottish education organisation).

Founding institutions [edit]

Administration Building on Schoolhill in Aberdeen metropolis centre.

Robert Gordon was a Scottish merchant, who had grown up in Aberdeen and graduated from Marischal College. Following a successful career, generally in Danzig where he amassed a fortune, he retired to Aberdeen around 1720. In the final decade of his life, he prepared plans for a Hospital like to that founded in Edinburgh by George Heriot. The purpose of Robert Gordon's Hospital was "the Maintenance, Aliment, Entertainment and Education of immature boys whose parents are poor and indigent... and to put them to Trades and Employment". Gordon died in 1731, and left his unabridged fortune to the project. Nonetheless, it took nearly two decades for buildings to be completed, with the starting time boys admitted in 1750. The aim was not a sophisticated education, but to provide the poor with a reasonable start in life. Boys were taken in between 8 and 11 years old and received nutrient, accommodation and a basic educational activity including English, Latin, writing and arithmetic. They left the Hospital between 14 and xvi years sometime as an amateur in a trade or to a merchant. The Hospital expanded through the 18th and 19th centuries.^[6]

Meanwhile, in the early on 19th century, the Industrial Revolution led to a greater need for scientific and technical education for working-class adults, with "Mechanic'south Institutes" spreading through Scotland, patterned on that founded by George Birkbeck at Glasgow (he would later constitute Birkbeck College, the University of London's night school). The Aberdeen Mechanic'south Institution opened in 1824 providing evening classes in subjects such as physics, chemical science, mathematics, book-keeping, maritime navigation and art. Past 1855 information technology was receiving authorities funding equally the School of Science and Art, with a Technical Schoolhouse founded two years afterwards.^[6]

Bust of John Grayness, whose philanthropy founded Gray'south School of Art

Plate-glass windows reverberate the colours of autumn at Gray's School of Art building, Garthdee campus.

Child and adult didactics combined: Robert Gordon's College (1881) [edit]

Authorities education reforms in the 1870s saw the "Hospital" system fall out of favour and encouraged mergers with other educational establishments. As office of these reforms, the Aberdeen Mechanic's Plant and Technical Schoolhouse merged with Robert Gordon's Hospital in 1881. The resulting institution was known as Robert Gordon's College. It provided an education for boys but as a day school just, and evening (and later day) classes for adults (male and female person) in science, technology, commerce and general subjects. Art classes offered by the Mechanic'due south Establishment were transferred to a new, independent School of Art close by, paid for by local businessman John Grey and opened in 1885.^[six]

Splitting child from developed: Robert Gordon's Technical College (1910 on) [edit]

By the terminate of the 19th century, Robert Gordon'southward College was a major provider of technical pedagogy, receiving large government grants. Following further reforms, in 1903 the developed instruction part of the higher was designated a Central Institution along with Gray's School of Art (which had become a Fundamental Institution two years before), assuasive the developed education activities to develop independently rather than under the command of the local Schoolhouse Board. Still, fifty-fifty this was non sufficient to meet demand for technical education, and dedicated Technical Colleges were being set up in other Scottish cities. As a result, in 1910 developed educational activity activities were split from the school and became Robert Gordon's Technical College.^[6] As well merged into the new Technical Higher was the city's School of Domestic Economic system which provided classes in domestic science. The day school for boys continued as Robert Gordon's College, and the two institutions shared a campus, buildings and until 1981, a Board of Governors and administrative staff.^[vi]

During the 1920s, the first Ordinary and Higher Certificates and Diplomas were awarded, and by the 1930s Robert Gordon's Technical Higher was made upwardly of Schools of Engineering, Chemistry, Maths & Physics, Chemist's shop, Art (including architecture), Domestic Science, and Navigation. Around this fourth dimension the get-go students began to be prepared for external degree examinations – for the University of Aberdeen's BSc in engineering. A system of student governance also adult, with a Student Representative Quango formed in 1931. In the endmost years of World State of war Ii, candidates started to exist prepared to sit down exams for external degrees of the University of London, in subjects such as Chemistry and Engineering, but but via part-time and/or evening classes. After 1945, to assistance with settling large numbers of returning soldiers into a career, the Government backed a Business Training Scheme which allowed the Technical Higher to innovate courses in Business organization Assistants.^[6]

Technical College to Institute (1965) to University (1992) [edit]

Atrium of Sir Ian Wood Building at Garthdee campus.

In 1955, the Technical College received a big souvenir of land. Local Architect, property developer and entrepreneur Tom Scott Sutherland, purchased the Victorian estate and estate of Garthdee House in 1953 on the outskirts of the metropolis. Finding himself and his wife living out of only four rooms in the enormous mansion, he donated it and the estate in 1955 for a new school of architecture.^[6] These classes had taken place at Gray'south School of Art, only had been expanding in the 1940s and 1950s and much more than space was needed. Following completion of a modern extension to the house, the new Scott Sutherland School of Architecture opened in 1957. In 1966, Gray'southward School of Fine art likewise moved to a large new building on this manor, freeing its Schoolhill building for administrative utilise. By 2013, all activities had transferred to Garthdee, with the improver of land immediately adjacent purchased from Aberdeen City Council in the 1990s.^[6]

The 1963 Robbins Study on the future of UK higher educational activity recommended major expansion, which led to the renaming of the institution to Robert Gordon'southward Plant of Technology to suggest its increasing role in higher didactics rather than further education.^[6] Besides as new "plate-glass" universities, reforms following the written report created the polytechnics in England, Wales and Northern Republic of ireland. It besides created the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) to allow not-university institutions (like the polytechnics and Scottish central institutions) to run programmes that graduated students with CNAA degrees. The plant's beginning CNAA degree programmes began in pharmacy in 1967, then in engineering, chemistry and physics in 1969, and expanded at undergraduate and postgraduate level to all disciplines. Around this time, the government also began to transfer non-degree teaching (e.g. document courses in navigation) to local-dominance colleges.

During the 1960s, an academic commission construction was prepare, headed from 1969 past an Academic Quango. During the 1970s, these committees underwent expansion and reform to ameliorate participation by bookish staff in decision-making. For the first time, a faculty structure was introduced, with Faculties of Art & Architecture, Engineering, Arts, and Sciences, led by deans. A section dedicated to providing computer services to the institute was also established in 1974, and the first professorships were introduced in 1975. In 1981, the separation of the Board of Governors and administration staff from Robert Gordon's Higher was completed, although the school and Institute connected to share some buildings. First in the 1970s, the institute also began to provide extensive consultancy and training for the Northward Body of water oil industry, specially in technology and offshore safety and survival.^{[half dozen]}

Autumn at Garthdee campus, showing Faculty of Wellness and Social Intendance building (left) and University Library (tower) and Sir Ian Forest edifice (centre and right).

The Robert Gordon University (1992 to present) [edit]

Following the reforms of the Further and Higher Pedagogy Act 1992, the constitute was awarded university status as The Robert Gordon University on 12 June 1992.^[7] The new university inherited numerous small campuses, and during the late 1990s and 2000s embarked on large building projects to consolidate teaching at its City Eye and Garthdee campuses, assisted past a large purchase of state at Garthdee from Aberdeen Metropolis Council in the mid-1990s. As new Garthee facilities were completed, the majority of these previous campuses were sold equally land for housing development (such as at Kepplestone and King Street), while City Centre facilities that were no longer required were ofttimes sold to Robert Gordon'southward College, with the sale proceeds paying for the expansion and new construction at Garthdee. In the 1990s and 2000s student numbers also increased considerably, requiring new and larger facilities. A merger with the Academy of Aberdeen was discussed in 2002, simply was rejected in favour of remaining split but working in closer collaboration.

By 2000, the university had consolidated to 2 campuses, at Garthdee and a city centre campus at Schoolhill and St. Andrew Street in central Aberdeen. Withal, it had been planned since the early 1990s to eventually move all facilities to a unmarried campus at Garthdee and additional land was purchased to enable buildings to exist constructed to house academic departments which had been at the city eye campus. The first phase was completed in summer 2013 with the opening of the Sir Ian Forest building (formally opened in July 2015).^[8] The but remaining building at the City-Centre campus is the Administration Building on Schoolhill.

Controversies [edit]

Donald Trump honorary degree [edit]

In 2010, RGU gained international attending for awarding an honorary degree to controversial American businessman Donald Trump. This featured in the 2012 documentary film Yous've Been Trumped ^[9] which documented the progress of the structure of Trump'due south golf grade near Aberdeen from the point of view of local residents. In the film Dr David Kennedy, old Principal of the university, is shown handing back his own honorary degree in protest at the university'south activeness in awarding the caste to Trump.^{[10] [11]}

In December 2015 the university'south then Principal, Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, announced he was reviewing the honorary degree and expressed his alert at statements fabricated by Donald Trump. Then on nine December 2015 the honorary degree was revoked. RGU publicly stated: "In the course of the current US ballot campaign (2016), Mr Trump has made a number of statements that are wholly incompatible with the ethos and values of the academy. The university has therefore decided to revoke its award of the honorary degree".^[12] The revoking of Donald Trump's honorary doctorate came in excess of iv years after the man of affairs defendant the then-incumbent Us President Barack Obama of illegitimacy on the basis of unsubstantiated accusations that Obama was born in Republic of kenya and therefore not a US denizen.^[13]

Vice Main date [edit]

In May 2018 an internal probe was launched after an anonymous whistleblower noted that RGU's newly appointed Vice-Principal for Commercial and Regional Innovation, Gordon McConnell, was co-director with Principal Ferdinand von Prondzynski in Knockdrin Estates Limited,^[14] a non-trading micro-company holding von Prondzynski's family unit castle and manor.^{[xv] [16]} Published on 4 July 2018, the investigation found that McConnell "did not declare in his annunciation of involvement form (completed in September 2017, following his appointment) that he was a director of Knockdrin Estates Limited" as well as revealing that this form was co-signed by von Prondzynski as his line manager.^[17] The inquiry establish that whilst the Principal failed to declare this link at the time of Gordon McConnell's date, it also expressed the view of the board that he did not deliberately conceal any information.^[xviii]

The finding led to a letter of resignation from another of the three Vice-Principals, Paul Hagan, who condemned RGU for declining to punish the pair,^{[nineteen] [twenty]} stating that this damaged the institution.^[nineteen] Hagan subsequently withdrew his resignation in response to Prondzynski's departure.^[21]

On ix August 2018, von Prondzynski announced that he would voluntarily step down from his post on 31 August.^{[21] [22]} In the same press release, RGU appear that Deputy Master John Harper had already been appointed to succeed Prondzynski.^[23]

Campus [edit]

RGU operates a single campus in Aberdeen, in the south-western suburbs at Garthdee. As of August 2017 all academic and administrative departments are located at Garthdee.

Garthdee campus [edit]

The Garthdee campus is the university's chief campus, where all academic departments are located and teaching and inquiry takes place.

Main plaza at Garthdee campus

The Garthdee campus is situated in the southward-west of the city. For much of its history it was a greenfield site, with parts used as the gardens and estate of the Victorian manor of Garthdee House, farmland, and open meadows. The first university buildings were in use from the 1950s. The Garthdee campus has seen major investment in recent years, with numerous new buildings constructed since the tardily 1990s which include a "University Street", role of Norman Foster's design concept for the modern campus.^[6]

Parkland at Garthdee campus

Round Tower student residences (left) and Central Services administration building (correct)

Gray's School of Art edifice

The campus extends to 23 hectares (57 acres), although some of this is currently landscaped parkland, undeveloped, or nether construction. In addition, the university owns a further 8 hectares (twenty acres) of land to the due west (primarily woodland) and 22 hectares (54 acres) at Waterside Farm on the opposite bank of the River Dee.^[24]

The primary buildings of the campus are:

• Sir Ian Wood edifice (formerly Riverside East) - Houses the University Library and departments of pharmacy, life sciences, computing, architecture and engineering. The building was renamed at its official opening in July 2015 by the Princess Imperial.^[8]
• Aberdeen Business Schoolhouse building, which houses the departments of Bookkeeping & Finance, Communication & Media, Information Management, Law, and Direction, and a large Report Centre which occupies the quondam library space.
• Faculty of Health and Social Care building houses the Schools of Applied Social Studies, Nursing & Midwifery, and Health Sciences. The building besides acts as a hub for student services, with the academy's student helpdesk, careers service, disability and dyslexia service, accommodation part and counselling service located in facilities off the main atrium
• The RGU SPORT building is a campus sports and fitness centre, designed past architectural firm Thomson Craig & Donald and opened in 2005 at a cost of £ten.seven million,^[25] including back up from organisations such as sportscotland. Information technology provides extensive facilities for sport, practise and concrete grooming, including several gyms with facilities for cardiovascular and resistance training, a 25-metre pond pool, climbing wall, studios for group exercise classes, and a large sports hall for a broad range of indoor sports. The RGU SPORT Building also includes Union Manner, the home of the RGU:Spousal relationship offices, Deeview Student Store and social area.
• The International Higher (ICRGU) building is a modular pre-made two-storey building situated at the rear of RGU SPORT. It was constructed in 2011 to provide additional teaching space for the "International College at RGU" (ICRGU).
• The Gray's School of Art building opened in 1966 to let the fine art school to expand from its Victorian building next to the Aberdeen Art Gallery in the city eye used as the university's Assistants Edifice before moving to Garthdee, and besides considered as an extension to The Art Gallery until its eventual use as role of Robert Gordon's College.
• Garthdee House is the location of the Principal's Office. Information technology is a Victorian estate firm which formed the cadre of the Garthdee estate, which with later purchases of adjacent land became today's campus. The Scott Sutherland Schoolhouse of Architecture was the sole user of Garthdee House until 2013, when the Principal'due south Office likewise moved into the edifice.

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  Garthdee Firm serves as the Master's Part

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  Faculty of Health and Social Intendance building

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  Garthdee House seen across lawn

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  Business Schoolhouse building at evening

City centre facilities [edit]

Former building at St. Andrew Street, now converted to luxury hotel

Assistants Edifice at Schoolhill. This edifice was constructed around 1885 as Greyness's School of Art, then converted to authoritative use in the 1960s.

Until recently^{[ when? ]} the university continued to operate i not-academic facility in the urban center-eye. The building at Schoolhill is situated next to the Aberdeen Art Gallery and Robert Gordon'south College, a private school which is no longer affiliated to the university merely shares a common heritage and motto. The Administration Edifice is listed as an architecturally significant edifice,^[26] constructed in the Victorian period of carved and ornamented granite, typical of Aberdeen'southward famous Granite City architecture. In August 2017 all non-academic staff completed the motion to the chief campus at Garthdee.

Also located there was the old city centre campus. Many of these buildings were sold over the years to Robert Gordon's College for school use, while others have been sold for redevelopment. In July 2014, the St. Andrew Street building (which had been replaced past the Sir Ian Woods building at the Garthdee campus) was sold to the Canadian hotel Sandman Hotels group to be converted to a four-star hotel.^[27] The 12,000 foursquare metre edifice was constructed around 1908 and had served as the Aberdeen Higher of Didactics until purchased in 1968;^[28] the university claimed information technology to be the third-largest granite building in Europe, after the Castilian Escorial palace almost Madrid, and Marischal Higher.^[29] The academy plans to retain the historic Administration Building for the foreseeable future.^[30]

Administration building [edit]

The former Administration Building has a frontage direct onto the public street of Schoolhill and was completed in 1885. It is a significantly larger building than the street frontage suggests. On completion, it housed Gray'south School of Art and was designed by the prominent Aberdeen builder Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, who designed many of the city's grand granite buildings in the 19th century. The building is synthetic of grey and pink Corrennie granite ashlar with Corinthian columns and was designed to friction match the Aberdeen Art Gallery side by side to it,^[31] and like these buildings, it is Category A listed past Historic Scotland. As the School of Art grew in size, the building was extended in 1896 and once more between 1928 and 1931. Nevertheless, it eventually became besides small and when Grey'southward School of Fine art moved to a new modernist building at Garthdee in the 1960s (see to a higher place), the edifice was converted for administrative apply.^[32] From then until 2013 information technology housed the Principal'south part, which moved to Garthdee House at the Garthdee campus, followed past the authoritative staff in 2017.

In 2019, the Administration building was redeveloped in partnership with Opportunity Northward East and Codebase,^[33] to become a "digital entrepreneurship hub" in the city centre. Robert Gordon University volition retain an area of the building to host events and activities offering staff, students and alumni grooming and funding to develop concern ideas. The facility includes co-working space, offices, and event areas for academy showtime-upwards teams and businesses working with ONE Codebase.

Organisation and governance [edit]

Side elevation of Faculty of Wellness and Social Intendance building.

Rockery at "University Street".

Academic faculties [edit]

Bookish activities at the university are divided into xi schools. Each school is led by a caput of schoolhouse and is sub-divided into departments. In that location are also numerous administrative departments which back up the university's activities. All academic Schools and Departments are based at the principal Garthdee campus.

• Aberdeen Business School
• School of Applied Social Studies
• School of Calculating
• School of Creative and Cultural Business organisation
• School of Engineering
• Gray's School of Art
• School of Health Sciences
• The Law School
• School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice
• School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences
• The Scott Sutherland Schoolhouse of Architecture & Built Environs

Governance [edit]

Library tower (correct) and riverbank path. Faculty of Health and Social Intendance edifice likewise visible.

Nether the terms of the Farther and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 and The Robert Gordon University (Scotland) Order of Council 1993, the university's governing torso comprises a Board of Governors, consisting of 23 governors appointed to exercise the functions of direction and control. The official head of the university is the Chancellor, although in practice he or she acts mainly in a ceremonial or symbolic office. At an operational level, most of the day-to-day management and control of the institution is delegated to the Principal and Vice Chancellor (usually known simply equally the Principal). The Board of Governors too delegates functions relating to the overall planning, co-ordination, development and supervision of academic affairs to the academy'due south Academic Council. Both the Board of Governors and the Academic Council are supported by a broad range of committees.

Chancellors ^[34]

• Sir Bob Reid (1992–2005)
• Sir Ian Woods KT (2005–2021)
• Dame Evelyn Glennie CH (2021–nowadays)

At Scottish universities, the Chief of the academy is its general chief executive and is the authoritative head of the institution, second in precedence only to the Chancellor. This means that the day-to-day running and leadership of the academy is the responsibleness of the Master.

Chief and Vice-Chancellors ^[34]

• David A. Kennedy (1992–1997)
• William Stevely CBE (1997–2005)
• R. Michael Pittilo MBE (2005–2010)
• John Harper (acting) (2010–2011)
• Ferdinand von Prondzynski (2011–2018)
• John Harper (2018–2020)
• Steve Olivier (2020–nowadays)

Academic profile [edit]

Reputation and rankings [edit]

Rankings

National rankings
Complete (2022)[35]	85
Guardian (2022)[36]	78
Times / Sunday Times (2022)[37]	82
Global rankings
QS (2022)[38]	801–1000
THE (2022)[39]	801–1000
British Government assessment
Teaching Excellence Framework [40]	Gold

Daffodils in bloom on Garthdee Road, shut to entrance to Garthdee campus

University Library, Sir Ian Forest building.

In the subject area league tables from The Guardian, it was first in Scotland for four subjects in 2017 (Wellness Professions; Journalism; Compages; and Pharmacy), while securing three subjects in the United kingdom height 10.^[41]

The Sunday Times awarded RGU the title of Best Modern University in the Uk for 2012 in its University Guide 2012. The title had previously been won past Oxford Brookes University for each of the preceding 10 years.^[42] RGU received the 2012 award partly due to ratings of the quality of pedagogy and research, only too due to its employment tape which was judged the best of any Uk university.^[43] RGU was likewise named as Best Modern University in the UK in The Times Good University Guide 2013.

In 2017, RGU received the TEF Gold Framework of Excellence in teaching.^[45]

Graduate employment [edit]

At in one case, the Robert Gordon University had the highest rate among the Britain universities of graduates in employment or postgraduate study six months after graduation. In 2015, HESA announced that 97.ii%^[46] of RGU graduates were in work or further education inside half dozen months of graduating. Specialised institutions such as Royal College of Music, Constitute of Education and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance scored higher than Robert Gordon University.

Symbols and identity [edit]

The RGU logo (2013-present)

The university's logo and corporate identity make frequent use of the color purple and the "Gordon" font, all of which appear extensively on campus signage, printed material and online. The current logo was unveiled in Feb 2013. From 2009 to 2013, the logo consisted of a roundel derived from the university's glaze of artillery.

Most universities in the Britain are designated by order of the Privy Quango; unusually for a university named afterward an individual, according to Robert Gordon University (Scotland) Social club of Council 1993 ^[47] the official name of the university includes the prefix "The" (as with The George Washington University, The Ohio Land University and The College of William & Mary). However, current academy branding typically leaves it out although it is still used for graduation.

Coat of Artillery [edit]

Coat of artillery of Robert Gordon Academy

The coat of artillery derives from the one issued past the Lord Lyon Rex of Artillery (the state official responsible for heraldry in Scotland) to Robert Gordon's Institute of Engineering in 1982, which in turn derives from that commencement used in 1881 by the governors of Robert Gordon's Hospital when it became Robert Gordon'due south College.^[6] The arms consist of a shield only and are used infrequently, ordinarily at formal occasions such as graduation, and can likewise be seen over the chief entrance to the academy'southward Administration Edifice at Schoolhill and various bookish buildings at the main campus at Garthdee. The shield as well formed the previous logo which withal features on some older signage.

On the left side of the artillery, the three boars on a blue background edged in gilt are taken from the arms of the Gordon family, while on the right the castle on a cerise background is taken from the arms of the City of Aberdeen. This symbol of the urban center is shared with the arms of the University of Aberdeen. A black wavy band divides the ii sides, and features heraldic symbols in gold representing engineering science (a mechanical cog), learning (a flaming torch) and commerce (a gold coin).^[6]

Motto [edit]

The academy's motto is Omni Nunc Arte Magistra, which translates literally from Latin as "Now by all your mastered arts...", equally if to suggest making utilise in everyday life of knowledge and skills gained. Information technology is sometimes translated as "Make the best of all your abilities", although this is a somewhat more than liberal rendering of the Latin. It comes from Virgil'south Aeneid, Volume 8, line 441, as the god Vulcan encourages his workers at the forge.^{[half dozen]} It shares this motto with Robert Gordon'due south College, who employ it more frequently. Unlike some universities, the motto is not seen oft, although it has appeared in graduation materials and is engraved on the shaft of the university's ceremonial mace.

Ceremonial mace [edit]

A ceremonial mace is used at many universities as a symbol of authority and independence. The RGU mace appears mainly at graduation ceremonies, where information technology is placed prominently on the stage in front of the Chancellor and Primary and in total view of the audience. It may as well be seen occasionally at other important university events. The mace is a modern design in silver and black,^[48] designed and crafted in 1993 past Gordon Burnett (a member of staff at the academy's Greyness'south School of Fine art), and paid for by Aberdeen City Quango equally a gift to the new university. It was presented to the university at a ceremony on 26 June that twelvemonth during which the first chancellor of the academy, Bob Reid, was installed.^[49] The mace is primarily jet-black, with wavy fins edged in silver that run vertically downward the total length of the mace's head (reflecting the wavy blackness band in the university'southward coat of arms). The coat of artillery of the university is inset into the caput of the mace, along with golden symbols taken from it - the castle representing the urban center of Aberdeen, flaming torch, coin, and mechanical cog. The shaft of the mace is inlaid in gold with the university's motto, Omni Nunc Arte Magistra.

Tartan [edit]

Robert Gordon Academy'due south official tartan

Similar well-nigh Scottish universities, RGU has its own tartan; information technology mirrors the academy'south official colours of Royal Blue, Red and Aureate which announced on the glaze of arms (although the purple make is now the recognised face of the academy). The tartan was designed by Michael King in 1997.^[50] Some students on their graduation day cull to wear a tartan kilt.

Pupil life [edit]

The quadrangle at Gray's School of Art, Garthdee campus

The RGU Educatee Union offices are located in the RGU Sport building

In 2015/xvi at that place were 16,878 students enrolled of which 63% were undergraduates and 35% were postgraduates with ii% in postgraduate research.^[51]

As well as total-time and part-time on-campus study, the university provides a range of altitude learning facilities over the internet via its virtual learning surroundings, CampusMoodle.

Student Association [edit]

The first Educatee Representative Council was organised at Robert Gordon's Technical College in 1931, with activities such every bit sports clubs and societies following in the 1940s. A Student Union building opening in 1952 at Rubislaw Terrace in the metropolis'southward Westward Cease. In 1969, the shop and bakery adjacent to Gray's School of Art (now the Administration Building) on Schoolhill came on the marketplace and were purchased past Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology. The Student Union edifice opened there in 1974 and remained until its closure in July 2014 every bit the campus relocated to Garthdee. RGU:Union is at present located on Union Way within the RGU SPORT building.

The students' union represents the views of the student community, and works to improve the student feel at the university. RGU:Union is run by an executive board of students who are elected in March each year. The Union has a team of full-time sabbatical Presidents, and part-time Vice Presidents. RGU:Marriage also operates a system of student representatives, educatee schoolhouse officers, equality champions and more than who piece of work in partnership with the university to ensure quality educational activity and learning.

RGU:Union as well provides a range of extra-curricular opportunities. As of 2018, the union has over 41 affiliated societies, ranging from form based academic societies to hobby and interest based groups.^[52] The Spousal relationship as well runs a number of volunteering projects and activities. RGU'southward Raising and Giving group host various fundraising events to donate money and time to charity.

RGU:Matrimony seeks to provide support and advice to students. Forth with running an communication service, the Marriage also launched a pupil Nightline in February 2014 to provide a confidential pupil helpline from 8pm to 8am. Students run a number of campaigns to support pupil welfare including liberation weeks, sexual health campaigns and in September 2015, a Safe Taxi Scheme every bit an emergency provision to help students get domicile safely.^[53]

Student media [edit]

Copies of Radar, RGU's student mag.

RGU:Union operates a educatee media program with RGU:Radio, RGU:Television and Radar Mag. The student radio station, chosen RGU:Radio broadcasts alive from a studio on campus, running a number of shows from music to electric current affairs. Broadcasts are streamed and regular podcasts are posted online.^[54]

RGU:Tv set produces regular videos about campus events, topical problems and pupil life and distributed them online through a YouTube aqueduct.

Radar Mag is a full-colour printed publication which is published three or four times each yr. It features articles written by students roofing campus events, pupil life, music, news, reviews, entertainment, fashion, sport and more than. The magazine as well has an online website where manufactures are posted regularly by students.

Adaptation [edit]

The academy'southward Adaptation Services section arranges for students to be placed in one of 9 halls of residence beyond the city.^[55]

By far the largest of the halls of residence are the Woolmanhill Flats at St. Andrew Street. The Woolmanhill flats have over 700 one-person bedrooms, arranged in self-catering flats of up to eight.^[56] The Woolmanhill Flats development was synthetic in stages in the tardily 1980s and early 1990s past the university working in collaboration with a individual developer.^[57] The newest hall of residence is the Crathie Student Village on Holburn Street, and houses approximately 100 students.

Other halls of residence include 2 buildings on the Garthdee Campus; the Foursquare Belfry and the Circular Tower. These distinctive pink buildings were constructed in the early 1990s and inspired by traditional Scottish tower houses.^[58] They have received architectural acclaim by critics and are included in Prospect magazine's list of the 100 best Scottish modern buildings. When the list was published in 2005, the Round and Square Towers were the only buildings in Aberdeen to be included. A number of other halls of residence across the urban center are used, some operated in-house by RGU and others by individual companies. These include Rosemount Halls, St. Peter'due south Halls and Linksfield Halls which were constructed past the University of Aberdeen and then privatised in the early 2000s. Students also accept access to the private halls of residence in Aberdeen which are operated on a commercial basis past specialist companies, such every bit those owned and operated by the Unite Grouping.

Sports [edit]

Interior of RGU SPORT where "University Street" passes through the wintertime garden.

RGU SPORT at the Garthdee campus provides a wide range of sport and fitness facilities to the university community too as to the general public. Facilities include a 25m puddle, various gyms with all-encompassing facilities for cardiovascular grooming and resistance training (including free weights), a large sports hall (too used for exams), climbing wall, numerous fitness classes, physiotherapy, podiatry and sports massage.^[59] Students, staff and graduates of the academy receive a disbelieve on use of these facilities.

In that location are over 32 campus sports clubs run by RGU:Union, and the university competes in Scottish Educatee Sport (SSS) and British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) competitions.^[60]

Swimmer Hannah Miley studied at RGU until 2013 and appeared in publicity for the university.^[61] A sport scholar plan provides back up for the able-bodied and academic careers of developing and aristocracy athletes, including coaching, access to training facilities and financial assistance, too as flexibility in plumbing fixtures training effectually the academic timetable.^[62]

The Robert Gordon University Gunkhole Guild contests the annual Aberdeen Universities Boat Race each Spring against the University of Aberdeen. RGU were victorious in 2012^[63] 2013,^[64] 2014,^[65] 2015.^[66] and 2016.^[67]

The ii universities also compete annually in the Granite Metropolis Claiming which sees teams across a range of sports compete to be the best in the metropolis.

Notable alumni [edit]

• Gordon Duthie (born 1987), musician, singer/songwriter
• Ola Gorie, jewellery designer
• Maxwell Hutchinson, architect and broadcaster, guitarist with Lene Lovich
• Eilidh Middleton, equestrian competitor
• Hannah Miley, swimmer and Olympian
• Callum Innes, Turner Prize-nominated creative person
• Titi Horsfall, author
• Alan J. Jamieson, marine biologist

International partners [edit]

The Robert Gordon Academy has 2 partner schools in Switzerland:

• Business and Hotel Management School – Switzerland (BA Degree is a joint program between BHMS Switzerland and the Robert Gordon University)
• BVS Concern School (Available of Business Administration Degree is a joint programme between BVS Switzerland and the Robert Gordon University)

Notable honorary graduates [edit]

• Leslie Benzies, Video Game Producer (Doctor of Pattern 2015)
• Frank Chapman, Businessman (Medico of Engineering 2013)
• Julie Fowlis, Scottish folk vocalizer (Doctor of Music 2013)
• Tony Hayward, Businessman in oil industry (Physician of Technology 2013)
• Sir Bill Gammell, Businessman (Doctor of Business Assistants 2011)^[68]
• Michael Clark, Dancer (Doctor of Fine art 2011)^[69]
• Kevin Warwick, Scientist (Md of Technology 2011)^[70]
• Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Charlatan (Doctor of Science 2010)
• Barbara Dickson, Vocalizer (Physician of Music 2010)
• Lord Alderdice, Politician (Medico of Laws 2009)
• Ben de Lisi, Fashion Designer (Doc of Arts 2009)
• Sir Andrew Motion, Poet (Doctor of Letters 2009)
• Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, Clinical Psychologist (Doctor of Science 2009)
• Nicky Campbell, Announcer and Broadcaster (Md of Letters 2008)
• Lord Trimble, Politician (Dr. of Laws 2008)
• Alan Johnston, Journalist (Medico of Letters 2007)
• Terry Waite, Humanitarian and Author (Physician of Police force 2007)
• Gordon Brownish, Political leader (Doc of Laws 2003)
• Lord Norman Foster, Architect (Doctor of Design 2002)
• Baroness Helena Kennedy, Barrister (Medico of Laws 2002)
• Businesswoman Kinnock, Politician (Physician of Laws 2002)
• Stewart Milne, Man of affairs (Doctor of Business Administration 2000)
• Paul Lawrie, Golfer (Medico of Laws 1999)
• Martin Bong, Journalist and Politician (Doctor of Letters 1998)
• Sir Alex Ferguson, Football Director (Dr. of Laws 1997)
• Kate Adie, Announcer (Doctor of Letters 1996)

Run across also [edit]

• List of universities in the United Kingdom

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External links [edit]

• Robert Gordon University website
• RGU Student Clan

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