110-702: The School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Leeds , in the city of Leeds , West Yorkshire , England. The School of Medicine was founded in 1831. The School of Medicine now forms part of the University's Faculty of Medicine and Health. The School is composed of institutes located at multiple sites in West Yorkshire including the Worsley Building, LIGHT, St James's Campus, and Chapel Allerton Hospital. The School of Medicine
220-700: A Tory response to reassert the educational values of the established order. More widely, King's was one of the first of a series of institutions which came about in the early nineteenth century as a result of the Industrial Revolution and great social changes in England following the Napoleonic Wars . By virtue of its foundation King's has enjoyed the patronage of the monarch , the Archbishop of Canterbury as its visitor and during
330-550: A military hospital in 1915 during World War I. It became the King George Military Hospital, and accommodated about 1,800 patients on 63 wards. Now the largest university building in London, the building was acquired by King's in the 1980s and underwent extensive refurbishment in 2000. The building is named after Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins for their major contributions to the discovery of
440-512: A royal charter and act of Parliament in 1903, the then newly formed University of Liverpool began the fragmentation of the Victoria University by being the first member to gain independence. The University of Leeds soon followed suit and had been granted a royal charter as an independent body by King Edward VII by 1904. The Victoria University continued after the break-up of the group, with an amended constitution and renamed as
550-471: A 50-year lease for the Aldwych Quarter site incorporating the historic Bush House . It has been occupied since 2017. In 2017, former-president and principal Edward Byrne launched Vision 2029, a strategy that seeks to broaden the base of King's, extend the reach of King's, expand access, deliver an extraordinary student experience and strengthen how well the university works together. Strategy 2026
660-607: A Military Department to train officers for the Army and the British East India Company , and in 1846 a Theological Department to train Anglican priests. In 1855, King's pioneered evening classes in London; that King's granted students at the evening classes certificates of college attendance to enable them to sit University of London degree exams was cited as an example of the worthlessness of these certificates in
770-505: A letter to Wellington, he accused the Duke to have in mind "insidious designs for the infringement of our liberty and the introduction of Popery into every department of the State". The letter provoked a furious exchange of correspondence and Wellington accused Winchilsea of imputing him with "disgraceful and criminal motives" in setting up King's College London. When Winchilsea refused to retract
880-582: A million pounds was allocated towards its development. The university has engaged in expansion since 2008, and has spent more than £300 million on new educational, research, residential and leisure facilities with a further £80 million being spent to improve current assets. The programme of this expansion constitutes one of the largest capital investment projects in British higher education. Works of public art on campus range from Eric Gill 's controversial 1923 World War I memorial Christ driving
990-404: A plan he and his second almost certainly decided upon before the duel; Wellington took aim and fired wide to the right. Accounts differ as to whether Wellington missed on purpose. Wellington, noted for his poor aim, claimed he did, other reports more sympathetic to Winchilsea claimed he had aimed to kill. Honour was saved and Winchilsea wrote Wellington an apology. "Duel Day" is still celebrated on
1100-442: A university had for the cities of Liverpool and Manchester whilst the institutions were also unhappy with the practical difficulties posed by maintaining a federal arrangement across broad distances. The interests of the universities and respective cities in creating independent institutions was further spurred by the granting of a charter to the University of Birmingham in 1900 after lobbying from Joseph Chamberlain . Following
1210-530: A woman, Linetta de Castelvecchio . The end of the war saw an influx of students, which strained existing facilities to the point where some classes were held in the Principal's house. In World War II, the buildings of King's College London were used by the Auxiliary Fire Service with a number of King's staff, mainly those then known as college servants, serving as firewatchers . Parts of
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#17327932228331320-1109: Is Waterloo . The St Thomas' Campus in the London Borough of Lambeth , facing the Houses of Parliament across the Thames, houses parts of the School of Medicine and the Dental Institute. The Florence Nightingale Museum is also located here. The museum is dedicated to Florence Nightingale, the founder of the Nightingale Training School of St Thomas' Hospital (now King's Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care). St Thomas' Hospital became part of King's College London School of Medicine in 1998. The St Thomas' Hospital and Campus were named after St Thomas Becket . The Department of Twin Research ( TwinsUk ), King's College London
1430-671: Is a public research university located in London , England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington . In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London . It is one of the oldest university-level institutions in England . In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (in 1985),
1540-600: Is a public research university in Leeds , West Yorkshire , England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Yorkshire College. It became part of the federal Victoria University in 1887, joining Owens College (which became the University of Manchester ) and University College Liverpool (which became
1650-540: Is a founding member of the King's Health Partners academic health sciences centre , Francis Crick Institute and MedCity . It is the largest European centre for graduate and post-graduate medical teaching and biomedical research, by number of students, and includes the world's first nursing school, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery . King's is generally regarded as part of
1760-427: Is approximately 1 mile south of the main campus. There are numerous bus routes which serve it. The proposed Leeds Supertram would have run past the campus. The currently proposed Leeds Trolleybus (northern line) will run past the campus, linking it with the city centre, Headingley and Lawnswood . The Leeds Inner Ring Road also lies close to the campus. The University of Leeds Conference Auditorium, located next to
1870-465: Is based. Its academic activities are organised into nine faculties, which are subdivided into numerous departments, centres, and research divisions. In 2022/23, King's had a total income of £1.230 billion, of which £236.3 million was from research grants and contracts. It has the fourth largest endowment of any university in the United Kingdom, and the largest of any in London. King's
1980-626: Is housed in the renovated 19th-century buildings (known as the Maurice Keyworth Building), which used to belong to Leeds Grammar School on the Western side of the University of Leeds campus. The university have also constructed further modern buildings on the business school area of campus known as the Innovation Hub; costing £9.3 million. The building is a three-storey building of 4350 m (gross capacity), with
2090-423: Is located 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Leeds city centre and consists of a mixture of Gothic revival , art deco , brutalist and postmodern buildings, making it one of the most diverse university campuses in the country in terms of building styles and history. It is within walking distance of both the city centre and popular student neighbourhoods Hyde Park , Woodhouse , and Headingley . The main entrance to
2200-751: Is located in St. Thomas' Hospital. The nearest Underground station is Westminster . Denmark Hill Campus is situated in south London near the borders of the London Borough of Lambeth and the London Borough of Southwark in Camberwell and is the only campus not situated on the River Thames. The campus consists of King's College Hospital , the Maudsley Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN). In addition to
2310-679: Is located on the Strand in the City of Westminster , sharing its frontage along the River Thames . The original campus comprises the Grade I listed King's Building of 1831 designed by Sir Robert Smirke , and the King's College London Chapel redesigned in 1864 by Sir Gilbert Scott , with the subsequent purchase of much of adjacent Surrey Street (including the Norfolk and Chesham Buildings) since
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#17327932228332420-535: Is one of the largest medical schools in Europe, with over 250 medical students being trained in each of the clinical years and over 1,000 teaching, research, technical and administrative staff. The school has centres of excellence split down into Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics (LIGHT), Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (LIHS), Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME) and The Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine (LIMM). In 2010–11 university guides,
2530-815: Is primarily linked with two major hospitals for clinical teaching: the Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital , both run by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust , alongside smaller district NHS Trusts. On 6 June 1831 six physicians and surgeons set up the Leeds Medical School with the aim: it is desirable that a School [of Medicine] be established in Leeds for the purposes of giving such courses of lectures on subjects connected with Medicine and Surgery as will qualify for examination at
2640-567: Is provided via external Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing facilities. In 2023, a total of 31 centrally managed IT study spaces were available for use. The IT Services Research Computing Team support University research communities with platforms and their use, consulting and training . There is a dedicated user facing documentation site with details of the University High Performance Computing facilities and how to use them. Many of
2750-537: Is recorded as sponsoring pharmaceutical research undertaken by the University of Leeds. The Medical School's current premises, the Worsley Building, was designed by the Building Design Partnership and officially opened by the Duke of Kent in March 1979. The medical training in Leeds lasts five years. An optional intercalated degree can be taken either at Leeds or another institution, making
2860-644: Is split up into five institutes:: Every year around half of all Leeds students take a year out to study another related degree (BSc) in a process called intercalating. Many medical/veterinary/dental students from other universities also come to Leeds to study. The intercalated degrees on offer include: Primary care, International Health, Medical Physics, Human Physiology, Sports Science, Neuroscience, Zoology, Pharmacology, Medical Ethics, Clinical Science, Psychology, Microbiology and Anatomy. [REDACTED] Media related to Leeds School of Medicine at Wikimedia Commons University of Leeds The University of Leeds
2970-476: Is still a Clothworkers' Court on campus. The College of Science, modelled on Owens College, Manchester, was established in 1851 as non-sectarian, and was open to Protestant Dissenters , Catholics and Jews (though not then to women) since Oxford and Cambridge restricted attendance to members only of the Church of England . University College London was non-sectarian. The religious qualification ceased in
3080-732: Is the fifth-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment and receives over 69,000 undergraduate applications per year (36,000 domestic and 33,000 international). King's is a member of academic organisations including the Association of Commonwealth Universities , the European University Association , and the Russell Group . King's is home to the Medical Research Council 's MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and
3190-615: The Bretton campus. Activities at Bretton were moved to the main university campus in the summer of 2007 (allowing all Bretton-based students to complete their studies there). There was substantial opposition to the closure by the Bretton students. The university's other satellite site, Manygates in Wakefield , also closed, but Lifelong Learning and Healthcare programmes are continuing on a new site next to Wakefield College . In May 2006,
3300-630: The Francis Crick Institute , committing £40 million to the project. The Chemistry department was reopened in 2011 following its closure in 2003. In February 2012, Her Majesty The Queen officially opened Somerset House East Wing. In September 2014, King's College London opened King's College London Mathematics School , a free school sixth form located in Lambeth that specialises in mathematics. In October 2014, Ed Byrne replaced Rick Trainor as Principal of King's College London,
3410-713: The GKT School of Medical Education . Also in 1998 Florence Nightingale 's original training school for nurses merged with the King's Department of Nursing Studies as the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery . The same year King's acquired the former Public Record Office building on Chancery Lane and converted it at a cost of £35 million into the Maughan Library , which opened in 2002. In July 2006, King's College London
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3520-587: The Hepatitis D genome , and the Higgs boson ; pioneers of in-vitro fertilisation , stem cell / mammal cloning and the modern hospice movement; and key researchers advancing radar, radio, television and mobile phones. Alumni also include heads of states, governments and intergovernmental organisations; seventeen members of the current House of Commons , two Speakers of the House of Commons and thirteen members of
3630-790: The Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998). King's has five campuses: its historic Strand Campus in central London, three other Thames -side campuses (Guy's, St Thomas' and Waterloo) nearby and one in Denmark Hill in south London . It also has a presence in Shrivenham , Oxfordshire , for its professional military education, and another in Newquay , Cornwall , where its information service centre
3740-729: The Leeds University Union hosted a live edition of the Channel 4 News , with students, academics and economists expressing their reaction to the Browne Review , an independent review of Higher Education funding and student finance conducted by John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley . University of Leeds Vice-Chancellor and Russell Group chairman Michael Arthur participated, giving an academic perspective alongside current vice-chancellor of Kingston University and former Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education at
3850-841: The Southbank Centre in the London Borough of Lambeth and consists of the James Clerk Maxwell Building, the Franklin – Wilkins Building and the Waterloo Bridge Wing Building. Cornwall House, now the Franklin-Wilkins Building, constructed between 1912 and 1915 was originally the His Majesty's Stationery Office (responsible for Crown copyright and National Archives ), but was requisitioned for use as
3960-587: The UCAS clearing process for 2010 admission, which matches undersubscribed courses to students who did not meet their firm or insurance choices. The university was one of nine Russell Group universities offering extremely limited places to "exceptional" students after the universities in Birmingham , Bristol , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Oxford declared they would not enter the process due to courses being full to capacity. On 12 October 2010, The Refectory of
4070-411: The University of Liverpool ). In 1904, a royal charter was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII . Leeds is the eleventh-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrollment and receives over 67,000 undergraduate applications per year, making it the fifth-most popular university (behind Manchester , Edinburgh , University College London and King's College London ) in
4180-528: The Victoria University of Manchester (though "Victoria" was usually omitted from its name except in formal usage) until September 2004. On 1 October 2004 a merger with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology was enacted to form The University of Manchester . In December 2004, financial pressures forced the university's governing body (the Council) to decide to close
4290-453: The " golden triangle " of universities located in the cities of Oxford, Cambridge and London. King's has often had royal patronage by virtue of its foundation, with the late Queen Elizabeth II having been patron and her son King Charles III taking over patronage in May 2024. King's alumni and staff include 14 Nobel laureates ; contributors to the discovery of DNA structure, Hepatitis C ,
4400-671: The 1829 charter (although King's remained incorporated under that charter). The act also changed King's College London from a (technically) for-profit corporation to a non-profit one (no dividends had ever been paid in over 50 years of operation) and extended the objects of King's to include the education of women. The Ladies' Department of King's College London was opened in Kensington Square in 1885, which later in 1902 became King's College Women's Department. The King's College London Act 1903 ( 3 Edw. 7 . c. xcii) abolished all remaining religious tests for staff, except within
4510-496: The 1850s but the classics-based education continued at Oxford and Cambridge. The Northern colleges continued to promote themselves as offering a general education that was progressive and pragmatic in nature as were the technical colleges of Germany and the ancient universities upon which they were modelled. The Yorkshire College of Science began by teaching experimental physics, mathematics, geology, mining, chemistry and biology, and soon became well known as an international centre for
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4620-547: The Brotherton Collection. It also contains a considerable number of medieval manuscripts. The extensive coin collection consists of 15,000 coins and medals with a wide chronological and geographical spread. The Feminist Archive North Collections are on deposit. These contain a material relating to women from 1969 to the present day. The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, the Treasures Gallery and
4730-626: The College of Surgeons and Apothecaries' Hall. The Medical School admitted its first students in October of that year. It was one of ten provincial medical schools founded in the ten years between 1824 and 1834. The founders were: The first premises were the Leeds Public Dispensary on North Street in the town but in 1834 the school was moved to new premises at 1 East Parade. In the 1940s, the "Leeds Public Dispensary and Hospital"
4840-603: The Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi , Piers Sellers ( NASA astronaut ) and six Nobel laureates. The university's history is linked to the development of Leeds as an international centre for the textile industry and clothing manufacture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era . The university's roots can be traced back to the formation of schools of medicine in English cities to serve
4950-576: The English Literature Collections, the Leeds Russian Archive, the Liddle Collection , the Cookery Collection and its Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections . The repository contains William Shakespeare 's First Folio Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories. & Tragedies published in 1623. Special Collections also holds copies of the second, third and fourth folios. There is a copy of Sir Isaac Newton 's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica , first published 5 July 1687. Special Collections holds over 300 incunabula most of which are in
5060-400: The Guy's Campus including activity rooms, meeting rooms alongside a student cafe; The Shed and student bar; Guy's Bar. Guy's Campus is located opposite the Old Operating Theatre Museum , which was part of old St Thomas Hospital in Southwark. The nearest Underground stations are London Bridge and Borough . The Waterloo Campus is located across Waterloo Bridge from the Strand Campus, near
5170-439: The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, parts of the Dental Institute and School of Medicine, and a large hall of residence, King's College Hall, are situated here. Other buildings include the campus library known as the Weston Education Centre (WEC), the James Black Centre, the Rayne Institute (haemato-oncology) and the Cicely Saunders Institute ( palliative care ). The Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute
5280-407: The International Textile Collection are managed by Special Collections. IT Services support the University with a range of services targeted for use by different University communities. University Faculties, Schools and Institutes also provide computing facilities. Collectively these provide computational capability that can be used by staff, students and visitors. Additional computational capability
5390-411: The King's Buildings between 2004 and 2006, and renovation of the East Wing of Somerset House between 2009 (when the college secured a 78 year lease) and 2012, and the completion of the £10 million Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care on the Denmark Hill campus. More recently, a £42 million development for the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute was completed in 2016, and a sports pavilion
5500-498: The Leeds School of Medicine was ranked as the 11th best medical school in the country by The Guardian and 14th by The Complete University Guide in association with The Independent . The medical school has close links with the NHS and works closely with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust , comprising six hospitals and numerous primary care training practices in Yorkshire and the Humber . King%27s College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL )
5610-445: The Leeds campus of the Victoria University had never barred women from its courses. However, it was not until special facilities were provided at the Day Training College in 1896 that women began enrolling in significant numbers. The first female student to begin a course at the university was Lilias Annie Clark, who studied Modern Literature and Education. In 1904 Leeds University wanted to encourage more women students. It decided to pat
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#17327932228335720-403: The Moneychangers from the Temple in the foyer of the Rupert Beckett Building to Simon Fujiwara 's 2015 9 metres (30 ft) A Spire outside the Laidlaw Library and Liliane Lijn 's 2019 Converse Column at the south east entrance to the campus. The university has a Public Art Strategy developed with the Contemporary Art Society . Gair Wood is located about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of
5830-439: The Office of the President and Principal. Since 2010, the campus has expanded rapidly to incorporate the East Wing of Somerset House and the Virginia Woolf Building next to LSE on Kingsway . It has also expanded to incorporate Bush House , which formerly housed the BBC World Service . The nearest Underground stations are Temple , Charing Cross and Covent Garden . Guy's Campus is situated close to London Bridge and
5940-440: The School of Mineral Engineering, the Brotherton Library and the Parkinson Building which are Grade II listed. In addition to the main campus, there was also a satellite location at Wakefield . Until the 2006–07 academic year, some courses were taught at the Bretton Hall campus in West Bretton . The site closed in summer 2007 after which the courses taught there were relocated to the main campus in Leeds. Leeds railway station
6050-473: The Second World War and the 1972 Strand Building. The Macadam Building of 1975 houses the Strand Campus Students' Union and is named after King's alumnus Sir Ivison Macadam , first President of the National Union of Students . The Strand Campus houses the arts and science faculties of King's, including the faculties of Arts & Humanities , Law , Business, Social Science & Public Policy and Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences. It also houses
6160-415: The Senior department teaching was divided into three courses: a general course comprised divinity, classical languages, mathematics, English literature and history; a medical course; and miscellaneous subjects, such as law, political economy and modern languages, which were not related to any systematic course of study at the time and depended for their continuance on the supply of occasional students. In 1833
6270-490: The Shard on the South Bank of the Thames and is home to the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and the Dental Institute. The campus is named for Thomas Guy , the founder and benefactor of Guy's Hospital established in 1726 in the London Borough of Southwark . Buildings include: the Henriette Raphael building, constructed in 1902, the Gordon Museum of Pathology , the Hodgkin building, Shepherd's House and Guy's Chapel. The Students' Union has extensive facilities on
6380-421: The Sports Hall, was once the original West Yorkshire Playhouse . It was refurbished in 2003 to become two lecture theatres; one for 320 and one for 550, making it the largest capacity facility on the university campus. The university's Muslim Prayer Room is located in the Conference Auditorium building and able to accommodate up to 300 people at any one time. The prayer room has undergone refurbishment after half
6490-424: The Strand building, the quadrangle , and the roof of apse and stained glass windows of the chapel suffered bomb damage in the Blitz . During the post-war reconstruction, the vaults beneath the quadrangle were replaced by a two-storey laboratory, which opened in 1952, for the departments of Physics and Civil and Electrical Engineering. One of the most famous pieces of scientific research performed at King's were
6600-562: The Strand designed by E. D. Jefferiss Mathews was opened in 1972. In 1980 King's regained its legal independence under a new Royal Charter. In 1993 King's, along with other large University of London colleges, gained direct access to government funding (which had previously been through the university) and the right to confer University of London degrees itself. This contributed to King's and the other large colleges being regarded as de facto universities in their own right. King's College London underwent several mergers with other institutions in
6710-409: The Theological department. In 1910, King's was (with the exception of the Theological department) merged into the University of London under the King's College London (Transfer) Act 1908 ( 8 Edw. 7 . c. xxxix), losing its legal independence. During the First World War, the medical school was opened to women for the first time. From 1916 to 1921, the college's Department of Italian was headed by
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#17327932228336820-410: The UK armed services through the Joint Services Command and Staff College since 2000 under contract to the Ministry of Defence . Between 1999 and 2010, more than half of King's activities were moved into new or refurbished buildings. Major projects in this period included a £40 million renovation of the former public records office to become the Maughan Library in 2002, a £40 million renovation of
6930-472: The UK by volume of applications. Leeds had an income of £979.5 million in 2022–23, of which £184.9 million was from research grants and contracts. The university has financial endowments of £83.2 million (2023), placing it within the top twenty British universities by financial endowment. Notable alumni include current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer , former Home and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw , former co-chairman of
7040-533: The University of Leeds, Sir Peter Scott . Midway through the broadcast a small group of protesters against the potential rise of student debt entered the building before being restrained and evacuated. In 2016, The University of Leeds became University of the Year 2017 in The Times and The Sunday Times ' Good University Guide. The university has risen to 13th place overall, which reflects impressive results in student experience, high entry standards, services and facilities, and graduate prospects. In 2022,
7150-415: The University of London. Leeds was given its first university in 1887 when the Yorkshire College joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November. The Victoria University had been established by royal charter in 1880; Owens College being at first the only member college. Leeds now found itself in an educational union with close social cousins from Manchester and Liverpool . Unlike Owens College,
7260-516: The academic departments have specialist research facilities, for use by staff and students to support research from internationally significant collections in university libraries to state-of-the-art laboratories. These include those hosted at the Institute for Transport Studies , such as the University of Leeds Driving Simulator which is one of the most advanced worldwide in a research environment, allowing transport researchers to watch driver behaviour in accurately controlled laboratory conditions without
7370-440: The build was £22,000 and was raised partially by public appeal and served as the university library until the opening of the Brotherton Library. The Great Hall is now primarily used for examinations, meetings and graduation ceremonies. In June 2010, post-war buildings at the University of Leeds were recommended by English Heritage to become Grade II listed buildings. The modernist and brutalist buildings being recognised include
7480-447: The campus for visitors by car is on Woodhouse Lane ( A660 ), near the Parkinson Building. The former Woodhouse Cemetery is within the campus, now a landscaped area known as St George's Fields. The Parkinson Building is a grade II listed art deco building and campanile named after the late Frank Parkinson , a major benefactor of the university who oversaw many new build projects from 1936 onwards. These commitments culminating in
7590-471: The course six years. The MBChB degree is divided into three phases. Phase I (Preparing for Clinical Practice) encompasses Years One to Three, Phase II (Clinical Practice in Context) encompasses Year Four and Phase III (Becoming a Doctor) encompasses Year Five and Foundation Year One . Leeds was ranked 19th in the Guardian medicine league table 2017 and 3rd for student experience in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018. The School of Medicine
7700-434: The crucial contributions to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953 by Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin , together with Raymond Gosling , Alex Stokes , Herbert Wilson , and other colleagues at the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics at King's. Major reconstruction of King's began in 1966 following the publication of the Robbins Report on Higher Education. A new block facing
7810-414: The current House of Lords ; and the recipients of three Oscars , three Grammys , one Emmy , one Golden Globe , and one Booker Prize . King's College, so named to indicate the patronage of King George IV , was founded in 1829 (though the roots of King's medical school, St. Thomas, date back to the 16th century with recorded first teaching in 1561) in response to the theological controversy surrounding
7920-420: The decision by the University of London to end the affiliated colleges system in 1858 and open their examinations to everyone. The King's College London Act 1882 ( 45 & 46 Vict. c. xiii) amended the constitution. The act removed the proprietorial nature of King's, changing the name of the corporation from "The Governors and Proprietors of King's College, London" to "King's College London" and annulling
8030-543: The fact that King's is a constituent college of the University of London. All current students with at least one year of study remaining were in August 2007 offered the option of choosing to be awarded a University of London degree or a King's degree. The first King's degrees were awarded in summer 2008. In April 2011, King's became a founding partner in the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation, subsequently renamed
8140-453: The first Thursday after 21 March every year, marked by various events throughout King's, including reenactments. King's opened in October 1831 with the cleric William Otter appointed as first principal and lecturer in divinity. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided over the opening ceremony, in which a sermon was given in the chapel by Charles James Blomfield , the Bishop of London , on
8250-479: The founding of "London University" (which later became University College, London ) in 1826. London University was founded, with the backing of Utilitarians , Jews and Nonconformists , as a secular institution, intended to educate "the youth of our middling rich people between the ages of 15 or 16 and 20 or later" giving its nickname, "the godless college in Gower Street". The need for such an institution
8360-552: The general course was reorganised leading to the award of the Associate of King's College (AKC), the first qualification issued by King's. The course, which concerns questions of ethics and theology, is still awarded today to students and staff who take an optional three-year course alongside their studies. The river frontage was completed in April 1835 at a cost of £7,100, its completion a condition of King's College London securing
8470-529: The general public. The Victoria University was established in Manchester in 1880 as a federal university in the North of England , instead of the government elevating Owens College to a university and grant it a royal charter . Owens College was the sole college of Victoria University from 1880 to 1884; in 1887 Yorkshire College was the third to join the university. In 1831, the Leeds School of Medicine
8580-400: The global world ranking of the University of Leeds is 86. There are currently 36,840 students studying at the university. The average tuition fee is £9,250 (~$ 12,000–12,500) per year, although there are cases where there are partial subsidies towards this cost. The university has 1,230 acres (498 ha) of land in total, with the main campus taking up 98 acres (40 ha). The main campus
8690-808: The institute of molecular medicine based at St James's University Hospital which aids integration of research and practice in the medical field. The university also operate research facilities in the aviation field, with the Airbus A320 flight simulator . The simulator was devised with an aim to promote the safety and efficiency of flight operations; where students use the simulator to develop their reactions to critical situations such as engine failure, display malfunctioning and freak weather. In addition to these facilities, many university departments conduct research in their respective fields. There are also various research centres, including Leeds University Centre for African Studies . The Leeds School of Medicine
8800-823: The largest research libraries in the UK. The main arts and humanities library is the Brotherton Library , located in the Parkinson Building. The main science, social sciences and engineering library is the Edward Boyle Library, located in the centre of the campus. Medicine, dentistry and healthcare students are served by the Health Sciences Library, located in the Worsley Building, and there is an extension of this library at St James's University Hospital . The Laidlaw Library on
8910-535: The late 20th century. These including the reincorporation in 1983 of the King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, which had become independent of King's College Hospital at the foundation of the National Health Service in 1948, mergers with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College in 1985, and the Institute of Psychiatry in 1997. In 1998 the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals merged with King's to form
9020-502: The latter having served for 10 years. In December 2014, King's announced its plans to rebrand its name to 'King's London'. It was emphasised that there were no plans to change the legal name of King's, and that the name 'King's London' was designed to promote King's and to highlight the fact that King's is a university in its own right. King's announced that the rebranding plans had been dropped in January 2015. In 2015, King's acquired
9130-603: The latter now has the power to award its own degrees. The College of the Resurrection , an Anglican theological college in Mirfield with monastic roots , has, since its inception in 1904, been affiliated to the university, and ties remain close. The university is also a founding member of the Northern Consortium . In August 2010, the university was one of the most targeted institutions by students entering
9240-462: The local community with over 2,000 university student volunteers. With 8,700 staff employed in 2019–20, the university is the third largest employer in Leeds and contributes around £1.23bn a year to the local economy – students add a further £211m through rents and living costs. The university's educational partnerships have included providing formal accreditation of degree awards to Leeds College of Art and Leeds Trinity University College , although
9350-531: The main campus, close to Eccup. It is a 36 hectare site with over 60,000 "regionally appropriate" trees, including oak, hazel, and willow, providing a base for research, teaching, social opportunities and carbon capture. The first tree was planted by Roger Gair, a former University Secretary, in 2022. During the 2022/23 academic year, 36,330 students were enrolled. There were around 560 different first-degree programmes and approximately 300 postgraduate degree programmes in 2009–10. Whilst maintaining its strengths in
9460-485: The main campus, serving the needs of undergraduates, opened in May 2015. It is named after Lord Laidlaw who gave £9,000,000 towards its construction. The university library houses numerous archives, rare books and some objects in its Special Collections ranging from 2,500 BC to the 21st century. Special Collections holds five collections designated as outstanding by the Arts Council England . These are
9570-668: The medical schools at the London hospitals could confer degrees. In 1835 the government announced that it would establish an examining board to grant degrees, with "London University" and King's both becoming affiliated colleges. This became the University of London in 1836, the former "London University" becoming University College, London (UCL). The first University of London degrees were awarded to King's College London students in 1839. In 1840, King's opened its own hospital on Portugal Street near Lincoln's Inn Fields , an area composed of overcrowded rookeries characterised by poverty and disease. The governance of King's College Hospital
9680-557: The newly Grade II* listed Roger Stevens Building, whilst the EC Stoner Building, Computer Science Building, Mathematics/Earth Sciences Building, Senior Common Room, Garstang Building, Irene Manton Building, Communications and Edward Boyle Library (formerly the South Library) and Henry Price Building have been recognised as Grade II listed buildings. These additions join the already listed 1877 Great Hall and Baines Wing,
9790-633: The nineteenth century counted among its official governors the Lord Chancellor , Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Mayor of London . The simultaneous support of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (who was also Prime Minister of the United Kingdom then), for an Anglican King's College London and the Roman Catholic Relief Act , which was to lead to the granting of almost full civil rights to Catholics,
9900-434: The official opening of The Parkinson Building (to which Parkinson donated £200,000) on 9 November 1951. The tower of the building is a well-known landmark in the city of Leeds and is used in the university logo and as a university symbol. The campanile is the highest point of the building and stands at 57 metres (187 ft) tall, making it the 17th tallest building in the city of Leeds. The Leeds University Business School
10010-466: The remarks, Wellington – by his own admission, "no advocate of duelling" and a virgin duellist – demanded satisfaction in a contest of arms: "I now call upon your lordship to give me that satisfaction for your conduct which a gentleman has a right to require, and which a gentleman never refuses to give." The result was a duel in Battersea Fields on 21 March 1829. Winchilsea did not fire,
10120-541: The risks associated with a live, physical environment. With extensive links to the St James's University Hospital through the Leeds School of Medicine, the university operates a range of high-tech research laboratories for biomedical and physical sciences, food and engineering – including clean rooms for bionanotechnology and plant science greenhouses. The university is connected to Leeds General Infirmary and
10230-588: The site from the Crown. Unlike those in the school, student numbers in the Senior department remained almost stationary during King's first five years of existence. During this time the medical school was blighted by inefficiency and the divided loyalties of the staff leading to a steady decline in attendance. One of the most important appointments was that of Charles Wheatstone as professor of Experimental Philosophy. At this time neither King's, "London University", nor
10340-496: The structure of DNA. Today it is home to: The adjacent James Clerk Maxwell Building houses the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care and many of the central professional services functions of the college. The Building was named after Scottish mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell , who was the Professor of Natural Philosophy at King's from 1860 to 1865. The nearest Underground station
10450-574: The study of engineering and textile technology (due to the manufacturing and textile trades being strong in the West Riding ). When classics, modern literature and history went on offer a few years later, the Yorkshire College of Science became simply the Yorkshire College. In 1884, the Yorkshire College absorbed the Leeds School of Medicine and subsequently joined the federal Victoria University (established at Manchester in 1880) on 3 November 1887. Students in this period were awarded external degrees by
10560-469: The subject of combining religious instruction with intellectual culture. Despite the attempts to make King's Anglican-only, the initial prospectus permitted, "nonconformists of all sorts to enter the college freely". William Howley : the governors and the professors, except the linguists, had to be members of the Church of England but the students did not, though attendance at chapel was compulsory. King's
10670-438: The third floor accommodating the Innovation Hub. The Roger Stevens building, built in 1970, is one of the most iconic structures on campus, and is primarily utilised for lectures. The university's Great Hall building is one of the most prominent buildings on campus alongside the Parkinson Building and the numerous brutalist buildings which are Grade II listed. The Great Hall was built on a site of Beech Grove Hall Estate which
10780-550: The traditional subjects (for example more students studying languages and physical sciences than anywhere else in the UK), Leeds has also developed expertise in more distinctive and rare specialist areas such as Colour Chemistry, Fire Science, Nanotechnology and Aviation Technology with Pilot studies. The university library is spread over five locations, and holds, in total, 2.78 million books, 26,000 print and electronic journals, 850 databases and 6,000 electronic books: making it one of
10890-576: The university began re-branding itself to consolidate its visual identity to promote one consistent image. A new logo was produced, based on that used during the centenary celebrations in 2004, to replace the combined use of the modified university arms and the Parkinson Building , which has been in use since 2004. The university arms will still be used in its original form for ceremonial purposes only. Four university colours were also specified as being green, red, black and beige. Leeds provides
11000-517: The unprecedented salary of £400 per annum to Hannah Robertson who took on a double role of "Mistress of Method" in the Education department and as the Tutor of Women. The Victoria (Leeds) University was a short-lived concept, as the multiple university locations in Manchester and Liverpool were keen to establish themselves as separate, independent universities. This was partially due to the benefits
11110-405: Was a result of the religious and social nature of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which then educated solely the sons of wealthy Anglicans . The secular nature of London University gained disapproval, indeed, "the storms of opposition which raged around it threatened to crush every spark of vital energy which remained". The creation of King's College as a rival institution represented
11220-419: Was announced in 2022 as a refreshed path towards delivering Vision 2029, with four fundamental priorities: Enabling student success; A thriving King's staff community; Sustainable research and innovation excellence; Knowledge with purpose. In 2024, King's announced a major £45.5 million investment in science talent, research, education and infrastructure. The Strand Campus is the founding campus of King's and
11330-592: Was challenged by George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea , in early 1829. Winchilsea and his supporters wished for King's to be subject to the Test Acts , like the universities of Oxford , where only members of the Church of England could matriculate , and Cambridge , where non-Anglicans could matriculate but not graduate, but this was not Wellington's intent. Winchilsea and about 150 other contributors withdrew their support of King's College London in response to Wellington's support of Catholic emancipation . In
11440-585: Was constructed at Honor Oar Park Sportsground in 2016. The Strand Campus redevelopment won the Green Gown Award in 2007 for sustainable construction. The award recognised the "reduced energy and carbon emissions from a sustainable refurbishment of the historic South Range of the King's Building". King's was also the recipient of the 2003 City Heritage Award for the conversion of the Grade II* listed Maughan Library . A £20 million redevelopment of
11550-505: Was divided into a senior department and a junior department, also known as King's College School , which was originally situated in the basement of the Strand Campus. The Junior department started with 85 pupils and only three teachers, but quickly grew to 500 by 1841, outgrowing its facilities and leading it to relocate to Wimbledon in 1897 where it remains today, though it is no longer associated with King's College London. Within
11660-450: Was established with the aim of serving the needs of the five medical institutions which had been established in the city. In 1874, the Yorkshire College of Science was created to provide education for the children of middle-class industrialists and merchants. Financial support from local industry was crucial in setting up the college and aiding the students. The university continues to recognise these elements of its history; for example, there
11770-465: Was granted degree-awarding powers in its own right, as opposed to through the University of London , by the Privy Council . This power remained unexercised until 2007, when King's announced that all students starting courses from September 2007 onwards would be awarded degrees conferred by King's itself, rather than by the University of London. The new certificates however still make reference to
11880-441: Was later transferred to the corporation of the hospital established by the King's College Hospital Act 1851. The hospital moved to new premises in Denmark Hill , Camberwell in 1913. The appointment in 1877 of Joseph Lister as professor of clinical surgery greatly benefited the medical school, and the introduction of Lister's antiseptic surgical methods gained the hospital an international reputation. In 1845 King's established
11990-717: Was opened by the Princess Royal in 2015 at the Denmark Hill Campus. It is named after British philanthropist Maurice Wohl , who had a long association with King's and supported many medical projects. The nearest Overground station is Denmark Hill . Whilst not a formal campus, King's retains an academic presence and estate at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom in Shrivenham , Oxfordshire . Through its Defence Studies Department, King's has delivered professional military training to much of
12100-605: Was purchased in 1879 by the then Yorkshire College when joining the Victoria University . This was later demolished in 1884, to become the site of the Clothworkers buildings of the Baines Memorial Wing and the Great Hall. The buildings were designed by the renowned Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse R.A in red pressed brick and had dressings of Bolton Wood stone in a Gothic Collegiate style. The cost of
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