University of Bath
| University of Bath | |
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| motto | Generatim discite cultus |
| founding | 1966 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Bath , UK |
| Vice-Chancellor and President | Ian White |
| Students | 14,795 (2006) |
| Website | www.bath.ac.uk |
The University of Bath received its royal charter in 1966 and has since been a public university near the English city of Bath with around 15,000 students. The institution is a so-called campus university.
Even though the university is young, it is now one of the top universities in Great Britain and has also been ranked among the top ten British universities in the Guardian and Times rankings .
history
The history of the institution goes back to 1856 when the technical school was founded in Bristol under the name "Bristol Trade School". Since 1885 the school belonged to the Society of Merchant Venturers and was called "Merchant Venturers' Technical College ". In 1907 the Bath School of Pharmacy was founded in Bath, a neighboring town of Bristol, which from 1927 became part of the Bristol Technical College. In 1949 the "Bristol Education Authority" took over the school supervision of the college and it was then called "Bristol College of Technology", and from 1960 then "Bristol College of Science and Technology" when the school supervision was transferred to the British Ministry of Education. The City of Bristol College is now located in the former property of the college . Efforts in the early 1960s to improve state higher education paved the way for the college to attain university status. The city of Bristol was unable to provide a suitable site for the associated expansion of the school. In a joint compromise between the school management and the ministry, it was therefore decided to build the new university in “Claverton Down”, where construction work began in 1964 and ended in 1966, even if additional buildings, some of which were dislocated, followed in the following decades.
Discoveries in recent years have shown that the establishment of a college for Oxford University on the present site was under discussion as early as the 19th century .
Personalities
- Andrew Pettigrew Dean 2003-2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.bath.ac.uk/teams/senior-management-team/
- ^ University of Bath: The University of Bath is "pleased" to be placed in the top ten of UK universities by the latest Guardian newspaper league tables, printed today. (English), press release May 1, 2007.
- ^ University of Bath: The University of Bath was “very pleased” to be ranked in the top ten of UK universities by The Times newspaper today. (English), press release June 5, 2006.
- ^ Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson (1996) Writers on Organizations , 5th Edition, Penguin Books, London; Pages 192 to 198;
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 36 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 33" W.