The Homepage of UWA states:"The University of Western Australia, the State’s first university, was established in 1911 and opened two years later with 184 students. Today the university enrols over 24,000 students, in eight faculties: Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts; Arts; Business School; Education; Engineering, Computing and Mathematics; Law; Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences; and Science."
In 2015, there were 3,677 staff (full time equivalent) working at the university. UWA is also very proud of its Nobel prize winners: Professor Barry Marshall and Emeritus Professor Robin Warren were awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.
The main campus of the UWA is just very beautiful.
You only need to walk a few minutes and then you are right at the very broad Swan river.
There are lots of green areas on the campus and all the facilities you need, including lots of sports facilities, residential homes and cafés and restaurants.
The UWA Library was established in 1964 and celebrated its 50th anniversary two years ago. Above you can see a part of the outside area of the Reid Library, one of the branch libraries. Today UWA Library has about 100 staff and six sites (branch libraries), in addition to the Special Collections.
Some years ago the process of refurbishing the library spaces started.
"The Reid Library refurbishment project has transformed the ground-floor of the library with a state-of-the-art design, where it has become open and light and makes the most of its beautiful and central location on campus. The number of student spaces for collaborative and informal learning has increased from 350 to 700. There has been improved access to wifi, power points and locker space, increased and upgraded bathrooms and the new Quobba Gnarning café. Other highlights of the refurbishment include:
- A new entrance off Saw Promenade
- A range of collaborative learning spaces to meet different learning styles
- A learning suite for interactive tutorial style teaching for up to 60 students which can also be booked and used by students when not being used for teaching
- Relocation of the resource room from the first-floor to the ground-floor of the library to improve accessibility
- A dedicated space for WriteSmart (a daily help service for students delivered collaboratively by Student Services and the library)
- Full refurbishment including new furniture, carpet and paint."
After the refurbishment of the ground floor, Reid Library has received up to 80% more visits daily than at the same time the year before. It really has become a central space for learning.
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