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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 may refer to: Birkbeck (surname) Birkbeck, University of London, a college of the University of London; 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.
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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 ).
Somercotes Academy (formerly Birkbeck School) is a mixed secondary school located in North Somercotes, near Louth in Lincolnshire, England. [1] It draws its pupils from largely deprived rural and coastal areas within a 20-mile radius, many travelling by bus for over an hour each way to and from school.
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