Manchester Tyrants
The Manchester Tyrants are a new American Football team made up of players from the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Salford University.
The team will be playing as an Associate Member of the BUAFL for the 2008/2009 season.
The team was formed in March 2008 by university student Lyle Higgs after discovering the lack of a University American Football team within the Manchester area.
The initial concept of the team was heavily promoted around the three universities and within weeks a group of players from around the Greater Manchester community started training together. After a committee was formed, regular scheduled practices were able to be organised and were attended by over 100 players over the course of 2008, ongoing to this day.
The team has produced strong sponsorship bonds and developed collaborations with other University sporting teams, including the Universities of Manchester Cheer team and the Salford Sirens cheer team.
The Tyrants have also formed a strong relationship with the BAFL’s Manchester Titans, who have helped both guide and coach Tyrants’ players in preparation for their inaugural season. Joining the BUAFL in June 2008, the team is currently going from strength to strength and is looking forward to becoming a Full Member of the BUAFL in the future.
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester’s history as an academic institution began in 1824, closely linked to Manchester’s emergence as the world’s first industrial city.
The university currently has over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, more than 10,000 staff and is the largest single-site university in the UK. More students try to gain entry to the University of Manchester than any other university in the country, with more than 60,000 applications for undergraduate courses alone, and was named Sunday Times University of the Year in 2006.
According to High Fliers Research Limited’s survey, The Graduate Market in 2007, University of Manchester students are being targeted by more top recruiters for 2007 graduate vacancies than any other UK university students.
Some of the best known alumni include John Dalton (founder of modern atomic theory), George E. Davis (founded the discipline of Chemical Engineering), Bernard Lovell (a pioneer of radio astronomy), Alan Turing (one of the founders of computer science and artificial intelligence), Irene Khan (current secretary general of Amnesty International) and Robert Bolt (two times Academy Award winner and three times Golden Globe winner for screenwriting Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago).
www.manchester.ac.uk
Manchester Metropolitan University
During the last third of the 20th century MMU grew through the combination of several colleges, some of which were founded in the 19th century. The mergers began on 1st January 1970, when Manchester Polytechnic was formed from Manchester College of Art and Design, the Manchester College of Commerce and the John Dalton College of Technology.
On the 1st January 1977, the Polytechnic merged with the Didsbury College of Education and Hollings College, and on 1st January 1983 with the City of Manchester College of Higher Education.
In 1987 the institution became a founding member of the Northern Consortium. Having previously been a local authority institution, the Polytechnic became a corporate body on the 1st April 1989, as allowed by the terms of the Education Reform Act 1988. It became a University under the terms of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992 under the new title of Manchester Metropolitan University. This new title was approved by the Privy Council on the 15th September 1992.
The University now has over 21,000 full-time and 10,000 part-time students. As of 2005, there are hundreds of courses in over 70 subjects. The University maintains five campuses in Manchester, as well as two in Crewe and Alsager in Cheshire and is is the fourth largest university in Britain.
www.mmu.ac.uk
Salford University
Salford University was founded in 1896 as the Royal Technical Institute, following a merger of the Salford Working Men''''''''s College and Pendleton Mechanics Institute. Since its formation the University has established a successful global presence, with some 3,000 international students choosing to study there, with significant numbers coming from China, India, Pakistan, Cyprus, Greece, Nigeria, Ireland and Malaysia.
With its four faculties, twelve schools, thirteen research institutes, nearly 20,000 students, and over 2,500 staff, Salford has placed itself strongly in serving the needs of industry and commerce. The University of Salford is on the leading edge of research innovation in many fields, including virtual reality, genetic algorithms, building design and prosthetics. The University is also a founding member of the Northern Consortium.
The University is the self-styled university of limitless possibilities, and has given equal priority to enterprise alongside teaching and research for the past decade. Its commitment to making learning relevant to the outside world has contributed to the University being ranked in the top ten (out of all UK universities) for teaching excellence and top in the North West by a report in the journal Quality in Higher Education.
According to The Times, Salford averaged 21 points out of 24 from 1996 onwards on teaching quality grades, with perfect scores for politics and biological sciences.
www.salford.ac.uk
