Heythrop College

Heythrop College is the specialist philosophy and theology constituent college of the University of London situated in Kensington Square, Kensington, London. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in philosophy, theology and psychology, as well as research in related fields.It was founded in 1614 by the Jesuits in Leuven, Belgium, then moved in 1624 to Liège. During the wars surrounding the French Revolution, the college moved to Britain - philosophy was taught at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and theology in St. Beuno's in North Wales.

In 1926, the colleges came together in Heythrop Hall, Oxfordshire, then moved to London in 1970. It became a college of the University in 1971, and moved to its current Kensington location in 1993.The college library houses a large collection of early theological texts, many held off site. The college also runs the Heythrop Journal, hosts a Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue, the Religious Life Institute, the Heythrop Institute for Religion and Ethics in Public Life and a Centre for Philosophy of Religion.Fr Michael Holman, S.J., will take over as principal from Dr John McDade, S.J. in July 2011.

The Union is managed by a team of eleven officers, elected annually. Officers have individual responsibilities, including student welfare, entertainments, societies, communications, development, campaigns and mature students. The team is headed up by the sabbatical President, a student who has either completed their studies or has taken a year out in order to fill this full-time position.

Glasgow Caledonian University

Glasgow Caledonian University is a public university in Glasgow, Scotland.The university was constituted by an Act of Parliament on 1 April 1993 as a result of a merger between Glasgow Polytechnic and The Queen's College, Glasgow.The current Principal and Vice Chancellor is Professor Pamela Gillies, who has been in post since March 2006.

Magnus Magnusson was University Chancellor up until his death in January 2007. Baron Macdonald of Tradeston was installed as his successor in October 2007.Glasgow Polytechnic was originally planned by the Corporation of Glasgow as two separate colleges on adjacent sites in central Glasgow: the College of Science and Technology and the College of Commerce. Before opening in 1971 a new polytechnic institution of higher education had been agreed and the Glasgow College of Technology opened to students with the objective of offering Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) degrees  at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Scottish Office and the local authority were both opposed to the creation of further Central Institutions in Scotland and the legislation enabling the creation of Polytechnics was specific to England and Wales. The new institution was constituted under a set of Instruments and Articles of Governance derived from that of the Polytechnics but specific to Glasgow: it had an Academic Board and a Governing Council establishing considerable academic independence but ultimately answerable to the Corporation of Glasgow. The formal opening of the College took place in 1972.

The College was under the governance of Glasgow Corporation until 1975 when the newly created Strathclyde Regional Council became the funding body and a new constitution was put in place. In 1985, ownership passed from the Regional Council to an independent board of governors who received their funds directly from the Scottish Education Department. In subsequent years, the institution changed its name three times for promotional purposes: Glasgow College (1987); 'Glasgow College - A Scottish Polytechnic; and Glasgow Polytechnic (1991).

Cass Business School

Cass Business School (short for the Sir John Cass Business School, City of London) is the business school of City University, London. Established in 1967 as the City University Business School (CUBS), the school changed its name in August 2002 following a donation from the Sir John Cass Foundation,an educational charity based in the City of London.

The school is divided into three faculties: the Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance, the Faculty of Finance and the Faculty of Management. It awards BSc (Hons), MSc, MBA and PhD degrees and is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) in the United Kingdom, the European Quality Improvement Scheme (EQUIS) in Europe, and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in the United States. Cass is the largest European provider of specialist MSc degrees in financial services. The school’s Alumni Association has more than 31,000 members in 154 countries.Cass Business School is ranked 3rd in the United Kingdom, and 12th in Europe in the Financial Times European Business School ranking.Cass is located close to the centre of London's financial and commercial district, the City of London,and is the only business school with its base there. The school's stated aim is to be "the intellectual hub of the City" by forging links with financial institutions and multinational corporations as well as start-up businesses.The Dean of Cass Business School is Richard Gillingwater, CBE.

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University, or simply Cambridge) is a public, research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both England and the English-speaking world and the seventh-oldest globally. In post-nominals the university's name is abbreviated as Cantab, a shortened form of Cantabrigiensis (an adjective derived from Cantabrigia, the Latinised form of Cambridge).The university grew out of an association of scholars in the city of Cambridge that was formed, early records suggest, in 1209 by scholars leaving Oxford after a dispute with townsfolk.The two "ancient universities" have many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge. In addition to cultural and practical associations as a historic part of British society, the two universities have a long history of rivalry with each other.

Academically Cambridge ranks as one of the top universities in the world: it is ranked first in the world in the 2010 QS World University Rankings and fifth in the world and first in Europe in the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities. Cambridge regularly contends with Oxford for first place in UK league tables. Graduates of the University have won a total of 61 Nobel Prizes, the most of any university. Affiliates of the University have won a total of 88 Nobel Prizes as of October 4, 2010, the second most of any academic institution after Columbia University – the most recent one being Robert G. Edwards for the prize in physiology or medicine.Academic staff of the University won a total of 52 Nobel Prizes, second most of any academic institution after Columbia University. In 2009, the marketing consultancy World Brand Lab rated Cambridge University as the 50th most influential brand in the world, and the 4th most influential university brand, behind only Harvard, MIT and Stanford University, while in 2011, the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings ranked Cambridge as the 3rd most reputable university in the world, after Harvard and MIT.Cambridge is a member of the Coimbra Group, the G5, the International Alliance of Research Universities, the League of European Research Universities and the Russell Group of research-led British universities. It forms part of the 'Golden Triangle' of British universities.

Canterbury Christ Church University

Canterbury Christ Church College (CCCC) was founded in 1962 by the Church of England in order to meet the needs of church schools at a time of teacher shortage. Classes were originally held in the Priory next to St Martin's Church, a building which has seen many uses including the private residence of a Bishop of Dover and also the residence for the Principal of CCCC.The campus for Christ Church College was constructed at North Holmes Road, Canterbury, on land which had once been used for orchards and domestic buildings of the adjacent St Augustine's Abbey, part of Canterbury's World Heritage Site.
In the early 1970s, the first degree programme, the Bachelor of Education, was established. In 1977 the College began to offer joint honours degrees in other subjects. In the late 1980s the College was substantially enlarged by the addition of Health Studies.In 1995, the College was awarded the power by Privy Council to grant its own degrees for taught courses, which entitled the change of name to Canterbury Christ Church University College.
In 2000 the Broadstairs campus was opened and in 2004 the Medway campus was opened.The award of University title in 2005 recognised the successful delivery of degree programmes. With the title came a new name; Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU).The Archbishop of Canterbury was later appointed, by virtue of office, as Chancellor, the honorary head of the institution. The inauguration of the University and the installation of Dr Rowan Williams as Chancellor took place in a ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral in December 2005.Recently the University has attracted publicity due to its controversial policy to forbid civil partnership ceremonies to take place at its properties.This decision by the University's governing body has now since been reversed.In September 2007 a campus was opened in Folkestone in collaboration with the University of Greenwich.

Academy of Live and Recorded Arts

The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) is a British drama school situated on Wandsworth Common, South West London and in Wigan, Greater Manchester making it the only CDS  drama school to offer identical training at two separate institutions across The United Kingdom. It was founded in 1979 by director and actor Sorrel Carson  who then directed the school as its Principal until 2001. The current Directors of the school are Clive Duncan and Adrian Hall. ALRA was the first drama school to offer training which included all media; live theatre, film, TV and Radio. Now 30 years old, ALRA is still the only CDS drama school to offer all four media forms throughout the entire three years of training to its acting students.

ALRA is a member of the Conference of Drama Schools (CDS), runs courses accredited by the National Council for Drama Training NCDT and receives funding from the Young People's Learning Agency YPLA. It is one of only twenty-one schools approved to offer Government funded Dance and Drama Awards, a scheme established to subsidise the cost of professional dance and drama training for the most talented students, at leading institutions.The first and original location, now dubbed ALRA South, is located within the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, a Victorian Gothic Grade 2 listed building on the edge of Wandsworth Common, South West London.

The second location, named ALRA North, will be located in Wigan, Greater Manchester in a newly refurbished state of the art complex. ALRA North accept its first group of students in September 2010. The curriculum and teaching methods will be exactly the same as ALRA South’s and as such all courses at ALRA North are still accredited by NCDT, recognised by the CDS, the degrees awarded by Greenwich University and diplomas awarded by Trinity College London. The only difference between the two institutions is that the fees at ALRA North are substantially lower than that of ALRA South due to the lower running costs incurred by its location.Students accepted onto any of ALRA’s courses now have the choice of which institution they would prefer to study at. Acting students studying at ALRA South will now stop at ALRA North during the touring sections of their 3rd year productions and will receive a showcase at ALRA South, The Criterion Theatre (London) and at ALRA North to ensure maximum exposure to industry professionals. Acting students at ALRA North will also benefit from the same exposure.

City University London

City University London  is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. The university has a research experience of over 100 years and has often been highly ranked for its graduate employability and graduate salaries. City University's mission, as outlined in its Strategy, is to lead London in education, research and knowledge transfer for businesses and the professions.

City University traces its origin to the Northampton Institute, established in 1894, and named after the Marquess of Northampton, who donated the land on which the Institute was built, between Northampton Square and St John Street in Islington. The Institute was established to provide for the education and welfare of the local population. It was constituted under the City of London Parochial Charities Act (1883), with the objective of the promotion of the industrial skill, general knowledge, health and well-being of young men and women belonging to the poorer classes.

Bangor University In UK

Bangor University Welsh: Prifysgol Bangor is a university based in the city of Bangor in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales.Until 1 September 2007 the University was part of the federal University of Wales, and was officially known for most of its history as the University College of North Wales "UCNW", Coleg Prifysgol Gogledd Cymru in Welsh. From 1995 until 31 August 2007 the University was known as University of Wales, Bangor "UWB" and Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor ("PCB").Bangor University should not be confused with the University College of Bangor, which is a campus of the University of Maine at Augusta).The University was founded as the "University College of North Wales" UCNW on 18 October 1884 with an inaugural address by the Earl of Powis, the College's first President, in Penrhyn Hall. There was then a procession to the college with 3,000 quarryman (quarrymen from Penrhyn Quarry and other quarries had subscribed over £1200 to the university). The result of a campaign for better higher education provision in Wales,and following some rivalry between North Wales towns as to which was to be the base of the new college, it was incorporated by charter a year later.

Its students received degrees from the University of London until 1893 when UCNW became a founding constituent institution of the federal University of Wales.During the Second World War, paintings from national arts galleries were located at the Prichard-Jones Hall to protect them from enemy bombing; they were later moved to slate mines at Blaenau Ffestiniog. Students from University College, London were evacuated to continue their studies in a safer environment at Bangor.During the 1960s, the University shared in the general expansion of Higher Education in the UK following the Robbins Report, with a number of new departments being created and new buildings built. On 22 November 1965, during construction of the extension to the Department of Electronic Engineering in Dean Street, a crane collapsed on the building. The three ton counterweight hit the second floor lecture theatre of the original building about thirty minutes before it would have been occupied by about 80 first year students. The counterweight went through to the ground floor

Universities UK

Universities UK began life as the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom (CVCP) in the nineteenth century when there were informal meetings involving Vice-Chancellors of a number of universities and Principals of university colleges. The current President is Professor Steve Smith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter.In 1918 the first consultative meeting of all Vice-Chancellors was held. At that time, the committee consisted of just 22 universities and university colleges. In 1930, under the chairmanship of Sir Charles Grant Robertson, Vice-Chancellors secured a mandate from their respective universities that "it is desirable in the common interests of the United Kingdom to constitute a Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals for purposes of mutual consultation".In the early 80s, they commissioned the Jarratt report, published in 1985, and which framed universities as businesses delivering a product to student-consumers.Over the succeeding years the number of universities increased as a result of new universities being created and the change in legislation in 1992, which recognised the former Polytechnics as Universities thus doubling and diversifying the membership.On 1 December 2000, CVCP’s name, logo and identity were changed to Universities UK in order to reflect changes which had taken place in the organisation in recent years.

Universities UK's task is to support the work of universities and promote their interests. It works to deliver its mission by speaking out for a thriving and diverse higher education sector which creates benefits for all; providing and disseminating essential information; bringing people together to share knowledge and good practice.There is also an additional group, Universities Scotland, whose membership comprises the Universities UK members in Scotland. Universities Scotland promotes and supports the work of Universities UK

Birkbeck University of London

Birkbeck, University of London formerly Birkbeck College and occasionally known by the abbreviation BBK, is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London. At the undergraduate level, it aims at working people who want to study for degrees in the evenings. At the postgraduate level, it offers many Master's degree  programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is in the evening. It also admits full-time (as well as part-time) students for PhDs. Its staff members have excellent research reputations in subjects such as English, History, History of Art, Philosophy, Psychology, Spanish, Science and Crystallography. It also offers many continuing education courses leading to certificates and diplomas, foundation degrees as well as other short courses.Originally known as the London Mechanics Institute 1823 and later Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, the main building is between Malet Street and Woburn Square in Bloomsbury, with a number of other buildings on nearby streets. The School of Arts, including the Department of English & Humanities, is housed in Virginia Woolf's former Gordon Square residence in Bloomsbury. Other notable residents of this house include Leslie Stephen, Vanessa Bell, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova.Many Birkbeck classes are taught at other locations across the Bloomsbury area. This is due to a combination of Birkbeck's widening participation strategy to make higher education accessible and also because nearly all classes on one day are taught at the same time, resulting in heavy competition for limited space.

Royal College of Art

The RCA has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of architecture, automotive design, photography, industrial design, Communication design, interaction design, textiles, fashion, ceramics and silversmithing. An M.A. in design history is offered in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, while an M.A. in Innovation Design Engineering is offered jointly with Imperial College London.According to the latest statistics (2002-07) on all graduate destinations from the RCA, an average of 93% gained work in directly related employment and at the right level. The current enrollment tally measures roughly 900 students, all taking fine art, applied art, design, communication design and humanities courses.

The most recent Research Assessment Exercise confirmed the Royal College of Art as a leading specialist art and design institution in the United Kingdom, with 40% of its research output judged to be of quality that is World-Leading in terms of originality, significance, and rigor. A further 25% was considered Internationally Excellent.The Royal College of Art played a major role in the birth of the modern school of British sculpture in the 1920s and in the development of Pop Art in the 1960s

Institute of Cancer Research in London

The Institute of Cancer Research the ICR is a cancer research institute located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. The ICR was founded in 1909 as a research department of the Royal Marsden Hospital and joined the University of London in 2003. It has been responsible for a number of breakthrough discoveries, including that the basic cause of cancer is damage to DNA.

Together with the Royal Marsden Hospital, the ICR forms the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe and is ranked first amongst all British higher education institutions in the Times Higher Education 2008 Research Assessment Exercise Table of Excellence. In addition to its research activities the ICR provides both taught postgraduate degree programmes and research degrees and currently has around 340 students. The ICR occupies two sites, one in Chelsea in Central London and one in Sutton in southwest London. It had a total income of £83.9 million in 2009/10, of which £49.8 million was from research grants and contracts.The ICR receives its external grant funding from the government body the Higher Education Funding Council for England, from government research council bodies and from charities including the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research. It also receives voluntary income from legacies and from public and corporate donations. It runs the Everyman Campaign fundraising appeal, which raises awareness of male cancers and funds research into testicular and prostate cancer at the Everyman Centre, which is based at the ICR.

London College of Fashion

London College of Fashion (LCF) is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, offering undergraduate, postgraduate, short courses and business-training in fashion, make-up, beauty-therapy and lifestyle industries. It is the only college in Britain to specialise in fashion education, research and consultancy.The London College of Fashion is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, with Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of Communication and Wimbledon College of Art.The Study Abroad programmes are an opportunity to study in London for students unable to participate in the undergraduate programmes and can be studied for credits or purely for personal pleasure. Students from more than 60 US colleges have enrolled on the programme, which is designed to complement the US academic semester and to transfer/contribute to credits.The main college building at John Prince's Street is situated next to Oxford Street, just north of Oxford Circus  which is primarily administrative aside from the Rootstein Hopkins Space, which is used to house various fashion shows and other fashion events. Davies Street site was recently obtained by the council and demolished to make way for the Olympics crossrail. LCF now have a new site based at 272 High Holborn where freshers week is hosted along with many other student and industry based events. The site at Lime Grove in west London houses specialist facilities for photography, knitwear, embroidery and pattern cutting. There are three other sites situated in east London on Mare Street, Curtain Road (Old Street) and Golden Lane (Old Street) for cordwainers footwear and accessories.

Pharmaceutics

The Department of Pharmaceutics is home to a wide range of research activities, such as in Materials Science and Processing and Clinical Pharmaceutical Science.Their research in Materials Science and Processing is centred on the fundamental properties of materials and their adaptation to optimise processing and enhance drug delivery. They have many joint ventures, such as in the Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research, a joint venture with Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, and in the Clinical Pharmaceutics with University College Hospitals and Camden and Islington's NHS Trust.The Microbiology Research Group is also well-established, with work focusing mainly in overcoming antibiotic resistance and obtaining new actives from natural sources. The Group has been particularly successful in investigating new approaches to the treatment of the ‘superbug’ MRSA.

The clear goal of the Department of Practice and Policy is to make the use of medicines safer and more effective through teaching, service and research.They are a diverse group of pharmacists and social science researchers who have developed a wide network of associations with other academic disciplines, including anthropology, economics, mathematical modelling, and psychology. Their academic collaborators include University College London, Imperial College London, London School of Economics, the Institute of Education and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. They also have strong links with several major London hospitals including Guy's and St Thomas’s, University College Hospitals, Hammersmith, Barts and the London, and Great Ormond Street.Practice and Policy staff are involved in curricular development and teaching across all four years of the MPharm course, and the School has one of the largest postgraduate programmes in Europe. Its student body includes hospital pharmacists studying for a range of Certificate, Diploma and MSc qualifications.

School of Pharmacy

The School of Pharmacy is a constituent college of the University of London. It was founded by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain  in 1842 as the College of the Pharmaceutical Society, and was granted a royal charter in 1952. In 1926 it became a school of the University of London. It was later renamed The School of Pharmacy in 1949 when it became independent of the Pharmaceutical Society and was incorporated into the University of London.Designed by Herbert Rowse, construction of the current building began in 1938 however, construction work was stopped on the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. The building was not completed until 1960. To its alumni and colleagues in the profession it is known as "the Square", which refers to the fact that it was originally located in Bloomsbury Square and now in Brunswick Square.The School is the only free standing institution in the United Kingdom that is dedicated to teaching and research in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences. The only undergraduate degree it offers is the four year MPharm, Master of Pharmacy. It also offers a number of Masters Degree programmes, in subjects including Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery, Pharmacognosy and Pharmacy Practice. The School of Pharmacy also offers PhD research degrees. The school offered BSc degrees in Toxicology and Pharmacology until 2001.

Royal Academy of Dance

The Royal Academy of Dance is a leading international dance education and training organisation specialising in Ballet. The RAD was established in London, England in 1920 as the Association of Operatic Dancing of Great Britain, and received its Royal Charter in 1936. HM Queen Elizabeth II is currently the patron of the RAD and Dame Antoinette Sibley has served as President since 1991.

The RAD was initially formed with the objective of improving the standard of ballet training in the UK and a new teaching method and technique was devised for the Academy by a group of eminent European dancers. This method has become one of the most widely used in the world and has led to the RAD becoming a leading dance education and training organisation, with over 13,000 members, operating in 79 countries worldwide. There are currently over 1,000 students in full-time or part-time teacher training programmes with the Academy and each year, approximately 250,000 candidates are entered for the RAD's examination syllabus worldwide.The RAD's Examinations Board is accredited by Ofqual and is validated by the Council for Dance Education and Training. The RAD also works in partnership with the International Dance Teachers' Association. The RAD consists of both a registered charity and a commercial division known as Royal Academy of Dance Enterprises.

City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough occupying much of the central area of London, England, including most of the West End. It is located to the west of and adjoining the ancient City of London, directly to the east of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and its southern boundary is the River Thames. It is an Inner London borough and was created in 1965 when Greater London was established. At its creation Westminster was awarded city status, which had been previously held by the smaller Metropolitan Borough of Westminster. Aside from a number of large parks and open spaces, the density of the district is high. Many sites thought of as being in London are actually in Westminster, including Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, and 10 Downing Street. The city is divided into a number of localities including the ancient political district of Westminster around the Palace of Westminster; the shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street; and the night time entertainment district of Soho. Much of the city is residential, and in 2008 it was estimated to have a population of 236,000. The local authority is Westminster City Council.

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science informally the London School of Economics or LSE is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw,  LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and degrees were issued to its students from 1902 onwards. Despite its name LSE conducts teaching and research across the entire range of the social sciences, including accounting and finance, anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, media and communications, philosophy, politics, psychology, social policy and sociology.

LSE is based in Westminster, central London, on the boundary between Covent Garden and Holborn. It has around 8,700 full-time students and 1,300 academic staff and had a total income of £203 million in 2008/09, of which £20.3 million was from research grants and contracts. LSE's library, the British Library of Political and Economic Science, contains over 4.7 million volumes and is the world's largest social and political sciences library. LSE was found to have the highest percentage of world-leading research of any British university in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.LSE has the lowest undergraduate admissions rate of any university in Britain. It has a highly international student body,and at one time had more countries represented by students than the United Nations has members.LSE has produced many notable alumni in the fields of law, economics, business, literature and politics. There are currently 16 Nobel Prize winners amongst LSE's alumni and current and former staff, as well as 34 world leaders and numerous Pulitzer Prize winners and fellows of the British Academy.

LSE is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, the European University Association, the 'G5', the Global Alliance in Management Education, the Russell Group and Universities UK. It forms part of the 'Golden Triangle' of British universities

University of London

Birkbeck, University of London formerly Birkbeck College and occasionally known by the abbreviation BBK, is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London. At the undergraduate level, it aims at working people who want to study for degrees in the evenings. At the postgraduate level, it offers many Master's degree  programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is in the evening. It also admits full-time students for PhDs. Its staff members have excellent research reputations in subjects such as English, History, History of Art, Philosophy, Psychology, Spanish, Science and Crystallography. It also offers many continuing education courses leading to certificates and diplomas, foundation degrees as well as other short courses.

Originally known as the London Mechanics Institute 1823 and later Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, the main building is between Malet Street and Woburn Square in Bloomsbury, with a number of other buildings on nearby streets. The School of Arts, including the Department of English & Humanities, is housed in Virginia Woolf's former Gordon Square residence in Bloomsbury. Other notable residents of this house include Leslie Stephen, Vanessa Bell, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova.Many Birkbeck classes are taught at other locations across the Bloomsbury area. This is due to a combination of Birkbeck's widening participation strategy to make higher education accessible and also because nearly all classes on one day are taught at the same time, resulting in heavy competition for limited space.In 2006 it was announced that Birkbeck will be expanding into east London, in conjunction with the University of East London. Initially space will be rented as well as utilising the University of East London Stratford Campus, but the aim is to construct a dedicated facility in Stratford. The project is known as Birkbeck Stratford

University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a research-led university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is a mile south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College.On 23 October 2008 the University was named University of the Year by the Times Higher Education at their annual awards celebration.The University was founded as Leicestershire and Rutland University College in 1921. The site for the University was donated by a local textile manufacturer, Thomas Fielding Johnson, in order to create a living memorial for those who lost their lives in World War I. This is reflected in the University's motto Ut Vitam Habeant so that they may have life'. The central building, now known as the Fielding Johnson Building and housing the University's administration offices and Faculty of Law, dates from 1837 and was formerly the Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum.

Students were first admitted to the college in 1921. In 1927, after it became University College, Leicester, students sat the examinations for external degrees of the University of London. In 1957 the college was granted its Royal Charter, and has since then had the status of a University with the right to award its own degrees. The University won the first ever series of University Challenge