University of Buckingham

University of Buckingham
MottoLatin: Alis Volans Propriis
Motto in English
Flying on Our Own Wings
TypePrivate
Established1973; as university college[1]
1983; as university[1]
ChancellorDame Mary Archer
Vice-ChancellorJames Tooley
Academic staff
97 (2011)[2]
Administrative staff
103 (2011)[2]
Students(2016/17)[3]
Undergraduates(2016/17)[3]
Postgraduates(2016/17)[3]
Location
Buckingham
,
England

51°59′45″N 0°59′31″W / 51.99583°N 0.99194°W / 51.99583; -0.99194
CampusMultiple sites, rural
Colours   Charcoal and gold
Websitebuckingham.ac.uk
The Church of St Rumbold in Buckingham now forms part of the University of Buckingham

The University of Buckingham (UB) is a non-profit private university in Buckingham, England. It is the oldest of the country's six private universities.

Buckingham has formal charity status as a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the ends of research and education .[4][5][6]

History

Some of the founding academics migrated from the University of Oxford,[7] disillusioned or cautious of aspects of the late-1960s thinking. On 27 May 1967, The Times published a letter from J. W. Paulley, a physician, who wrote:

"Is it now time to examine the possibility of creating at least one university in this country on the pattern of [the] great private foundations in the USA".[8]

Three London conferences followed which explored this idea.[9]

The university was incorporated as the "University College of Buckingham" in 1976 and received its royal charter as a university from the Queen in 1983. As of May 2016, it is the only private university in the UK with a royal charter.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "History of the University". Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 "University of Buckingham Annual Report 2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "2016/17 Students by HE provider, level, mode and domicile" (CSV). Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  4. ↑ Business school to be university college, Financial Times, 25 July 2010
  5. ↑ "Register Home Page". Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Tooley, James. ed. Buckingham at 25: Freeing the Universities from State Control, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001. ISBN 0-255-36512-8.
  7. ↑ "Institutes We Represent | Buckingham University". britishdegree.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  8. ↑ The Times, 27 May 1967, p. 20.
  9. ↑ Buckingham at 25, ed. James Tooley (2001), p. 25.
  10. ↑ "Chartered bodies | Privy Council". Government of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

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