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Leeds Metropolitan University
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Leeds Metropolitan University
Leeds Metropolitan University
Calvery Street
Leeds
LS1 3HE
Tel: +44 (0)113 283 3113
1970
The Student Union runs a successful radio station, which encourages student involvement.
Headliner
This is the fortnightly SU newsletter which gives all the info. about what's happening in and around uni. It is upstaged, however, by Leeds Student.
Leeds Student
Leeds Student is the award winning student newspaper, produced weekly in association with Leeds University. It has 30,000 readers throughout the city and has a sabbatical editor. The BBC Newscaster Nicholas Witchell, was once the editor so you can see that if you want to pursue a career in the media, this is an ideal place to start.
Betty Boothroyd MP - Speaker of the House
Marc Almond - Singer
Peter Cattaneo - Film Director
Sir Henry Moore - Sculptor
Ron Pickering - Sports Commentator
Keith Waterhouse - Writer
UNIVERSITY
There are three large university bars. The Krikstall Brewery has a capacity of over 1000 people and is situated on two floors. This tends to be where people come for pre-dinks before going to the Union club venue The Met.
Beckett Sports Bar is the smallest bar with a capacity of just over 400, but it the place where people like to come for apres-match/race drinks.
The largest venue is The Met, previously called the City Bar, which has a capacity of 1,400 and is open until the early hours three nights a week. Over the years it has gathered a repuation for attracting some of the best Indie bands in the country. The Met was also voted 'Best Student Live Entertainment Venue of the year 1999' by Live Magazine. Some of the bands to perform here are Faithless, Kula Shaker, Jungles Brothers and Courtney Pine, as well as a host of local talent.
All in all, a good union which is used regularly.
FOOD
The main refectory called The Depot is good value, but the quality and taste of food varies from bland to very bland. It's healthy, though. The SU coffee bar serves snack and junk food throughout the day. There is another Depot at Beckett Park.
LOCAL BARS & CURRENT PROMOS
There are many local bars to choose from - we have mentioned a few in the Local Area section under the Accommodation tab). However, Walkabout and the Bourbon Bar remain popular.
Walkabout are still promoting their two for one offer on selected bottles such as Reef and San Miguel throughout the week (SUN-THURS) as does the Bourbon Bar just down from the Walkabout, except they include shots on their list of drinks particularly whiskey.
The Warehouse at the other end of town has an interesting night on a Thursday called Tequila - no prizes for guessing what's on offer there!
The union has numerous celebrated nights through the week, including the big Indie night, formerly OTT, but now called Blast, and the dance night called Polybop. The other late night function tends to change week on week. There are a range of new functions on the way so watch this space for more details or check out Leeds Met's website.
In Leeds itself, the new club Creation has two student nights each week on Monday and Wednesday each with their own offers, for example, £1.20 for a shot of vodka and a few selected cheap bottles. It's also worth noting that it's free to get in before ten, but the price rises slowly over the next couple of hours, as does the queue. Creation seems also to have taken the popularity out of Brannigan's on Monday nights. (Our thanks to Dan for info)
There are usually big events around Freshers' Week, Chistmas and before everyone leaves for the summer. Sports clubs and other societies tend to arrange Christmas Dinners and other similar events each year.
There are over 50 sports clubs and student societies operated and funded by the Students Union. They provide the perfect opportunity for students to make new friends, experience new activities, travel throughout the UK...and sometimes the world, all at minimal cost.
Subjects Allied to Medicine given excellent score by QAA. The subject has received 23 (out of a possible 24) points in the recent QAA review - good news for the 1600 students in this subject area.
Leeds Metropolitan University offers the best university accommodation in the UK according to a new survey of ex-independent school pupils (The Headmaster's Conference).
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About 60% of LMU student can be housed in University accommodation. The rest are dealt with by Unipol, the Leeds Universities' excellent joint accommodation service.
Beckett Park - At the Beckett Park Campus, four halls of residence are set in pleasant parkland, to the north of city centre. These halls provide mixed accommodation for student and there is Depot Food Court on site for meals.
East Moor Situated in the green belt at Adel, some two miles from the Beckett Park Campus and is allocated to students studying there. Accommodating approximately 150 students, East Moor includes a number of self-catering houses shared between five and six students, and three larger self-catering blocks.
Kirkstall Brewery - These provide accommodation for over 1,000 students in single and ensuite study bedrooms in self-catering flats. Facilities on site include a bar, shop, gymnasium, events halls and laundry. Special bus services are provided to both University campuses.
Royal Park Flats - Self-catering cluster flats for between six and seven house in total 113 students. Flats surround courtyards and have parking.
St Mark's - This development is leased from the University of Leeds (which retains two-fifths of the site). It offers over 200 bedspaces in self-catering flats for four, five or six students within walking distance of the City Campus and is opposite Woodhouse Flats.
Sugarwell Court - Self-catering flats for four to six students in single and ensuite study bedrooms for 388 students. One and half miles from the city centre.
Woodhouse Flats -Within walking distances of the City Campus. There are 146 places provided in 30 self-catering flats.
LMU accommodation is considered some of the best in the country!
The main city campus of LMU surrounds 7 ugly tower blocks built in the 60s. About 3 miles out of town is the Beckett Park campus, which is better looking and is surrounded by plenty of green fields and woods.
Leeds is certainly one of the cities in the North of England. Contrary to many pre-conceptions, the city has a vibrant, youthful feel about it, and also has some of the best clubs in the country, not to mention a branch of Harvey Nicks...fancy some retail therapy, dahling...
However, both Leeds, many parts of the university and LMU seem to have suffered at the hands of 60s architects and developers. This period, not known for its architectural beauty, has resulted in a mass of concrete structures. Despite this there are many glorious Victorian buildings in the town, including the Town Hall, City Museum, Henry Moore Gallery and the Grand Theatre.
Socially Leeds has much to offer. Thanks to the tolerant council, Leeds is an all-night town with many clubs and bars open until the early hours. Some of the best clubs include, the Fruit Cupboard, Creation. and the Warehouse. Student offers include: Liquid at the Hi Fi club on Monday night has a cheap beer policy. Walkabout are still promoting their two for one offer on selected bottles such as Reef and San Miguel throughout the week nights (SUN-THURS) as does Bourbon Bar just down from the Walkabout except they include shots on their list of drinks particularly whiskey. The Warehouse at the other end of town has an interesting night on a Thursday called Tequila obviously the main drink there is Tequila
If you are a serious drinker, and fancy a closer look at the gutter, try the Otley Run, an infamous 14 pub pub-crawl, which includes such fine establishments as the Faversham (Fav) and The Dry Dock (which is on a boat). All in all drinks are cheap, so your student loan will stretch that little bit further! Leeds also boasts MOJO, voted number 50 in a league of the world's top bars. Pretty impressive stuff.
The local area is covered by the thirst emergency service provided by fullytanked.co.uk. They will deliver alcohol anywhere in the city until 4AM. Your party need never run dry. Fully Tanked Website
Cars are not advised at the city campus, as parking is limited and public transport is alright. There is some parking at Beckett Park.
Beckett Park has a bank and there are plenty of cash machines of various flavours in the local area.
2.5% of the University are considered disabled. There are a number of disabled student policies and charters, but this does not ensure that all the 60s buildings have good disabled access. At Becketts Park there is a disabled students officer and induction loops. Unipol, the accommodation service is particularly good with disabled students.
There are plenty of University and SU shops. Each of them sells papers, food, stationery etc. There is also an excellent job shop.
There are bookshops all around Leeds who will supply you all the books you will need. There may be a delay though.
LMU's sports facilties are excellent! There is a charge of £25 per year, but it is worth it. At Beckett Park there is the Centre for Excellency of Tennis, Carnegie Regional Gymnastics Centre, a swimming pool, squash courts, athletics, and playing fields. There are numerous football, rugby and lacrosse pitches as well as two floodlit synthetic pitches. Inside there are gyms, weight rooms, tennis courts and regular aerobics classes.
The facilties are also open to the public, as they were bought with Lottery funding. In the city there are leisure centres, saunas, a lake, golf courses and a ski slope.
Public transport in Leeds is pretty good and taxis are not that expensive. There is also a university run bus from Beckett Park to the City campus.
Plenty of green spaces out by Becketts Park. In the city, green areas are limited but not impossible to find.
There are three main libraries with around 400,000 books and 2,300 study places. The number of study places is good, but it would be best if they replaced some of these with more books, the number is not considered good for the size of the University. A £14 million Learning Centre has just been built at the City campus and does seem to be making a difference but not fast enough, Leeds Met students aren't just hungry for beer, they want to learn shit too. Wow.
There are about 500 computer workstations at the university, there never seems to be a queue for machines so we can only guess that this is enough.
All in all everyone seems fairly happy with the Welfare provision. The Health Centres are staffed by nurses, there are five full-time counsellors to help with any problems that may occur during the year, and there is literature on virtually every problem that you could encounter!!
There is also a Debt Counsellor.
