The city of Nottingham, with two universities and any smaller colleges, has a large and assorted trainee population, which has contributed its own creative and edgy flavour to the city's younger neighbourhoods. Some 40,000 full-time students make Nottingham their place of education, life, work and entertainment.
The University of Nottingham is the largest educational practice in the city, with about 32,000 registered students in 2005. It features one of Britain's largest curative schools, and staffs the Queen's curative Centre teaching hospital. The indispensable University Park Campus lies just to the west of the Nottingham city centre, filled with award-winning buildings and green space. University Park has a dozen halls of residence for first year students (and others who wish to stay on campus), each holding 200-300 students: Ancaster Hall, Cavendish Hall, cripps Hall, Derby Hall, Florence Boot Hall, Hugh Stewart Hall, Lenton and Wortley Hall, Lincoln hall, Nightingale Hall, Rutland Hall, Sherwood Hall, and Willoughby Hall.
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Smaller colse to satellite campuses are the Jubilee Campus, with its three residence halls (Melton Hall, Newark Hall, and Southwell Hall), the Sutton Bonington Campus (with Bonington Hall made up of a conglomeration of smaller residences), and the King's Meadow Campus. The university also maintains two international campuses in Malaysia and China.
The University of Nottingham Students' Union is made up of one hundred and fifty trainee societies and seventy two extra interest clubs, and the university's sport teams participate in the British Universities Sports Association. The undergraduates at the university yield a trainee magazine called "Impact", run the University Radio Nottingham, and stage shows and extra events at the New Theatre. The "Campus 14" is a series of bars on the University Park campus; new students are often surreptitiously challenged to unblemished the "bar crawl" of intelligent at least one drink at each location.
The University of Nottingham's main rival in the city is the Nottingham Trent University (named for the Trent River which flows through the centre of town). It began as Trent Polytechnic, and later Nottingham Polytechnic, but became a full-fledged university in 1992, and now teaches over 25,000 students every year, focusing on a variety of beneficial and high end trades.
Like its rival institution, Nottingham Trent has complicated campuses. The central campus, located near Shakespeare road downtown, is known as the City Campus. Clifton Campus, home to humanities and science departments, and Brackenhurst Campus which focuses on rural and animal sciences, are located on the fringes of the city.
The Nottingham Trent Students Union coordinates the activities of some three dozen trainee organizations, and maintains any trainee shops, bars, gyms, and other amenities. They also build weekly music nights, release the "Platform" trainee newspaper, and yield the Fly Fm and Kick Fm radio programmes.
Other schools in the area which conduce to the intelligent trainee culture contain New College Nottingham, the Nottingham School of Fashion, Confetti build of Creative Technologies, Nottingham High School, Bilborough College, Chilwell School, Nottingham High School for Girls, South Nottingham College, the Greenwood Dale Technology College, and The Nottingham Bluecoat School and Technology College.
The Old market Square, Canalside, the Lace Market, and Hockley settlement are beloved areas for off-campus trainee entertainment. The Waterfront and The angle House are beloved gathering places, as are The Palais, Ohm, Bar None, Cucamara, Lizard Lounge, The Cookie Club, Jongleurs, Bell Inn, Daniel's Hall, The Square, Muse, and the other three hundred and fifty pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants. One shouldn't miss a visit to Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, whether -- the oldest pub in England, built half in a cave in the side of a sandstone bluff.
The city boasts numerous music venues, especially Rock City, The saving Rooms, Stealth, The Social, Junktion 7, The Old Angel, The Edge, Media, Ocean, The Bomb, Blueprint, The Works and the Boat Club, in addition to the Royal Concert Hall and the Nottingham Arena. There are also numerous cinemas, live theatres, and interactive art galleries to suit the visually inclined. The Arboretum Park, Abbey Court,
The "LeftLion" inexpressive magazine and website contribute a indispensable guide to music and communal events for students and young people. The society is named after the leftmost of the pair of large stone lions which decorate the steps of the Council House in Old market quadrilateral -- rumour has it the left-hand lion is named "Brian", while the other is "Ryan". The quadrilateral has also been a gathering place for trainee events and celebrations, such as the winning of the European Cup and the F.A. Cup by local football team Nottingham Forest.
The universities and other local sites are associated by the Nottingham Express Transit, or Net trams. Shopping areas like Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, Victoria Centre, and Flying Horse Walk are surely accessible to students, as are the high-fashion neighbourhoods of Hockley settlement and Bridlesmith Gate.
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