The University of Buckingham (UB) is a

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Buckingham Buckingham ( ) is a market town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, which had a population of 12,890 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census. The town lies approximately west of ...

, England, and the oldest of the country's six private universities. It was founded as the University College at Buckingham (UCB) in 1973 and admitted its first students in 1976. It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983. Buckingham was closely linked to

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, who, as Education Secretary, oversaw the creation of the university college in 1973 and as

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was instrumental in it being elevated to a university in 1983, thus creating the first private university in

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since the establishment of the University Grants Committee in 1919. When she retired from politics in 1992, Margaret Thatcher became the university's second

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, a post she held until 1998. Buckingham's finances for teaching operate entirely on student fees and endowments; it does not receive direct state funding (via the

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) although its students can receive student loans from the

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. 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
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'', 25 July 2010Tooley, James. ed. ''Buckingham at 25: Freeing the Universities from State Control'', Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001. .

History

Some of the founding academics migrated from the

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, disillusioned or wary of aspects of the late-1960s ethos. On 27 May 1967, ''

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'' 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. The university was incorporated as the "University College of Buckingham" in 1976 and received its

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as a university from the

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in 1983. As of May 2016, it is the only

in the UK with a royal charter. Its development was influenced by the

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, in particular, Harry Ferns and Ralph Harris, heads of the institute. The university's foundation-stone was laid by

, who became the university's

between 1993 and 1998. The university's principals (to 1983) and

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s have been: Lord Beloff, former Gladstone Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford; Alan Peacock, founder of the economics department at the

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and Fellow of the

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; Michael Barrett; Richard Luce, now Lord Luce, former Minister for the Arts; Robert Taylor; Terence Kealey;

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and

James Tooley James Nicholas Tooley (born July 1959, in Southampton, England) is a professor of educational entrepreneurship and of education policy at the University of Buckingham. In July 2020, Tooley was appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor of the Univers ...

. From 2004, students at Buckingham have been eligible for government student loans, which led to an increase in UK students at the university.

Campus

Near the centre of the town of Buckingham is the riverside campus, which is partly contained within a south-turning bend of the River Great Ouse. Here, on or just off Hunter Street, are some of the university's central buildings: Yeomanry House; the Anthony de Rothschild building (which contains Humanities); the Humanities Library; and also some of the student accommodation, looking northwards across the river. Prebend House, a recently restored Georgian house, contains the Vice-Chancellor's office. On the other side of Hunter Street, on the so-called 'island', is the Tanlaw Mill, one of the university's social centres; with the main refectory, the Fitness Centre, and the Students' Union Office. Overlooking this site, on the hill above, is the extensive Chandos Building. This complex contains the Medical School. It also houses the Ian-Fairburn Lecture Theatre, the largest lecture theatre on the river-side site. Further on, up the hill, on the London Road, is another element of the campus, in particular the schools of Law and Computing, which is housed in the Franciscan Building, surrounded by other student accommodation blocks. This is opposite the swimming pool and leisure centre. The university has been expanding in recent years. It has acquired a new site on the west side of the river, which will increase the capacity of the river-side campus as a whole.

Organisation and governance

Chancellor

On 24 February 2020, Dame Mary Archer was installed as

of the university. Former chancellors were Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (from 1983 to 1993), Baroness Margaret Thatcher (from 1993 to 1998), Martin Jacomb (from 1999 to 2010), Lord Tanlaw (from 2010 to 2013), and Lady Keswick (from 2014 to 2020).

Vice-chancellor

Since October 2020, the vice-chancellor is Professor

Academic profile

Teaching

The university's schools (faculties) are: Business, Computing, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Law, Medicine, Postgraduate Medicine and Allied Health, Psychology, and the Foundation Department. Each of these is presided over by a dean. The quality of the university's provision is maintained, as at other UK universities, by an external examiner system (i.e., professors from other universities oversee and report on exams and marking), by an academic advisory council (comprising a range of subject-specialist academics from other universities), and by membership of the

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(QAA). The university was created as a

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, and still describes itself as such, although in an interview with ''

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'' in 2003, then-vice-chancellor Terence Kealey remarked that it had "become a vocational school for law and business for non-British students, because that's where the market has taken us". Consequently, major humanities subjects such as history and politics are no longer offered as stand-alone degrees, instead being combined with economics as a degree in international studies. Economics, however, is available as a stand-alone degree as is

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, as a single honours subject, and in combinations with English Language, or Journalism, and related areas. Some degree programmes at Buckingham, Law for example, place greater emphasis on exams as an assessment method rather than coursework, but in general its degree programmes balance assessment between exams and coursework.

School of Medicine

The Medical School offers a 4.5 year

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medical degree, accredited by the

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. Other medical courses are offered in the School of Postgraduate Medicine and Allied Health. The school opened in 2015 as the first private medical school in the UK (since the establishment of the UGC in 1919), in partnership with the Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust.

"Alternative" medicine

The university ran a diploma course in "integrated medicine" that was later withdrawn under pressure from

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, a campaigner against

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and alternative medicine. The Dean of the School,

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, was a Foundation Fellow of

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's now-defunct alternative medicine lobby group,

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, and is Chair of the ''Faculty of Integrated Medicine'', which is unaffiliated with any university but also includes Rosy Daniel and Mark Atkinson, who co-ordinated Buckingham's "integrated medicine" course. Daniel has been criticised by David Colquhoun for breaches of the

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, regarding claims she made for Carctol, a herbal dietary supplement with no utility in treating cancer. Andrew Miles is on the scientific council of the '' College of Medicine'' an alternative medicine lobby group linked to the then Prince of Wales. Sikora is also a "professional member" of this organisation. The degree was stripped of validation by the University of Buckingham prior to the first graduation.

School of Postgraduate Medicine and Allied Health

Postgraduate medical courses and non-clinical allied health courses are offered in a separate school from the clinical medical degree. The School of Postgradaute Medicine and Allied Health offers postgraduate

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and

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programmes aimed at overseas-qualified doctors preparing for the

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in order to practice in the UK.

School of Education

The Department of Education has two aspects, research and vocational: it conducts research into education and school provision, and also maintains various PGCE courses for teacher training. The Department of Education has been home to some of the most prominent educationalists in Britain, including the late

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(former head of

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) and

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(director of the

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). Its

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– which deals with both the state and the

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– is accredited with Qualified Teacher Status which means that it also qualifies graduates to teach in the state sector.

School of Business

The University of Buckingham has a business school which offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications for students. The dean of the school is Debarpita Bardhan-Correia. A range of undergraduate and postgraduate business, entrepreneurship, accounting and finance degrees are offered by the Business School. There are a number of lecturers including many BLEU (Buckingham Lean Enterprise Unit) certified ones, which are individuals who have completed a MSc with the university since 1999. There are also a number of lecturers who are CIM certified.

Vinson Centre for Economics and Entrepreneurship

On 28 November 2018 the University of Buckingham opened the Vinson Building, a multi-purposed facility for use by Buckingham's students and the local community. The university's Business Enterprise undergraduates and businesses that are members of Buckinghamshire Business First use the Buckingham Enterprise Hub, which is located in the Vinson Building.

Degrees

The university offers traditional

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over a shorter than usual time-frame. Students at Buckingham study for eight terms over two years, rather than nine terms over three, which (with extra teaching) fits a three-year degree into two years. (The MBChB course lasts 4.5 years.)MB ChB Course
University of Buckingham. Retrieved May 2016 Because Buckingham's degrees take two years to complete, students view its degrees as cost-effective compared to other UK university courses, once the income from an extra year's employment is taken into account. In some subject areas, notably Humanities, the university is now offering its degrees over different time-scales, i.e., the 2-year 'intensive' model, working the extra summer term per year, and the traditional 3-year model with the usual summer break each year.

External degrees and validation

The university awards undergraduate and graduate (Masters/MBA) degrees to students who have studied at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. The university validated courses in medicine at Medipathways College, a small private college based in London. Medipathways operates dentistry and medicine courses. In late 2014 Medipathways was found by the Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency 'to be at serious risks of failure'; the university disagreed with the assessment. The company was wound up in September 2019.

Research

The Humanities Research Institute includes academics working in a range of disciplines, particularly military history, security studies, political history, the history of art, 19th-century literature and social history. Alan Smithers runs the Centre for Education and Employment Research (CEER), from within the School of Humanities. From the English department, John Drew runs Dickens Journals Online, the project which has put the whole of Dickens's journalistic output on free-access on the web.

Reputation and rankings

The university was awarded the Times/Sunday Times University of the Year for Teaching Quality 2015–16 in 2015, at which time it ranked 38th in the Times/Sunday Times league table. The university is not listed in the Guardian University Guide. The Complete University Guide has seen a steady decline in Buckingham's ranking, from 20th in 2011 to 107th in the 2020 table. The University of Buckingham had fallen again to 123rd out of 130 universities in the University League Tables 2022. It was ranked 17th for graduate employability in 2015. It was ranked joint second for student satisfaction in the 2018 National Student Survey, however a fall in satisfaction in the 2019 National Student Survey saw it fall out of the top ten.

Departments

The league tables of individual subjects in ''The Guardian University Guide 2020'', produced by ''

'' newspaper, ranked Buckingham 10th (out of 101) for Accounting and Finance, 18th (out of 119) for Business Management and Marketing, 6th (out of 71) for Economics, 12th (out of 105) for English and Creative Writing, 28th (out of 101) for Law, and 51st (out of 116) for Psychology. It is noted as teaching Computer Science and Information Systems, History, History of Art, Medicine, and Politics, but not ranked in the subjects. The subject league tables in the ''Complete University Guide 2020'' ranked Buckingham 79th for Accounting and Finance, 76th for Business & Management, 82nd for Computer Science, 52nd for Economics, 73rd for English, 49th for Law, 73rd for Politics, and 92nd for Psychology. in 2022 Economics had fallen to 69th.

Quality assurance

Buckingham has been reviewed voluntarily by the

(QAA) from 2001. The QAA indicated it had "limited confidence" in the university's management of academic standards in 2008, as the external academic advisory council had "come to see itself as part of the Buckingham academic community" and "serious concerns about academic standards adbeen flagged by external examiners". The university was subsequently judged to "meet UK expectations" in its 2012 review. In 2015 the QAA found that Buckingham had failed to follow the university's regulations on academic misconduct with respect to possible plagiarism by students. An "alternative providers" (i.e. private universities) review by the QAA in 2017 found again that Buckingham met UK expectations in all areas. In June 2017 the university was judged by the

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panel to be "of the highest quality found in the UK" and given a gold award. In December 2022, England’s higher education regulator OfS (

) fined the university for publishing its 2019 audited accounts two years late, citing a "“significant regulatory risk”. The auditors of the accounts noted "“the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt about the group’s and the university’s ability to continue as a going concern”. The 2020 and 2021 accounts had to that date not been published.

University of Buckingham Press

The University of Buckingham Press publishes in the areas of law, education, and business through its journal articles, books, reports and other material. In 2006 the press relaunched The Denning Law Journal and it is now available in print and its whole archive is online. It also publishes three other journals: ''The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics'', ''The Journal of Prediction Markets'', and'' The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics''. It has a co-publishing arrangement with

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for its Foundations series.

Notable alumni

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, graduated in 1987 with a degree in economics File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Michael Ellis MP crop 2.jpg, alt=, Former MP Michael Ellis graduated with an Upper Second Class degree in Law in 1993 File:Official portrait of Guy Opperman crop 2.jpg, alt=,

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, former MP for Hexham, has an Honours Degree in Law from the University of Buckingham File:Glenys Hanna-Martin.png, alt=, Glenys Margaret Elaine Hanna-Martin, Minister of Education of the Bahamas from 2021, obtained an LLB in 1985 British alumni include Bader Ben Hirsi, playwright and director; The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE, former MP for

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and former

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; Mark Lancaster, Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton, former Armed Forces minister; Graham Roos, appointed in 2011 as the university's first Creative Artist in Residence; James Henderson (former CEO of

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); Michael Ellis, former MP for Northampton, former

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and former

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. International alumni include

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, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia from April 2009 to May 2018. Mohammadin Ketapi, a government minister in Malaysia;

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, MP in the

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, former Deputy Prime Minister, and leader of one of

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's main parties, the

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;

, Current

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, since 7 January 2016, and former deputy Governor of The

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; Lawyer Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the Member of the Parliament of

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;

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, former Governor of

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, Nigeria; racing driver

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, winner of the Le Mans 24-Hour Race in

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;

, current head of the Austria-Italian,

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;

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heiress, Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten; and

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(a current Justice at the

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Notable academics

;Past * Norman P. Barry (1944–2008), political philosopher *

Anne Beloff-Chain Anne Ethel Beloff-Chain, Lady Chain (26 June 1921 – 2 December 1991) was a British biochemist. She worked at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (1948–1964), Imperial College London (1964–1986) and the University of Buckingham (1986–1991). He ...

(1921–1991), biochemist *

Mark Blaug Mark Blaug FBA (; 3 April 1927 – 18 November 2011) was a Dutch-born British economist (naturalised in 1982), who covered a broad range of topics during his long career. He was married to Ruth Towse. Life and work Blaug was born on 3 April ...

(1927–2011), economist * Bruce Charlton, Visiting Professor of Theoretical Medicine (retired) *

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, lecturer in law (retired) *

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, political scientist * John Jewkes (1902–1988), economist *

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, dean of School of Education, 2014–2018 * Terence Kealey (born 1952), former Vice-Chancellor *

Andrew George Lehmann Andrew George Lehmann (17 February 1922 – 9 July 2006) was a literary critic, academic, and seminal author and essayist in French Symbolism, and the intellectual history of European Romanticism. Early life Born in Chile to Mary Grisel Lehmann (n ...

(1922–2006), Professor of European Studies * Ram Mudambi, lecturer in business strategy * Dennis O'Keeffe (1939–2014), Professor of Social Science * Sir Alan Peacock (1922–2014), economist * Robert A. Pearce (born 1951), Professor in Law 1990–2003 *

, Vice-Chancellor, 2015–2020 *

Nicolaus Tideman Thorwald Nicolaus Tideman (, not ; born August 11, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois) is a Georgist economist and professor at Virginia Tech. He received his Bachelor of Arts in economics and mathematics from Reed College in 1965 and his PhD in economics ...

(born 1943), economist *

(1946–2015), professor of education * Sir David Yardley (1929–2014), Rank Foundation Professor of Law 1980–1982 ;Present *

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, art historian * Hugh Belsey, art historian * Lloyd Clark, military historian *

Saul David Julian Saul David (born 1966) is a British academic military historian and broadcaster. He is best known for his work on the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Anglo-Zulu War, as well as for presenting and appearing in documentaries on British t ...

, military historian * John M. L. Drew, Professor of English Literature * Gert-Rudolf Flick, Visiting Professor in art history *

Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore ( ; born 27 June 1965) is a British historian, television presenter and author of history books and novels, including '' Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar'' (2003), '' Jerusalem: The Biography'' (2011), '' The Rom ...

, Visiting Professor in humanities *

Julian Morris Julian David Morris (born 13 January 1983) is an English actor. After appearing in the British television series '' The Knock'' (1996) and ''Fish'' (2000) during his teenage years, he had his first starring role in the American slasher film '' C ...

, Visiting Professor in economics *

, Professor of Philosophy *

Jane Ridley The Honourable Jane Ridley FRSL (born 15 May 1953) is an English historian, biographer, author and broadcaster, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham. Ridley won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2002 for ''The Architect and h ...

, professor of modern history *

, Professor of Medicine * Alan Smithers, Director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research *

(born 1959), Vice-Chancellor

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