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The Teaching and Learning Centre was built on a former sports field owned by the university between Vincent Harris's neoclassical St Mary's College and the Edwardian Arts and Crafts-style Bow School, directly opposite Daniel Liebeskind's deconstructivist Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, on the university's Lower Mountjoy campus on the other side of South Road.
Durham Students' Union, operating as Durham SU, is the students' union of Durham University in Durham, England.It is an organisation, originally set up as the Durham Colleges Students’ Representative Council in 1899 and renamed in 1969, with the intention of representing and providing welfare and services for the students of the University of Durham.
University College, the oldest of the 17 Durham Colleges. Durham operates a collegiate structure similar to that of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, in that all colleges at Durham, being constituent colleges of a "recognised body", are "listed bodies" [1] in the Education (Listed Bodies) (England) Order 2013 made under the Education Reform Act 1988.
Stephenson is a self-catered college, with rooms arranged in flats with shared kitchens. [7] All rooms are single-occupancy, and include en-suite rooms as well as those with shared bathrooms. [7] As of 2023, the college has 1304 members, with 433 living in college accommodation. [8]
The college is unusual (in the Durham collegiate context) in the extent to which it has invested in libraries and study space. The Durham University Library holds most of the college's medieval manuscripts and its oldest books, which include a number of 16th and 17th century imprints including Quintus Aurelius Symmachus 's Epistolae familiares ...
The theatre is home to 33 Durham Student Theatre Companies, as well as a local resident Company 'Elysium Theatre Company'. [13]During term time, The Assembly Rooms Theatre usually hosts at least one production per week These student performances are programmed by the Durham Student Theatre committee, and can feature any of the society's 33 companies.
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In June 2019, Durham Students' Union assembly voted to lobby for the college to be named after the late politician and Durham graduate Mo Mowlam. [12] On 1 April 2020, Durham's student newspaper Palatinate published an April Fools' Day joke that South College was to be named Vine College after broadcaster and Durham alumnus Jeremy Vine. Vine ...