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The University of London was founded in 1836 to promote access to higher education. We pioneered distance learning across the globe. We were the first University in the world to admit students regardless of their gender, race or religion.
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University College London (UCL) was founded under the name "London University" (but without recognition by the state) in 1826 as a secular alternative to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which limited their degrees to members of the established Church of England.
19 de mai. de 2024 · Following a call by poet Thomas Campbell in 1825 for a university to provide education for the class between the “mechanics” and the “enormously rich,” liberals and religious dissenters founded London University (now University College) in 1826; instruction began in 1828.
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The University of London thus established was an examining body appointed by theCrown. Its duty was to hold forth to all classes and denominations, without anydistinction whatsoever, an encouragement for pursuing a regular and liberal course ofeducation and to that end it was to ascertain by means of examination the persons whohad acquired proficie...
The consequence of such conduct of the University was to engender by the seventieswidespread discontent. That the examinations were severe no one denied. (fn. 32) That theytested the right qualities was not so generally agreed. (fn. 33) The Senate was in the main abody of laymen, and their educational philosophy was amateur. (fn. 34) The examinatio...
In November 1885 it looked as though a substantial reform of the University mightsoon be achieved. Instead there ensued thirteen years of unseemly wrangling, for whichresponsibility rested in the main with the Senate and Convocation. But the situationwas complex. The two Royal Colleges, namely the Royal College of Physicians ofLondon and the Royal ...
By the turn of the century the University, with a rising revenue from fees amountingin 1898-9 to over £18,400, had become all but independent of support from publicfunds, save for free lodgings in Burlington Gardens. (fn. 109) Between 1838 and 1898 theacademic plans of the founders suffered radical changes. The intention that a Londondegree should ...
The Senate of the reconstructed University met for the first time on 24 October 1900.Barely more than eight years later the University became the subject of yet anotherRoyal Commission, this time presided over by Haldane himself. (fn. 133)Its origin was twofold. The new constitution showed itself almost at once to be gravely defective. The mostseri...
It was into these muddy waters that there was dropped the problem created in 1907by the establishment, in pursuance of the report of the Departmental Committee onTechnical Education, of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, embracingtwo institutions, the Royal College of Science and the City and Guilds Institute, thatwere already schools ...
By 1950 the reconstituted University had changed radically in character and grownsurprisingly in size. Its student body, in pursuit of ends very different from those oftheir predecessors, and greatly enlarged in number, followed a much more diversifiedbut also a much more strictly regimented curriculum. Its teachers had not only becomemuch more num...
The great expansion of the University which set in after the First World War wasonly made possible by steadily rising support from public funds. The London CountyCouncil from time to time increased its annual subvention, and in 1921 came the first ofthe annual grants from the Home Counties. But the bulk of the money was derivedfrom the Treasury. Th...
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