Facilities
The University Centre Poole offers state-of-the-art learning environments for students to study degree-level qualifications and provides flexible learning spaces for small group teaching, digital suites with access to high-specification IT equipment, virtual reality suites, nursing training facilities and social and study spaces to meet and collaborate.
Our industry-standard nursing training facilities include a simulated hospital ward, with NHS examination beds, full simulation manikins, ECG machines, nursing trolleys and full-size skeletons.
Real industry standard practical equipment allows student first-hand experience of the sector, with catheters, needles, surgical tape, glucose test strips and bottles.
HE Engineering students each have a pathway base room and have access to specialist laboratories and equipment based around their area of study. This includes a prototyping and robotics laboratory, design engineering room, manufacturing engineering room and electronics design laboratory.
Our five state-of-the-art CGI computer suites boast cutting edge resources, including two inertial motion capture suits, a hand-held 3D scanner and 340 core render farm; all of which are incorporated into coursework and available for project work throughout the entirety of your studies.
Our bespoke built HE Music studio houses an Audient ASP8024 Heritage Edition 24 channel large format mixing console. This is paired with an Antelope Audio Orion 32+ Gren 4 audio interface converter, and a Mac Studio M2 Max with 64GB of RAM running Protools and Cubase.
The studio also boasts a vocal booth within the control room and a 40sqm live room with a separate drum booth.
Our bespoke stop motion studio is designed with everything required for modelling and capturing stop motion work. The room is part workshop and part motion studio, boasting an airbrush booth, large 3D filament printer and facilities for baking polymer clay, mold making and running foam latex.
There are a total of 8 studio spaces, with industry-standard lighting equipment, Canon mirrorless cameras and a PC laptop running Dragonframe, the professional stop motion software used by companies such as Aardman.
General College Facilities (not specific to Higher Education and the Degree Centre) - details below: