Imperial_College_London

qas: question: When was the Royal College of Chemistry established?
answers: text: 1845

question: Which politicians donated funds to establish the Royal College of Chemistry?
answers: text: Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Robert Peel

question: Who was the first professor of the Royal College of Chemistry?
answers: text: August Wilhelm von Hofmann

question: Why was the Royal College of Chemistry founded?
answers: text: in the United Kingdom the teaching of chemistry in particular had fallen behind that in Germany

question: Who supported the Royal College of Chemistry?
answers: text: Prince Albert

question: When was the Royal College of Chemistry established?
answers: text: 1845

question: What was not well taught that led to the founding of the Royal College of Chemistry?
answers: text: practical aspects of the experimental sciences

question: Which country was ahead of the United Kingdom in the teaching of chemistry?
answers: text: Germany

question: Which Prince supported the establishment of the college?
answers: text: Prince Albert

question: Who was the first professor of the college?
answers: text: August Wilhelm von Hofmann

question: What college was established by private donations in 1845?

question: What subject was Germany behind the UK in teaching?

question: Who appealed for public funding of the college?

question: Who requested to be the first professor?
context: The Royal College of Chemistry was established by private subscription in 1845 as there was a growing awareness that practical aspects of the experimental sciences were not well taught and that in the United Kingdom the teaching of chemistry in particular had fallen behind that in Germany. As a result of a movement earlier in the decade, many politicians donated funds to establish the college, including Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Robert Peel. It was also supported by Prince Albert, who persuaded August Wilhelm von Hofmann to be the first professor.

qas: question: When was the City and Guilds College founded?
answers: text: 1876

question: What was the aim of the City and Guilds College when it was founded?
answers: text: improve the training of craftsmen, technicians, technologists, and engineers

question: What were the main objectives of establishing the City and Guilds College?
answers: text: to create a Central Institution in London and to conduct a system of qualifying examinations in technical subjects

question: How much did the 1851 Exhibition Commissioners pay for the land that became the City and Guilds College?
answers: text: GBP 342,500

question: What was the former name of the City and Guilds College?
answers: text: CGLI Central Technical College

question: Which college was founded in 1876?
answers: text: City and Guilds College

question: How many livery companies were in the meeting that founded the college?
answers: text: 16

question: What does CGLI stand for?
answers: text: Advancement of Technical Education

question: Other than conducting a system of qualifying examinations, what was the other main objective of the meeting of CGLI?
answers: text: to create a Central Institution in London

question: How large was the land (in acres) that the institution was founded on?
answers: text: eighty-seven

question: What college was founded in the 19th century?

question: Who met to improve workiong conditions for craftsmen?

question: Who's main objective was to set work standards for craftsmen, technicins, technologists and engineers?

question: How large was the site in North Kennsington?

question: What two colleges were form from the Imperial College?
context: City and Guilds College was founded in 1876 from a meeting of 16 of the City of London's livery companies for the Advancement of Technical Education (CGLI), which aimed to improve the training of craftsmen, technicians, technologists, and engineers. The two main objectives were to create a Central Institution in London and to conduct a system of qualifying examinations in technical subjects. Faced with their continuing inability to find a substantial site, the Companies were eventually persuaded by the Secretary of the Science and Art Department, General Sir John Donnelly (who was also a Royal Engineer) to found their institution on the eighty-seven acre (350,000 m²) site at South Kensington bought by the 1851 Exhibition Commissioners (for GBP 342,500) for 'purposes of art and science' in perpetuity. The latter two colleges were incorporated by Royal Charter into the Imperial College of Science and Technology and the CGLI Central Technical College was renamed the City and Guilds College in 1907, but not incorporated into Imperial College until 1910.

qas: question: When did Imperial announce their science park program at the Wye Campus?
answers: text: December 2005

question: When did Imperial abandon their science park program?
answers: text: September 2006

question: When was the Wye College campus closed?
answers: text: September 2009

question: Where was Imperial planning on launching their science park program?
answers: text: the Wye campus

question: Where was Imperial's science park programme located?
answers: text: Wye campus

question: When was the science park programme abandoned?
answers: text: September 2006

question: How much money could the science park programme have raised for the college?
answers: text: £110m

question: Who did not know about the potential revenue that the programme could have raised initially?
answers: text: the public

question: What was closed on September 2009?
answers: text: Wye College campus

question: When did Imperial announce a science lab programme?

question: What programme was started in September of 2006?

question: On what campus was the science park program built?

question: What scientific college developed an Area of Outstanding Natural Beuty?
context: In December 2005, Imperial announced a science park programme at the Wye campus, with extensive housing; however, this was abandoned in September 2006 following complaints that the proposal infringed on Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and that the true scale of the scheme, which could have raised £110m for the College, was known to Kent and Ashford Councils and their consultants but concealed from the public. One commentator observed that Imperial's scheme reflected "the state of democracy in Kent, the transformation of a renowned scientific college into a grasping, highly aggressive, neo-corporate institution, and the defence of the status of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – throughout England, not just Wye – against rampant greed backed by the connivance of two important local authorities. Wye College campus was finally closed in September 2009.

qas: question: What was the market value of the endowment the college received on July 31, 2015?
answers: text: £512.4 million

question: What is a "Unitised Scheme"?
answers: text: a unit trust vehicle for College, Faculties and Departments to invest endowments and unfettered income to produce returns for the long term

question: How much did the market value of the college's endowment increase between 2014 and 2015?
answers: text: £78 million

question: How many percent did the college's endowment market value increase from 2014 to 2015?
answers: text: 18%

question: How many distinct portfolios is the College's endownment divided into?
answers: text: three

question: What is the term that represents a unit trust vehicle that allows endowments to be invested to produce returns for the lon term?
answers: text: Unitised Scheme

question: The 120 operational and developmental properties within the college that are not core to the academic mission belong to which portfolio?
answers: text: Non-Core Property

question: The College's restricted equity holdings would be considered a part of which portion of the portfolio?
answers: text: Strategic Asset Investments

question: How much did the market value of the endowment increase by during the year 2014/2015?
answers: text: £78 million

question: When did the endowment increase by 512.4 million pounds?

question: How many nonoperational and development properties were in the portfolio?

question: How many properties were were core to the college's academic mission?
context: The College's endowment is sub-divided into three distinct portfolios: (i) Unitised Scheme – a unit trust vehicle for College, Faculties and Departments to invest endowments and unfettered income to produce returns for the long term; (ii) Non-Core Property – a portfolio containing around 120 operational and developmental properties which College has determined are not core to the academic mission; and (iii) Strategic Asset Investments – containing College’s shareholding in Imperial Innovations and other restricted equity holdings. During the year 2014/15, the market value of the endowment increased by £78 million (18%) to £512.4 million on 31 July 2015.

qas: question: How many staff members did Imperial submit assessments of for the REF assessment?
answers: text: 1,257

question: In the 2014 rankings produced by Times Higher Education, what position was Imperial ranked for GPA?
answers: text: 2nd

question: How many units of assessment did Imperial submit?
answers: text: 14

question: How highly was Imperial ranked in "research power" in 2014?
answers: text: 8th

question: How many staff members did Imperial claim to have in 2014?
answers: text: 1,257

question: What does REF stand for?
answers: text: Research Excellence Framework

question: What was the percentage of Imperials research that was seemed to be 3*?
answers: text: 44%

question: What did the REF give Imperial as an overall GPA?
answers: text: 3.36

question: What was Imperial's overall GPA rank according to the Times Higher Education?
answers: text: 2nd

question: How many staff were submitted over the 16 units of assessment?

question: What percentage of Imperials research was declassified?

question: Who was ranked 2nd overall in test scores?

question: Who was ranked 6th and 7th in research power?
context: Imperial submitted a total of 1,257 staff across 14 units of assessment to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment. In the REF results 46% of Imperial's submitted research was classified as 4*, 44% as 3*, 9% as 2* and 1% as 1*, giving an overall GPA of 3.36. In rankings produced by Times Higher Education based upon the REF results Imperial was ranked 2nd overall for GPA and 8th for "research power" (compared to 6th and 7th respectively in the equivalent rankings for the RAE 2008).

qas: question: When was Professor Stefan Grimm found dead?
answers: text: September 2014

question: When did Imperial College make its first public announcement of Stefan Grimm's death?
answers: text: 4 December 2014

question: How many times was Professor Stefan Grimm's email viewed in the first four days after it was posted online?
answers: text: more than 100,000

question: What did Professor Grimm's last email accuse Imperial College of before his death?
answers: text: bullying

question: What did Imperial College announce it would do after Professor Grimm's death?
answers: text: internal inquiry

question: Which Professor was found dead in September 2014?
answers: text: Professor Stefan Grimm

question: To which department did the professor who passed in September 2014 belong?
answers: text: Department of Medicine

question: What was the dead professor threatened with before his death?
answers: text: dismissal

question: How much did the Grimm claim his employers said he should raise in grant money per year?
answers: text: £200,000

question: How many views did Grimm's last email get in the first four days after it was posted?
answers: text: more than 100,000

question: Who was fired for not raising grant money?

question: In what year was Grimm killed?

question: What are police investigating?

question: What did the school acuse Grimm of doing?

question: Who did Grimm bully?
context: In September 2014, Professor Stefan Grimm, of the Department of Medicine, was found dead after being threatened with dismissal for failure to raise enough grant money. The College made its first public announcement of his death on 4 December 2014. Grimm's last email accused his employers of bullying by demanding that he should get grants worth at least £200,000 per year. His last email was viewed more than 100,000 times in the first four days after it was posted. The College has announced an internal inquiry into Stefan Grimm's death. The inquest on his death has not yet reported.

qas: question: Which day was the Imperial College Boat Club formed on?
answers: text: 12 December 1919

question: How many alumni from Imperial were a part of the Gold medal winning GB8+?
answers: text: 3

question: What was the name of the coach of the Gold medal winning GB8+?
answers: text: Martin McElroy

question: Which event has the Boat Club been highly successful at?
answers: text: Henley Royal Regatta

question: Which event did the Boat Club claim victory in for 2013?
answers: text: The Prince Albert Challenge Cup event

question: When was the Imperial College Yacht club founded?

question: Who coached the team at the Henley Royal Regatta?

question: Where must clyub members attend school?

question: What event did the club loose in 2013?

question: What team consisted of 3 non alumni?
context: Imperial College Boat Club
The Imperial College Boat Club was founded on 12 December 1919. The Gold medal winning GB 8+ at the 2000 Sydney Olympics had been based at Imperial College's recently refurbished boathouse and included 3 alumni of the college along with their coach Martin McElroy. The club has been highly successful, with many wins at Henley Royal Regatta including most recently in 2013 with victory in The Prince Albert Challenge Cup event. The club has been home to numerous National Squad oarsmen and women and is open to all rowers not just students of Imperial College London.

qas: question: What school was established in 1851?
answers: text: The Royal School of Mines

question: Who established the Royal School of Mines?
answers: text: Sir Henry de la Beche

question: A collection of miners, maps and mining equipment all belonged to what entity?
answers: text: the Museum of Economic Geology

question: Which famous prince was a patron at the Royal School of Mines?
answers: text: Prince Albert

question: Which region did Prince Albert aim to make famous as an educational region?
answers: text: South Kensington

question: What school was established in the 18th century?

question: What museum was founded by Sir Henry de la Beche?

question: Who created a school that established the foundation of education in the country?

question: Who helped make the Royal School of Mines part of the Royal College of Chemistry?

question: Who wanted to make North Kensington an education region?
context: The Royal School of Mines was established by Sir Henry de la Beche in 1851, developing from the Museum of Economic Geology, a collection of minerals, maps and mining equipment. He created a school which laid the foundations for the teaching of science in the country, and which has its legacy today at Imperial. Prince Albert was a patron and supporter of the later developments in science teaching, which led to the Royal College of Chemistry becoming part of the Royal School of Mines, to the creation of the Royal College of Science and eventually to these institutions becoming part of his plan for South Kensington being an educational region.

qas: question: Who granted Imperial degree-awarding powers?
answers: text: Privy Council

question: In which year was the London Centre for Nanotechnology established?
answers: text: 2003

question: The Londre Centre for Nanotechnology was a joint effort between UCL and which college?
answers: text: Imperial College London

question: What is the old name of the Imperial College Business School?
answers: text: Tanaka Business School

question: The Faculties of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences merged in 2005 to become which faculty?
answers: text: Faculty of Natural Sciences

question: What school was given an award by the Privy Council?

question: When did the Privy Council give Imperial an award?

question: What did UCL establish to compete with Imperial College?

question: What busniss school was funded by the Queen?

question: What two programs developed out of the Faculty of Natural Sciences?
context: In 2003 Imperial was granted degree-awarding powers in its own right by the Privy Council. The London Centre for Nanotechnology was established in the same year as a joint venture between UCL and Imperial College London. In 2004 the Tanaka Business School (now named the Imperial College Business School) and a new Main Entrance on Exhibition Road were opened by The Queen. The UK Energy Research Centre was also established in 2004 and opened its headquarters at Imperial College. In November 2005 the Faculties of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences merged to become the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

qas: question: In which area in London is Imperial's main campus located?
answers: text: South Kensington

question: What is the area inside of South Kensington where Imperial is located known as?
answers: text: Albertopolis

question: In which decade did the expansion of the South Kensington campus being?
answers: text: 1950s

question: Who designed the Imperial Institue that was a victim of Imperial's expansion in the 1950s & 1960s?
answers: text: Thomas Collcutt

question: Which landmark still remains from the Imperial Institue after Imperial's expansion?
answers: text: Queen's Tower

question: What school's main campus is located in North Kent?

question: What area of Kent is begining to develop cultural and academic institutions?

question: What are some of the institutions are across from Imperial's main campus?

question: What campus reduced its size in the 1950's and 1960's?

question: What campus was absorbed by the Imperial Institute?
context: Imperial's main campus is located in the South Kensington area of central London. It is situated in an area of South Kensington, known as Albertopolis, which has a high concentration of cultural and academic institutions, adjacent to the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Music, the Royal College of Art, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Albert Hall. Nearby public attractions include the Kensington Palace, Hyde Park and the Kensington Gardens, the National Art Library, and the Brompton Oratory. The expansion of the South Kensington campus in the 1950s & 1960s absorbed the site of the former Imperial Institute, designed by Thomas Collcutt, of which only the 287 foot (87 m) high Queen's Tower remains among the more modern buildings.

qas: question: Which centre provides electives outside of science for students?
answers: text: Centre For Co-Curricular Studies

question: Outside of doing it on their own time, what other motivation could students have to take non mandatory electives?
answers: text: credit

question: Which unit is a part of the Co-Curricular Studies that offers master's degrees?
answers: text: Science Communication Unit

question: Scientists seeking a master's degree might be interested in which other degree besides Science Communication from the Science Communication Unit?
answers: text: Science Media Production

question: Where are elective science courses offered?

question: What are all students required to do on their own time?

question: Where can students get a degree in mass communication?

question: What language studies are required for students?
context: The Centre For Co-Curricular Studies provides elective subjects and language courses outside the field of science for students in the other faculties and departments. Students are encouraged to take these classes either for credit or in their own time, and in some departments this is mandatory. Courses exist in a wide range of topics including philosophy, ethics in science and technology, history, modern literature and drama, art in the 20th century, film studies. Language courses are available in French, German, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. The Centre For Co-Curricular Studies is home to the Science Communication Unit which offers master's degrees in Science Communication and Science Media Production for science graduates.

qas: question: What statistic did the average Imperial graduate rank the highest in for 2014?
answers: text: average starting salary

question: Which type of graduate from Imperial earned the second highest average starting salary after graduation?
answers: text: Computing graduates

question: Who ranked different graduates according to their average starting salary after graduation in the UK?
answers: text: Sunday Times

question: Which prestigious newspaper ranked Imperial College as one of the top 10 most welcomed universities by job markets?
answers: text: New York Times

question: In which year did Imperial University claim the award for being voted the highest in the UK for Job Prospects?
answers: text: 2014

question: What collegege had the highest higher rate in 2014 among graduates?

question: Who ranked Computing graduates as the 2nd most likely to find a job?

question: Who ranked Imperial as one of the most welcoming universities?

question: Who ranks Imperial as 1st in quality of graduates?
context: Furthermore, in terms of job prospects, as of 2014 the average starting salary of an Imperial graduate was the highest of any UK university. In terms of specific course salaries, the Sunday Times ranked Computing graduates from Imperial as earning the second highest average starting salary in the UK after graduation, over all universities and courses. In 2012, the New York Times ranked Imperial College as one of the top 10 most-welcomed universities by the global job market. In May 2014, the university was voted highest in the UK for Job Prospects by students voting in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards Imperial is jointly ranked as the 3rd best university in the UK for the quality of graduates according to recruiters from the UK's major companies.

qas: question: What does the abbreviation STOIC stand for?
answers: text: Student Television of Imperial College

question: What is STOIC's modern name?
answers: text: Imperial College TV

question: When was Imperial College Union's TV station founded?
answers: text: 1969

question: Where was a cable link located that connected the Southside Halls of residence?
answers: text: Exhibition Road

question: When was the station renamed to it's modern name?
answers: text: start of the 2014/15 academic year

question: When was the college radio station founded?

question: Where is the radio station operated from?

question: How where news programs played for staff?

question: When was a cable link added to the dorms?

question: When did the society change its name from ICTV
context: Imperial College TV
ICTV (formerly STOIC (Student Television of Imperial College)) is Imperial College Union's TV station, founded in 1969 and operated from a small TV studio in the Electrical Engineering block. The department had bought an early AMPEX Type A 1-inch videotape recorder and this was used to produce an occasional short news programme which was then played to students by simply moving the VTR and a monitor into a common room. A cable link to the Southside halls of residence was laid in a tunnel under Exhibition Road in 1972. Besides the news, early productions included a film of the Queen opening what was then called College Block and interview programmes with DJ Mike Raven, Richard O'Brian and Monty Python producer Ian MacNaughton. The society was renamed to ICTV for the start of the 2014/15 academic year.

qas: question: Which famous automobile designer is considered a non - academic alumni?
answers: text: Nicholas Tombazis

question: Which famous author is considered an alumni for Imperial?
answers: text: H. G. Wells

question: Which airline's CEO can be called a non - academic alumni of Imperial?
answers: text: Singapore Airlines

question: Which incredibly prestigious position did Huw Thomas hold?
answers: text: Head Physician to the Queen

question: Which hedge fund manager with a networth of over a billion is considered an alumni?
answers: text: Alan Howard

question: Who are some academic alumni?

question: What hedge fund manager is an academic alumni?

question: Who's doctor is an honorary graduate?
context: Non-academic alumni: Author, H. G. Wells, McLaren and Ferrari Chief Designer, Nicholas Tombazis, CEO of Rolls Royce, Ralph Robins, rock band Queen, Brian May, CEO of Singapore Airlines, Chew Choon Seng, Prime Minister of New Zealand, Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Teo Chee Hean, Chief Medical Officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson, Head Physician to the Queen, Huw Thomas, CEO of Moonfruit, Wendy Tan White, Businessman and philanthropist, Winston Wong, billionaire hedge fund manager Alan Howard.

qas: question: Which society organized The Great Exhibition?
answers: text: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

question: How much of a surplus did The Great Ehibition raise?
answers: text: £186,000

question: Who insisted that the surplus from The Great Exhibition be used as a home for culture and education for all?
answers: text: Albert

question: What was Prince Albert's commitment?
answers: text: to find practical solutions to today's social challenges

question: What did the Royal colleges and Imperial Institute form when they merged?
answers: text: Imperial College London

question: What was organised by the Royal Society to promote the interests of the Empire?

question: Who insisted that The Great Exhibition surplus should be used to aid the poor?

question: What did Prince Albert want to find novel and abitious solutions for?

question: What institutions did The Imperial College of London split into?
context: The Great Exhibition was organised by Prince Albert, Henry Cole, Francis Fuller and other members of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. The Great Exhibition made a surplus of £186,000 used in creating an area in the South of Kensington celebrating the encouragement of the arts, industry, and science. Albert insisted the Great Exhibition surplus should be used as a home for culture and education for everyone. His commitment was to find practical solutions to today's social challenges. Prince Albert's vision built the Victoria and Albert Museum, Science Museum, Natural History Museum, Geological Museum, Royal College of Science, Royal College of Art, Royal School of Mines, Royal School of Music, Royal College of Organists, Royal School of Needlework, Royal Geographical Society, Institute of Recorded Sound, Royal Horticultural Gardens, Royal Albert Hall and the Imperial Institute. Royal colleges and the Imperial Institute merged to form what is now Imperial College London.

qas: question: Who proposed a merger of many colleges in 1907?
answers: text: Board of Education

question: What was the reasoning behind the proposal to merge many colleges?
answers: text: greater capacity for higher technical education was needed

question: When the merger was passed, what constituent college was created?
answers: text: The Imperial College of Science and Technology

question: Who did the constituent college belong to?
answers: text: University of London

question: Which document, granted by Edward VII, was officially signed on the 8th of July 1907?
answers: text: Imperial's Royal Charter

question: What was founded in the 19th century?

question: Who decided that more liberal education was needed?

question: What schools were formed from the Imperial College of Science?

question: When was the charter signed for the University of London?

question: Who granted the Royal Charted for the Unoiversity of London?
context: In 1907, the newly established Board of Education found that greater capacity for higher technical education was needed and a proposal to merge the City and Guilds College, the Royal School of Mines and the Royal College of Science was approved and passed, creating The Imperial College of Science and Technology as a constituent college of the University of London. Imperial's Royal Charter, granted by Edward VII, was officially signed on 8 July 1907. The main campus of Imperial College was constructed beside the buildings of the Imperial Institute in South Kensington.

qas: question: What was Imperial's net income for the financial year that ended on 31 July 2013?
answers: text: £822.0 million

question: What was Imperial's total expenditure for the financial year that ended on the 31 July 2013?
answers: text: £754.9 million

question: How much income was generated from research grants and contracts for 2013?
answers: text: £329.5 million

question: Who granted Imperial close to 170 million pounds in grants?
answers: text: Funding Council

question: What was Imperial's capital expenditure for the 2012/2013 financial year?
answers: text: £124 million

question: What college ended the fiscal year 2013 with an income of 822 thousand pounds?

question: In what year was Imperial's expenditures 124 thousand pounds?
context: In the financial year ended 31 July 2013, Imperial had a total net income of £822.0 million (2011/12 – £765.2 million) and total expenditure of £754.9 million (2011/12 – £702.0 million). Key sources of income included £329.5 million from research grants and contracts (2011/12 – £313.9 million), £186.3 million from academic fees and support grants (2011/12 – £163.1 million), £168.9 million from Funding Council grants (2011/12 – £172.4 million) and £12.5 million from endowment and investment income (2011/12 – £8.1 million). During the 2012/13 financial year Imperial had a capital expenditure of £124 million (2011/12 – £152 million).

qas: question: In which year did Imperial merge with St Mary's Hospital Medical School?
answers: text: 1988

question: Which school resulted from Imperial's merger with St Mary's?
answers: text: The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

question: Who did Imperial partner with to launch the Imperial College Press?
answers: text: World Scientific

question: What year was the Imperial College School of Medicine formally established?
answers: text: 1997

question: What is the name of the building that was opened by Queen Elizabeth II?
answers: text: Sir Alexander Fleming Building

question: What scool split into Imperial and and St Maries?

question: When did Imperial start its publishng house World Scientific?

question: What schools came out of Imperial in 1997?

question: What school was founded by Sit Alexander Fleming?
context: In 1988 Imperial merged with St Mary's Hospital Medical School, becoming The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. In 1995 Imperial launched its own academic publishing house, Imperial College Press, in partnership with World Scientific. Imperial merged with the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1995 and the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS) and the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1997. In the same year the Imperial College School of Medicine was formally established and all of the property of Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, the National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School were transferred to Imperial as the result of the Imperial College Act 1997. In 1998 the Sir Alexander Fleming Building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II to provide a headquarters for the College's medical and biomedical research.

qas: question: What percentage of Imperial's staff was classified as world leading in 2008?
answers: text: 26%

question: What percentage of Imperial's staff was deemed to be internationally excellent in 2008?
answers: text: 47%

question: Which group assessed Imperial's staff members to determine their standing in relation to the rest of the world?
answers: text: Research Assessment Exercise

question: How many subjects were judged to be the best in terms of internationally recognised research quality?
answers: text: five

question: what assesment showed 1225 staff to be world-leading?

question: What showed 26% of staff to be internationally excellent?

question: What five subjects where shown to the top ranked in the world?
context: The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise returned 26% of the 1225 staff submitted as being world-leading (4*) and a further 47% as being internationally excellent (3*). The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise also showed five subjects – Pure Mathematics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering – were assessed to be the best[clarification needed] in terms of the proportion of internationally recognised research quality.

qas: question: What was formed on the 1st October 2007?
answers: text: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

question: How many hospitals does it manage?
answers: text: five

question: What is it considered to be?
answers: text: an academic health science centre

question: What is the annual turnover for the trust?
answers: text: £800 million

question: How many patients a year does the trust treat?
answers: text: more than a million

question: what  hospitals were formed from Imperial College Healthcare?

question: what trust has an annual income of $800 million/

question: How many hospitals teamed to form the NHS in 2006?
context: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was formed on 1 October 2007 by the merger of Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust (Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital and Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital) and St Mary's NHS Trust (St. Mary's Hospital and Western Eye Hospital) with Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine. It is an academic health science centre and manages five hospitals: Charing Cross Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, and Western Eye Hospital. The Trust is currently the largest in the UK and has an annual turnover of £800 million, treating more than a million patients a year.[citation needed]

qas: question: What portion of females reported that they were held back by managers?
answers: text: one third

question: In which year were these allegations raised?
answers: text: 2003

question: After the 2003 incident, what was the next major year in which conerns were raised?
answers: text: 2007

question: In which faculty were the methods used to fire people being questioned?
answers: text: Faculty of Medicine

question: Who is the new President for Imperial College?
answers: text: Alice Gast

question: In what years did 1/2 the female axademics say bullying held back their carreer?

question: Who does Alice Ghast think will continue to struggle?

question: Who is the Vice President of Imperial?

question: What waw beeing question in the school of engeneering?
context: In 2003, it was reported that one third of female academics "believe that discrimination or bullying by managers has held back their careers". It was said then that "A spokesman for Imperial said the college was acting on the recommendations and had already made changes". Nevertheless, allegations of bullying have continued: in 2007, concerns were raised about the methods that were being used to fire people in the Faculty of Medicine. New President of Imperial College, Alice Gast says she sees bright lights in the horizon for female careers at Imperial College London.

qas: question: What is the official name of the student's union?
answers: text: Imperial College Union

question: How many full time officers run the union?
answers: text: five

question: How long is the tenure for an officer to run the union?
answers: text: one year

question: How many clubs, projects and societies is the union responsible for managing?
answers: text: around 300

question: What kind of programmes do students work on for Project Nepal?
answers: text: educational development

question: What is the naqme of the staff and student union?

question: What is run by 5 full-time students?

question: What is used to maintain around 300 pubs?

question: Where are staff sent to work on building projects?
context: Imperial College Union, the students' union at Imperial College, is run by five full-time sabbatical officers elected from the student body for a tenure of one year, and a number of permanent members of staff. The Union is given a large subvention by the university, much of which is spent on maintaining around 300 clubs, projects and societies. Examples of notable student groups and projects are Project Nepal which sends Imperial College students to work on educational development programmes in rural Nepal and the El Salvador Project, a construction based project in Central America. The Union also hosts sports-related clubs such as Imperial College Boat Club and Imperial College Gliding Club.

qas: question: What kind of University is Imperial College London?
answers: text: public research university

question: Who founded the Imperial College London?
answers: text: Prince Albert

question: Who opened the Imperial Institute in 1907?
answers: text: Queen Victoria

question: Which document allowed the Imperial College London to be formed?
answers: text: Royal Charter

question: What was the focus of the Imperial College London?
answers: text: science and technology

question: What is the name of a private resdearch university in London?

question: Who helped to build the college?

question: Who laid the final stone in the Imerial Institute?

question: When was coursework in medicine given over to St Mary's Hospital?

question: When did the Imerial Institute join the University of London?
context: Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. It was founded by Prince Albert who envisioned an area composed of the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Albert Hall and the Imperial Institute. The Imperial Institute was opened by his wife, Queen Victoria, who laid the first stone. In 1907, Imperial College London was formed by Royal Charter, and soon joined the University of London, with a focus on science and technology. The college has expanded its coursework to medicine through mergers with St Mary's Hospital. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Imperial College Business School. Imperial became an independent university from the University of London during its one hundred year anniversary.

qas: question: Who discovered the first synthetic dye?
answers: text: William Henry Perkin

question: What did the scientist who discovered the dye do after discovering it?
answers: text: resigned his position

question: What is the name of the first synthetic dye discovered?
answers: text: mauveine

question: The discovery of the synthetic dye is claimed by some histories to have sparked what event?
answers: text: second chemical revolution

question: Which award is named after the discoverer of the dye?
answers: text: Perkin Medal

question: Who did von Hoffman study under?

question: What discovery by von Hoffman was prompted by his work with Perkins?

question: What was coal tar derived from?

question: Who's didcovery sparked the Chemical revolution?

question: Who founded the Society of Chemical Industry?
context: William Henry Perkin studied and worked at the college under von Hofmann, but resigned his position after discovering the first synthetic dye, mauveine, in 1856. Perkin's discovery was prompted by his work with von Hofmann on the substance aniline, derived from coal tar, and it was this breakthrough which sparked the synthetic dye industry, a boom which some historians have labelled the second chemical revolution. His contribution led to the creation of the Perkin Medal, an award given annually by the Society of Chemical Industry to a scientist residing in the United States for an "innovation in applied chemistry resulting in outstanding commercial development". It is considered the highest honour given in the industrial chemical industry.

qas: question: What site did Imperial acquire in 1947?
answers: text: Silwood Park

question: What was the name of Imperial's student newspaper?
answers: text: Felix

question: How much money was donated for a new Biochemistry Department?
answers: text: £350,000

question: Who donated the large sum of money to help aid the establishement of the Biochemistry Department?
answers: text: Wolfson Foundation

question: Imperial formed a relationship with which other entity in 1963?
answers: text: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

question: What did Imperial aquire in the 19th century

question: What was aquired for teaching chemistry that was not well suited for the main campus?

question: What was the name of Imperials staff news paper?

question: When was Imperial's staff paper founded?

question: Who donated money to establish a new bioengenering department?
context: Imperial acquired Silwood Park in 1947, to provide a site for research and teaching in those aspects of biology not well suited for the main London campus. Felix, Imperial's student newspaper, was launched on 9 December 1949. On 29 January 1950, the government announced that it was intended that Imperial should expand to meet the scientific and technological challenges of the 20th century and a major expansion of the College followed over the next decade. In 1959 the Wolfson Foundation donated £350,000 for the establishment of a new Biochemistry Department.[citation needed] A special relationship between Imperial and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi was established in 1963.[citation needed]