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Glasgow Caledonian University (informally GCU or Caledonian or Caley) is a public university in Glasgow, Scotland. With a history traceable to 1875, the University was formally instituted in 1993 by an Act of Parliament that created Glasgow’s third university, and what would become one of Scotland’s largest universities with more than 18,000 students.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 About the University )〕 GCU is regularly ranked among the UK's top 10 modern universities,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Top 10 New Universities in the UK )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Glasgow Caledonian University )〕 and is widely regarded as one of the UK's most dynamic and innovative universities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Scottish Parliament Business Bulletin No. 115/2009 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 First Minister St Andrew's Day Speech 2007 )〕 In 2010, less than 20 years after its formation, Caledonian was ranked among the world’s top universities, the first and only modern Scottish university to achieve this global standing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Glasgow Caledonian University )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 John Wilson joins Glasgow Caledonian )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Response to Scottish Government Green Paper on Higher Education )〕 In 2013, the UK's Higher Education Statistics Agency ranked Caledonian as Scotland's 2nd best university in terms of employability among graduates and 11th best in the UK.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 2011/12 Performance Indicators - Employment of Graduates )〕 Also that year, the University was ranked 2nd in the UK for international student satisfaction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 GCU second top in UK for international student satisfaction )〕 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was installed Chancellor of the University in 2012, as the first non-British international figure to hold the office of University Chancellor in Scottish history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Chancellor's Appointment - Principal's Speech )〕 Pamela Gillies has been the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University since 2006. Independent research carried out in 2015 revealed that the University contributes over £480m to Scotland’s economy each year with the quantifiable lifetime premium of a one-year class of graduates estimated at around £400m, bringing the University's total annual economic impact to around £880m in Scotland alone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 GCU Economic Impact )〕 The University is a member of the University Alliance, the UK league of business-oriented universities. It is also a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, Universities UK, Universities Scotland, the Florence Network, the Talloires Network, the Erasmus+ Programme, and the Santander Universities Network. ==History== The University traces it origin from ''The Queen's College, Glasgow'' (founded 1875) and the ''Glasgow Polytechnic'' (founded 1971). The Queen’s College, which specialised in providing training in domestic science, received the Royal accolade of being named after Queen Elizabeth II in its centenary celebrations in 1975. Queen Elizabeth II was, herself, Patron of the College since 1944.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Queen's College, Glasgow )〕 Glasgow Polytechnic, which was one of the largest central institutions in Scotland, offered externally validated degrees and diplomas in engineering, science, and the humanities: the first of which was a BA in Optics, followed by degrees in Social Sciences (1973) and Nursing (1977).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Glasgow College of Technology )〕 On 1 April 1993, the two institutions amalgamated to form Glasgow Caledonian University. The new university took its name from Caledonia, the poetic Latin name for present-day Scotland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glasgow Caledonian University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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