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The University of Surrey is a public research university in Guildford, Surrey, England. The university received its royal charter in 1966, along with a number of other institutions following recommendations in the Robbins Report. The institution was previously known as Battersea College of Technology and was located in Battersea Park, London.
Surrey is the 11th largest city in Canada, and is also the fifth-largest city in Western Canada (after Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Vancouver). Surrey forms an integral part of Metro Vancouver as it is the largest city in the region by land area, albeit while also serving as the secondary economic core of the metropolitan area.
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver , respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surrey , and Vancouver .
College in Canada most commonly refers to a career-oriented post-secondary institutions that provides vocational training or education in applied arts, applied technology and applied science. There are 14 public funded colleges and institutes in British Columbia.
Central City (formerly known as Surrey Place Mall) is a mixed-use development that houses a shopping mall, a university campus and an office tower complex in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. It is owned by Blackwood Partners Management Corporation. [2]
The legislation renaming the university college to university received royal assent on May 29, 2008, and KPU began operation as Kwantlen Polytechnic University on September 1, 2008. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] KPU became a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) on October 24, 2008. [ 10 ]
A university research building is the 5G Innovation building, the centre for all global development of 5th generation mobile networks. [10] Another is the Surrey Space Centre, partnered with NASA. [11] Also located on the campus are the studios for BBC Surrey [12] and the regional office of the national academic examining body, AQA. [13]
Whalley is the most densely populated and urban of the six town centres in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.It encompasses City Centre, the city's central business district, and is home to the Surrey City Hall, the main branch of Surrey Libraries, Central City, SFU Surrey [4] and the site of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's (KPU) Civic Plaza campus. [5]