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The University of Strathclyde began in 1796 as the Anderson’s Institute. Located in the centre of old Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, it has pursued teaching and innovation for Scotland and the world for more than 200 years. It has changed quite a bit since the 18th century, of course. The University of Strathclyde today is […]
The University of Wolverhampton was founded in 1827 as the Wolverhampton Free Library, which soon began to offer commercial, scientific, technical and more general classes. The School of Art began offering classes in 1851, and became the Municipal School of Art in 1885. The institution began to expand seriously in 1920, when the original promises […]
York St John University was founded in 1841 As York Training School. They provided skilled teachers for York, St John’s College and the Diocesan Boards of Education for Ripon. St Margaret’s College, a school for women’s teachers, was opened in Ripon in 1862. These merged in 1975 to form the College of Ripon and York […]
Canterbury Christ Church University opened in 1962 as Christ Church College, a teachers’ training facility with only 9 teachers and some 70 students. They moved to a larger, purpose-built facility in 1964, and began offering their frost Bachelor’s degrees (in Education) soon after. By the latter half of the 1980s they offered several different undergraduate […]
The University of West London began as the Lady Byron School 1860 when Queen Charlotte’s College of Health Care Studies, the London College of Music, the Thames Valley College of Higher education and the Ealing College of Higher Education merged. Though the school, its student population and its portfolio grew, it retained the name of […]
The University of Sunderland was founded in 1901 as the Sunderland Technical College, though the region’s reputation as a centre for scholarship goes back to AD 674, when it held St Peter’s Church and Monastery, Europe’s largest scriptorium north of the Alps. Indeed the university’s modern Media Centre (built at a cost of some £9 […]
The University of Plymouth was founded as the Plymouth School of Navigation in 1862, though they taught a range of Arts and Science subjects even then. Exactly 100 years later, it became the Plymouth College of Technology, and Plymouth Polytechnic just seven years after that. It was combined with the Rolle College of Education in […]
The University of Huddersfield has nearly 200 years of history behind it. The first attempts to found a Scientific and Mechanics Institution failed due to the financial collapse of 1825-26, thought the library and some other assets were absorbed into the Huddersfield Philosophical Society. In 1941 it was reborn as the Young Men’s Mental Improvement […]