New grand designs on campus for teaching and learning

PA 123/10 The University of Nottingham has announced a major new building programme which will further transform and enhance the campus landscape and set new standards for university teaching and learning facilities in the 21st century. Halfway through a five-year, £90 million investment in teaching and learning facilities, this commitment will see three new state-of-the art, environmentally sustainable buildings on University Park, and a fourth on the Sutton Bonington campus. The building programme is the biggest of its kind on University Park in around 40 years and comes in the wake of the recent award-winning £30 million additions to the Jubilee Campus on the site of Nottingham's old Raleigh factory. University Park is to get a new Mathematics Building, an Engineering and Science Learning Centre and a Humanities Building. At the same time, a new Biosciences/School of Veterinary Medicine & Science building will go up near the existing Vet School at Sutton Bonington. The new infrastructure is part of a drive to expand and upgrade the University's teaching and learning facilities and will enhance the institution's position as one of the most popular destinations among applicants to UK universities - The University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Greenaway, said: "These buildings will create a new benchmark for excellence in the surroundings and facilities provided to both students and staff here at The University of Nottingham. Teaching and learning are our core business and it is our priority to provide the best possible environmental infrastructure and educational technology as well as quality of teaching.