Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, which opened in 1885 as Edge Hill College, the first non-denominational teacher training college for women in England, before admitting its first male students in 1959. In 2005, Edge Hill was granted Taught Degree Awarding Powers by the Privy Council and became Edge Hill University on 18 May 2006.
The University has three faculties: Arts and Sciences, Education, and Health and Social Care; these teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Faculties and departments
The University has three Faculties:
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Faculty comprises Departments of:
- Biology
- Business (Edge Hill Business School)
- Computer Science
- English, History & Creative Writing
- Geography and Geology
- Language Centre
- Law & Criminology
- Media
- Performing Arts
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
- Sport & Physical Activity
Faculty of Education
The Faculty runs initial teacher training programmes for the age phases of education in the UK, together with Continuing Professional Development for the school workforce. The most recent Ofsted Initial Teacher Education inspection report[20] (2011) awarded Grade 1 in all 33 cells covering the phases of initial teacher training: Primary & Early Years, Secondary and Post-Compulsory Education and Training.
The Faculty comprises Departments of:
- Early Years Education
- Children, Education and Communities
- Professional Learning
- Secondary and Further Education
Faculty of Health and Social Care
The Faculty delivers pre-registration training for nurses, midwives, operating department practitioners and paramedics; qualifying social work degrees; and professional development in the fields of health and social care.
The Faculty comprises Departments of:
- Applied Health and Social Care
- Medicine
- Midwifery
- Nursing
- Operating Department Practice
- Paramedic Practice
- Social Work
- Postgraduate & Professional Development Courses
- CPD Modules