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The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a research-intensive university in Perth, Australia that was established by an act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and is colloquially known as a "sandstone university". It is also a member of the Group of Eight. UWA was established under and is governed by the University of Western Australia Act 1911. The Act provides for control and management by the university's Senate, and gives it the authority, amongst other things, to make statutes, regulations and by-laws, details of which are contained in the university Calendar. UWA is highly ranked internationally in various publications: the 2013/14 QS World University Rankings〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The University of Western Australia Rankings )〕 placed UWA at 84th internationally, and in August 2015 the Academic Ranking of World Universities from Shanghai Jiao Tong University placed the university at 87th in the world.〔http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/The-University-of-Western-Australia.html〕 To date, the university has produced 100 Rhodes Scholars; one Nobel Prize laureate〔Barry Marshall〕 and one Australian Prime Minister〔Bob Hawke〕 graduated from UWA. UWA recently joined the Matariki Network of Universities as the youngest member, the only one established during the 20th century. == History == The university was established in 1911 following the tabling of proposals by a royal commission in September 1910.〔(A University for Western Australia ) ''The West Australian'', 15 September 1910, at Trove〕 The original campus, which received its first students in March 1913, was located on Irwin Street in the centre of Perth, and consisted of several buildings situated between Hay Street and St Georges Terrace. Irwin Street was also known as "Tin Pan Alley" as many buildings featured corrugated iron roofs. These buildings served as the university campus until 1932, when the campus relocated to its present-day site in Crawley.〔(Twenty Years History: Genesis of the University ) ''The West Australian'', 13 April 1932, at Trove〕 The founding chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett, died in 1916, and bequeathed property which, after being carefully managed for ten years, yielded £425,000 to the university, a far larger sum than expected. This allowed the construction of the main buildings. Many buildings and landmarks within the university bear his name, including Winthrop Hall and Hackett Hall. In addition, his bequest funded many scholarships, because he did not wish eager students to be deterred from studying because they could not afford to do so. During UWA's first decade there was controversy about whether the policy of free education was compatible with high expenditure on professorial chairs and faculties. An "old student" publicised his concern in 1921 that there were 13 faculties serving only 280 students.〔(The University (Letter to the Editor) ) ''The West Australian'', 2 December 1921, at Trove〕 A remnant of the original buildings survives to this day in the form of the "Irwin Street Building", so called after its former location. In the 1930s it was transported to the new campus and served a number of uses till its 1987 restoration, after which it was moved across campus to James Oval. Recently, the building has served as the Senate meeting room and is currently in use as a cricket pavilion and storage space for university archives. The building has been heritage-listed by both the National Trust and the Australian Heritage Council. The university introduced the Doctorate of Philosophy degree in 1946 and made its first award in October 1950 to Warwick Bottomley for his research of the chemistry of native plants in Western Australia. 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「University of Western Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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