楚同学 125个月前 提问- 雷丁大学学校历史能否详细介绍一下？
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- University College, Reading
The University owes its first origins to the Schools of Art and Science established in Reading in 1860 and 1870. In 1892 theCollege at Readingwas founded as an extension college byChrist Church, a college of theUniversity of Oxford. The first President was the geographerSir Halford John Mackinder.The Schools of Art and Science were transferred to the new college by Reading Town Council in the same year.
The new college received its first treasury grant in 1901. Three years later it was given a site, now the university‘sLondon Road Campus, by the Palmer family ofHuntley & Palmersfame. The same family supported the opening ofWantage Hallin 1908, and of the Research Institute in Dairying in 1912.
University status
The college first applied for aRoyal Charterin1920 but was unsuccessful at that time. However a second petition, in 1925, was successful, and the charter was officially granted on 17 March 1926. With the charter, the college became the University of Reading, the only new university to be created in the United Kingdom between the two world wars.
In 1947 the University purchasedWhiteknights Park, which was to become its principal campus. In 1984 the University started a merger with Bulmershe College of Higher Education, which was completed in 1989.
In October 2006, the Senior Management Board proposedthe closure of its Physics Department to future undergraduate application. This was ascribed to financial reasons and lack of alternative ideas and caused considerable controversy, not least a debate inParliament overthe closure which prompted heated discussion of higher education issues in general.On 10 October the Senate voted to close the Department of Physics, a move confirmed by the Council on 20 November.Other departments closed in recent years include Music, Sociology, Geology, and Mechanical Engineering. The university council decided in March 2009 to close the School of Health and Social Care, a school whose courses have consistently been oversubscribed.
In January 2008, the University announced its merger with theHenley Management Collegeto create the university’s newHenley Business School, bringing together Henley College‘s expertise in MBAs with the University’s existing Business School andICMA Centre. The merger took formal effect on 1 August 2008, with the new business school split across the university‘s existing Whiteknights Campus and its new Greenlands Campus that formerly housed Henley Management College.
A restructuring of the university was announced in September 2009, which would bring together all the academic schools into three faculties, these being the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social sciences, and Henley Business School. The move was predicted to result in the loss of some jobs, especially in the film, theatre and television department, which will shortly be moving into a brand new￡11.5million building on Whiteknights Campus.
In late 2009 it was announced that the London Road Campus was to undergo a￡30million renovation, preparatory to becoming the new home of the university’s Institute of Education. This is planned for completion in the summer of 2011, and 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 university is a lead sponsor ofUTC Reading, a newuniversity technical collegewhich opened in September 2013.
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