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Birkbeck, University of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (820 words) |
 | Birkbeck, University of London, sometimes referred to by its former name Birkbeck College or by the abbreviation BBK, is a College of the University of London. |
| Birkbeck is often not included in British Newspaper University league tables, since these are usually based on the statistics for full-time undergraduates, but Birkbeck was ranked 13th in The Guardian's 2001 Research Assessment Exercise league table and 26th by the Times Higher Education Supplement's equvialent 2001 RAE league table. |
| Birkbeck has also appeared in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Top 500 World Universities ranking in 2004, placed in the 404-502nd rank (the tables rank Universities in equal blocks of about 100 after the first 100 individually ranked Universities). |
| AIM25: Birkbeck College: Birkbeck College Archives (920 words) |
| Administrative/Biographical history: Birkbeck College was founded as the London Mechanics Institution in 1823 with George Birkbeck (1776-1841) as the first President and the aim of instructing members "in the principles of the Arts they practise, and in the various branches of science and useful Knowledge". |
| In 1894 Birkbeck Institute was linked with the City of London College and the Northampton Institute (now City University) to form the City Polytechnic under a Charity Commission scheme approved in 1891 to facilitate funding for these institutions by the City Parochial Foundation. |
| The City Polytechnic was dissolved in 1906 and Birkbeck College made its first application to become part of the University of London in 1907; it had had recognised teachers, and therefore "internal" students, since 1900. |
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