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Poly[edit]

Actually, Shefield City Polytechnic was able to award its own degrees before it was granted university status. It was the first Polytechnic deemed to be of sufficient stature to award it's own degrees by the Council for National Academic Awards, CNAA, which was the normal degree accrediting and awarding body for Polytechnics. Unfortunately, I can not remember the year in which this honour was granted.

The Our Heritage section of SHU's website says that both were granted in 1992. Warofdreams talk 00:39, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well it's important to remember many polytechnics were awarding degrees long before 1992 - it was common practice. Magic Pickle (talk) 22:46, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ranking[edit]

What about adding its rankings from the times good university guide? Magic Pickle 22:09, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

University ratings[edit]

(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)

There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 23:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

£100m redevelopment[edit]

Is it worth adding some comments on the recent and on-going building work? 1. The new entrace to City campus. 2. "Heart of the campus" (or whatever its called) at collegiate campus. 3. The new building (http://www.shu.ac.uk/news/release.html?ID=69) 4. Harmer level 4 re-build. I guess there may be more things the £100m is being spent on.. Gryphon5 00:03, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

6th Largest University in the UK?[edit]

Is it really, anyone got any evidence to back up this claim? Markb (talk) 09:41, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Using the latest HESA data it is now the 4th largest - I've amended the text and updated the referenceAlan (talk) 16:24, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV[edit]

Does anyone else feel that some parts of this article aren't a NPOV? Especially paragraphs 1 and 2? -- Cowplopmorris^Talk_Contribs 00:56, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of names[edit]

Lists of names in this article should be sourced in accordance with WP:BLP. As there is no way of constantly maintaining linked articles, this applies to names which have a Wikipedia article as well as those that do not. Any name listed with no verifiable citations should be removed. Refer to WP:NLIST for guidance. Fæ (talk) 18:23, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Prof Archie Markham died in 2008 and Prof Chas Critcher has moved to Swansea (see http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/critcherc/) so they have both been moved to Former Staff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.172.233.140 (talk) 19:52, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I removed items from the list of notable staff because they did not have articles to demonstrate that they are notable. This has been reverted on the ground that each entry explains why they are notable. I am not going to edit war this. However, I point out, that removing people who do not have articles from similar list of notable staff and notable alumni is quite normal, and that while there is an explanation, none of them is referenced. So how do we know they are notable? These entries are just original research. They should be removed. --Bduke (Discussion) 05:02, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know......[edit]

...... why it's called Sheffield Hallam University instead of, simply, Sheffield University? What's 'Hallam' and where does it fit in? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.170.205.195 (talk • contribs) 00:15, 29 March 2013‎ (UTC)[reply]

I am puzzled by the name too. There is of course another and earlier university called Sheffield University. Hallam is an area near Crosspool where I lived as a child. The road I lived on ends at a dead end at the back fence of the Hallam cricket and football ground. The Hallam Cricket ground, I think, is the oldest cricket ground in England or maybe wider. The area however does not seem to be well defined, although the term is widely used. --Bduke (talk) 09:28, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]