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Edinburgh Napier University was founded fairly recently, in 1964. When it opened as Napier Technical College it accepted only 800 students, at a purpose built facility incorporating Merchison Tower, a medieval structure that was once part of Merchison Castle, the birthplace of John Napier, the university’s namesake. The original curriculum included Engineering, Chemistry, Naval Architecture, […]
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 […]
Bolton University got its start in 1825, when it was founded as the Bolton Mechanics’ Institute. By 1887 it was understood that the technical educational needs of the region’s population had expanded, and soon they opened a Technical School which serves more than 1500 students per year. The school officially became a College in 1926, […]
The University of Central Lancashire – UCLan – was founded in nearly 200 years ago in 1828. At that time it as the Institution of the Diffusion of Knowledge, in Preston. Its expansion began with an endowment in 1877, becoming a centre for art and science in the region. It became the Harris Art College […]
UWTSD – the University of Wales Trinity Saint David – was created in its modern form in 2010, when Trinity University College Carmarthen merged with the University of Wales Lampeter. The Swansea Metropolitan University joined the fold soon after in 2013. However, this does not mean UWTSD lacks ancient traditions, Far from it. Trinity […]
The University of Suffolk got its start when the Suffolk Country Council established a group to study the possibility of establishing a university there. This group included both the Suffolk County Council and the Ipswich Borough Council, the Suffolk Learning and Skills Cuncil, the Higher Education Finding Council for England, the East of England Development […]
Solent University got its start as The School of Art in Southampton back in 1856. This became the Southampton College of Art, and eventually merged with the Southampton College of Technology and the College of Nautical Studies, located nearby in Warsash. The combined institution came to be called the Southampton Institute of Higher Education. The […]
Buckinghamshire New University was founded back in 1891, then called the School of Science and Art. At the time it mostly provided evening classes to High Wycombe students. In the years following the First World War, it took the name of the Wycombe Technical Institute, and provided craft-based education for injured veterans. The school’s mission […]