61.University of Portsmouth|普兹茅斯大学

普兹茅斯大学 是一所位于汉普郡朴茨茅斯市的英国大学。她由Guildhall校区和Langstone校区组成.最近，该大学有意与南安普顿大学合作。

1869年 朴茨茅斯及戈斯波特科学与艺术学校 成立。由于海运和贸易是该市的基础，因而学校主要的功能是训练那些在码头及皇家海军船坞工作的工程师以及技工。但是由于二战纳粹德国的空袭，使得该市的海运业衰退以及人口下降，学校被迫改变了教学大纲和手段去吸引更多的学生。

这样一直到了20世纪60年代，因为得到了政府的资助，学校更名为朴茨茅斯工艺学院。

Campus

The University is split between two campuses: Guildhall and Langstone.

Langstone is the smaller of the two campuses, located in Milton on the eastern edge of Portsea Island, the island on which the city of Portsmouth sits. The campus overlooks Langstone Harbour and it is home to the University s sports grounds. It also includes a restaurant and bar, as well as a student village , which provides accommodation for 565 students in three halls of residence; Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (QEQM), Trust Hall and Langstone Flats. Students in QEQM and Langstone Flats have en-suite rooms. It used to be home of the University s School of Languages and Area Studies. The School has now moved into the Park Building on the Guildhall Campus.

The Guildhall site is much larger. Unlike most university campuses, it is not all enclosed on one tract of land, instead featuring various university buildings scattered throughout the centre of the city. This campus contains much of the University s teaching facilities, and nearly all of the Student Halls of residence (except the Langstone student village and two halls (Rees Hall and Burrell House) located on Victoria Promenade, the city s main esplanade).

The University Library (formerly the Frewen Library) was extended in 2006 at a cost of ￡11 million.Originally due to open in October, ongoing delays meant that it was not complete until January 2007, when it was opened by the crime writer P D James. The University has also in recent years invested in the Faculty of Science, in particular through the renovation of its aluminium-clad main building, St Michael s which is next to popular student halls, James Watson.

A new faculty called Creative and Cultural Industries was opened in September 2006. It aims to provide a unique environment in which all aspects of creative thinking will flourish and develop by combining creative schools from across the university.

Student activities

The University offers a wide range of sports clubs, and fields teams in many competitions and in BUSA leagues. The sports on offer vary from traditional team games like football, rugby union, and cricket to Octopush, a form of under-water hockey and mens lacrosse. Notably, the University is home to the longest running university paintball club in the United Kingdom. Unsurprisingly given Portsmouth s rich maritime history and location, Sailing and Rowing are also very popular, and the sailing team enters a team the for the annual Cowes Week regatta on the Isle of Wight.

Despite not offering a degree in Music, the University has a full time music department offering instrumental lessons and ensembles. These include the Choir, Orchestra, Wind Band and Big Band.

The faculty of technology enters a team into the inter-university motorsport challenge, Formula Student.

Student Union

The University of Portsmouth Students Union was voted best Union in the UK in the New Musical Express in 2004. Formerly housed in the ex-NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) building Alexandra House, a new ￡6.5 million purpose-built Union was opened in 2002 at the other end of Ravelin Park, to the north of Frewen Library, though the main entertainment area has been significantly altered recently.

The Union houses a bar. It also has 2 nightclubs (Lux and C02) and a Balfours/Co-Op grocery shop, along with Blackwells bookshop, Connect up the university s computer help store(part run by pcideals) and also its own radio station, Pure FM .

Since the summer of 2005, a restructure resulted in the division of the Union into the UPSU Charity - whose broad remit covers such areas as the running of University clubs and societies - and its trading-orientated operations, under the remit of the University of Portsmouth Enterprise Ltd., a company owned by the University of Portsmouth to [offer] to business, industry and the public sector the wide range of skills and knowledge in the University .