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 .Business school to be university college, Financial Times, 25 July 2010Tooley, James. ed. Buckingham at 25: Freeing the Universities from State Control, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001. .

 History 

Some of the founding academics migrated from the University of Oxford, 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:  Three London conferences followed which explored this idea.Buckingham at 25, ed. James Tooley (2001), p. 25.

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.

References

Other websites
 University of Buckingham website

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