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thumb The University of Buckingham (UB) is the only private university in the United Kingdom operating under a royal charter. It is located in Buckingham, England, and was originally founded as the University College at Buckingham (UCB) in 1973.〔 It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983.〔 The university has been closely linked to Margaret Thatcher. As Education Secretary she oversaw the creation of the university college in 1973, and as Prime Minister she was instrumental in elevating it to a university in 1983 – thus creating the first private university in the UK. And when she retired from politics in 1992, she became the university's second chancellor, a post she held until 1998.〔(The University of Buckingham news, 8 April 2013: ''University mourns death of Lady Thatcher ) Linked 2015-06-19〕 The university's finances for teaching operate entirely on direct student fees: it does not receive state funding (via HEFCE or otherwise). It has formal charity status as a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the ends of research and education.〔(Business school to be university college ), ''Financial Times'', July 25, 2010〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Register Home Page )〕〔Tooley, James. ed. ''Buckingham at 25: Freeing the Universities from State Control'', Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001. ISBN 0-255-36512-8.〕 Buckingham offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctoral degrees through five "schools" (or faculties) of study. The university is a member of the Independent Universities Group, created in January 2015 by eight non-profit and for-profit institutions with degree-awarding powers and/or university title. The group's aim is to be “the Russell Group of the alternative sector” and to dissociate its members from more “dodgy” for-profit colleges.〔(Times Higher Education, 8 January 2015: ''Private providers create ‘Russell Group of the alternative sector’'' ) Linked 2015-06-19〕 The university is one of the twenty-six English universities with a School of Medicine, i.e. it trains doctors at undergraduate and postgraduate level. ==History== Some of the founding academics migrated from the University of Oxford, disillusioned or wary of aspects of the late-1960s ethos. On 27 May 1967, ''The Times'' published a letter from J. W. Paulley, a physician, who wrote: Three London conferences followed which explored this idea.〔Buckingham at 25, ed. James Tooley (2001), p. 25.〕 Subsequently, the university was incorporated as the ''University College of Buckingham'' in 1976 and received its Royal Charter from the Queen in 1983. Its development was influenced by the libertarian Institute of Economic Affairs, in particular, Harry Ferns and Ralph Harris, heads of the Institute. In keeping with its adherence to a libertarian philosophy, the university's foundation-stone was laid by Margaret Thatcher, who was also to be the university's Chancellor (nominal and ceremonial head) between 1993 and 1998. The university's first three Vice-Chancellors were Lord Beloff (1913–1999), former Gladstone Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford; Sir Alan Peacock, the economist, founder of the Economics department at the University of York, and Fellow of the British Academy; and Sir Richard Luce, now Lord Luce, the former Minister for the Arts. 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 Buckingham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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