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Public university
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A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country to another, in Egypt, Al-Azhar University opened in 975 AD as the second oldest university in the world. In Nigeria Public Universities can be established by both the Federal Government and by State Governments, students are enrolled after completing the 8-4-4 system of education and attaining a mark of C+ or above. They are also eligible for a low interest loan from the Higher Education Loan Board and they are expected to pay back the loan after completing higher education. South Africa has 23 public tertiary institutions, either categorised as a traditional university or a comprehensive university. Almost entire national universities in Brunei are public universities and these are major universities in Brunei, University of Brunei Darussalam Brunei Technological University Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University There are 40 public universities in Bangladesh. The University Grant Commission is the body for all the public universities in Bangladesh. The universities do not deal directly with the government, but with the University Grants Commission, recently many private universities are established under the Private University Act of 1992. In mainland China, nearly all universities and research institutions are public and currently, the public universities are usually run by the provincial governments, there are also circumstances where the municipal governments administer the universities. Some public universities are national, which are administered by the central government. Private undergraduate colleges do exist, which are vocational colleges sponsored by private enterprises. The majority of universities are not entitled to award bachelors degrees. Public universities usually enjoy higher reputation domestically, eight institutions are funded by the University Grants Committee. The Academy for Performing Arts also receives funding from the government, the Open University of Hong Kong is also a public university, but it is largely self-financed. The Shue Yan University is the private institution with the status of a university. There are public and private institutes in Indonesia. The government provide public universities, institutes, high schools and academies in each province, the private educational institution usually provided by religious organizations, public organizations, and some big companies. In India, most universities and nearly all research institutions are public, There are some private undergraduate colleges, mostly engineering schools, but a majority of these are affiliated to public universities
Public university
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Cairo University, the prime indigenous model for Egyptian state universities
Public university
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Old Merensky Library at
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Public university
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Sebelas Maret University, one of Indonesia's prominent public universities.
Public university
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Chulalongkorn University main auditorium in Thailand
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Financial endowment
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A financial endowment is a donation of money or property to a nonprofit organization for the ongoing support of that organization. An endowment may come with stipulations regarding its usage, the total value of an institutions investments is often referred to as the institutions endowment and is typically organized as a public charity, private foundation, or trust. Among the institutions that commonly manage endowments are academic institutions, cultural institutions, service organizations, the earliest endowed chairs were those established by the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius in Athens in AD176. Aurelius created one endowed chair for each of the schools of philosophy, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism. Later, similar endowments were set up in other major cities of the Empire. Today, the University of Glasgow has fifteen Regius Professorships, private individuals soon adopted the practice of endowing professorships. Isaac Newton held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge beginning in 1669, unrestricted endowment can be used in any way the recipient chooses to carry out its mission. Term endowment funds stipulate that all or part of the principal may be expended only after the expiration of a period of time or occurrence of a specified event. Quasi endowment funds must retain the purpose and intent as specified by the donor or source of the original funds, Endowment revenue can be restricted by donors to serve many purposes. Endowed professorships or scholarships restricted to a subject are common. Ignoring the restriction is called invading the endowment, but change of circumstance or financial duress like bankruptcy can preclude carrying out the donors intent. A court can alter the use of restricted endowment under a doctrine called cy-près meaning to find an alternative as near as possible to the donors intent, the restricted/unrestricted distinction focuses on the use of the funds, see quasi-endowment below for a distinction about whether principal can be spent. Academic institutions, such as colleges and universities, will control a endowment fund that finances a portion of the operating or capital requirements of the institution. In addition to an endowment fund, each university may also control a number of restricted endowments that are intended to fund specific areas within the institution. The most common examples are endowed professorships, and endowed scholarships or fellowships, in the United States, the endowment is often integral to the financial health of educational institutions. Alumni or friends of institutions sometimes contribute capital to the endowment, the endowment funding culture is strong in the United States and Canada but less pronounced overseas, with the exceptions of Cambridge and Oxford universities. Endowment funds have also created to support secondary and elementary school districts in several states in the United States. An endowed professorship is a position permanently paid for with the revenue from an endowment fund set up for that purpose
Financial endowment
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Basic investment types
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William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
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William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC is a British Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet from 1990 until 1997 and is a life member of the Tory Reform Group. He is now a peer and Provost of Eton College. Waldegrave served as a Trustee and Chair of the Rhodes Trust, during which time he helped to create. His portrait hangs at Rhodes House, Oxford, Waldegrave was the Chairman of Trustees for the National Museum of Science and Industry from 2002 to 2010. He became Provost of Eton College, on 8 February 2009, Waldegrave is the youngest of the seven children of Mary Hermione Grenfell and the 12th Earl Waldegrave, and the only brother of the present Earl. One of his sisters is The Lady Susan Hussey, Waldegrave was educated at Eton College, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1965, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he served for a term as president of the Oxford Union. Oxford was followed by Harvard University in the United States, on a Kennedy Scholarship, in 1971 he was elected a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and is now a Distinguished Fellow. In 1971 Waldegrave was working at the Conservative Research Department and in March 1971 he was appointed to the Central Policy Review Staff. “He was from the one of the most active philosophers of the CPRS. He was one of the few openly political members of the staff and was used by Victor Rothschild, head of the CPRS and he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Bristol West in 1979. He remained at Environment, becoming a Minister of State in 1985, until 1988 when he became a Minister of State at the Foreign, however Sir Richard Scott exonerated Waldegrave of duplicitous intent in wrongly describing the Governments policy. He attended Bilderberg meetings three times, after losing his Commons seat to Valerie Davey in Labours 1997 landslide, he entered the House of Lords as Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, of Chewton Mendip in the County of Somerset, in 1999. He is married to Caroline Waldegrave, cookery writer and managing director of Leiths School of Food and they have four children, Katherine, Elizabeth, James and Harriet. Waldegrave is a trustee of Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity and he is an active member of the Board of Managers for the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. He is notable for having offered a prize for the best lay explanation of the Higgs Boson and this represents the Higgs field in space. A former Conservative Prime Minister enters the room, All the workers she passes are strongly attracted to her. As she moves through the room, the cluster of admirers around her create resistance to her movement and this can be imagined as how a particle moves through the Higgs field. The field clusters around a particle, resisting its motion and giving it mass, if a sleazy rumour crosses the room, it creates the same sort of clustering
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
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Waldegrave in 1981
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
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Chapel of Eton College
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Lord President of the Council
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The Lord President of the Council is the fourth of the Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord High Treasurer and above the Lord Privy Seal. The Lord President usually attends and is responsible of presiding over meetings of the Privy Council, in the modern era, the holder is by convention always a member of one of the houses of Parliament and the office is a Cabinet post. The Lord President is currently David Lidington as of 14 July 2016, the Privy Council meets once a month, wherever the Sovereign may be residing at the time, to give formal approval to Orders in Council. Only a few Privy Counsellors need attend such meetings, and only invited to do so at the Governments request. As the duties of the Lord President are not onerous, the post has often given to a government minister whose responsibilities are not department-specific. In recent years it has been most typical for the Lord President to also serve as Leader of the House of Commons or Leader of the House of Lords. Before the change of government in 2010, the Lord President was Peter Mandelson, examples of this practice are the meetings in New Zealand in 1990 and 1995, when Geoffrey Palmer and James Bolger respectively were acting Lords President. In the 19th century, the Lord President was generally the cabinet responsible for the education system. This role was gradually scaled back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but remnants of it remain, a particularly vital role was played by the Lord President of the Council during the Second World War. The Lord President served as chairman of the Lord Presidents Committee and this committee acted as a central clearing house for dealing with the countrys economic problems. This was vital to the running of the British war economy. Winston Churchill, clearly believing that this wartime co-ordinating role was beneficial, introduced a similar, the so-called overlord ministers included Frederick Leathers as Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power and Frederick Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton as Lord President. Wooltons job was to co-ordinate the then separate ministries of agriculture, the Lord President has no role in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Privy Council Office Vice-President of the Executive Council President of the Queens Privy Council for Canada Sinecure
Lord President of the Council
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Incumbent
Chris Grayling since 8 May 2015
Lord President of the Council
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Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Lord President of the Council
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Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry
Lord President of the Council
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Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
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Postgraduate education
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In North America, this level is generally referred to as graduate school. The organization and structure of education varies in different countries. This article outlines the types of courses and of teaching and examination methods. There are two types of degrees studied for at the postgraduate level, academic and vocational degrees. The term degree in this means the moving from one stage or level to another. University studies took six years for a degree and up to twelve additional years for a masters degree or doctorate. The first six years taught the faculty of the arts, which was the study of the seven liberal arts, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theory, grammar, logic, the main emphasis was on logic. Once a Bachelor of Arts degree had been obtained, the student could choose one of three faculties—law, medicine, or theology—in which to pursue masters or doctors degrees. Because theology was thought to be the highest of the subjects, the main significance of the higher, postgraduate degrees was that they licensed the holder to teach. In most countries, the hierarchy of postgraduate degrees is as follows, in Scottish Universities, the Master of Philosophy degree tends to be by research or higher masters degree and the Master of Letters degree tends to be the taught or lower masters degree. In many fields such as social work, or library science in North America. Professional degrees such as the Master of Architecture degree can last to three and a years to satisfy professional requirement to be an architect. Professional degrees such as the Master of Business Administration degree can last up to two years to satisfy the requirement to become a business leader. These are often divided into academic and professional doctorates. An academic doctorate can be awarded as a Doctor of Philosophy degree or as a Doctor of Science degree, a doctorate is the terminal degree in most fields. In the United States, there is distinction between a Doctor of Philosophy degree and a Doctor of Science degree. In the second half of the 19th century, however, US universities began to follow the European model by awarding doctorates, in the UK, an equivalent formation to doctorate is the NVQ5 or QCF8. Most universities award degrees, usually at the postgraduate level
Postgraduate education
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The enrollment of some students in the
University of Bologna.
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Reading, Berkshire
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Reading is a large, historically important town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town. The 19th century saw the coming of the Great Western Railway, Today Reading is a major commercial centre, with involvement in information technology and insurance, and, despite its proximity to London, has a net inward commuter flow. The first evidence for Reading as a settlement dates from the 8th century, by 1525, Reading was the largest town in Berkshire, and tax returns show that Reading was the 10th largest town in England when measured by taxable wealth. By 1611, it had a population of over 5000 and had grown rich on its trade in cloth, the 18th century saw the beginning of a major iron works in the town and the growth of the brewing trade for which Reading was to become famous. During the 19th century, the town rapidly as a manufacturing centre. It is ranked the UKs top economic area for economic success and wellbeing, according to such as employment, health, income. Reading is also a regional retail centre serving a large area of the Thames Valley. Every year it hosts the Reading Festival, one of Englands biggest music festivals, sporting teams based in Reading include Reading Football Club and the London Irish rugby union team, and over 15,000 runners annually compete in the Reading Half Marathon. In 2015, Reading had an population of 232,662. The town is represented in Parliament by two members, and has been continuously represented there since 1295, for ceremonial purposes the town is in the county of Berkshire and has served as its county town since 1867, previously sharing this status with Abingdon-on-Thames. It is in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway. Reading is 75 miles east of Bristol,25 miles south of Oxford,42 miles west of London,17 miles north of Basingstoke,13 miles south-west of Maidenhead and 20 miles east of Newbury. Reading may date back to the Roman occupation of Britain, possibly as a port for Calleva Atrebatum. However the first clear evidence for Reading as a settlement dates from the 8th century, the name probably comes from the Readingas, an Anglo-Saxon tribe whose name means Readas People in Old English, or less probably the Celtic Rhydd-Inge, meaning Ford over the River. In late 870, an army of Danes invaded the kingdom of Wessex, on 4 January 871, in the first Battle of Reading, King Ethelred and his brother Alfred the Great attempted unsuccessfully to breach the Danes defences. The battle is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and that account provides the earliest known record of the existence of Reading. The Danes remained in Reading until late in 871, when they retreated to their quarters in London. After the Battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest of England, William the Conqueror gave land in, in its 1086 Domesday Book listing, the town was explicitly described as a borough
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From top left: the
Town Hall and
St Laurence's Church, the
Maiwand Lion, the Town Centre skyline from the
Royal Berkshire Hospital,
Reading Abbey and
The Oracle
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The earliest map of Reading, published in 1611 by
John Speed
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View of Reading from
Caversham by
Joseph Farington in 1793
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Reading
Crown Court
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Berkshire
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Berkshire is a county in south east England, west of London. It was recognised as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of Windsor Castle by the Queen in 1957, Berkshire is a county of historic origin and is a home county, a ceremonial county and a non-metropolitan county without a county council. Berkshire County Council was the main county governance from 1889 to 1998 except for the separately administered County Borough of Reading, in 1974, significant alterations were made to the countys administrative boundaries although the traditional boundaries of Berkshire were not changed. The towns of Abingdon, Didcot and Wantage were transferred to Oxfordshire, Slough was gained from Buckinghamshire, since 1998, Berkshire has been governed by the six unitary authorities of Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham. It borders the counties of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Greater London, Surrey, according to Asser, it takes its name from a large forest of box trees that was called Bearroc. Berkshire has been the scene of notable battles through its history. Alfred the Greats campaign against the Danes included the Battles of Englefield, Ashdown, Newbury was the site of two English Civil War battles, the First Battle of Newbury in 1643 and the Second Battle of Newbury in 1644. The nearby Donnington Castle was reduced to a ruin in the aftermath of the second battle, another Battle of Reading took place on 9 December 1688. It was the only military action in England during the Glorious Revolution. Reading became the new county town in 1867, taking over from Abingdon, boundary alterations in the early part of the 20th century were minor, with Caversham from Oxfordshire becoming part of the Reading county borough, and cessions in the Oxford area. On 1 April 1974 Berkshires boundaries changed under the Local Government Act 1972, Berkshire took over administration of Slough and Eton and part of the former Eton Rural District from Buckinghamshire. 94 Signal Squadron still keep the Uffington White Horse in their insignia, the original Local Government White Paper would have transferred Henley-on-Thames from Oxfordshire to Berkshire, this proposal did not make it into the Bill as introduced. On 1 April 1998 Berkshire County Council was abolished under a recommendation of the Banham Commission, unlike similar reforms elsewhere at the same time, the non-metropolitan county was not abolished. Berkshire divides into two distinct sections with the boundary lying roughly on a north-south line through the centre of Reading. The eastern section of Berkshire lies largely to the south of the River Thames, in two places the county now includes land to the north of the river. Tributaries of the Thames, including the Loddon and Blackwater, increase the amount of low lying land in the area. Beyond the flood plains, the land rises gently to the county boundaries with Surrey, much of this area is still well wooded, especially around Bracknell and Windsor Great Park. In the west of the county and heading upstream, the Thames veers away to the north of the county boundary, leaving the county behind at the Goring Gap
Berkshire
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Windsor Castle, viewed from the Long Walk
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Berkshire shown within England
Berkshire
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Aerial view of
Virginia Water Lake on the southern edge of
Windsor Great Park
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Physical map of Berkshire. From a book called Berkshire, by H. W. Monckton, published by Cambridge University Press, 1911. Map is credited to George Philip & Son, Ltd.
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Christ Church, Oxford
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Christ Church is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college is associated with Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, which serves as the college chapel and it is the second wealthiest Oxford college by financial endowment with an endowment of £436m as of 2015. Christ Church has produced thirteen British prime ministers, more than any other Oxbridge college, the college was the setting for parts of Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited, as well as a small part of Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland. More recently it has used in the filming of the movies of J. K. Rowlings Harry Potter series. Distinctive features of the architecture have been used as models by a number of other academic institutions, including the National University of Ireland, Galway. The University of Chicago and Cornell University both have reproductions of Christ Churchs dining hall, christChurch Cathedral in New Zealand, after which the City of Christchurch is named, is itself named after Christ Church, Oxford. Stained glass windows in the cathedral and other buildings are by the Pre-Raphaelite William Morris group with designs by Edward Burne-Jones, Christ Church is also partly responsible for the creation of University College Reading, which later gained its own Royal Charter and became the University of Reading. The first female undergraduates matriculated at Christ Church in 1980 and he planned the establishment on a magnificent scale, but fell from grace in 1529, with the buildings only three-quarters complete, as they were to remain for 140 years. In 1531 the college was suppressed, but it was refounded in 1532 as King Henry VIIIs College by Henry VIII. Since the time of Queen Elizabeth I the college has also associated with Westminster School. The dean remains to this day an ex member of the schools governing body. Major additions have made to the buildings through the centuries. To this day the bell in the tower, Great Tom, is rung 101 times at 9 pm at the former Oxford time every night, in former times this was done at midnight, signalling the close of all college gates throughout Oxford. Since it took 20 minutes to ring the 101, Christ Church gates, unlike those of other colleges, when the ringing was moved back to 9,00 pm, Christ Church gates still remained open until 12.20,20 minutes later than any other college. Although the clock itself now shows GMT/BST, Christ Church still follows Oxford time in the timings of services in the cathedral, King Charles I made the Deanery his palace and held his Parliament in the Great Hall during the English Civil War. In the evening of 29 May 1645, during the siege of Oxford. During the Commonwealth, John Owen attained considerable eminence, the Visitor of Christ Church is the reigning British sovereign, and the Bishop of Oxford is unique among English bishops in not being the Visitor of his own cathedral. The head of the college is the Dean of Christ Church, There are a senior and a junior censor the former of whom is responsible for academic matters, the latter for undergraduate discipline
Christ Church, Oxford
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Colleges and
halls of the
University of Oxford Christ Church
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The Hall of Christ Church
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Christ Church's library in the early 19th century.
Christ Church, Oxford
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Royal Charter
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A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They were, and are still, used to establish significant organisations such as cities or universities, Charters should be distinguished from warrants and letters of appointment, as they have perpetual effect. Typically, a Royal Charter is produced as a high-quality work of calligraphy on vellum, the British monarchy has issued over 980 royal charters. Of these about 750 remain in existence, the earliest was to the town of Tain in 1066, making it the oldest Royal Burgh in Scotland, followed by the University of Cambridge in 1231. Charters continue to be issued by the British Crown, a recent example being that awarded to the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity, Charters have been used in Europe since medieval times to create cities. The date that such a charter is granted is considered to be when a city is founded, at one time, a royal charter was the sole means by which an incorporated body could be formed, but other means are generally used nowadays instead. In the period before 1958,32 higher education institutes had been created by royal charter and these were typically engineering or technical institutions rather than universities. Royal decrees can therefore no longer grant higher education status or university status. A Royal Charter is granted by Order in Council, either creating an incorporated body and this is an exercise of the Royal Prerogative, and, in Canada, there are hundreds of organisations under Royal Charters. Such organisations include charities, businesses, colleges, universities, today, it is mostly charities and professional institutions who receive Royal Charters. Application for a charter is a petition to the Queen-in-Council, however, meeting these benchmarks does not guarantee the issuance of a Royal Charter. Companies, corporations, and societies in Canada founded under or augmented by a Royal Charter include, Royal Charter was issued in August 1826 to purchase and develop lands. Purchased the Crown Reserve of 1,384,413 acres, cities under Royal Charter are not subject to municipal Acts of Parliament applied generally to other municipalities, and instead are governed by legislation applicable to each city individually. The Royal Charter codifies the laws applied to the particular city, the Universitys Pontifical Charter was granted by Pope Leo XIII in 1889. Several Canadian private schools were founded or reconstituted under Royal Charter, the Royal Gibraltar Post Office was granted Royal Charter in 2005. The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club obtained Royal Charter in 1959 and it is one of the three banknote-issuing banks in Hong Kong. The Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch Chartered originally in 1847, disbanded 1859, the Institution of Engineers was incorporated by royal charter in 1935. A number of Irish institutions retain the Royal prefix, even though Republic of Ireland severed all remaining connections between the state and the British monarch in 1949, the University of South Africa received a Royal Charter in 1877
Royal Charter
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King's College, now the
University of Toronto, was founded with the issuance of this royal charter
Royal Charter
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The
Hudson's Bay Company building in
Montreal
Royal Charter
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The emblem of the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong
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George V
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George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. He was the son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. From the time of his birth, he was third in the line of succession behind his father and his own brother, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence. From 1877 to 1891, George served in the Royal Navy, on the death of his grandmother in 1901, Georges father became King-Emperor of the British Empire, and George was created Prince of Wales. He succeeded his father in 1910 and he was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar. His reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, the Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, in 1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate, independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations. He had health problems throughout much of his reign and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son. George was born on 3 June 1865, in Marlborough House and he was the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, Albert Edward and Alexandra. His father was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and he was baptised at Windsor Castle on 7 July 1865 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Longley. As a younger son of the Prince of Wales, there was expectation that George would become king. He was third in line to the throne, after his father and elder brother, George was only 17 months younger than Albert Victor, and the two princes were educated together. John Neale Dalton was appointed as their tutor in 1871, neither Albert Victor nor George excelled intellectually. For three years from 1879, the brothers served on HMS Bacchante, accompanied by Dalton. They toured the colonies of the British Empire in the Caribbean, South Africa and Australia, and visited Norfolk, Virginia, as well as South America, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Dalton wrote an account of their journey entitled The Cruise of HMS Bacchante. Between Melbourne and Sydney, Dalton recorded a sighting of the Flying Dutchman, after Lausanne, the brothers were separated, Albert Victor attended Trinity College, Cambridge, while George continued in the Royal Navy. He travelled the world, visiting many areas of the British Empire, during his naval career he commanded Torpedo Boat 79 in home waters then HMS Thrush on the North America station, before his last active service in command of HMS Melampus in 1891–92. From then on, his rank was largely honorary
George V
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Coronation portrait by
Sir Luke Fildes, 1911
George V
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George as a young boy, 1870
George V
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George, 1893
George V
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York Cottage at
Sandringham House: George and his wife lived here from 1893 to 1926.
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet, and the Bard of Avon and his extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright, Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a career in London as an actor, writer. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, in his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and it was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed, presciently, as not of an age, but for all time. In the 20th and 21st centuries, his works have been adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship. His plays remain highly popular and are studied, performed. William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden and he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual date of birth unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April. This date, which can be traced back to an 18th-century scholars mistake, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 and he was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, the consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. The next day, two of Hathaways neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing that no lawful claims impeded the marriage, twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596, after the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. The exception is the appearance of his name in the bill of a law case before the Queens Bench court at Westminster dated Michaelmas Term 1588 and 9 October 1589
William Shakespeare
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The
Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed.
National Portrait Gallery, London.
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John Shakespeare's house, believed to be
Shakespeare's birthplace, in
Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Shakespeare's coat of arms, as it appears on the rough draft of the application to grant a coat-of-arms to John Shakespeare. It features a spear as a
pun on the family name.
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Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Red brick university
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The term is now used more broadly to refer to British universities founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in major cities. Six of the original institutions, or their predecessor institutes. Eight of the nine institutions are members of the Russell Group, the term red brick or redbrick was first coined by Edgar Allison Peers, a professor of Spanish at the University of Liverpool, to describe the civic universities. Although Peers used red brick in the title of the book, he used redbrick adjectivally in the text. He is said to have regretted his use of red brick in the title. Peers reference was inspired by the fact that The Victoria Building at the University of Liverpool is built from a distinctive red pressed brick, with terracotta decorative dressings. On this basis the University of Liverpool claims to be the red brick institution, although the titular. The University of Birmingham grew from the Mason Science College, a red brick. In this sense they owed their structural heritage to the Humboldt University of Berlin, scotlands ancient universities were founded on a different basis between 1400 and 1600. These universities developed out of various 19th-century private research and education institutes in industrial cities, the 1824 Manchester Mechanics Institute formed the basis of the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and thus led towards the current University of Manchester formed in 2004. The University of Birmingham has origins dating back to the 1825 Birmingham Medical School, the University of Leeds also owes its foundations to a medical school, the 1831 Leeds School of Medicine. Reading was established as a college by Oxford University in 1892, incorporating pre-existing schools of art and science. All of the redbricks, with the exception of Reading, were non-residential, in contrast to Oxford, Cambridge, graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, and London had already been enfranchised and graduates of the University of Wales were enfranchised at the same time. Reading University was added to the Combined English Universities constituency in 1928, the constituency was abolished in 1950. Various other civic institutions with origins dating from the 19th and early to mid-20th centuries have also described as Red Brick. According to historian William Whyte of the University of Oxford, Truscotts original definition includes the University of Dundee, Newcastle University, notably, Whyte does not include Reading or Nottingham, which Truscot lists in his second edition. The Robbins Report lists Reading, Nottingham, Southampton, Hull, Exeter and Leicester, as a result it meets the dictionary definition of a red brick university, and is sometimes named as such. The term red brick is also used more widely to mean any of the non-ancient universities
Red brick university
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The
Aston Webb building,
University of Birmingham
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University of Birmingham
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University of Liverpool
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University of Manchester
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London Road Campus
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London Road Campus of the University of Reading is the original campus of that university. It is on the London Road, immediately to the south of Reading town centre in the English county of Berkshire, the site for the campus was given to the university in 1904 by the Palmer family, owners of Readings Huntley & Palmers biscuit makers. It served as the main site until after the much larger Whiteknights Campus was acquired in 1947. The University Great Hall, which plays host to the university graduation ceremonies, is to be found at London Road, the Universitys war memorial, which takes the form of a clock tower, is situated near the Great Hall. While most departments of the university have now relocated to the other campuses, London Road is still home to several university departments. These include the School of Continuing Education, the School of Health & Social Care, Estates Management, the University Archive Service, the Innovation Centre @ Reading, the campus is currently undergoing a major renovation, preparatory to becoming the new home of the universitys Institute of Education. This commenced in mid-2010 and is planned for completion in the summer of 2011, the work is being partially funded by the sale of the adjoining site of Mansfield Hall, a former hall of residence, for demolition and replacement by private sector student accommodation. The London Road Campus is separated from the Royal Berkshire Hospital by Redlands Road, the university run Museum of English Rural Life is located on Redlands Road just to the south of the campus
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The University War Memorial clock tower.
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The University Great Hall.
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Whiteknights Park
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Whiteknights Park, or the Whiteknights Campus of the University of Reading, is the principal campus of that university. The park covers the area of the manor of Earley Whiteknights, also known as Earley St Nicholas, Whiteknights Park is some two miles south of the centre of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. The campus is 1.3 square kilometres in size and includes lakes, conservation meadows and woodlands as well as being home to most of the academic departments. The De Erleigh family were owners of this manor for some two hundred years before 1365, St. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford and advisor to King Edward I, was allowed to live there briefly during the 1270s. In 1606 the estate was purchased by the nephew of Sir Francis Englefield, following the confiscation of Englefield House, the Englefield family in turn sold the estate to George Spencer-Churchill, the Marquis of Blandford, in 1798. Between 1798 and 1819, the estate was the scene of vast extravagance and wild entertainments, splendid gardens were laid out, complete with the rarest of plants. In 1819, George Spencer, by now the Duke of Marlborough, became bankrupt, the book was ordered by the then Marquess of Blandford, but like many other items that he ordered or purchased, it was never paid for. In the grounds, cast-iron or wooden baskets filled with scarlet sage or the then exotic begonias were scattered throughout the lawns, there were many, some garden-critics commented too many seats, covered seats, treillages and pavilions. Mary Soames, who wrote a book about the 5th Duke of Marlborough and his gardens in Whiteknights, the estate was sold off and the house was demolished in 1840, supposedly by a mob of the Dukes angry creditors. After the war, this area home to the Region 6 War Room responsible for civil defence in south-central England. The resulting nuclear bunker constructed in the 1950s still stands in a little visited corner of the campus, however, in March 2009 the threatened building was given Grade II listed status, so demolition seems unlikely. In the years after the second World War some traces of the gardens of the Marquess of Blandford have been discovered, there were a few old exotic trees and part of a fountain was found on a skip. The University of Reading purchased Whiteknights Park in 1947, and today it is the home of the administration, most of the academic departments. Along the Wilderness Road and Pepper Lane sides of the campus, the campus is screened from the outside by undeveloped woodland and by the Harris Garden, the universitys botanical garden. The campus core is only easily visible from outside in the area around the main entrance on the Shinfield Road. The centre of the campus is bisected into two halves by a chain of lakes which are crossed by several pedestrian bridges but with no vehicular link. To the west of the lakes can be found most of the departments, catering services, the university administration. With the exception of a couple of surviving Victorian residences, including Foxhill House, the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading Herbarium and the Cole Museum of Zoology are both found in this area
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Chancellors Way entrance
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Map of Whiteknights campus
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Whiteknights Lake
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Foxhill House
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Greenlands
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Greenlands is a country house situated by the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, just outside Henley-on-Thames. It has been a Grade II* Listed Building since 1992, the present building was built on the site of a previous house which was owned in the seventeenth century by the D’Oyley family, descendants of the Norman Robert DOyly. In the early century, the land was owned by Thomas Darby-Coventry. The next owner, Edward Marjoribanks a senior partner in Coutts Banks, bought the house in 1852 and it was bought by William Henry Smith, son of the founder of W H Smith. Greenlands remained their home immediately after the Second World War. The Smith family moved into the village of Hambleden, meanwhile, the Administrative Staff College opened its doors to course members in March 1948. In 1952, following the death of Viscount Hambleden, the house was bought by the College, the Administrative Staff College was renamed Henley Management College in 1991, when it received its Royal Charter. In 2008 it merged with the Business School of the University of Reading, to form the new Henley Business School
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Greenlands, home to
Henley Business School
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Painting of Greenlands about 1869
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River Thames
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The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London. At 215 miles, it is the longest river entirely in England and it also flows through Oxford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor. The lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary, the Thames drains the whole of Greater London. Its tidal section, reaching up to Teddington Lock, includes most of its London stretch and has a rise, in Scotland, the Tay achieves more than double the average discharge from a drainage basin that is 60% smaller. Along its course are 45 navigation locks with accompanying weirs and its catchment area covers a large part of South Eastern and a small part of Western England and the river is fed by 38 named tributaries. The river contains over 80 islands, in 2010, the Thames won the largest environmental award in the world – the $350,000 International Riverprize. The Thames, from Middle English Temese, is derived from the Brittonic Celtic name for the river, Tamesas, recorded in Latin as Tamesis and yielding modern Welsh Tafwys Thames. It has also suggested that it is not of Celtic origin. A place by the river, rather than the river itself, indirect evidence for the antiquity of the name Thames is provided by a Roman potsherd found at Oxford, bearing the inscription Tamesubugus fecit. It is believed that Tamesubugus name was derived from that of the river, tamese was referred to as a place, not a river in the Ravenna Cosmography. The rivers name has always pronounced with a simple t /t/, the Middle English spelling was typically Temese. A similar spelling from 1210, Tamisiam, is found in the Magna Carta, the Thames through Oxford is sometimes called the Isis. Ordnance Survey maps still label the Thames as River Thames or Isis down to Dorchester, richard Coates suggests that while the river was as a whole called the Thames, part of it, where it was too wide to ford, was called *lowonida. An alternative, and simpler proposal, is that London may also be a Germanic word, for merchant seamen, the Thames has long been just the London River. Londoners often refer to it simply as the river in such as south of the river. Thames Valley Police is a body that takes its name from the river. The marks of human activity, in cases dating back to Pre-Roman Britain, are visible at various points along the river
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The Thames in London
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A statue of Old Father Thames by
Raffaelle Monti at
St John's Lock, Lechlade.
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The marker stone at the official source of the River Thames near
Kemble.
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Malaysia
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Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy located in Southeast Asia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government, with a population of over 30 million, Malaysia is the 44th most populous country. The southernmost point of continental Eurasia, Tanjung Piai, is in Malaysia, located in the tropics, Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries on earth, with large numbers of endemic species. Malaysia has its origins in the Malay kingdoms present in the area which, from the 18th century, the first British territories were known as the Straits Settlements, whose establishment was followed by the Malay kingdoms becoming British protectorates. The territories on Peninsular Malaysia were first unified as the Malayan Union in 1946, Malaya was restructured as the Federation of Malaya in 1948, and achieved independence on 31 August 1957. Malaya united with North Borneo, Sarawak, and Singapore on 16 September 1963 to become Malaysia, less than two years later in 1965, Singapore was expelled from the federation. The country is multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, which plays a role in politics. About half the population is ethnically Malay, with minorities of Malaysian Chinese, Malaysian Indians. The constitution declares Islam the state religion while allowing freedom of religion for non-Muslims, the government system is closely modelled on the Westminster parliamentary system and the legal system is based on common law. The head of state is the king, known as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and he is an elected monarch chosen from the hereditary rulers of the nine Malay states every five years. The head of government is the prime minister, since its independence, Malaysia has had one of the best economic records in Asia, with its GDP growing at an average of 6. 5% per annum for almost 50 years. The economy has traditionally been fuelled by its resources, but is expanding in the sectors of science, tourism, commerce. Today, Malaysia has a newly industrialised market economy, ranked third largest in Southeast Asia, the name Malaysia is a combination of the word Malay and the Latin-Greek suffix -sia/-σία. The word melayu in Malay may derive from the Tamil words malai and ur meaning mountain and city, land, malayadvipa was the word used by ancient Indian traders when referring to the Malay Peninsula. Whether or not it originated from these roots, the word melayu or mlayu may have used in early Malay/Javanese to mean to steadily accelerate or run. This term was applied to describe the current of the river Melayu in Sumatra. The name was adopted by the Melayu Kingdom that existed in the seventh century on Sumatra
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"Malaysia" used as a label for the
Malay Archipelago on a 1914 map from a United States atlas
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Flag
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The Dutch fleet battling with the Portuguese armada as part of the
Dutch–Portuguese War in 1606 to gain control of
Malacca.
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Statue of
Francis Light in the
Fort Cornwallis of Penang, marking the first step of
British expansion in the 18th century over the Malay Archipelago.
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ICMA Centre
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The International Capital Market Association Centre is a centre of higher education based in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education tailored to the capital markets industry, the centres facilities include three dealing rooms where students learn how markets function and apply theory through simulations. The centre also provides two lecture theatres, several rooms, information seating area and café bar. The upper floor of the houses the administrative and academic staff. In 2008, ICMA invested a further £5 million, which funded an expansion to the building, the building is fitted with audio and visual technology allowing the podcasting and webstreaming of lecture content. The new building opened for students at the start of the 2009-2010 academic session, iCMAs investment in the centre now totals over £10 million, making it the largest single corporate investment in any European business school. The ICMA Centre provides three dealing rooms to complement theoretical learning and these are complemented by the Bloomberg terminal, which provides a tool for fixed income research. Research and project work are supported by economic and financial data from Datastream, ICMA and other sources, Reuters I also features a plasma screen displaying live market prices and news. The ICMA Centre is the largest non-investment bank Thomson Reuters populated facility in the world, having over 100 workstations, Official website Official website of the International Capital Market Association
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The ICMA Centre
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Thomson Reuters dealing rooms
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University of Oxford
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The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris, after disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge. The two ancient universities are frequently referred to as Oxbridge. The university is made up of a variety of institutions, including 38 constituent colleges, All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities. Being a city university, it not have a main campus, instead, its buildings. Oxford is the home of the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the worlds oldest and most prestigious scholarships, the university operates the worlds oldest university museum, as well as the largest university press in the world and the largest academic library system in Britain. Oxford has educated many notable alumni, including 28 Nobel laureates,27 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, the University of Oxford has no known foundation date. Teaching at Oxford existed in form as early as 1096. It grew quickly in 1167 when English students returned from the University of Paris, the historian Gerald of Wales lectured to such scholars in 1188 and the first known foreign scholar, Emo of Friesland, arrived in 1190. The head of the university had the title of chancellor from at least 1201, the university was granted a royal charter in 1248 during the reign of King Henry III. After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled from the violence to Cambridge, the students associated together on the basis of geographical origins, into two nations, representing the North and the South. In later centuries, geographical origins continued to many students affiliations when membership of a college or hall became customary in Oxford. At about the time, private benefactors established colleges as self-contained scholarly communities. Among the earliest such founders were William of Durham, who in 1249 endowed University College, thereafter, an increasing number of students lived in colleges rather than in halls and religious houses. In 1333–34, an attempt by some dissatisfied Oxford scholars to found a new university at Stamford, Lincolnshire was blocked by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge petitioning King Edward III. Thereafter, until the 1820s, no new universities were allowed to be founded in England, even in London, thus, Oxford and Cambridge had a duopoly, the new learning of the Renaissance greatly influenced Oxford from the late 15th century onwards. Among university scholars of the period were William Grocyn, who contributed to the revival of Greek language studies, and John Colet, the noted biblical scholar. With the English Reformation and the breaking of communion with the Roman Catholic Church, recusant scholars from Oxford fled to continental Europe, as a centre of learning and scholarship, Oxfords reputation declined in the Age of Enlightenment, enrolments fell and teaching was neglected
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Balliol College – one of the university's oldest constituent colleges
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Aerial view of
Merton College 's
Mob Quad, the oldest
quadrangle of the university, constructed in the years from 1288 to 1378
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In 1605 Oxford was still a walled city, but several colleges had been built outside the city walls (north is at the bottom on this map)
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Sir Halford John Mackinder
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Mackinder was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, the son of a doctor, and educated at Queen Elizabeths Grammar School, Gainsborough, Epsom College and Christ Church, Oxford. At Oxford he started studying natural sciences, specialising in zoology under Henry Nottidge Moseley and he was a strong proponent of treating both physical geography and human geography as a single discipline. Mackinder served as President of the Oxford Union in 1883 and he received a degree in biology in 1883 and one in modern history the next year. In 1887, he published On the Scope and Methods of Geography, a few months later, he was appointed as Reader in Geography at the University of Oxford, where he introduced the teaching of the subject. As Mackinder himself put it, a platform has given to a geographer. This was arguably at the time the most prestigious position for a British geographer. In 1892, he was the first Principal of University Extension College, Reading, the college became the University of Reading in 1926, a progression that owed no small debt to his early stewardship of the institution. In 1893, he was one of the founders of the Geographical Association and he later became chairman of the GA from 1913 to 1946 and served as its President from 1916. In 1895, he was one of the founders of the London School of Economics, at Oxford, Mackinder was the driving force behind the creation of a School of Geography in 1899. In the same year, he led an expedition which was the first to climb Mount Kenya, in 1902 he published Britain and the British Seas, which included the first comprehensive geomorphology of the British Isles and which became a classic in regional geography. He was a member of the Coefficients dining club, set up in 1902 by the Fabian campaigners Sidney and Beatrice Webb, in 1904 Mackinder gave a paper on The Geographical Pivot of History at the Royal Geographical Society, in which he formulated the Heartland Theory. This is often considered as a, if not the, founding moment of geopolitics as a field of study, whilst the Heartland Theory initially received little attention outside geography, this theory would later exercise some influence on the foreign policies of world powers. Possibly disappointed at not getting a full chairmanship, Mackinder left Oxford, after 1908, he concentrated on advocating the cause of imperial unity and lectured only part-time. He stood unsuccessfully as a Unionist in a by-election for Hawick Burghs in 1909 and he was elected to Parliament in January 1910 as Unionist Party member for the Glasgow Camlachie constituency and was defeated in 1922. He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours for his services as an MP and his next major work, Democratic Ideals and Reality, A Study in the Politics of Reconstruction, appeared in 1919. It presented his theory of the Heartland and made a case for taking into account geopolitical factors at the Paris Peace conference. The books most famous quote was, Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland, Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island and these were created by the peace negotiators but proved to be ineffective bulwarks in 1939. The principal concern of his work was to warn of the possibility of major war
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Halford Mackinder
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Wantage Hall
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Wantage Hall, built 1908, is the oldest hall of residence at the University of Reading, in Reading, Berkshire, England. The hall is one of 13 belonging to the University and is close to Whiteknights Campus and it is thought to be the first student accommodation to have been purpose-built in England outside Oxford and Cambridge. It was laid out as a quadrangle and built in Neo-Tudor style in red brick with stone details, in 1970 an extension of little architectural interest was built to the north, also in red brick. This was called New Court, and the structure became Old Court. The hall provides fully catered accommodation for about 245 students. Wantage Hall was used by the No 1 School of Military Aeronautics during the First World War for training flight instructors, cadet pilots, during World War II, it was the headquarters of RAF Reserve Command. Scenes in Privates Progress, with Ian Carmichael and Richard Attenborough, were filmed there, media related to Wantage Hall at Wikimedia Commons
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Clock tower with arched entrance
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
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It alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the UK and its territories. Its head is the Sovereign of the United Kingdom and its seat is the Palace of Westminster in the City of Westminster, one of the boroughs of the British capital, the parliament is bicameral, consisting of an upper house and a lower house. The Sovereign forms the third component of the legislature, prior to the opening of the Supreme Court in October 2009, the House of Lords also performed a judicial role through the Law Lords. The House of Commons is an elected chamber with elections held at least every five years. The two Houses meet in separate chambers in the Palace of Westminster in London, most cabinet ministers are from the Commons, whilst junior ministers can be from either House. The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Treaty of Union by Acts of Union passed by the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The UK parliament and its institutions have set the pattern for many throughout the world. However, John Bright – who coined the epithet – used it with reference to a rather than a parliament. In theory, the UKs supreme legislative power is vested in the Crown-in-Parliament. However, the Crown normally acts on the advice of the Prime Minister, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was created in 1801, by the merger of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland under the Acts of Union. The principle of responsibility to the lower House did not develop until the 19th century—the House of Lords was superior to the House of Commons both in theory and in practice. Members of the House of Commons were elected in an electoral system. Thus, the borough of Old Sarum, with seven voters, many small constituencies, known as pocket or rotten boroughs, were controlled by members of the House of Lords, who could ensure the election of their relatives or supporters. During the reforms of the 19th century, beginning with the Reform Act 1832, No longer dependent on the Lords for their seats, MPs grew more assertive. The supremacy of the British House of Commons was established in the early 20th century, in 1909, the Commons passed the so-called Peoples Budget, which made numerous changes to the taxation system which were detrimental to wealthy landowners. The House of Lords, which consisted mostly of powerful landowners, on the basis of the Budgets popularity and the Lords consequent unpopularity, the Liberal Party narrowly won two general elections in 1910. Using the result as a mandate, the Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, introduced the Parliament Bill, in the face of such a threat, the House of Lords narrowly passed the bill. However, regardless of the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949, the Government of Ireland Act 1920 created the parliaments of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland and reduced the representation of both parts at Westminster
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Parliament at night, with the
London Eye visible at right
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Leading 17th century Parliamentarian
John Hampden is one of the
Five Members annually commemorated
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Henley Management College
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Henley Business School is the business school of the University of Reading. It was formed by merging the previously independent Henley Management College, formerly the Administrative Staff College, with the existing business school of the University of Reading. As a result of the merger it now occupies two sites, Greenlands Campus, near the town of Henley-on-Thames, the site of the Henley Management College. It is among only 73 institutions worldwide to be granted accreditation by the three largest and most influential business school accreditation associations, EQUIS, AMBA and the AACSB. It is ranked among the worlds top 50 business schools by the Financial Times, the Administrative Staff College was set up in 1945 at Henley-on-Thames as the civilian equivalent of the Military Staff Colleges. It offered short courses in problems of advanced management, the College was offered the use of Greenlands by the 3rd Viscount Hambledon in 1946, and was bought outright from the family in 1952. In 1981, the College changed its name from its title to Henley - The Management College. This was changed again to the Henley Management College when it was awarded a Royal charter in 1991, by 2002, the College achieved triple accreditation status from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Association of MBAs and the European Quality Improvement System. The Greenlands campus of the College is located on the banks of the river Thames near Henley-on-Thames, on a country estate, in 2008, the Henley Management College merged with the University of Reading to form the Henley Business School. A former country estate of the Marquis of Blandford, the 130 hectare Whiteknights campus is made of conservation meadows, rare tree collection, in 2009 the School moved into a new building in Whiteknights, with facilities for lectures, conferences and visitors. At its Greenlands campus, the Henley Business School offers an MBA for executive managers, in addition to corporate and executive education programmes with students from more than 100 countries. It is offered in full-time, executive, distance learning modes and flexible executive, the Henley Business School offers its undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD programmes from its Whiteknights campus. 30 different programmes for undergraduates and postgraduates are offered in finance and investment, management, marketing and real estate and it also offers PhD and DBA programmes in all these areas. Spread across both sites are 24 specialist research and knowledge centres Henley has 150 faculty members come from 18 countries. Henley Business School is one of the largest providers of education in the world. The Henley MBA programme has been ranked at 34 globally, number one regionally and first worldwide for potential to network, the executive MBA programme has been ranked at 36 worldwide by The Economist, Which MBA. 2014 rankings The Research Excellence Framework 2014 ranked Henley in the top 10% for internationally excellent and world-leading research. At any given time, Henley has around 7,000 students and programme members from more than 140 countries, ranging from the UK and Europe to Asia and Africa, from North and South America to Australasia
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Greenlands campus on the banks of the river Thames
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The
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GBP
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It is subdivided into 100 pence. A number of nations that do not use sterling also have called the pound. At various times, the sterling was commodity money or bank notes backed by silver or gold. The pound sterling is the worlds oldest currency still in use, the British Crown dependencies of Guernsey and Jersey produce their own local issues of sterling, the Guernsey pound and the Jersey pound. The pound sterling is also used in the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, the Bank of England is the central bank for the pound sterling, issuing its own coins and banknotes, and regulating issuance of banknotes by private banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Sterling is the fourth most-traded currency in the exchange market, after the United States dollar, the euro. Together with those three currencies it forms the basket of currencies which calculate the value of IMF special drawing rights, Sterling is also the third most-held reserve currency in global reserves. The full, official name, pound sterling, is used mainly in formal contexts, otherwise the term pound is normally used. The abbreviations ster. or stg. are sometimes used, the term British pound is commonly used in less formal contexts, although it is not an official name of the currency. The pound sterling is also referred to as cable amongst forex traders, the origins of this term are attributed to the fact that in the 1800s, the dollar/pound sterling exchange rate was transmitted via transatlantic cable. Forex brokers are sometimes referred to as cable dealers, as another established source notes, the compound expression was then derived, silver coins known as sterlings were issued in the Saxon kingdoms,240 of them being minted from a pound of silver. Hence, large payments came to be reckoned in pounds of sterlings, in 1260, Henry III granted them a charter of protection. And because the Leagues money was not frequently debased like that of England, English traders stipulated to be paid in pounds of the Easterlings, and land for their Kontor, the Steelyard of London, which by the 1340s was also called Easterlings Hall, or Esterlingeshalle. For further discussion of the etymology of sterling, see sterling silver, the currency sign for the pound sign is £, which is usually written with a single cross-bar, though a version with a double cross-bar is also sometimes seen. The ISO4217 currency code is GBP, occasionally, the abbreviation UKP is used but this is non-standard because the ISO3166 country code for the United Kingdom is GB. The Crown dependencies use their own codes, GGP, JEP, stocks are often traded in pence, so traders may refer to pence sterling, GBX, when listing stock prices. A common slang term for the pound sterling or pound is quid, since decimalisation in 1971, the pound has been divided into 100 pence. The symbol for the penny is p, hence an amount such as 50p properly pronounced fifty pence is more colloquially, quite often, pronounced fifty pee /fɪfti, pi and this also helped to distinguish between new and old pence amounts during the changeover to the decimal system
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The Hatter 's hat shows an example of the old pre-decimal system: the hat costs half a guinea (10 shillings and 6 pence)
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All frequently used coins. The coins shown are those after the extensive
2008 redesign.
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A pound = 20
shillings = 240
silver pennies (formerly)
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£1 coin (Welsh design, 2000)
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UTC Reading
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UTC Reading is a university technical college that opened in Reading, Berkshire, England in September 2013. UTC Reading has an initial intake of students aged 14 and 16. The primary catchment area of the UTC includes Reading, Wokingham, West Berkshire, South Oxfordshire, Basingstoke & Deane, Bracknell Forest, Windsor & Maidenhead, Wycombe and Hart. Where the number of applications for admission to the UTC is greater than the amount of places, UTC Reading specialises in computer science and engineering. Pupils aged 14 to 16 study a core amount of GCSEs, sixth form students choose between the specialisms and then take a programme of related study which can include A Levels, BTECs and GCSEs
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University technical college
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A university technical college is a type of secondary school in England that is led by a sponsor university. The university supports the development of the UTC, provides professional development opportunities for teachers. The sponsor university appoints the majority of the UTCs governors and key members of staff, UTCs are a type of free school, and they were introduced as part of the Academies Programme. They are funded by the taxpayer, non-selective, free to attend, while this is also true of most academies and free schools, UTCs are collectively distinctive in a number of ways. UTCs all have a university as a lead sponsor, further education colleges, charitable organisations and the private sector may co-sponsor a UTC, however they must also be led by a university. Like studio schools, University Technical Colleges are specifically designed to enroll students aged 14–19, whereas free schools, existing schools cannot convert to become a UTC - all UTCs have to be newly founded schools with no direct transfer intake of pupils. However, the most distinctive element of UTCs is that they have to offer technically oriented courses of study, UTCs must specialise in subjects that require technical and modern equipment, but they also all teach business skills and the use of information and communications technology. UTCs are also supposed to clear routes into higher education or further learning in work. The university technical college programme as a whole is sponsored by the Baker Dearing Educational Trust, Baker Dearings promotion of UTCs is supported by the City and Guilds of London Institute, Edge Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Pearson PLC. There are currently 17 UTCs operating, and more have been approved by the Department for Education and are due to open over the two years. Others have argued that because they offer similar programmes of study, the age intake range of UTCs have also been criticised, with unions arguing that 14 is too early an age for most children to receive such a specialised education. It has also suggested that the technical and vocational aspects of UTCs will create a two-tier education system. Several of the UTCs have closed or converted to other school due to low pupil numbers
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UTC Wigan
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Knight
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A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch or other political leader for service to the monarch or country, especially in a military capacity. Historically, in Europe, knighthood was conferred upon mounted warriors, during the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, often, a knight was a vassal who served as a fighter for a lord, with payment in the form of land holdings. The lords trusted the knights, who were skilled in battle on horseback, since the early modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country. The modern female equivalent in the United Kingdom is Dame, furthermore, Geoffroi de Charnys Book of Chivalry expounded upon the importance of Christian faith in every area of a knights life. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their incongruity with the reality of Cervantes world, in the late medieval period, new methods of warfare began to render classical knights in armour obsolete, but the titles remained in many nations. Some orders of knighthood, such as the Knights Templar, have become the subject of legend, each of these orders has its own criteria for eligibility, but knighthood is generally granted by a head of state or monarch to selected persons to recognise some meritorious achievement. This linkage is reflected in the etymology of chivalry, cavalier, the special prestige accorded to mounted warriors finds a parallel in the furusiyya in the Muslim world, and the Greek hippeus and Roman eques of classical antiquity. The word knight, from Old English cniht, is a cognate of the German word Knecht and this meaning, of unknown origin, is common among West Germanic languages. Middle High German had the phrase guoter kneht, which also meant knight, the Anglo-Saxon cniht had no connection to horsemanship, the word referred to any servant. A rādcniht, riding-servant, was a servant delivering messages or patrolling coastlines on horseback, a narrowing of the generic meaning servant to military follower of a king or other superior is visible by 1100. The specific military sense of a knight as a warrior in the heavy cavalry emerges only in the Hundred Years War. The verb to knight appears around 1300, and, from the same time, an Equestrian was a member of the second highest social class in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. This class is often translated as knight, the medieval knight, both Greek ἳππος and Latin equus are derived from the Proto-Indo-European word root ekwo-, horse. In the later Roman Empire, the classical Latin word for horse, equus, was replaced in common parlance by the vulgar Latin caballus, sometimes thought to derive from Gaulish caballos. From caballus arose terms in the various Romance languages cognate with the English cavalier, Italian cavaliere, Spanish caballero, French chevalier, Portuguese cavaleiro, the Germanic languages have terms cognate with the English rider, German Ritter, and Dutch and Scandinavian ridder. These words are derived from Germanic rīdan, to ride, in turn derived from the Proto-Indo-European root reidh-, in ancient Rome there was a knightly class Ordo Equestris from which European knighthood may have been derived. Some portions of the armies of Germanic peoples who occupied Europe from the 3rd century AD onward had been mounted, in the Early Medieval period any well-equipped horseman could be described as a knight, or miles in Latin
Knight
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David I of Scotland knighting a squire
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The English fighting the French knights at the
Battle of Crécy in 1346.
Knight
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Khosrau II dressed as a mounted Persian knight riding on his favourite horse, Shabdiz. One of the oldest known reliefs of a heavily armoured cavalryman, from the Sassanid empire, Taqé Bostan, Iran (4th century).
Knight
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A Norman knight slaying
Harold Godwinson (
Bayeux tapestry, c. 1070). The rank of knight developed in the 12th century from the mounted warriors of the 10th and 11th centuries.
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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Prince of Mindelheim, KG, PC, was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs. It was not until the accession of Queen Anne in 1702 that Marlborough reached the zenith of his powers and secured his fame and fortune. His marriage to the hot-tempered Sarah Jennings – Annes intimate friend – ensured Marlboroughs rise, first to the Captain-Generalcy of British forces, but his wifes stormy relationship with the Queen, and her subsequent dismissal from court, was central to his own fall. Incurring Annes disfavour, and caught between Tory and Whig factions, Marlborough, who had brought glory and success to Annes reign, was forced from office and went into self-imposed exile. He returned to England and to influence under the House of Hanover with the accession of George I to the British throne in 1714, Marlboroughs insatiable ambition made him the richest of all Annes subjects. His family connections wove him into the fabric of European politics and his leadership of the allied armies consolidated Britains emergence as a front-rank power. He successfully maintained unity among the allies, thereby demonstrating his diplomatic skills, Churchill was the son of Sir Winston Churchill of Glanvilles Wootton in Dorset, by his wife Elizabeth Drake, fourth daughter of Sir John Drake of Ash in the parish of Musbury in Devon. The Churchill family are stated by the Devon historian William George Hoskins to have originated at the estate of Churchill, in the parish of Broadclyst in Devon, although Winston had paid off the fine by 1651, it had impoverished him. From this episode may derive the Churchill family motto, Fiel Pero Desdichado, Winston Churchill and his wife Elizabeth Drake had at least nine children, only five of whom survived infancy. The eldest daughter, Arabella Churchill, was born on 28 February 1649, John Churchill, the two younger sons were George Churchill, an admiral in the Royal Navy, and Charles Churchill, a general who served on campaign in Europe with his eldest brother John. His descendant and biographer the Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, asserted that the conditions at Ashe might well have aroused in his mind two prevailing impressions, first a hatred of poverty. And secondly the need of hiding thoughts and feelings from those to whom their expression would be repugnant, after the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 his fathers fortunes took a turn for the better, although he remained far from prosperous. The Kings own penury meant the old Cavaliers received scant financial reward, thus in 1665, Johns sister Arabella became Maid of Honour to Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York. Some months later John,15, joined her at court serving as page to Annes husband, James, Duke of York, the Duke of Yorks passion for all things naval and military rubbed off on young Churchill. Often accompanying the Duke inspecting the troops in the royal parks, on 14 September 1667, he obtained a commission as Ensign in the Kings Own Company in the 1st Guards, later to become the Grenadier Guards. That is unlikely, and even Sir Winston S. Churchill says There is, indeed, the known facts are that he was commissioned Ensign in September 1667, as above. By February 1671, John Churchill was back in London and duelling with Sir John Fenwick, but his liaisons with the insatiable temptress were indeed dangerous. You are a rascal, said Charles, but I forgive you because you do it to get your bread
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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Portrait by
Adriaen van der Werff
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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John Churchill by the studio of
John Michael Rysbrack, c.1730, National Portrait Gallery, London
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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Battle of Solebay by
Willem van de Velde the Younger. Churchill here learned the uncertainties and hazards of naval warfare.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. Attributed to
Godfrey Kneller.
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WH Smith
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Its headquarters are in Swindon, Wiltshire. Smiths is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE250 Index and it was the first chain store company in the world, and was responsible for the creation of the ISBN book catalogue system. In 1792, Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna established the business as a vendor in Little Grosvenor Street. The firm took advantage of the boom by opening news-stands on railway stations. In 1850, the firm opened depots in Birmingham, Manchester and it also ran a circulating library service for a century, from 1860 to 1961. The younger W. H. Smith also used the success of the firm as a springboard into politics, becoming an MP in 1868 and serving as a minister in several Conservative governments. After the death of W. H. Smith the younger, his widow was created Viscountess Hambleden in her own right, their son inherited the business from his father and the Viscountcy from his mother. After the death of the second Viscount in 1928, the business was reconstituted as a company, in which his son. On the death of the third Viscount in 1948, the duties were so severe that a public holding company had to be formed and shares sold to W. H. Smith staff. A younger brother of the third Viscount remained chairman until 1972, but the Smith familys control slipped away, in 1966, W. H. Smith originated a 9-digit code for uniquely referencing books, called Standard Book Numbering or SBN. It was adopted as international standard ISO2108 in 1970, and was used until 1974, from the 1970s, W. H. Smith began to expand into other retail sectors. W. H. Smith Travel operated from 1973 to 1991, the Do It All chain of DIY stores originated with an acquisition in 1979, becoming a joint venture with Boots in 1990. Boots acquired Smiths share in June 1996, the bookshop chain Waterstones, founded by former W. H. Smith executive Tim Waterstone in 1982, was bought in 1989 and sold in 1998. In 1986, W. H. Smith bought a 75% controlling share of the Our Price music chain, in the 1990s it also bought other music retailers including the Virgin Groups smaller shops. The 75% share of Virgin Our Price was sold to Virgin Retail Group Ltd in July 1998 for £145m, WHSmith also owned the American record chain The Wall, which was sold to Camelot Music in 1998. In March 1998, the company acquired John Menzies retail outlets for £68m and this purchase also cleared the way for W. H. Smiths retail expansion into Scotland. Prior to the takeover, Menzies larger Scottish stores dominated the market, for several years, the companys retail side had difficulties competing with specialist book and music chains on one side and large supermarkets on the other. This led to financial performance, and a takeover bid in 2004 by Permira
WH Smith
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W. H. Smith
signage displaying the modern blue and white design
WH Smith
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Shop frontage
WH Smith
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W. H. Smith's HQ building in
Swindon
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Iskandar Malaysia
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Iskandar Malaysia formerly known as Iskandar Development Region and South Johor Economic Region is the main southern development corridor in Johor, Malaysia. The Iskandar Malaysia was established on 8 November 2006, the project is administered by Iskandar Regional Development Authority and was named after the 24th and fourth Sultan of Johor, Almarhum Sultan Iskandar ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail. The internal roads linking different parts of the city are mostly federal roads constructed and maintained by Malaysian Public Works Department, Pasir Gudang Highway and the connecting Johor Bahru Parkway cross Tebrau Highway and Skudai Highway, which serve as the middle ring road of the metropolitan area. The Johor Bahru Inner Ring Road, which connects with the Sultan Iskandar customs complex, aids in controlling the traffic in, Access to the national expressway is provided through the North-South Expressway and Senai-Desaru Expressway. The Johor-Singapore Causeway links the city to Woodlands, Singapore with a six-lane road, the Malaysia-Singapore Second Link, located west of the metropolitan area, was constructed in 1997 to alleviate congestion on the Causeway. It is linked directly to the Second Link Expressway, Johor Bahru Parkway, the station. Further expansion of major highways in the city were currently in the process. Larkin Sentral, located 5 kilometres northwest of the city centre has bus services to and from many destinations in West Malaysia, southern Thailand. Most taxis in the city are known for not using their meter, since 2014, various taxi-booking applications have begun in the city such as Uber, and GrabTaxi. The Johor Bahru Sentral railway station serves train services to Kuala Lumpur, in 2015, a new shuttle train service operated by Keretapi Tanah Melayu was launched providing transport to Woodlands in Singapore. The citys only airport, Senai International Airport is located about 32 kilometres north-west of the city centre, five airlines, AirAsia, Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, Malindo Air and Xpress Air, provide flights internationally and domestically. The city will also be the hub for a new airline called flymojo. Johor Port is located on the side of the metropolitan area in the industrial area of Pasir Gudang. It is the countrys most important seaports for commodities and mineral resources seaport, the port is also the location of the majority of Malaysias resources refineries. Singapores seaports serve Johor Bahrus transportation and logistics needs as they are less than a drive from the city. Boat services are available to ports in Sumatra. Johor Bahru District is included in its entirety, as are parts of the district of Pontian, the population of Iskandar Malaysia was 1.8 million in 2010, rising from 1.3 million in 2000. The Iskandar region is planned to have a population of 3 million by 2025, the region is also planned to have a workforce of 1.46 million by 2025, from 0.62 million in 2005
Iskandar Malaysia
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Johor Bahru Sentral on the left with the highway in the right.
Iskandar Malaysia
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The
Larkin Sentral serves bus services to other cities and towns in
West Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore.
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Boat services in the city.
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Henley Business School
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Henley Business School is the business school of the University of Reading. It was formed by merging the previously independent Henley Management College, formerly the Administrative Staff College, with the existing business school of the University of Reading. As a result of the merger it now occupies two sites, Greenlands Campus, near the town of Henley-on-Thames, the site of the Henley Management College. It is among only 73 institutions worldwide to be granted accreditation by the three largest and most influential business school accreditation associations, EQUIS, AMBA and the AACSB. It is ranked among the worlds top 50 business schools by the Financial Times, the Administrative Staff College was set up in 1945 at Henley-on-Thames as the civilian equivalent of the Military Staff Colleges. It offered short courses in problems of advanced management, the College was offered the use of Greenlands by the 3rd Viscount Hambledon in 1946, and was bought outright from the family in 1952. In 1981, the College changed its name from its title to Henley - The Management College. This was changed again to the Henley Management College when it was awarded a Royal charter in 1991, by 2002, the College achieved triple accreditation status from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Association of MBAs and the European Quality Improvement System. The Greenlands campus of the College is located on the banks of the river Thames near Henley-on-Thames, on a country estate, in 2008, the Henley Management College merged with the University of Reading to form the Henley Business School. A former country estate of the Marquis of Blandford, the 130 hectare Whiteknights campus is made of conservation meadows, rare tree collection, in 2009 the School moved into a new building in Whiteknights, with facilities for lectures, conferences and visitors. At its Greenlands campus, the Henley Business School offers an MBA for executive managers, in addition to corporate and executive education programmes with students from more than 100 countries. It is offered in full-time, executive, distance learning modes and flexible executive, the Henley Business School offers its undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD programmes from its Whiteknights campus. 30 different programmes for undergraduates and postgraduates are offered in finance and investment, management, marketing and real estate and it also offers PhD and DBA programmes in all these areas. Spread across both sites are 24 specialist research and knowledge centres Henley has 150 faculty members come from 18 countries. Henley Business School is one of the largest providers of education in the world. The Henley MBA programme has been ranked at 34 globally, number one regionally and first worldwide for potential to network, the executive MBA programme has been ranked at 36 worldwide by The Economist, Which MBA. 2014 rankings The Research Excellence Framework 2014 ranked Henley in the top 10% for internationally excellent and world-leading research. At any given time, Henley has around 7,000 students and programme members from more than 140 countries, ranging from the UK and Europe to Asia and Africa, from North and South America to Australasia
Henley Business School
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Greenlands campus on the banks of the river Thames
Henley Business School
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The
ICMA Centre Thomson Reuters Trading Rooms
Henley Business School
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People
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Bulmershe Court
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Bulmershe Court was a campus of the University of Reading, situated in what is now the Reading suburb of Woodley, in the English county of Berkshire. Historically, Bulmershe Court has been the name of a manor, the site first opened for teaching in 1964 as Bulmershe College. That merged with the University of Reading in 1989 to create the Bulmershe Court campus and it closed in 2012 and all its activities have moved to either the London Road Campus or Whiteknights Park. On 23 December 2013, CALA Homes acquired the site for a development of 290 dwellings. On 25 December 2013 Bulmershe Court hall of residence was burnt down, Bulmershe College became the Bulmershe Court Campus of the University of Reading in 1989, housing its Faculty of Education and Community Studies. It continued to offer courses in education, community studies, social work, original buildings were retained and updated, including a £1 million refurbishment of the existing Bob Kayley Studio building into a fully fitted 90 seater theatre also open to the public. The former Bridges Hall space was converted into a lecture theatre, and several new student halls of residence were built on the site as part of Bulmershe Hall. One of the original halls continued to bear the name Blagrave in testament to the history of buildings on the site. The refurbished Bob Kayley Studio saw its last performance in December 2010, with the end of teaching and most accommodation in 2011 the University set about redeveloping the site for housing and an old peoples care home. The Library was moved to Whiteknights, social work programmes ended in September 2011. Courses were transferred to the University of West London, who operate them from a Reading site in Crescent Road, all activity on the Bulmershe Campus ended in 2012 apart from use of the playing fields. Institute of Education courses were relocated to completely refurbished University buildings based at London Road campus in 2012, by 2013, all education activity has ceased and some buildings yet to be demolished were offered for temporary commercial rental. The re-development of the grounds had to take account the listed nature of the old Bulmershe Court manor building. University plans changed again and on 23 December 2013, CALA Homes acquired the site for a development of 290 dwellings. The newer halls will be converted to residential flats, much of the rest will be demolished. On 25 December 2013 Bulmershe Court hall of residence burnt down, royal Berkshire History – Old Bulmershe Court. Royal Berkshire History – Woodley Lodge and it is made up of many different halls, including Mitford, Penn, Hollins, Huntley, Winchcombe and Blagrave. Former Bulmershe Court page from the University website CALA Homes Bulmershe Campus
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Bulmershe Court
Bulmershe Court
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People
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Woodley, Berkshire
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Woodley is a town and civil parish in Berkshire, England. It is a suburb of Reading, situated 4 miles east of the centre and is joined to the neighbouring suburb of Earley,2 miles to the west. Nearby are the villages of Sonning, Twyford, Winnersh, Hurst, the toponym Woodley is derived from Old English words meaning a clearing in the wood. Anciently, Woodley was part of the parish of Sonning. In the west of Woodley, Old Bulmershe Manor was the home of the Blagrave family and probable birthplace of the 17th-century mathematician, the adjoining house of Bulmershe Court, otherwise Woodley Lodge, was built in 1777 by James Wheble. The house was bought by Henry Addington, at that time Speaker of the House of Commons. He lived there when not in London and was visited by prominent figures of the age, including William Pitt the Younger and, it is said, in the Second World War the house was used by the US Army. In the 1960s it was demolished and replaced by a training college that subsequently become part of the University of Reading. The area was sold in 2013/2014 and is now a new housing estate of houses, flats, until the 1930s Woodley was a village of little significance. In that decade, Woodley Aerodrome was opened in a 100-acre field belonging to Sandford Farm, in the years before the war numerous aviators visited Woodley, including Charles Lindbergh and Amy Johnson, Douglas Bader lost his legs in a flying accident on the airfield in 1931. From 1935 a civilian flying school was operated by the Philips and Powis company, today, Woodleys aviation heritage is commemorated by the Museum of Berkshire Aviation on the southern edge of the former airfield. After the Second World War, Woodley continued to grow, with industry relocating from Reading, in the 1960s the airfield was closed together with its last aircraft factory and a new town centre was created replacing old village shops. The former airfield was redeveloped for housing by Adwest Properties Ltd in the 1980s, Woodley is a civil parish with town status and an elected town council. The town council and unitary authority are responsible for different aspects of local government, Woodley is divided between the Reading East and Maidenhead parliamentary constituencies. Woodley Congregational church is a Gothic Revival building completed in 1834 and it is now a United Reformed Church. The Church of St John the Evangelist was designed by Henry Woodyer, paid for by Robert Palmer of Holme Park, Woodley was made separate ecclesiastical parish in 1881. The Museum of Berkshire Aviation is located in Woodley on the boundary of the former Woodley Aerodrome. The Museum is run by volunteers and is reliant on admission charges
Woodley, Berkshire
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Woodley Shopping Centre
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Arborfield
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Arborfield is a village in Berkshire about 4.5 miles south-east of Reading, about 4 miles west of Wokingham. It is about 0.6 miles west of the village of Arborfield Cross. Arborfield Hall was the home of Sir John Conroy, Controller of the Household of the Duchess of Kent, the village is on the A327 road linking Reading with Farnborough. Arborfield is in the parish of Arborfield and Newland, which is in the district of Wokingham unitary authority. The present Church of England parish church of Saint Bartholomew is a Gothic Revival building designed by J Picton, the new building replaces an older St Bartholomews church that had been built in the 13th century and altered probably early in the 18th century. These have now been lost and the ruins have greatly deteriorated. The army garrison has its own church, a 20th-century building dedicated to Saint Eligius. Arborfield is also known for the School of Electronic Engineering where the British Army train their electronic engineers for Radar, Telecommunications, Arborfield Garrison is about 1 mile the other side of Arborfield Cross and which is mostly in the civil parish of Barkham. A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 3
Arborfield
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St Bartholomew's parish church
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Sonning
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Sonning is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, on the River Thames, east of Reading. The village was described by Jerome K. Jerome in his book Three Men in a Boat as the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river and it is now much smaller and triangular shaped. The ecclesiastical parish of Sonning continues to include Sonning, Charvil, the north-western boundary is formed by the River Thames before passing through the middle of the Thames Valley Park. The southern border follows the railway line, the northern corner of the parish consists of very low-lying land adjoining the River. The Sonning Golf Course sits in the south-east corner, with Holme Park, Sonning Hill and the park in the south-west. Sonning village is at a point of the River Thames. Just upstream of the bridge is Sonning Lock, the old village is now joined to further housing along Pound Lane and the A4 Bath Road. It lies some three miles east of the town of Reading. In other directions this would put it within the Reading suburban sprawl, see also Sonning Lock The main road through Sonning is the B478, running from the Bridge to the Charvil roundabout on the A4. The B4446 runs north from the A4 to the village, the A4 itself passes through the south of the parish, as does the main Reading to Paddington railway line, though there is no station. On the Thames, there are moorings at Sonning, both above and below the lock, as well as in the weir stream, Sonning is a civil parish with an elected parish council of nine councillors. It falls within the area of the authority of Wokingham. The parish council and the authority are responsible for different aspects of local government. Sonning is twinned with Ligugé, France, the village has an active Twinning Association and the lane to the village primary school is called Ligugé Way. The place-name Sonning seems to contain an Old English personal name, Sunna, + ingas, the village of the people called after. so probably, homestead/village of Sunnas people. Sonning appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as Soninges, the historical name of the village is Sunning, derived from the name of the Old English Sunna. Older, more traditional villagers still pronounce the name of the village in this way, in Anglo-Saxon times, the village was of considerable importance as the lesser centre of the bishopric of Ramsbury, sometimes called the see of Ramsbury and Sonning. The church was a cathedral and the present structure, St Andrews Church
Sonning
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St Andrew's Church
Sonning
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Print of
Sonning Bridge (1799) with the tower of
St Andrew's Church, Sonning, in the background.
Sonning
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The playwright Sir
Terence Rattigan, who lived at
The Red House in Sonning, 1945–47.
Sonning
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The grave of
Edmund John Phipps-Hornby in the churchyard.
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Shinfield
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Shinfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, just south of Reading. It contains 4,313 acres and is administered by the authority of Wokingham District. The parish includes the hamlets of Ryeish Green, Spencers Wood, Three Mile Cross, Shinfield Village and Grazeley. It is surrounded on its eastern and southern boundary by the River Loddon, the main road through the village, running north–south, is the A327, running between Reading and Aldershot. Shinfield Village is centred on the green, surrounded by two pubs, a few shops, the village school and recreation grounds. Its residential housing has increased considerably in during the first years of the 21st century, the parish consists of a central ridge of high land sloping down to the Loddon on the east and the Kennet Valley on the west. The soil is mostly London Clay, with spreads of valley. Shinfield has been part of the Hundred of Charlton since before the Norman Conquest, hundreds effectively ceased to function after 1886. Between 1894 and 1974, it was in the Wokingham Rural District, there are many manors and supposed manors in the parish, Shinfield, Hartley Dummer alias Arbor, Hartley Battle, Hartley Amys, Hartley Pellitot, Moor Place, Diddenham Court, Hartley Court and Garston. Hartley Dummer is in the hundred of Theale, the Diddenham estate was officially a detached part of Wiltshire until transferred to Berkshire in 1844. The village was named Shining Field, by the Anglo-Saxons, after the sparkling flood-waters which still cover the meadows down by the Loddon on the Arborfield border. The manor was one of the owned by Catherine of Aragon in Tudor times. She is said to have stayed there on occasion, possibly while visiting Reading Abbey, during the Civil War, King Charles is said to have stayed at Goodrest House. Later, the church tower was blown to pieces by Parliamentary soldiers trying to oust a group of Royalists who were hiding out there. The fine brick replacement can still be seen today, the church is the last resting place of the parents of author Mary Russell Mitford. RAF Shinfield Park was located in the north of the Parish and it then became the home of the Meteorological Office College from 1971 until 2002. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts remains on the site though the rest has been converted to residential housing, the Green Park Business Park lies half in the Hartley area of Shinfield and half in the Smallmead area of Whitley in Reading. The 2 megawatt Enercon wind turbine, near Junction 11 of the M4 and it has been described as the UKs most visible turbine
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The Bell and Bottle and The Royal Oak facing onto the village green
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The wind turbine at Hartley in Shinfield
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Botanical garden
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A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden dedicated to the collection, cultivation and display of a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names. Visitor services at a botanical garden might include tours, educational displays, art exhibitions, book rooms, open-air theatrical and musical performances, over the years, botanical gardens, as cultural and scientific organisations, have responded to the interests of botany and horticulture. The role of major botanical gardens worldwide has been considered so similar as to fall within textbook definitions. The following definition was produced by staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium of Cornell University in 1976, each botanical garden naturally develops its own special fields of interests depending on its personnel, location, extent, available funds, and the terms of its charter. It may include greenhouses, test grounds, an herbarium, an arboretum and it maintains a scientific as well as a plant-growing staff, and publication is one of its major modes of expression. This broad outline is then expanded, The botanic garden may be an independent institution, if a department of an educational institution, it may be related to a teaching program. In any case, it exists for scientific ends and is not to be restricted or diverted by other demands. It is not merely a landscaped or ornamental garden, although it may be artistic, the essential element is the intention of the enterprise, which is the acquisition and dissemination of botanical knowledge. Worldwide, there are now about 1800 botanical gardens and arboreta in about 150 countries of which about 550 are in Europe,200 in North America, and an increasing number in East Asia. These gardens attract about 150 million visitors a year, so it is surprising that many people gained their first exciting introduction to the wonders of the plant world in a botanical garden. Historically, botanical gardens exchanged plants through the publication of seed lists and this was a means of transferring both plants and information between botanical gardens. This system continues today, although the possibility of genetic piracy, the International Association of Botanic Gardens was formed in 1954 as a worldwide organisation affiliated to the International Union of Biological Sciences. In the United States, there is the American Public Gardens Association, the history of botanical gardens is closely linked to the history of botany itself. Then, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the trend was towards a combination of specialist, the idea of scientific gardens used specifically for the study of plants dates back to antiquity. In about 2800 BCE, the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung sent collectors to distant regions searching for plants with economic or medicinal value. Early medieval gardens in Islamic Spain resembled botanic gardens of the future and this was later taken over by garden chronicler Ibn Bassal until the Christian conquest in 1085 CE. Ibn Bassal then founded a garden in Seville, most of its plants being collected on an expedition that included Morocco, Persia, Sicily. The medical school of Montpelier was also founded by Spanish Arab physicians, and by 1250 CE, it included a physic garden, but the site was not given botanic garden status until 1593
Botanical garden
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Orto botanico di Pisa operated by the
University of Pisa: The first botanic garden, established in 1544 under botanist
Luca Ghini, it was relocated in 1563 and again in 1591
Botanical garden
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Braunschweig Botanical Garden,
Braunschweig, Germany
Victoria amazonica, giant Amazon water lily
Botanical garden
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Botanical garden at
Ooty, a hill station in India
Botanical garden
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The
Hanging Gardens of Babylon with the
Tower of Babel in the background, a 16th-century hand-coloured engraving by
Martin Heemskerck
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Museum of English Rural Life
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The Museum of English Rural Life is a museum dedicated to recording the changing face of farming and the countryside in England. It houses designated collections of importance that span the full range of objects, archives, photographs, film. The museum is run by the University of Reading, and is situated in Redlands Road to the rear of the institutions London Road Campus near to the centre of Reading in southern England, the location was formerly known as East Thorpe House and then St. Andrews Hall. The museums site was occupied by a house known as East Thorpe. Palmer was an important early benefactor of Reading University and in 1911 East Thorpe was extended to become St Andrews Hall, the museum itself was founded in 1951, growing out of the universitys long academic connections with agriculture. It originally occupied premises on the University of Readings main Whiteknights Campus, St Andrews Hall closed as a hall of residence in 2001, despite some opposition from current and former members. The site was redeveloped for the use of the museum, with the cost of £11m being shared by the university. The redeveloped museum opened in 2005 and retains the original East Thorpe building, the two contrasting buildings overlook restored gardens, providing a setting for a rural collection in an urban environment. The museum looks after 22,000 objects dating from the last 200 years, the collections include tractors, farm carts, mowers, hand tools, a portable engine and a threshing machine. The museum has a specialist library and houses other collections including the library of the Tools & Trades History Society, the museum is open on Tuesdays to Fridays from 0900 to 1700, and on Saturdays and Sundays from 1400 to 1630. The reading room is open on Mondays to Fridays from 0900 to 1700, both museum and reading room may be closed on and around public holidays. No charge is made for admission
Museum of English Rural Life
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The entrance to the Museum of English Rural Life from Redlands Road
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The rear garden of the Museum of English Rural Life, with the original East Thorpe House in the centre and the new block to the left
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Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology
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The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology contains one of the most important collections of Greek antiquities in the United Kingdom. The museum is open to the public Monday to Friday and there is no admission charge, the museum houses a collection of material from the Greek and Greco-Roman civilisations of the Mediterranean, most notably Greek and Etruscan ceramics and terracottas. Other exhibits include prehistoric pottery, metal and stone artifacts of Greek and Roman dates, and these include musical instruments, bronze and copper artefacts and jewellery, a funeral boat and a mummified cats head. The collections have grown through the generosity of donors, and are recognised as the fourth largest collection of Greek ceramics in Britain. The museum is named after Professor Ure and his wife, Dr Annie Ure, the museum is open to the public on weekdays between 0900 and 1630. It is on the floor of the north wing of the universitys Humanities and Social Sciences building
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A c. 430 BC ancient Greek
oinochoe attributed to the
Hasselmann Painter.
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Cole Museum of Zoology
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The Cole Museum of Zoology is a university museum, part of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading. It is located on the universitys Whiteknights Campus in the town of Reading, Berkshire, the collection was established in the early 20th century by Francis J. Cole, Dr Nellie B. Eales, and Mr Stoneman, from 1907 to 1939 when Cole retired, on Coles death in 1959, the University also purchased his library of books, which are kept as a special collection in the main library. A refurbishment of the museum was completed on 17 March 2004 and it contains about 4,000 specimens of which about 400 are on display at any one time. Specimens are arranged in 27 cases in sequence, thus enabling a complete tour of the diversity of the animal kingdom. University of Reading Cole Museum of Zoology website
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The skeleton of the circus elephant that dominates the main floor of the museum
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Harris Garden
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The Harris Garden is a botanical garden on the Whiteknights Campus of the University of Reading, about 2 miles from the centre of the English town of Reading. It was established in 1972 and expanded into its current form in 1988 and it is named after Professor Tom Harris, a distinguished palaeobotanist and keen gardener. Friends of the Harris Garden is a set up with the aim of supporting the Garden. The garden is about 12 acres in size, within this area it encompasses various borders, several ponds and a stream, a formal garden, a heather garden, a wildflower meadow, coppiced woodland, and a walled garden. Adjoining the gardens to the north are the universitys experimental grounds, the garden is a hotspot for butterflies and also features primulas, pansies and palm trees, as well as being home to a national collection of digitalis. A botanic garden was established by the University in 1972 when the Department of Botany moved from the Universitys London Road site in central Reading to the new Whiteknights campus, in 1987, the garden was redesigned by Richard Bisgrove of the Centre for Horticulture and Landscape in Biological Sciences. The following year, redevelopment of the Botanic Garden was started, responsibility for maintenance of the Harris Garden was transferred from the School of Biological Sciences to the Facilities Management Directorates Grounds Team in October 2010. The demonstration garden, which was situated in the centre of the site. Since 2010 the Garden has undergone significant development work and is now open to all with recreation and conservation being its primary function. The garden also holds occasional open days, in which the gardens are open to the public from 2pm until 5. 30pm, in 2014, the garden is open on the second Sunday of each month from April until October. On these open days the adjoining grounds, which are not normally publicly accessible, are sometimes also opened to visitors. The exhibition comprised paintings and sketchbook studies take the visitor through the seasons, moods, a book, with the same title and published by Two Rivers Press, was a further product of the residency. Media related to Harris Garden at Wikimedia Commons Friends of the Harris Garden website Plan of the Harris Garden
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The Harris Garden's Autumn Bank in early October
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Flower bed in June.
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Heather garden in April.
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The Meadow in Autumn.
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The EFMD Quality Improvement System is a school accreditation system. It specializes in higher institutions of management and business administration. As of February 2017, EQUIS has accredited 167 institutions in 41 countries around the world, EQUIS was created in 1997 under Gordon Shenton and the current director is Michael Osbaldeston. In the past 20 years of existence the organization has accredited 167 institutions in 41 countries, the accreditation is awarded to business schools based on general quality. So far all fully accredited EQUIS business schools applying for AACSB accreditation have succeeded, EQUIS accreditation can be granted for three years or for five years. Association of MBAs Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business List of EQUIS accredited institutions Triple accreditation EQUIS on EFMD official website
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Scope of business school accreditation for AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA
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Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
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William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC is a British Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet from 1990 until 1997 and is a life member of the Tory Reform Group. He is now a peer and Provost of Eton College. Waldegrave served as a Trustee and Chair of the Rhodes Trust, during which time he helped to create. His portrait hangs at Rhodes House, Oxford, Waldegrave was the Chairman of Trustees for the National Museum of Science and Industry from 2002 to 2010. He became Provost of Eton College, on 8 February 2009, Waldegrave is the youngest of the seven children of Mary Hermione Grenfell and the 12th Earl Waldegrave, and the only brother of the present Earl. One of his sisters is The Lady Susan Hussey, Waldegrave was educated at Eton College, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1965, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he served for a term as president of the Oxford Union. Oxford was followed by Harvard University in the United States, on a Kennedy Scholarship, in 1971 he was elected a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and is now a Distinguished Fellow. In 1971 Waldegrave was working at the Conservative Research Department and in March 1971 he was appointed to the Central Policy Review Staff. “He was from the one of the most active philosophers of the CPRS. He was one of the few openly political members of the staff and was used by Victor Rothschild, head of the CPRS and he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Bristol West in 1979. He remained at Environment, becoming a Minister of State in 1985, until 1988 when he became a Minister of State at the Foreign, however Sir Richard Scott exonerated Waldegrave of duplicitous intent in wrongly describing the Governments policy. He attended Bilderberg meetings three times, after losing his Commons seat to Valerie Davey in Labours 1997 landslide, he entered the House of Lords as Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, of Chewton Mendip in the County of Somerset, in 1999. He is married to Caroline Waldegrave, cookery writer and managing director of Leiths School of Food and they have four children, Katherine, Elizabeth, James and Harriet. Waldegrave is a trustee of Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity and he is an active member of the Board of Managers for the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. He is notable for having offered a prize for the best lay explanation of the Higgs Boson and this represents the Higgs field in space. A former Conservative Prime Minister enters the room, All the workers she passes are strongly attracted to her. As she moves through the room, the cluster of admirers around her create resistance to her movement and this can be imagined as how a particle moves through the Higgs field. The field clusters around a particle, resisting its motion and giving it mass, if a sleazy rumour crosses the room, it creates the same sort of clustering
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Waldegrave in 1981
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Austen Chamberlain
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain KG was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain. He stood for the Liberal Unionist party, which merged with the Conservatives in 1912, as Foreign Secretary, he negotiated the Locarno Pact, aimed at preventing war between France and Germany, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was one of the few MPs supporting Winston Churchills appeals for rearmament against the German threat in the 1930s and his mother, the former Harriet Kenrick, died in childbirth, leaving his father so shaken that for almost 25 years he maintained a distance from his first-born son. In 1868, his father married Harriets cousin, Florence, and had further children, Austen was educated first at Rugby School, before passing on to Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Trinity College, he became a friend of F. S. Oliver, a future advocate of Imperial Federation and, after 1909. Chamberlain made his first political address in 1884 at a meeting of the universitys Political Society and was vice-president of the Cambridge Union Society. For nine months, he was shown the brilliance of Paris under the Third Republic, from Paris, Austen was sent to Berlin for twelve months, to imbibe the political culture of the other great European power, Germany. Among others, Austen met and dined with the Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, Austen returned to England in 1888, lured largely by the prize of a parliamentary constituency. He was first elected to parliament as a member of his fathers own Liberal Unionist Party in 1892 and that was highly significant, given the bad blood existing between Joseph Chamberlain and his former leader. Appointed a junior Whip of the Liberal Unionists after the general election, in the wake of the struggle between his father and Balfour, Austen Chamberlain became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903. While Austen supported his father’s programme, his influence within the cabinet was diminished following the departure of the senior Chamberlain to become backbenchers, with the Unionists in disarray after two successive electoral defeats in 1910, Balfour was forced from his position as party leader in November 1911. Chamberlain was one of the candidates to succeed as Conservative leader even though he was still technically a member of the Liberal Unionist wing of the coalition. Chamberlain was opposed by Canadian-born Andrew Bonar Law, Walter Long, after a short period of internal party campaigning, Chamberlain determined to withdraw from the contest for the good of the still-divided party. He succeeded in persuading Long to withdraw him in favour of Bonar Law. In the last years before the outbreak of World War I, Chamberlain was concerned with one issue above all others, Chamberlain was resolutely opposed to the dissolution of the Union with Ireland. Chamberlain joined the cabinet as Secretary of State for India and he was widely acclaimed for such a principled act. Later, he returned to government and became a member of the War Cabinet in April 1918 as Minister without Portfolio, replacing Lord Milner, citing ill health, Bonar Law retired from the leadership of the Conservative branch of the Lloyd George government in the spring of 1921. He was succeeded at the Exchequer by Sir Robert Horne, it seemed that after ten years of waiting, Austen would again be given the opportunity of succeeding to the premiership
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Chamberlain caricatured by
Spy for
Vanity Fair, 1899
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Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
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He was Secretary of State for Air during most of the 1920s and briefly again in 1940. He is perhaps most famous for serving as Foreign Secretary in 1935, in 1936 he became First Lord of the Admiralty, then served as Home Secretary from 1937 to 1939 and was British ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944. Hoare was born in London, an Anglican descendant of the Quaker Samuel Hoare, Hoare was educated at Harrow School and New College, Oxford, where he graduated with a B. A. in 1903 and M. A. in 1910 and later became Honorary Fellow. He married in 1909 Lady Maud Lygon, youngest daughter of Frederick Lygon, Hoare, who had become a J. P. He served as Chairman of the London Fire Brigade Committee and he was first elected to the House of Commons at the January 1910 general election as Member of Parliament for Chelsea. In these early years he was a member of the Anti-Socialist Union, aged 34 at the time, he began the First World War as a soldier, having been commissioned into the Norfolk Yeomanry but, due to illness, was unable to serve at the front. While acting as an officer, he learnt Russian and in 1916 was recruited by Mansfield Cumming to be the future MI6s liaison officer with the Russian Intelligence service in Petrograd. In that post, he reported to the British Government the death of Rasputin and apologised, because of the nature of the event. In Italy, he met and recruited the former socialist leader Benito Mussolini on behalf of the British overseas intelligence service, newly published documents show that Britain’s intelligence service helped Mussolini to finance his first forays into Italian politics as a right-wing politician. Hoare returned to Parliament and became one of the principal Conservatives who revolted against continued participation in the government of David Lloyd George in 1922 and he was rewarded with the position of Secretary of State for Air, which he held in all the various Conservative governments of the 1920s. In 1927 he was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire and he followed his interest in aviation affairs as Honorary Air Commodore of No 601 and No 604 Bomber Squadrons of the Auxiliary Air Force. Butler later wrote of Hoare, “I was amazed by his ambition, I admired his imagination, I shared his ideals, but I was never touched by his humanity. He was the coldest fish with whom I ever had to deal. ”Hoare was appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India in 1934 and he was, however, most famous for his activities as Foreign Secretary in 1935. That year, Hoare dealt with the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and he admitted that his negotiations in Paris with Laval had caught him at a disadvantage. The public uproar against this apparent sell-out of the Ethiopians led to Hoares resignation as Foreign Secretary at the end of the year. When Eden had his first audience with King George V, the King is said to have remarked humorously, No more coals to Newcastle, the minority alternative which emerged, led in particular by Eden, would have confronted Italy without regard to the German threat. Hoare quickly returned to important posts in government, at Baldwins invitation and this was too quickly, thought Lord Halifax, who criticised Baldwin for giving in to Hoares importunity. Hoare was consistently close to Chamberlain, on taking over from Baldwin
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Templewood
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Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington
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He is the last surviving member of the 1951–55 government of Winston Churchill, the Eden government, and the Macmillan government and of the cabinets of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath. Carrington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina and he took full responsibility for the failure of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to foresee this and resigned. As Secretary General of NATO, he helped prevent a war between Greece and Turkey in 1987, Carrington is the only son of the 5th Baron Carrington by his wife, the Hon. Sybil Marion Colville, a daughter of Charles Colville, 2nd Viscount Colville of Culross. He is a great-nephew of the Liberal statesman Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, and also of politician and courtier the Hon. He was educated at two independent schools, Sandroyd School from 1928–1932, at the based in the town of Cobham, Surrey. Following Sandhurst, Carrington was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards as a lieutenant on 26 January 1939. After the war, Carrington remained in the army until 1949, in 1938, Carrington succeeded his father as 6th Baron Carrington. Although he became eligible to take his seat in the House of Lords on his 21st birthday in 1940, he was on service at the time. The latter year Carrington was appointed High Commissioner to Australia, a post he held until October 1959 and he was also appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire on 2 July 1951. He became a Privy Counsellor in 1959, from 1964 to 1970 he was Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords. Carrington had become Shadow Defence Secretary in 1968 following the dismissal of Enoch Powell from the following his controversial Rivers of Blood speech on immigration. He also served as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1972 to 1974, Carrington was again Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords from 1974 to 1979. In 1979 he was made Foreign Secretary and Minister for Overseas Development as part of the first Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher spoke very highly of Carrington, stating Peter had great panache and the ability to identify immediately the points in any argument. We had disagreements, but there were never any hard feelings and he would later express his support for Mugabe over Smith. He was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina and he took full responsibility for the complacency and failures in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to foresee this development and resigned. Lord Carrington then served as Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988 and he was also appointed Chancellor of the Order of St Michael and St George on 1 August 1984, serving until June 1994. In 1991, he presided over diplomatic talks about the break-up of the former Yugoslavia and attempted to pass a plan that would end the wars and he also chaired the Bilderberg conferences for several years in the late 1990s, being succeeded in 1999 by Étienne Davignon
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A stone set by Lord Carrington while High Commissioner to Australia, at the
All Saints Church, Canberra
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The Right Honourable The Lord Carrington
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Lord Carrington, as Chancellor of the
Order of the Garter, in procession to
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in 2006
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NATO Secretary General Lord Carrington with West German Foreign Minister
Genscher in
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John Madejski
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Sir John Robert Madejski, OBE, DL is an English businessman, with commercial interests spanning property, broadcast media, hotels, restaurants, publishing and football. He changed his name when his stepfather, a Polish airman during World War II, Madejski is the founder of the magazine which became Auto Trader and chairman of Reading F. C. as well as Chancellor of the University of Reading and Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire. He is a benefactor to many institutions, especially in academia, education, in the Sunday Times Rich List 2009 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 222nd with an estimated fortune of £250million. Madejski was born Robert John Hurst on 28 April 1941, in Stoke-on-Trent, while still a baby, Hurst was moved back to his mothers home town of Reading and placed in a childrens home. His mother later married a Polish Second World War airman, Zygmunt Madejski, with Hurst eventually coming to live with them, while on holiday in Florida in the mid-1970s Madejski saw a car sales magazine that included pictures of the vehicles on sale. He immediately realised the potential of the idea and with the help of his business partners Paul Gibbons, initially the magazine advertised anything and everything, from houses to cars and even aircraft, but it soon concentrated solely on vehicles, and was renamed Auto Trader. Madejski partnered with the Guardian Media Group in 1982 to give the national exposure. By 1998,52 titles were being published with a circulation of more than 700,000. In 1998 he sold his company Hurst Publishing for £174 million. He owns a number of luxury cars, including two Rolls-Royces, two Bentleys, four Jaguars, an AC Cobra and two Ferraris, including a red 328 which sits inside a glass case in the gym of his home. He owns two personal number plates that read JM1 and 1 JM, Madejski has two daughters, but has never married. He made front-page headlines in UK tabloid newspapers in October 2004 due to his romantic attachment with singer. The pair became friends due to their affiliation with the Conservative Party. On 3 March 2007, Madejski was shown on the BBC programme Match of the Day seated between Cilla and Chris Tarrant watching the Reading F. C. game against Arsenal F. C. at the Emirates Stadium. Madejski became chairman of the Football League club Reading F. C. in 1990 and he said When Robert Maxwell was alive I offered him five pounds a share. When he fell off his boat I got them for 10p, in 2006 he led the Royals to the top tier of English football for the first time in their 135-year history and proposed to expand the stadium to 38,000 seats. Apart from Manchester United, unless youve got a sugar daddy with really deep pockets, the club achieved pre-tax profits of £6. 6m during the tax year ending in June 2007. On 21 January 2012 it was announced that Madejski planned to control of the club by selling a 51% stake to a Russian consortium headed by Anton Zingarevich for £40m
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Sir John Madejski
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College and university rankings
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College and university rankings are rankings of institutions in higher education ordered by various combinations of various factors. Rankings have most often conducted by magazines, newspapers, websites, governments. In addition to ranking entire institutions, organizations perform rankings of specific programs, departments, various rankings mostly evaluating on institutional output by research. Some rankings evaluate institutions within a country, while others assess institutions worldwide. The subject has produced much debate about rankings usefulness and accuracy, the expanding diversity in rating methodologies and accompanying criticisms of each indicate the lack of consensus in the field. The variety of academic rankings provide an overview and insightful overlook of different academic institutions on composite capabilities in academia. For rankings of United States universities in particular, see Rankings of universities in the United States, several organizations produce worldwide university rankings, including the following. The ranking is funded by the Chinese government and its purpose was to measure the gap between Chinese and world class universities. In the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities there are no Chinese universities in the first 100 of 500 places, ARWU rankings have been cited by The Economist magazine. It has been lauded for being consistent and transparent based on an article, the education ministers of France, Norway and Denmark traveled to China to discuss and find ways to improve their rankings. ARWU does not rely on surveys and school submissions, among other criteria, ARWU includes the number of articles published by Nature or Science and the number of Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists. Harvard has topped the ranking for years, one of the primary criticisms of ARWUs methodology is that it is biased towards the natural sciences and English language science journals over other subjects. Along with QS World University Rankings and THE World University Rankings and this Saudi Arabia-based consulting organization has published yearly rankings of world universities since 2012. This university ranking is owned by the French consulting company and rating agency SMBG and it ranks masters and MBA in its 9 geographical regions. G-factor ranks university and college web presence by counting the number of only from other university websites. G-factor is an indicator of the popularity or importance of each universitys website from the perspectives of other institutions. The annual U. S. News Best Global Universities rankings were produced to provide insight into how universities compare globally. The Best Global Universities rankings also provide insight into how U. S. universities – which U. S. News has been ranking separately for more than 30 years – stand globally
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Top 40 "National Universities" according to U.S. News & World Report, 2007
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Academic Ranking of World Universities
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Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as Shanghai Ranking, is an annual publication of university rankings by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. The publication currently includes worlds overall and subject league tables, alongside independent regional Greater China Ranking, ARWU is regarded as one of the three most influential and widely observed university measures, alongside QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It is praised for its objective methodology but draws some condemnation for narrowly focusing on raw power, undermining humanities. ARWU is praised by media and institutions for its methodology. A survey on higher education published by The Economist in 2005 commented ARWU as the most widely used annual ranking of the research universities. In 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education called ARWU the best-known, EU Research Headlines reported the ARWUs work on 31 December 2003, The universities were carefully evaluated using several indicators of research performance. Chancellor of University of Oxford, Chris Patten and former Vice-Chancellor of Australian National University, Ian Chubb, said and it looks like a pretty good stab at a fair comparison. And The SJTU rankings were reported quickly and widely around the offer an important comparative view of research performance. Philip G. Altbach named ARWUs consistency, clarity of purpose, whilst ARWU has originated in China, the ranking have been praised for being unbiased towards Asian institutions. Like all other rankings, ARWU has criticism and it is condemned for relying too much on award factors thus undermining the importance of quality of instruction and humanities. A2007 paper published in the journal Scientometrics found that the results from the Shanghai rankings could not be reproduced from raw data using the described by Liu. A2013 paper in the journal finally showed how the Shanghai ranking results could be reproduced. In a report from April 2009, J-C, billaut, D. Bouyssou and Ph. Vincke analyse how the ARWU works, using their insights as specialists of Multiple Criteria Decision Making. The ARWU researchers themselves, N. C Liu and Y Cheng, think that the quality of universities cannot be measured by mere numbers. They suggest that university and college rankings should be used with caution, ARWU has been criticised by the European Commission as well as some EU member states for favour Anglo-Saxon higher education institutions. It is also criticised in France for its use as a motivation for fusing universities into larger ones, indeed, number of publications or award winners will mechanically add as universities are grouped, independently of research quality. The weighting of all the other remains unchanged, thus the grand total of 70%. There are two categories in ARWUs disciplinary rankings, broad subject fields and specific subjects, the methodology is similar to that adopted in the overall table, including award factors, paper citation, and the number of highly cited scholars
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