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| campus = Varied (Urban/ Rural) | colours = ''Logo'':Navy & Bronze ''Seal'':Red & Gold | website = | logo = }} Ulster University ((アイルランド語:Ollscoil Uladh),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Postgraduate Diploma / MA in Modern Ulster Scots )〕 Ulster Scots: ''Ulstèr Universitie''〔(Language JC Communiques 5 December 2000 ) North/South Ministerial Council.〕 or ''Ulstèr Varsitie'')〔(2000 Annual Report in Ulster-Scots ) North/South Ministerial Council.〕 is a multi-campus public university located in Northern Ireland. It is often referred to informally and unofficially as Ulster, or by the abbreviation UU. It is the second largest university in Ireland, after the federal National University of Ireland. The University has a national and international reputation for academia, innovation and regional engagement making a major contribution to the economic, social and cultural development of Northern Ireland. It plays a key role in attracting inward investment through research and innovation and technology and knowledge transfer in addition to its core business of teaching and learning and widening access to education. Ulster University prides itself on its research-led teaching and learning environment, providing undergraduate and postgraduate students with an experience enabling all to fulfil their potential. It has one of the highest further study and employment rates in the UK, with over 90% of graduates being in work or further study six months after graduation.〔http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ulster-life/key-facts〕 The university is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ACU members )〕 the European University Association, Universities Ireland and Universities UK. Established in 1968 as the ''New University of Ulster'', it merged with ''Ulster Polytechnic'' in 1984, incorporating its four Northern Irish campuses under the ''University of Ulster'' banner. The university incorporated its four campuses in 1984; located in Belfast, Coleraine, Magee College in Derry, and Jordanstown. The university has branch campuses in both London and Birmingham, and an extensive distance learning provision. The university became known as Ulster University from October 2014 and this included a revised visual identity. ==History== The ''New University of Ulster (NUU)'' incorporated Magee College founded in 1865 in Derry. Magee College was a college of the Royal University of Ireland from 1880 and later became associated with the University of Dublin (better known as Trinity College) when the Royal University was dissolved in 1908 and replaced by the National University of Ireland. In 1953 Magee College broke its links with Dublin and became ''Magee University College''. It was hoped by groups led by the University for Londonderry Committee that this university college would become Northern Ireland's second university after The Queen's University of Belfast. However, this did not happen and instead it was subsumed into the New University, primarily as a result of the unwillingness of the Unionist government at Stormont to have the second university sited in overwhelmingly nationalist Derry, in which "The Troubles" were just beginning to break out. The decision caused an outcry at the time. The university was built at Coleraine as part of Her Majesty's Government's expansion of higher education in the 1960s. Following a review of higher education in Northern Ireland under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Chilver in 1982 the direct-rule government decided to merge ''NUU'' with the ''Ulster Polytechnic'' to form the ''University of Ulster'' (dropping "New" from the name.) The merger took effect on 1 October 1984. Whilst the university was established in 1968 it can trace its roots back to 1845 when ''Magee College'' was endowed in Derry, and 1849, when the ''School of Art and Design'' was inaugurated in Belfast. Campus One, the Virtual Campus of the university, was launched on 8 October 2001 which successfully facilitated the provision on undergraduate and postgraduate level courses via distance learning. The university now simply refers to this as distance learning. The university formerly had a laboratory named ‘The University of Ulster Freshwater Laboratory’ on the shore of Lough Neagh in Ballymaguigan. The Freshwater Laboratory, although not a campus was a site of the university and consisted of on-campus accommodation, classrooms and testing labs. Courses offered were in agriculture, the wildlife of Lough Neagh, water testing and other aquatic courses. The site is now owned by Magherafelt District Council. By 2010, the area had become popular with the locals for camping, fishing and sailing. In autumn 2011 Vice-Chancellor Barnett announced a programme of financial restructuring with the aim of reducing the number of staff employed by the University from 3,150 to 3,000. Staff at the University expressed concern about the proposed means and impact of the restructuring, citing "the use of the threat of compulsory redundancy to bully and intimidate staff" and the belief that the University was "abdicating its responsibilities to the wider community that funds it".〔Reisz, Matthew. "Cuts threaten access reputation, Ulster staff claim". ''Times Higher Education Supplement'', 22 March 2012 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=419409〕 In April 2012, the Ulster University branch of the University and College Union (UCU) declared a formal dispute with university management over its implementation of the restructuring, stating that the recourse to "premature deadlines and unwarranted threats of compulsory redundancy" was "unreasonable as well as contrary to University policy and corporate goals".〔Fawcett, Lyn S.,"UCU Declaration of Dispute". Letter to Richard Barnett, 27 April 2012 http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ucu/Documents/Declaration%20of%20dispute%20UCU%20April%202012.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ulster University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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