UCMK Facilities

The UCMK campus in Central Milton Keynes was purpose-designed for HE. It is a highly-attractive new facility which provides a creative, stimulating and comfortable environment for all members of ‘our academic community'. It enjoys environmentally-friendly, state-of-the-art facilities, including lecture theatres, seminar rooms, IT suites, a CISCO academy, a design studio, a dedicated library and resource centre, breakout areas, conference facilities, an art gallery and a superb café. The building is equipped with a high bandwidth computer network and is wireless-flood so that laptop users can enjoy wireless access throughout UCMK.

UCMK is filled with the very latest IT facilities. Each lecture and seminar room has an integrated SMART board to allow multimedia presentations. A large number of computers are available for students to use for their private study and these are bookable over the internet. Full use is made of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) to support teaching and learning - MOODLE is used at UCMK and BLACKBOARD and WebCT are used by our partner universities. A dedicated student intranet is used as the UCMK portal for information services.

Dedicated librarians are on hand to support students with research and with information management activities. Award-winning student support services are readily available, as are friendly reception and technical support staff, to ensure that our student experience is first class.

All UCMK students also have access to the excellent Open University Library which is just a few miles away on the OU's main campus in Milton Keynes.

Success Stories ...

Turning Heads

Turning Heads

Head-turning hair and drop-dead gorgeous styling are the trademarks of the College’s Hair & Beauty Dept. Each year the students wow the city with their outstanding cutting-edge work and the end-of-year show is always an eagerly-awaited event.

 

Themes vary from year to year, but they always capture the imagination. 2007 saw Level 3 students put on a catwalk spectacular entitled Bold and Brave to showcase their year's work.


Chefs of the Future

Chefs of the Future

With many of our past students already working in local eateries, including The Crooked Billet in Newton Longville, the Wavendon Arms, and The Sculpture Gallery in Woburn, it is easy to see why the College’s training restaurant is fast becoming known as the home of burgeoning chefs of the future.


Islamic Art

Islamic Art

Originally proposed by local community leader Anouar Kassim, the workshop explored a range of Islamic art forms with the aim of producing four large banners to be displayed in Middleton Hall for the College’s exhibition and award ceremony in June.