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Staffordshire University is a university in Staffordshire, England. It has two main campuses based in the city of Stoke-on-Trent and in the county town of Stafford, with other campuses in Lichfield and Shrewsbury.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Campuses and Maps )〕 == History == In 1901 industrialist Alfred Bolton acquired a site on what is now College Road and in 1906 mining classes began there. By 1907 teaching of pottery classes followed, being transferred from Tunstall into temporary buildings. In 1914 the building now known as the Cadman Building was officially opened as the ''Central School of Science and Technology'' by Rt. Hon J A Pease, President of the Board of Education. A frieze over the entrance depicts potters and miners. In 2013 the Library Conference room located in the Cadman building was renamed the Alfred Bolton room〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Library refurbishment )〕 in recognition of Alfred Bolton importance in the history of the university. In 1915 a department was established for the commercial production of Seger cones (used to measure and control the temperatures of ceramic furnaces) based upon research completed by the principal, Joseph Mellor. Grants from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, the second in 1924, were used to develop the ceramics library and in 1926 the name of the institution was changed to North Staffordshire Technical College. By 1931 extensions to the Cadman Building ran along Station Road and housed the Mining Department. A grant was awarded from the Miners’ Welfare Fund to fund the building work. The new extension also housed the library, which by now had 35,000 volumes. By 1934 the college consisted of four departments: Engineering (nearly 800 students), Pottery (just over 600 students), Mining (just under 500 students), and Chemistry (under 300 students). In 1939 new engineering workshops were occupied for the first time and the land opposite the Cadman Building was purchased. By 1950 Victoria Road changed its name to College Road and the site now extended over . The Mellor Building and ‘Experimental Production Block’ (now Dwight Building) were constructed for the ''North Staffordshire College of Technology'' by 1960. Various faculty movements and further building work resulted in ''North Staffordshire Polytechnic'' being formed in 1970 with the merger of Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, North Staffordshire College of Technology (both based in Stoke-on-Trent), and Staffordshire College of Technology in Stafford. The polytechnic later (in 1977) absorbed a teacher training facility in Madeley. The polytechnic developed traditional strengths of the component institutions, e.g. ceramics (Stoke-on-Trent),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ceramics Workshops )〕 computing (Stafford)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Computing )〕 and sports education (Madeley). The mining department closed as result of the decline of coal mining in the 1980s. New subjects were developed. North Staffordshire Polytechnic was amongst only a handful of third-level institutions in the UK to offer International Relations as a dedicated degree. The 1992 UK government Research Assessment Exercise placed the International Relations Department as the highest-rated in the institution. In September 1988 the institution changed its name to Staffordshire Polytechnic. In 1992 it became Staffordshire University, one of the new Universities. 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「Staffordshire University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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