The University of
Strathclyde has been named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards
2012.
The Glasgow institution picked up the coveted title at a
ceremony held in London attended by more than 1,000 staff from
universities and colleges across the UK.
Judges in the awards were impressed with how Strathclyde's
dedication to working with industry had taken shape over the past
year, with a series of groundbreaking initiatives.
Its "transformational year" saw the technological institution
invest almost £90 million in a Technology and Innovation Centre to
unite academia and industry.
The university also established the UK's first Fraunhofer
Institute - Europe's largest research contract organisation -
through the creation of a Fraunhofer Centre for Applied
Photonics.
As well as doubling its research income from business and
industry to £6.2 million, Strathclyde was also selected as the
exclusive European partner for South Korea's global research and
commercialisation programme.
John Gill, editor of Times Higher Education, said the
institution's focus on "really meaningful" partnerships with
industry "had come together in an impressive way in the past 12
months, and the judges were clear that it was a worthy winner".