Teaching Facilities
Our ongoing investment in high-quality teaching and learning facilities ensures our academic staff and students can achieve their full potential. We provide extensive resources from libraries and computing to language labs and wireless networking. These help to create an intellectually stimulating and richly resourced environment where people thrive.
Our central Student Services building, due to open in 2007 in the heart of the main Whiteknights site, is one of several exciting new developments. Bringing together administration, career, learning, teaching and welfare services under a single roof will give everyone easy access to the support they need.
The University library is a storehouse of information with over one million volumes, 3750 periodical subscriptions, plus archives, manuscripts and multimedia materials. We provide skills training to help students, researchers and teaching staff make the most of library facilities.
Information technology is an integral and vital part of teaching and learning right across the University. Our first-class facilities include:
- 24 computer rooms – some open 24 hours – located throughout our three campuses and offering access to the University network, the Internet and the World Wide Web
- our Student Access to Independent Learning suite provides flexible access to electronic media and communication tools
- ‘Blackboard’, the University’s virtual learning environment used by many departments to enhance online learning and teaching.
Specialist facilities also strengthen teaching, learning and research in a number of areas, e.g.:
- archaeology students can gain practical excavation experience at the important Roman site at Silchester
- students of film, theatre and television can develop and practise at the newly refurbished Bob Kayley Studio Theatre at our Bulmershe Court campus
- our archives, rare books and special collections
- our museums: The Cole Museum of Zoology, The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology and The Museum of English Rural Life.
