Bangor University

Bangor University (Wales: Prifysgol Bangor) is a university in Wales with headquarters in the city of Bangor, in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales. It received its Royal Charter in 1885 and was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. It was officially known for most of its history as theUniversity of Wales, Bangor ("UWB") (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor). Since September 2007, the University became known as the University of Bangor, after independence from the Federal University of Wales. In the Research Assessment Exercise 2008, nearly 50 percent of all research at the University of Bangor was rated as world leader. Bangor is ranked the top 251 universities in the world. It is also ranked top in Wales and is in the top 15 of UK universities for teaching excellence according to the Sunday Times University Guide 2012.

History

The University was founded as the "University College of North Wales" (UCNW) on October 18, 1884 with a keynote address by the Earl of Powis, first president of the University, Penrhyn Hall. There was then a procession to college with 3,000 quarryman (quarrymen from Penrhyn Quarry and other quarries had subscribed over £ 1200 to the university). The result of a campaign to betterhigher education provision in Wales, and after a certain rivalry between the cities of North Wales as to who was to be the basis of the new university, was built by the letter a year later.

His students received degrees from the University of London until 1893, when it became a federal constitutional institution UCNW founding of the University of Wales.

During World War II, paintings of national art galleries were in the Prichard-Jones Hall to protect them from enemy bombing, but later moved to the slate quarries of Blaenau Ffestiniog. Students of the University College of London were evacuated to continue their studies in a more secure environment in Bangor.

During the 1960s, the University shared in the general expansion of higher education in the UK following the Robbins Report, a number of new departments was created and new buildings. On November 22, 1965, during the construction of the extension of the Electronic Engineering Department at Dean Street, a crane collapsed on the building. The three-ton counterweight hit the second floor lecture theater of the original building about thirty minutes before it had been occupied by about 80 freshmen. The counterweight went downstairs.

In 1967, the Bangor Normal College, now part of the University, was the venue for the conference inconsequential Meditation Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in which the Beatles learned of the death of their manager, Brian Epstein.

Student protest in the 1970s focused mainly on the role of the Welsh language in the university, with many calling for Welsh education and a more comprehensive approach to bilingualism in the institution. Around this time, he also began its review of the merger with two colleges of Bangor - St. Mary's College, women’s college students, teachers and the College's largest and oldest normal / Coleg Normal. The merger of St. Mary was completed in 1977, but the merger failed Coleg Normal. Ultimately merged with Coleg Normal University in 1996.

The change of name to Bangor University Bangor or Prifysgol was instigated by the University following the decision of the University of Wales to pass a federal university to a confederal, non-membership organization, and the granting of authority to Bangor University. The University has decided to use these powers, and each student from 2009 will have a degree from the University of Bangor, while any student who started before 2009 has a choice of Bangor University and the University of Wales, Bangor have in his final graduation certificate.