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At the heart of a World Heritage site on the south bank of the Thames, Sir Christopher Wren's seamen's hospital - later the Old Royal Naval College - now forms the campus of the University of...
At the heart of a World Heritage site on the south bank of the Thames, Sir Christopher Wren's seamen's hospital - later the Old Royal Naval College - now forms the campus of the University of...
The People's Palace opened in 1887 - on the site of what is now Queen Mary, University of London - to bring education and entertainment to the East End of London.The complex, most of which burned...
The Brayford Campus at the University of Lincoln was built on derelict railway sidings and opened by the Queen in 1996. It was the first new city-centre university campus in the UK for 25 years. When...
When Brunel College of Technology was designated a College of Advanced Technology in 1961, it was required to accommodate about 2,000 students.The impossibility of achieving this on its west London...
Foxhill House, on the University of Reading's main Whiteknights campus, was built by the architect Alfred Waterhouse - who also designed London's Natural History Museum - on his father's property in...
The central portico, with its ten Corinthian columns, is the most famous landmark of University College London. Work began in 1826, the year UCL was founded, and was completed in 1829. Since money...
A popular venue for weddings, King's College Chapel is at the heart of the medieval university in the cobbled streets of Old Aberdeen. It is topped by the Crown Tower, voted the nation's third most "...
New College, Oxford, may now be home to that pugnacious atheist Richard Dawkins, but it was founded by the Bishop of Winchester, William of Wykeham, in 1379 specifically to offer up prayers for his...
When the University of East Anglia (UEA) opened in 1963, Denys Lasdun, who was to go on to become designer of London's National Theatre, became its architect and master planner.He wanted to create a...
The University of East London's Docklands Campus, the first new university campus to be built in London for more than 50 years, was opened in 2000 by Ken Livingstone on his first day as Mayor of...
Located at the heart of the University of Manchester, next to the Manchester Museum, the Whitworth Hall was built with funds from the bequest of Sir Joseph Whitworth, an engineer famed for his work...
Edinburgh's new Informatics Forum, officially opened by First Minister Alex Salmond last week, is designed both to "repair the urban grain" of the area and to pioneer a style of academic architecture...
International student recruitment comes under scrutiny for raising immigration figures, but it is also valued for fostering allies among future global leaders. Yet if it really does so, why are the...
As Harvard University seeks a new leader following the short-lived presidency of Claudine Gay, the institution’s long-time president Derek Bok reflects on the need for elite US universities to react...
With Public Accounts Committee hearing to come, concerns over subcontracted courses will only become louder