BBC Question Time makes third visit to Queen Mary, University of London

Oct. 14, 2011 - PRLog -- Queen Mary, University of London’s Octagon played host to BBC One’s current affairs panel show ‘Question Time’ for a third time on Thursday 13th October 2011.

Joining David Dimbleby as host were Health Secretary Andrew Lansley MP, former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Deputy Editor of the Evening Standard Sarah Sands, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs Mark Littlewood and GP and Comedian Dr. Phil Hammond.

Since 1979, Question Time has offered British voters the opportunity to question top decision-makers and commentators on topical news and events of the day.

Held in the university’s former library, the Victorian, Grade II listed Octagon offers a flexible space with the historic backdrop of leather bound books on two levels, an impressive octagonal domed ceiling and carved busts of famous literati.

The Octagon is just one of over 100 rooms available for hire at Queen Mary’s three central London campuses (in zones 1 and 2), with the Mile End campus just two miles from Canary Wharf, the City of London and 2012 Olympic site in Stratford. The campuses offer flexible spaces ranging from seminar rooms for 10 to lecture theatres for 300 and networking space for 400 supported by an in house hospitality team.

Further information regarding the range of facilities available for hire at Queen Mary is available at www.qmhospitality.co.uk

Notes to Editors

Queen Mary, University of London is one of the UK’s leading research-focused higher education institutions with some 16,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Amongst the largest of the colleges of the University of London, Queen Mary’s 3,000 staff deliver world-class degree programmes and research across three faculties: Science and Engineering; Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
One of the rising stars in UK higher education, Queen Mary was ranked 11th nationally in the last Research Assessment Exercise, and was rated as one of the world’s elite universities in the 2010 Times Higher Education’s Top 200 World University Rankings (120th place).

The College has a strong international reputation with around 23 per cent of students coming from over 130 countries.

Queen Mary has an annual turnover of £300m, research income worth £70m, and a yearly impact on the UK economy of over £750m.

Queen Mary, as a member of the 1994 Group of research-focused universities, has made a strategic commitment to the highest quality of research, but also to the best possible educational, cultural and social experience for its students. The College is unique among London’s universities in being able to offer a completely integrated residential campus, with a 2,000-bed award-winning Student Village on its Mile End campus.