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Hertfordshire University
31,286 discussions, 145 guides
Hertfordshire University
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
AL10 9LB
Tel:+44 (0)1707 284800
1952
Crush 1278
This broadcasts every morning to all the rooms and houses on the Hatfield site, also occasionally in the bars. It has a pretty wide range of output and should suit most tastes. It is being streamed on the web.
Universe
Universe, a newspaper still operates and has won the runner up prize for the small publication of the year from the Guardian.
A new campus is being opened in 2003 and as a result the fabric and identity of the university will change greatly, here's what's going on:
The new de Havilland Campus in Hatfield will be the largest academic development in the UK (with a whopping £105 million being spent), and is planned to open in time for the beginning of the academic year in September 2003. The campuses at Hertford and Watford will close, and students from the Business School and the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Education will be the first to move in. This means that there will be just two major campuses within walking distance of each other. The University of Hertfordshire will operate virtually as a single campus community giving it a far better chance of developing a strong, unified identity.
Sports teams will certainly benefit from this making it easier to find and transport players and racers not to mention allowing the devlopment of a more professional attitude towards sport. New facilities are planned to include a main sports hall with twelve badminton courts, also available for volleyball, basketball and indoor hockey, a 25 metre eight lane swimming pool, a large health and fitness suite, a four lane indoor cricket centre, a 12 metre high climbing wall, as well as new grass and artificial pitches.
Iain Dowie - Britain's ugliest man
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Hatfield
There are 2 bars in Hatfield, The Ele House which is open every night, till 12 on Saturday and 10.30 on Sunday. The Font Bar (previously the hub) is the main night club venue. This is open every night for quiz's, comedy nights, drinks promotions and other events such as alternative music, on a Wednesday and Friday there's a late licence and it's open till 1am. The Font Bar was extensively refurbished summer 2002. £500,000 was spent apparently.
St. Albans
This is a city campus site and chocka with law students, so although there are no bars, I think you'll probably find plenty to amuse yourself. St. Albans town centre has bars like Vintry, the Bell, and a new bar called Casa. Many students prefer St Albans to Hatfield.
Information on events can be found on the university's students' union website. There's also info about the changes that have occurred as Watford and Hertford campuses were closed at the end of the 2002/2003 academic year.
The usual sort of students' union events - twice weekly functions at The Hub Bar with guest DJs, and the Elehouse Bar also open late on Fridays. Stacks of cheese and some RnB, D&B and garage.
A Summer ball at Hatfield and the students law society have a ball for the St Albans law students.
There is something for everyone, even Gaelic football if you're in the mood. The Drama society seems particularly popular, performing a variety of classic and contemporary plays, a recent example being Ben Elton's 'Popcorn'.
The American football team has been pretty successful of late, as have the judo club.
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Hertsfordshire University is divided into four separate campus sites, and the site on which you study depends which faculty you belong to. It therefore follows that your accommodation will depend upon what you study. There are halls of residence on three out of four of the sites, there is none on St. Albans site, so you'd have to travel in from elsewhere. The news on accommodation isn't too good, pretty dismal in fact, but here are the sites you'd be looking at....
Hatfield This is the main University site and is the home of five faculties; Art and Design, Engineering and Information Sciences, Health and Human Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. There are library and computing resources, as well as sports and social facilities. The site is two miles from Hatfield station, which is 25 minutes jouney from Kings Cross.
Hertford This is the specialist business school site, with a medical centre, club house, drama studio and sports facilities. Hooray! There are two stations in Hertford, with links to Kings Cross, Moorgate and Liverpool Street stations.
St. Albans This campus is a city centre location and is the home of the faculty of Law. It has its own extensive specialist library and a court room. It sits in the heart of a legal community, near to the crown and county courts as well as the crown prosecution service, barristers chambers and numerous solicitors firms. It is well connected for transport facilities, and the service to Kings Cross takes just 18 minutes.
Watford This campus is set in elegant parkland, which seems suitable for the faculties of Humanities, Language and Education. The main building is an 18th century mansion and the gardens surrounding the area were designed by Humphrey Repton; a famous landscape gardener. Again there are good connections into London and, being only two miles outside of Watford town centre, cinemas, theatre, shopping and good sporting facilities are only about a 30 minute walk or a short bus ride away. Watford also doubled as Hamburg in Bond film Tommorrow Never Dies for the car park chase scene. Yes I could see that.
When the new de Haviland Campus opens in 2003 there will be 1600 brand spanking new en-suite rooms ready for the students. Whether these will be ridiclously expensive remains to be seen.
All the sites are in the same vague area North of London. Getting into town is quite easy. Each of the sites has it's charms. Hatfield isn't very nice but the rest have some history and are pleasant for revising or lounging. Amenities are good with supermarkets and leisure facilities that you would expect from any fair sized town.
Parking is permit based and inadequate but ironically this is one of the few unis that we would actually recommend you bring a car to if you have one, it really does make life easier. Your options for parking are local streets and this enrages local residents and puts your jalopy at risk. Maybe one of those hover cars or a personal rocket pack would be good. This is the only sensible solution we can come up with.
There are cash machines on the main campus. You should be able to find all banks locally, whichever site you are at.
Wheelchair access is pretty good everywhere and there are facilities for both hearing and sight impaired students.
On the Hatfield site the Students' Union has a general store selling groceries and stuff and there's also a travel agency, an insurance shop and a place to buy stationery and do photocopying.
The Hatfield, Hertford and Watford campuses each have a branch of Waterstones bookshop on site.
Most of the facilities are at the Hatfield site including a sports hall, climbing wall and squash courts. The Hertford site has a gym, tennis courts, a cricket pitch and, fitting given that it's a business school, a golf practice area. Other sites are a bit weak but the local area has reasonable facilities, the key problem being the cost.
Hertforshire has the country's only university-run public bus scheme. It goes between all the sites, major rail stations and local towns. Very very useful and especially good considering the cost, which is minimal.
Some of the sites, notably Hertford and Watford are pretty stunning being based around country mansions. They have plenty of greenery and parkland. The others are not as nice, but you should bea ble to find a park to have a sandwich in.
There is a truly vast library or 'learning resource centre' on the main Hatfield site. The other sites have libraries related to the subjects that are taught there. i.e If the site is for fishing studies, there will be lots of copies of fly fishing by JR Hartley.
There are quite a few machines available and they are well spread between the sites. Your own equipment wouldn't be a disadvantage though.
There is a well staffed student services unit which deals with most problems, the union has some facilities as well. Each site has its own medical centre.
