Sunday 22 May 2011

The History of the University of Surrey

According to the University of Surrey website, the University was founded in 1894. The University was established with an aim to educate men and women who had a thirst for knowledge and a hunger to succeed. Whilst times have changed, its belief in the power of education and innovation remains the same.
The forerunner of the University, the Battersea Polytechnic Institute (founded 1891, first students admitted 1894) began concentrating on science and technology from about 1920 and taught day and evening students for degrees of the University of London. Its academic reputation steadily grew to the point in 1956 where it was one of the first colleges to be designated a 'college of advanced technology'. It was renamed Battersea College of Technology in 1957.
By the beginning of the sixties the College had virtually outgrown its main building in Battersea Park Road and in 1962 it had already decided to move to Guildford. Shortly afterwards (1963), the Robbins Report proposed that Battersea College, along with the other colleges of advanced technology, should expand and become a university awarding its own degrees. The greenfield site for the University-designate was acquired from Guildford Cathedral, Guildford Borough Council and the Onslow Village Trust in 1965, and the move from Battersea was completed in 1970.
Since its foundation, the University of Surrey has fostered links with other educational bodies in the local community and region. For example, in recent years it has validated courses at and subsequently accredited St Mary's College - a College of the University of Surrey, Wimbledon School of Art and Farnborough College of Technology. The University currently validates courses at North East Surrey College of Technology (Nescot), Guildford School of Acting Conservatoire, Guildford College of Further & Higher Education, King Edward VII Hospital Department of Staff Development, The Nuclear Department at HMS Sultan, St John's Seminary, Southern Theological Education & Training Scheme (STETS), the Pre-Retirement Association and SHL (UK) Ltd.
For a university of its size and age, Surrey has one of the highest number of staff who are academicians of the learned societies: 4 Fellows of the Royal Society, 21 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one Fellow of the British Academy and 6 Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Saturday 14 May 2011

New Facebook Page!

Hello everyone!

We are very excited to announce that you can now visit and 'like' our new Facebook Page. There, we will be posting new pictures and videos, twitter updates, polls, interviews with the dancers and many more. You can also use the page in order to share pictures, videos, posts, feedback and links with us. The link for the page is the following: http://www.facebook.com/pages/End-of-Year-Dance-Shows/193495260697412
Please feel free to share the page with family and friends.

We are looking forward hearing from you,

The Marketing Team.

Tuesday 3 May 2011

What does our audience want?

After the completion of the written evaluations on the Final Degree Dance Shows by audience members at the 8th  and 9th of April, the Marketing Team of the End of Year Shows have concluded the marketing strategies that the audience of our dance shows prefers. More specifically, the audience has shared with us how they hear about our events and whether they find this a successful way of advertising and how else would they like to be informed about our events.

To begin with, the Final Year Show Audience Questionnaires were completed by 64 audience members. The gender of the audience members that completed our written evaluations were comprised from 58 females and 6 males and their age varied from under 18 years old to 65+. For more details about the age percentage you can see the graphic board above.

Surprisingly, as the graphic results denote above, 47% of our audience was informed about the dance show through the word of mouth. The rest 53% was informed about the events through flyers, e-flyers, brochures, the UniS Arts website or through social networks. More specifically, 20% of our audience was notified about our event through an e-flyer, 10% through social networks, and 9% through the UniS Arts website. 
Therefore, this indicates that online marketing is one of the ways that people usually hear about our dance events on campus as a great percentage of our audience members found out about our latest event online. Last but not least, the rest of our audience was informed about our event through the event’s brochure (8%) and flyer (6%). In addition, 90,4% of our audience found this a successful way of advertising.

The marketing team will be using this information so that we improve our marketing strategies and services for the upcoming End of Year Show. We thank the people who helped us improve our services by completing our written evaluations. If you would like to give us feedback you can now visit our website and give us a comment on our ‘feedback’ section, or simply send us an email by visiting the ‘contact us’ section in case you do not want your feedback to be visible on our website.

Yours sincerely,

The Marketing Team

Monday 2 May 2011

Visit the new website of the End of Year Show!

Dear visitors and followers,

You can now visit our new website by following the link: www.wix.com/endoftheyearshow/dance

Our website contains videos and pictures from previous dance shows presented by the Department of Dance, Film and Theatre at the University of Surrey along with all the information you need about these exciting shows. In addition, you can give us feedback about your previous experiences in dance shows presented by the Department of Dance, Film and Theatre and give us any other comment about the website itself or any other thoughts you may have about the show.

You can share this information with your friends and family on social networks, and spread the word about this show which is a fantastic opportunity to see young emerging choreographers and dancers to showcase and celebrate exciting new work.

We are looking forward hearing from you!

The Marketing Team

About Me

Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
Dance students at the University of Surrey invite audiences to see a wide range of dance performances, ranging from Contemporary to Ballet, African, Kathak and Hip Hop. Always a wonderful finale to the year, these shows are a fantastic opportunity to see young emerging choreographers and dancers to showcase and celebrate their exciting new work. The evening will also include pieces by Jean Johnson-Jones, Lecturer in Dance Studies, and by recent graduate and emerging choreographer Jo Read. Jo’s Hip Hop piece, North, Wind and Sun was recently commissioned by Woking Dance Festival and features dancers from the Dance, Film and Theatre. Water Study, staged by Jean Johnson-Jones is an ensemble piece designed for ten female dancers.