- Libraries:
- The Learning Resource Centre at Ormskirk provides access to 220,000 books, journals, audio-visual items, electronic services (including 3000 electronic journals) and a CD-ROM network. There are 500 study spaces for students, together with individual study carrels and bookable rooms. Other facilities in the centre include over 160 networked workstations, satellite TV and audio and video facilities. There is a shared computerised system, accessible from all sites, with a joint catalogue available through OPAC (Online Public Access Terminals) and a range of electronic services including online journals. In addition to self-reservation and self and telephone renewal, many of the electronic services can be accessed remotely from home or work.
Library facilities at our Ormskirk campus are jointly managed with the University of Liverpool, providing a multidisciplinary service to staff and students who are involved in medical, nursing, midwifery and related professional activities. Students and staff at the Woodlands Centre have access to materials, PCs and electronic services, with a particular focus on education. Help desks are available to provide support in person, via e-mail or over the telephone.
They don't mess about here, it's obvious that Edge Hill provide a high level of student service which is certainly the most honourable way to distinguish yourself from other institutions.
|
- Computing:
- Edge Hill’s considerable investment in computing facilities saw the opening of the Communication and Media, Information Systems and Technology building (CMIST) in September 2003. This building contains 65 e-Mac computers, with 1Ghz Processor Speed, 640mb RAM and high-speed Internet connections. The majority of these computers also come with their own, individual scanners. The CMIST building also houses sound booths, recording facilities for mini-discs, 25 video editing workstations, digital media design software and video decks, with all teaching rooms equipped with data projectors. The Learning Innovation Centre (LINC) provides access to 200 networked PCs with high-speed Internet and e-mail facilities, TV and radio studios with the latest digital technology, satellite TV facilities and multimedia production.
|
- Sports:
- Sporting Edge is Edge Hill's £3.9million sports complex situated on a 25 acre site on the main Ormskirk campus. The complex was part funded by a lottery sports fund grant and contains excellent provision for both indoor and outdoor sports. The Sports Pavilion building contains a 4 court Sports Hall, fitness suite, squash court and changing accommodation. Other facilities within Sporting Edge include 7 floodlit tennis courts, 4 soccer pitches, 2 rugby pitches, 5 floodlit netball courts, 6-lane athletics track with an 8-lane straight, cricket square, gymnasium, swimming pool, and synthetic floodlit hockey pitch and five-a-side area. Sporting Edge is open 9am-10pm Monday to Thursday, closing at 9pm on Fridays and 6pm at the weekend. Free membership cards can be obtained from the Sporting Edge reception, with competitive prices offered for using specific facilities, with up to 50% discounts when using the amenities before 6pm. As this suggest the facility is open to the public and thus it's to your advantage to use it during non-peak times.
|
- Future Plans:
- All sorts of new stuff going on. You can slate non-university institutions all you want but Edge Hill can stand proud. It has a long heritage and facilities some of it's better known University cousins would kill for.
|
- Disabled Students:
- Probably too much too go into. As you would expect from any institution with as modern an outlook as Edge Hill there are facilities galore for disabled students including adapted halls rooms, wheelchair access, software for the visually impaired and knowledgable disability co-ordinators.
|
- Student Welfare:
- Somewhat unsurprisingly once you have a feel for what Edge Hill offers the welfare service is excellent. Allocated by each academic school, personal tutors act as a first point of contact for any problems or concerns students may have, whether personal or academic.
There's general and finance advice available from the Students' Union with special software to help students build a picture of how their finances will balance out over the academic year.
There's also an information service on childcare, providing students who have pre-school aged children with information, advice and support in securing local places if they so wish.
Medical matters are dealt with by doctors surgeries held on-campus and the Nursing Sister in Charge is available for drop-in enquiries and treatment on weekdays from 8.30am – 4pm.
|
- Parking:
- Free parking, supervised by 24-hour campus security. Students wishing to park on campus need to register for a free pass from security.
|
- University Shops:
- The on-campus shop in the Students' Union offers a range of stock from books and stationery to magazines, household provisions and food. The Terrace Café is open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks throughout the day and offers hot meals, salads and hot and cold sandwiches. Sages is a more elegant setting for lunchtime meals, but you'll need a jacket and tie. Just kidding, if you are in a rush then there's The Diner, a fast food outlet, where you can order burgers, chips, pizza and other takeaway badness that will harden your arteries.
|
- University Bookshops:
- Part of the main uni shop there is a wide shelf stock of books and CDs combined with fast ordering facilities, meaning you do not have to go far for course texts. The shop accepts orders in person and also by email, post and over the telephone. If you cannot go into the shop to pick up your order, a mailing facility is available.
|
- Banking:
- All flavours of bank have branches in Ormskirk and there are cashpoints on the main campus.
|
- Transport Policy:
- The Students' Union provide minibuses to ferry students in to town when The Venue closes on its late bar nights (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday) The buses usually run from midnight until everyone has gone.
|
- Green Areas:
- A piazza area and scenic lake on campus but it's not really needed as the countryside is very obviously all around. Definitely a nice part of the world.
|
|
