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The University of Salford is a public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) west of Manchester city centre.The Royal Technical Institute, Salford, which opened in 1896, became a College of Advanced Technology in 1956 and gained university status in 1967, following the Robbins Report into higher education.
Salford Business School is located 3 km west of Manchester city centre in the Maxwell Building on the Peel Park Campus of the University of Salford. As a business school it offers business management courses, [1] business services [2] and business focused research. [3] It is one of the university's four constituent schools.
Bristol campus in 2007. The College of Law established pro bono clinics, with students undertaking legal advice work for free supervised by the college's lecturers.In March 2015, The University of Law (as the college is now called) obtained an alternative business structure licence, allowing it to expand its legal advice clinics.
Salford City College is a further education college in Salford, Greater Manchester. It offers A-levels, T-Levels, Vocational and Adult courses. It is a family of colleges consisting of Pendleton College, Eccles College, Future Skills, City Skills and Worsley College which merged in 2009.
Originally the home for Salford Royal Technical Institute it was opened by the then Duke and Duchess of York (latterly George V and Queen Mary) in 1896.The building was renamed Peel Building in 1967 as the Royal College of Advanced Technology (as it had evolved into) was granted university status.
Salford (/ ˈ s ɒ l f ər d / SOL-fərd) is a city in Greater Manchester, England, [2] [3] situated on the western bank of the River Irwell which forms its boundary with Manchester city centre. Landmarks in the city include the former town hall, Salford Cathedral, Salford Lads' Club and St Philip's Church. In 2021 it had a population of 129,794.
L. S. Lowry: artist, studied at the Salford Royal Technical College, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in 1975; Karl Lucas: comedian, writer, actor; Jason Manford: Manchester comedian and Perrier nominee; Sarfraz Manzoor: writer, journalist and documentary maker; Conor McNamara: football commentator for the BBC
A couple of years later, this joined with another department to form Acoustic and Electronic Engineering. Finally, the university twice reduced the number of schools in the organisation. Salford Acoustics first joined the School of Computing, Science and Engineering and later this was merged into the School of Science, Engineering and Environment.