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The University of Greenwich was founded in 1890. It was then known as Woolwich Polytechnic, and what the second polytechnic to be founded in the UK. They began offering formal degrees as early as 1907. Woolwich offered the first ‘sandwich’ courses in the UK, in cooperation with the Ministry of War and Woolwich Arsenal. After […]
The School of Oriental and African Studies was founded in 1916 as the School of Oriental Studies. It took its current name in 1938 and moved to its new campus in 1941. Its iconic library was built in 1973. The university continues to expand slowly, maintaining itself as one of the premier centres for Asian […]
St Mary’s University began in 1850 as a teacher’s training school with close ties to the Catholic Church. It soon outgrew its original campus at Brook Green in Hammersmith, and it moved to a larger facility at Strawberry Hill in 1925. This campus originally held around 250 students, but has been enlarged several times. In […]
University of the Arts London’s nearly 200 years of history and traditions make it what it is today. UAL got its start as seven separate institutions: The London College of Fashion, the College for the Distributive Trades, the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, the Central School of Art and Design, the London College of […]
The University of St Andrews had its start in 1410, when teachers and students first began studying at the town of St Andrews in Scotland. It was formally founded as a university by papal bull 3 years later in 1413. This makes it not only the oldest university in all of Scotland, it is the […]
The University of reading was first given the Royal Charter in 1926, and is already planning for its 100th anniversary. Reading was the only university to be honoured with a royal charter between World War 1 and World War 2. Before taking the name ‘University of Reading, though, it was an extension College of the […]
The University of Nottingham’s history begins with the opening of the first civic college in Nottingham, back in 1881. By 1928 it had outgrown its first facility, and had moved to the new campus at University Park in Highfields, near Wollaton. It only officially became The University of Nottingham in 1948, when it was awarded […]
The University of Buckingham’s story began in 1967, when DR J W Paulley suggested creating a UK university on the model of the great private universities in the US. In just six years, the University College at Buckingham had been incorporated as an educational charity. It was formally opened a mere 3 years later in […]