Talk:University of Sunderland

Gormley Doctorate
Was a sculptor really given a doctorate in business administration?--Oxonian2006 02:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Doesn't matter. Universities can give out all the Hon Docs they like, and some do so like confetti. I don't think this sort of info belongs in an encyclopaedia. Ohconfucius 05:35, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I was right to be sceptical. He was acutally given an Hon Doctorate of Letters --Oxonian2006 (talk) 14:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

University ratings
(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on 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. Timrollpickering 23:34, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, we need a more objective standard, even if it only applies to each country individually. Ohconfucius 05:35, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 16 years later and this remains a problem with educational institutions. British polyversities in particular are very keen on marketing, and their PR people fill their WP articles with all sorts of dubious guff supposedly illustrating how wonderful they are. I don't have a solution.--Ef80 (talk) 15:48, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Student Union
I left in 1991 as it was becoming a University. I can't help wondering if the legendary Dave Dobbie is still hanging around the Student Union? ;-) User:Anonymous 11.00, 25 January 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.105.165.198 (talk) 11:01, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

University status
Surely dating university status to the F&HE Act 1992 is four years too late? When I resigned in 1989, Sunderland Poly/Uni was no longer administered by the local authority. It had acquired university status and was busy reorganising its finances accordingly. I read at the top of p3 of University of Sunderland, Report and financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2012 http://docushare.sunderland.ac.uk/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-8166/Accounts2012PDDF.pdf "The University of Sunderland is a Higher Education Corporation established by order of the Secretary of State under Section 121 of the Educational Reform Act 1988". Quacksalber (talk) 22:19, 17 December 2013 (UTC)