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The University of Warwick is a campus university which, despite its name, is located mainly inside the southern boundary of Coventry, England, some 11 km (c. 7 miles) from the town of Warwick, the remainder of the campus (the Cryfield site) being situated across Gibbet Hill Road on land donated by Warwickshire.

Despite being one of the UK's younger universities (founded in 1965), Warwick University has a strong reputation in many departments, notably Mathematics, History, Computer Science and Business. It is also home to the Modern Records Centre, Britain's largest repository of the archives of trade unions and industrial relations .

A recent addition is the Leicester-Warwick Medical School, one of the first graduate medical schools opened in an attempt to respond to the chronic lack of doctors in the UK.

It is a member of both the Russell Group and the 1994 GroupThe 1994 Group is a coalition of smaller research-intensive universities founded to defend their interests after the larger research-intensive universities founded the Russell Group. They describe themselves as "seventeen internationally recognised univer.

1 Attainment

The University was ranked 5th among the UK's 100 universities for quality of research in the UK Funding Councils' 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap Research Assessment Exercise. Over 91% of the University's academic staff are located in departments with top research ratings of 5 or 5*.

22 of the 24 University academic departments which have been assessed under the Subject Review process conducted by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education have been rated 'excellent' (scored 21 or more points out of 24) for the quality of their teaching. Seven departments have achieved the maximum score of 24 out of 24.

The GuardianThe Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. It is a serious broadsheet newspaper with relatively left wing politics. Until 1959 it was called The Manchester Guardian and the paper is still sometimes referred to by this name, esp University Guide ranks Warwick eighth overall. The TimesThe Times is a national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom. The Times is published by News International, a subsidiary of the News Corporation group, owned by Rupert Murdoch. For much of its history, the newspaper was regarded as without rival, the 'ne Good University Guide 2004 ranks Warwick fifth overall.

2 Staff

Famous lecturers at Warwick include:

• Germaine GreerGermaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is a writer, broadcaster and academic, and is considered by many to be one of the most significant feminist voices of the 20th century. She was born in Melbourne, Australia and currently splits her time between her v, the feminist author
• Ian StewartIan Stewart FRS, is a professor of mathematics at Warwick University, United Kingdom. He writes for many publications including Scientific American and New Scientist and has received the Michael Faraday Medal. In 1997 he gave the Royal Institution Christm, the popular science author
• Mike CowlishawMike Cowlishaw is an IBM Fellow based at IBM UK’s Warwick location, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (roughly the equivalent of the NAE in th, creator of the REXX programming language.
• Andrew Davies, the television screenwriter.

The Mathematics Department and Mathematics Institute was founded by Sir Christopher Zeeman, famous topologist and exponent of Catastrophe theory.