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University of Buckingham
MottoLatin: Alis Volans Propriis
Motto in English
Flying on Our Own Wings
TypePrivate
Established1973; as university college[1]
1983; as university[1]
ChancellorDame Mary Archer
Vice-ChancellorJames Tooley
Academic staff
97 (2011)[2]
Administrative staff
103 (2011)[2]
Students(2016/17)[3]
Undergraduates(2016/17)[3]
Postgraduates(2016/17)[3]
Location
Buckingham
,
England

51°59′45″N 0°59′31″W / 51.99583°N 0.99194°W / 51.99583; -0.99194
CampusMultiple sites, rural
Colours   Charcoal and gold
Websitebuckingham.ac.uk
Map
The Church of St Rumbold in Buckingham now forms part of the University of Buckingham

The University of Buckingham (UB) is a non-profit private university in Buckingham, England. It is the oldest of the country's six private universities.

Buckingham has formal charity status as a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the ends of research and education .[4][5][6]

Some of the founding academics migrated from the University of Oxford,[7] disillusioned or cautious of aspects of the late-1960s thinking. On 27 May 1967, The Times published a letter from J. W. Paulley, a physician, who wrote:

"Is it now time to examine the possibility of creating at least one university in this country on the pattern of [the] great private foundations in the USA".[8]

Three London conferences followed which explored this idea.[9]

The university was incorporated as the "University College of Buckingham" in 1976 and received its royal charter as a university from the Queen in 1983. As of May 2016, it is the only private university in the UK with a royal charter.[10]

References

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  1. 1 2 "History of the University". Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 "University of Buckingham Annual Report 2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "2016/17 Students by HE provider, level, mode and domicile" (CSV). Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  4. ↑ Business school to be university college, Financial Times, 25 July 2010
  5. ↑ "Register Home Page". Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Tooley, James. ed. Buckingham at 25: Freeing the Universities from State Control, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001. ISBN 0-255-36512-8.
  7. ↑ "Institutes We Represent | Buckingham University". britishdegree.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  8. ↑ The Times, 27 May 1967, p. 20.
  9. ↑ Buckingham at 25, ed. James Tooley (2001), p. 25.
  10. ↑ "Chartered bodies | Privy Council". Government of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

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