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  • A new course at the University of Portsmouth, the Professional Doctorate in Healthcare Science Education is the first of its kind in the country and will develop health professionals as educational leaders and researchers
  • Average city property values are set to hit £200,000 in the next few years
  • Highbury College has a brand new £40million building
  • Portsmouth has one of the best climates in Britain. Temperatures and sunshine hours are consistently higher than in more northern parts of the country. The average daily temperature is 20°C during the summer, 12°C in winter and rainfall is lower than the national average
  • University of Portsmouth came in joint eighth with Cambridge University in People & Planet’s Green League table, ranking 102 universities on how environmentally friendly they were
  • The number of students applying to study at the University of Portsmouth has increased by 50.3 per cent over the last three years - more than any other English University
  • The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) awarded £2.6m to allow the University to lead knowledge exchanges in the South East of England.
  • The University has a total of 18,390 Higher Education Students.
  • Portsmouth is home to the BUPA Great South Run which is Britain's leading 10 mile running event.
  • A ‘Windsave’ turbine has recently been installed at the Institute of Marine sciences as part of the University’s development of green alternatives for energy generation
  • Portsmouth’s Mountbatten Sport Centre is set to undergo a £20million renovation which will feature an Olympic sized community swimming pool. A bid has been put in for the pool to be included in the 2012 Olympics.

Testimonials

“Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute hospital trusts in the country and the second largest employer in the area. In excess of more than half a million patients throughout Portsmouth and South East Hampshire benefit annually from the acute and specialist health services provided by the Trust. The annual budget for the Trust is in excess of £360 million and 7000 staff are employed on three main hospital sites.”

Pat Forsythe
NHS

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