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  Birkbeck, University of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Birkbeck, University of London, sometimes referred to by its former name Birkbeck College or by the abbreviation BBK, is a College of the University of London.
Birkbeck is often not included in British Newspaper University league tables, since these are usually based on the statistics for full-time undergraduates, but Birkbeck was ranked 13th in The Guardian's 2001 Research Assessment Exercise league table and 26th by the Times Higher Education Supplement's equvialent 2001 RAE league table.
Birkbeck has also appeared in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Top 500 World Universities ranking in 2004, placed in the 404-502nd rank (the tables rank Universities in equal blocks of about 100 after the first 100 individually ranked Universities).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birkbeck_College   (820 words)

  
 AIM25: Birkbeck College: Birkbeck College Archives
Administrative/Biographical history: Birkbeck College was founded as the London Mechanics Institution in 1823 with George Birkbeck (1776-1841) as the first President and the aim of instructing members "in the principles of the Arts they practise, and in the various branches of science and useful Knowledge".
In 1894 Birkbeck Institute was linked with the City of London College and the Northampton Institute (now City University) to form the City Polytechnic under a Charity Commission scheme approved in 1891 to facilitate funding for these institutions by the City Parochial Foundation.
The City Polytechnic was dissolved in 1906 and Birkbeck College made its first application to become part of the University of London in 1907; it had had recognised teachers, and therefore "internal" students, since 1900.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/33/4784.htm   (920 words)

  
 BIRKBECK COLLEGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Birkbeck College is a leading research institution located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
Birkbeck College is a School of the University of London in the Faculties of Arts, Science and Economics.
The departments at Birkbeck College are grouped into Resource Centres (this arrangement is currently under review, with a view to adopting a faculty structure) and the Department of Psychology is in the Centre for Physical and Life Sciences, together with the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Crystallography, and Geology.
www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk /announce/old/jobvacancies.html   (1633 words)

  
 Birkbeck College
Birkbeck College recruits an exclusively part time predominantly evening mode undergraduate cohort and this provides a unique location for the evaluation of Iolis as a teaching and learning tool for staff and students.
One of the aims of the project in the law school at Birkbeck was to raise awareness and use of Iolis among students.
The decision was made in June 2000 in discussion with the project director at Birkbeck and the implementation officer at Warwick that monies coming with the project are to be primarily utilised to bring in a researcher for one day a week in term time to further the project in the session 2000-2001.
www.law.warwick.ac.uk /lcc/iolis/birkbeck.htm   (4496 words)

  
 Mirapoint
Also, Birkbeck expects the number of active email users to increase three-fold in the future due to an internal policy change that encourages students to use their Birkbeck, rather than personal email accounts.
Birkbeck also wanted a system where external technical support could assist local staff, which is not easily achieved with the customised open source approach.
Birkbeck is equally well known as a world-class research institution, with a strong emphasis on full-time and part-time postgraduate courses and research opportunities.
www.mirapoint.com /news/10112005b_news   (780 words)

  
 Birkbeck College, University of London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Founded in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institution, Birkbeck College was incorporated into the University of London by Royal Charter in 1926.
Unlike other Colleges of the University of London, Birkbeck not only provides a range of full-time postgraduate taught courses and research programmes for UK and international students, but has a special mission in meeting the needs of over 5000 mature part-time evening students reading for first or higher degrees.
The main buildings of the College are situated in the Bloomsbury area of central London, a short distance away from the British Museum.
img.chem.ucl.ac.uk /sgp/MISC/BIRKBECK.HTM   (554 words)

  
 About Birkbeck College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Birkbeck was the first institution to teach the physical sciences, and English was taught here long before it became part of the curriculum at Oxford and Cambridge.
The life of the College reflects the vibrancy of the culture of the city, and students are drawn from all professions and backgrounds.
With a faculty of 300 the College offers degrees in applied linguistics, biological and chemical sciences, computer science, crystallography, earth sciences, economics, English, French, geography, German, history, history of art film and visual media, law, management, organizational psychology, philosophy, politics & sociology, psychology, Spanish and mathematics and statistics.
www.birkbeck.ac.uk /lsp/aboutbk.htm   (569 words)

  
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Birkbeck School and Community Arts College has established itself as one of the most sought after schools in the area and one of the most rapidly growing secondary schools in Lincolnshire over the past few years.
Students are setting their sights higher with a massive upsurge in those choosing to move on to A level and the equivalent vocational qualifications.
Parents of students already at Birkbeck and those who might wish their children to come to the school are welcome to tour the site at any time as long as a member of staff is available.
www.birkbeck.lincs.sch.uk   (300 words)

  
 Birkbeck College - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Birkbeck College - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Birkbeck College, college of the University of London, England.
Birkbeck College was founded in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institution and was...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Birkbeck_College.html   (55 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | Birkbeck College, London
In 1823, George Birkbeck founded the institution that later became Birkbeck College with a specific aim: to extend educational opportunities to Londoners who might otherwise miss out.
Today, Birkbeck is a world-class institution with a strong reputation for the quality of its research.
Birkbeck specialises in postgraduate and part-time higher education and does not offer full-time undergraduate degrees.
education.guardian.co.uk /higher/universityguide/profile/story/0,9988,1340892,00.html   (181 words)

  
 SJU: CIP - Study Abroad: SJU in London
The Semester in London Program at Birkbeck College offers undergraduates a unique opportunity to spend a full semester of study at a distinguished college of the University of London, located in the heart of the city.
One of a handful of the University of London institutions situated in the precinct, Birkbeck shares its prime location with University College London, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Institute of Archaeology, and Senate House, where the central administration of the University of London is housed.
Classes at Birkbeck have a special emphasis on the role of London and England in the subject matter, and most take advantage of London as a living laboratory.
www.sju.edu /cip/studyabroad/london.html   (1531 words)

  
 Lead College - Philosophy - Birkbeck - External Programme - University of London
Birkbeck College is ranked among the leading UK University institutions for its levels of national and international excellence in research in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
Founded in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute and incorporated into the University of London as Birkbeck College by Royal Charter in 1920, today Birkbeck provides a unique range of degree and other courses designed specially to meet the needs of mature students.
Birkbeck is uniquely placed to meet the needs of the External student.
www.londonexternal.ac.uk /prospective_students/undergraduate/birkbeck/philosophy/lead.shtml   (169 words)

  
 Birkbeck College, University of London
Discussions are taking place to initiate an MA course as a collaboration between Birkbeck's School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media and the School of Oriental and African Studies' Anthropology department.
The new collection of films at Birkbeck will extend the range of choice on offer at SOAS and will also duplicate certain key titles in order to allow the greatest number of students to view important films at key moments during courses.
Students on the Birkbeck College / School of Oriental and African Studies MA in World Cinema, and potentially all students in the University of London group.
www.glaadh.ac.uk /initiatives/birkbeck.htm   (376 words)

  
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The irony is that none of them want to work for GM given their track record for industrial relations.
On the event we end up at IT, the College will argue that they have found them alternative employment and it is left to each individual either accept or be made redundant.
Birkbeck College MSF Online Bulletin Board - come here to read and post important messages and to discuss issues of concern to members of the union at the college.
members.lycos.co.uk /bcmsf/index.shtml   (402 words)

  
 Institutional audit - Birkbeck College, University of London
To arrive at its conclusions the audit team spoke to members of staff throughout the College and to current students, and read a wide range of documents relating to the way the College manages the academic aspects of its provision.
The audit team also recommends that the College should consider further action in a number of areas to ensure that the academic quality and standards of the awards it offers are maintained.
The findings of the audit are that, at the time of the audit, the College was alert to their implications and was addressing its responsibilities in this respect.
www.qaa.ac.uk /reviews/reports/institutional/birkbeck05/summary.asp   (798 words)

  
 Advanced Diploma in Geochemistry - Lead college of the programme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
From its inception Birkbeck has earned a reputation for excellence in teaching and research.
Earth Sciences has always been important to Birkbeck; a Geology Museum was established in the original college building in 1824.
Staff expertise is broad and includes active research and consultancy in high- and low-temperature geochemistry, environmental geology, structural geology, geological hazards, sedimentology, mineralogy, petrology, volcanology, planetary geology, palaeontology and geophysics.
www.globaldegree.org /GeoChem_leadcollege.htm   (228 words)

  
 Physics Today March 2003
The rungs of the ladder consist of specific hydrogen-bonded horizontal pairs of nitrogenous bases that are attached to the deoxyribose sugars in the backbone's side rails.
Birkbeck's Sven Furberg, who studied both the nucleoside and nucleotide of one of the bases, cytosine, in 1949, discovered that the base would be perpendicular to the sugar: The result can be extrapolated to hydrated DNA.
Franklin and their co-workers at King's College, London." That oblique acknowledgment misrepresented Franklin's role and, whatever its intention, left most people with the impression that her work mainly served to confirm that of Watson and Crick.
www.aip.org /pt/vol-56/iss-3/p42.html   (3904 words)

  
 George Birkbeck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Birkbeck (1776-1841) was a doctor, academic, philanthropist and early pioneer in adult education.
Born to a Quaker family in Settle, North Yorkshire, Birkbeck went to school in Sedbergh and then completed his training as a doctor in Edinburgh in 1799.
The Mechanics Institute concept was quickly adopted in numerous other cities and towns across the UK and overseas, but his association with the ground-breaking London institution was marked by it being renamed the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution in 1866 (now, as Birkbeck College, part of the University of London).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Birkbeck   (287 words)

  
 The Working Men's College - Birkbeck College, University of London, Courses at WMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Birkbeck's Faculty of Continuing Education, in partnership with the Working Men's College, offers part-time Higher Education courses for general interest or formal study.
Part of the University of London, Birkbeck College is a prestigious and unique institution with a mission to provide part-time teaching to mature learners across London and the South East.
The Faculty has relationships with over 80 organisations, from Colleges of Further or Adult Education to cultural institutions, museums, and other sectors.
www.wmcollege.ac.uk /fac_birk.htm   (210 words)

  
 BIRKBECK COLLEGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Birkbeck College is part of the University of London federation, along with the London School of Economics, Imperial College and University College, London.
Through the College's Faculty of Continuing Education, another 15,000 students are taught at centres throughout the London area.
A college certificate and a MSc in Family Therapy are taught in collaboration with the Institute of Family Therapy and a clinical PhD in Family Therapy has just started.
www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk /announce/old/jobcognitiveneuropsychology.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Rosalind Franklin - New Laboratory Birkbeck College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
She was educated at St.Paul's School, London and at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she graduated in 1941 and gained a research scholarship to work on gas phase chromatography with R.W.Norrish.
Rosalind had been happy in Paris, but in King's College she found it difficult, partly because John Randall was on holiday when she arrived, and he had failed to explain her status to Maurice Wilkins who was already working on DNA.
In March she moved to Birkbeck and wrote up her paper on the old Departmental typewriter dating it 17 March 1953, one day before the date of the 'Watson and Crick' paper.
img.cryst.bbk.ac.uk /bca/CNews/1997/Sep97/Cover.html   (1699 words)

  
 Birkbeck College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jonathan Kettleborough, Managing Director, Corollis delivered an all-day lecture at Birkbeck College part of the University of London, entitled 'e-learning opportunities'.
Corollis feel it is of utmost importance to provide a clear and unbiased view of trends and issues within the e-learning industry and I am keen to ensure we continue to contribute in this manner to the development of the industry.
As is the case with all Birkbeck lectures, Jonathan was kept on his toes all day with diverse and challenging questions from the audience.
www.corollis.com /news_birkbeck.htm   (171 words)

  
 AHRB Copyright Research Network, Birkbeck University of London
Professor Fiona Macmillan at the Birkbeck School of Law has received a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to establish an international, multidisciplinary network of scholars to consider new directions in copyright law.
However, some of the workshops will be hosted at the institutions of the core participants in order to involve a wide international range of other researchers, both inside and outside the academy, in the activities of the network.
All full-time academic staff were entered in the RAE as research active, emphasising the commitment across the School to research excellence and the high level of research carried out by all members of the teaching staff.
www.copyright.bbk.ac.uk   (393 words)

  
 Birkbeck ePrints - About the Birkbeck ePrints Archive
Birkbeck ePrints is an online archival database hosting the full text of published research done at Birkbeck College.
Services like Birkbeck ePrints are being developed by academic institutions worldwide, as mechanisms for making research more widely available.
Birkbeck ePrints is not a publishing mechanism, nor is it a substitute for peer-reviewed journals.
eprints.bbk.ac.uk /information.html   (370 words)

  
 First degrees - Birkbeck, University of London
There is new money from the government for part-time undergraduate students – plus Birkbeck money to top up what the government provides.
At Birkbeck you can study a wide range of foundation and first degrees (BA/BSc).
Studying part-time at Birkbeck is affordable and you are not stuck with a large student loan, even before your first job!’
birkbeckmatters.com /mainfirst.html   (165 words)

  
 Birkbeck College London - Birkbeck Philosophy Society>   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
His interests range widely throughout the philosophy of ethics, as well as the philosophy of religion, of sex and love, and aspects of metaphysics, political philosophy and philosophy of mind.
Professor Edgington is internationally known for her work in applying probabilistic thinking to various philosophical problems, especially the analysis of conditionals and of vagueness.
She went on to a Lectureship at Birkbeck College London, was a British Academy Research Reader in the Humanities in 1992-4, and is currently President of the Mind Association.
www.bbkphilsoc.org.uk /events2.htm   (4463 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
You are joining a College that prides itself on academic excellence in a wide variety of fields.
As a member of the Birkbeck Students Union, you will have access to a variety of facilities including a wide range of clubs and societies, a snack bar and a bar with satellite television and pool table.
The College has a Student Awards Scheme that may be able to provide limited assistance with fees for students with financial difficulties.
www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk /courses/fdit/handbook2005-06.doc   (7406 words)

  
 About Birkbeck College (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Birkbeck London Semester Programme has been running for over ten years, in co-operation with the Institute for Study Abroad in Indianapolis.
It stresses high academic quality and is known for the dedication and enthusiasm of its faculty.
Together, the two elements of Butler ISA help students to develop realistic expectations about their host country and culture and to adjust to the very different student lifestyles and academic structures of their host universities.
www.birkbeck.ac.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /lsp/apply.htm   (258 words)

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