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Birkbeck Students' Union (also Birkbeck Union or Birkbeck SU) is the representative body for students at Birkbeck, University of London, a public research university located in Bloomsbury, London, England. As Birkbeck primarily offers part-time courses, often in the evenings, student life is less centralised than in other universities.
Sir George Birkbeck, founder of Birkbeck, University of London Part of the main Birkbeck campus in Bloomsbury, showing the main entrance (on the right).. In 1823 Sir George Birkbeck, a physician and graduate of the University of Edinburgh who was a pioneer of adult education, founded the London Mechanics' Institute at a meeting in the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand.
Birkbeck Students' Union, a Student Union in London; Birkbeck station, a railway station and tram stop in south London; Birkbeck Stratford, the name for a project to expand the provision of part-time Higher Education in east London. Birkbeck Court, the oldest and largest student residence at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
The following have served as President of Birkbeck: [1] 1823–1841: George Birkbeck FRS (founder of Birkbeck) 1841–1888: William Lloyd Birkbeck; 1888–1897: The Rt Hon The Earl of Northbrook, GCSI; 1903–1915: The Rt Hon Lord Alverstone, GCMG; 1919–1928: The Rt Hon Viscount Haldane, KT, OM, FRS
Appalachian State University (/ ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ən / [a]), or App State, is a public university in Boone, North Carolina, United States.It was founded as a teachers' college in 1899 by brothers B. B. and D. D. Dougherty and the latter's wife, Lillie Shull Dougherty.
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. It aims at working people who want to study for degrees in the evenings ( adult education ).
Birkbeck Court is the oldest and largest student residence at University of Strathclyde, and was constructed between 1972 and 1974. It is situated on Cathedral Street, which is at the very centre of Glasgow and the university campus. [1] The halls are made of 16 blocks, each block containing 4 flats which is residence to 6 students.
Birkbeck Stratford is the name for a project to expand the provision of part-time Higher Education in east London, made by Birkbeck, University of London in conjunction with the University of East London.