White Rose University Consortium

For other uses, see White Rose (disambiguation).

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The White Rose University Consortium is a partnership among three universities in Yorkshire, England consisting of the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, and the University of York.

History

It was formed in 1997 to combine the resources of the universities so they can all benefit. These benefits include collaborative research, business opportunities, industrial partnerships, and joint postgraduate scholarships.

Aims

The White Rose Centre for Excellence in the Teaching and Learning of Enterprise is an aspect of the white rose consortium that aims to promote enterprise to all students through competitions and new enterprise courses, such as science with enterprise degrees.

Activities

The White Rose Consortium have also established an e-thesis repository, allowing the postgraduate research and doctoral student at the University of Leeds, University of Sheffield and University of York to upload their works to the database. The repository is part of a national and international network of online databases which enable access to research papers and proposals so that they can be found, read, cited and expanded upon.

It operates the National Science Learning Centre in York, opened in March 2006, part of the Science Learning Centres.

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University associations and groupings in the United Kingdom

Formal associations	1994 Group Cathedrals Group G5 Global Medical Excellence Cluster GuildHE Million+ N8 Research Partnership Russell Group Universities UK University Alliance White Rose University Consortium

Informal groupings	Ancient university (Ancient universities of Scotland) Campus university Golden triangle New universities Oxbridge Plate glass university Red brick university

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