Middlesex University has a long and proud history as a provider of high quality education in north London. Its roots were formed in 1878. In 1992, the Polytechnic became Middlesex University by Royal Assent. Shortly afterwards the London College of Dance and the North London College of Health joined the University, and in 1996 Professor Michael Driscoll became the Vice-Chancellor. He remains at the helm of this historic university today.
1996 was also the year that Middlesex was awarded the first of three Queens Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education, for its innovative provision of Work Based Learning, giving people the opportunity to gain a degree for the knowledge and expertise they acquire through their work. A further Queens Anniversary Prize, this time for Education Technology followed in 1998 and a third in 2000, for the Universitys groundbreaking Flood Hazard Research Centre. 2000 was also the year that the Right Honourable Lord Sheppard of Didgemere KCVO Kt became Chancellor of the University.
A different sort of prize came Middlesexs way in 2003. The University was given the Queens Award for Enterprise, for International Trade. This award recognised Middlesex as the very first British university to open, in 1995, a network of recruitment offices around the world. This move gave thousands of international students the opportunity to come to London to study at Middlesex. The Universitys international status was reinforced in 2005 when it opened an entire Middlesex campus in Dubai.
Middlesex aims to be a global University. Based in North London, Middlesex recruits widely across the world and works in partnership to deliver outstanding higher education in many countries.
Our internationalism is key to our future ambition as North Londons university of choice. Since 2000 we have been engaged in a campus redevelopment programme which has seen significant improvements on our growth campuses and a reduction in the number of our campuses. In 2006 the University announced that the majority of its London activities would gradually be based at its Hendon Campus and in 2008 the Hatchcroft building opened on the Hendon Campus. Hatchcroft acommodates much of the teaching and research provision for the School of Health and Social Sciences, formally found at our Enfield (Ponders End) Campus. The University closed the Enfield campus in 2008.
An ambitious programme of development of the Hendon campus continues. Middlesex aims to be a global university and build on its outstanding reputation as an international provider of quality higher education. Middlesex is a major recruiter of international students - to its London campuses and to its campus in Dubai. More than twenty permanently staffed offices all over the world help prospective students with every aspect of their higher education planning and application.
Middlesex also works in partnership with some of the most prestigious international universities and other educational providers. Middlesex programmes are taught in more than 100 institutions the world over. Middlesex also validates the quality of other institutions programmes.
Over the next decade the University intends to open more Middlesex campuses outside the UK and continue to develop and provide - by working in partnership - outstanding higher education.
