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The '''University of Buckingham''' ('''UB''') is a ] ] in ], England, and the oldest of the country's six private universities.{{efn|The other five are the non-profit ],<ref>Adam's, Richard (25 March 2013). . '']''</ref> and ], and three ] institutions, the ],<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9697046/Britains-first-profit-making-university-opened.html|title=Britain's first profit-making university opened|date=22 November 2012|newspaper=]|access-date=13 June 2016|author=Paton, Graeme}}</ref> ]<ref>Sellgren, Katherine (8 August 2013). . ]</ref> and ].<ref>Morgan, John (5 August 2015). . '']''</ref>}} It was founded as the '''University College at Buckingham''' ('''UCB''') in 1973, admitting its first students in 1976. It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983.<ref name=History/>
The '''University of Buckingham''' (UB) is one of three ]<ref group="note">The other two are ] and the ].</ref> ] and one for-profit private university<ref group="note">], http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/mar/25/regents-college-private-university</ref> in the United Kingdom. It is located in ], England, and was originally founded as the '''University College at Buckingham''' (UCB) in 1973.<ref name=History/> It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983.<ref name=History/> The university was closely linked to ], who as ] oversaw the creation of the university college in 1973, and as ] was instrumental in elevating it to a university in 1983 – thus creating the first private university in the UK. When she retired from politics in 1992, Lady Thatcher became the university's second ], a post she held until 1998.<ref> Linked 2015-06-19</ref>


The university's finances for teaching operate entirely on direct student fees and endowments: it does not receive state funding (via ] or otherwise). It has formal charity status as a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the ends of research and education.<ref name="uobft">, '']'', July 25, 2010</ref><ref name="uobcharity">{{cite web|url=http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1141691&SubsidiaryNumber=0|title=Register Home Page|publisher=|accessdate=6 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Tooley">Tooley, James. ed. ''Buckingham at 25: Freeing the Universities from State Control'', Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001. ISBN 0-255-36512-8.</ref> Buckingham was closely linked to ], who as ] oversaw the creation of the university college in 1973, and as ] was instrumental in elevating it to a university in 1983; thus creating the first private university in the UK since the establishment of the ] in 1919. When she retired from politics in 1992, Margaret Thatcher became the university's second ], a post she held until 1998.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107175629/http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/latest-news/university-mourns-death-of-lady-thatcher/ |date=7 January 2016 }} Linked 19 June 2015</ref> Buckingham's finances for teaching operate entirely on student fees and endowments; it does not receive direct state funding (via the ] or ]) although its students can receive student loans from the ]. It has formal charity status as a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the ends of research and education.<ref name="uobft">, '']'', 25 July 2010</ref><ref name="uobcharity">{{cite web|url=http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1141691&SubsidiaryNumber=0|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130423191418/http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1141691&SubsidiaryNumber=0|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 April 2013|title=Register Home Page|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Tooley">Tooley, James. ed. ''Buckingham at 25: Freeing the Universities from State Control'', Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001. {{ISBN|0-255-36512-8}}.</ref>


== History ==
Buckingham offers ], ] and ] through five "schools" (or faculties) of study.


Some of the founding academics migrated from the ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://britishdegree.com/Buckingham.asp |title=Institutes We Represent &#124; Buckingham University |publisher=britishdegree.com |access-date=26 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010185503/http://britishdegree.com/Buckingham.asp |archive-date=10 October 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> disillusioned or wary of aspects of the late-1960s ethos. On 27 May 1967, '']'' published a letter from J. W. Paulley, a physician, who wrote: {{blockquote|"Is it now time to examine the possibility of creating at least one university in this country on the pattern of great private foundations in the USA".<ref name="text">The Times, 27 May 1967, p. 20.</ref>}} Three London conferences followed which explored this idea.<ref name="test">Buckingham at 25, ed. James Tooley (2001), p. 25.</ref>
The university is a member of the Independent Universities Group, created in January 2015 by eight non-profit and for-profit institutions with degree-awarding powers and/or university title. The group's aim is to be “the ] of the alternative sector” and to dissociate its members from more “dodgy” for-profit colleges.<ref> Linked 2015-06-19</ref> The university is one of the twenty-six English universities with a School of Medicine, i.e. it trains doctors at undergraduate and postgraduate level.


The university was incorporated as the "University College of Buckingham" in 1976 and received its ] as a university from the ] in 1983. As of May 2016, it is the only ] in the UK with a royal charter.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Chartered bodies {{!}} Privy Council|url = http://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/royal-charters/chartered-bodies/|publisher = Government of the United Kingdom|access-date = 1 December 2015|archive-date = 15 November 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131115122125/http://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/royal-charters/chartered-bodies/|url-status = dead}}</ref>
==History==
Some of the founding academics migrated from the ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://britishdegree.com/Buckingham.asp |title=Institutes We Represent &#124; Buckingham University |publisher=britishdegree.com |date= |accessdate=2010-07-26}}</ref> disillusioned or wary of aspects of the late-1960s ethos. On 27 May 1967, '']'' published a letter from J. W. Paulley, a physician, who wrote: {{quote|"Is it now time to examine the possibility of creating at least one university in this country on the pattern of great private foundations in the USA."<ref name="text">The Times, 27 May 1967, p. 20.</ref>}} Three London conferences followed which explored this idea.<ref name="test">Buckingham at 25, ed. James Tooley (2001), p. 25.</ref>


Its development was influenced by the ], in particular, ] and ], heads of the institute.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/anthony-seldon-to-be-next-buckingham-v-c/2019726.article|title=Anthony Seldon to be next Buckingham v-c|date=16 April 2015|publisher=Times Higher Education| archive-date= 7 December 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207181915/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/anthony-seldon-to-be-next-buckingham-v-c/2019726.article}}</ref> The university's foundation-stone was laid by ], who became the university's ] between 1993 and 1998.
Subsequently, the university was incorporated as the ''University College of Buckingham'' in 1976 and received its ] from the ] in 1983. As of May 2016, it is the only private university in the UK with a ].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Chartered bodies {{!}} Privy Council|url = http://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/royal-charters/chartered-bodies/|website = privycouncil.independent.gov.uk|accessdate = 2015-12-01}}</ref>


The university's ]s have been: ], former Gladstone Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford; ], founder of the economics department at the ] and Fellow of the ]; Michael Barrett; ], now Lord Luce, former Minister for the Arts; Robert Taylor; ]; ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of University of Buckingham |url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/about/history/ |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=University of Buckingham }}</ref>
Its development was influenced by the ] ], which had ties to the scandal-driven European School of Economics in particular,<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3606913/Kris-Jenner-new-face-105-000-year-business-school-advertised-illegally-granted-degrees-without-permission-operating-different-name.html</ref> ] and ], heads of the Institute. In keeping with its adherence to a libertarian philosophy, the university's foundation-stone was laid by ], who was also to be the university's ] (nominal and ceremonial head) between 1993 and 1998.


From 2004, students at Buckingham have been eligible for ], which led to an increase in UK students at the university.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/reports/university-of-buckingham-ireni-12.pdf?sfvrsn=d351f581_4 | title=Institutional Review – University of Buckingham | publisher=Quality Assurance Agency|access-date=15 June 2019| page=4}}</ref>
The university's first three ]s were ] (1913–1999), former ] at the University of Oxford; ], the economist, founder of the Economics department at the ], and Fellow of the ]; and ], now Lord Luce, the former Minister for the Arts.


==Campus== ==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: the Reception and central administration; the Anthony de Rothchild building (which contains Business and Economics); the Humanities Library; and also some of the student accommodation, looking northwards across the river. Prebend House, a recently restored Georgian house, contains parts of the department of Politics and also Economics. 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. 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: ]; 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Hunter-Street-Campus-Map2017.pdf|title=Hunter Street Campus|publisher=University of Buckingham|access-date=2 December 2017}}</ref>


Overlooking this site, on the hill above, is the extensive Chandos Building. This complex contains the main teaching areas for English Literature, English Language, Journalism, Modern Foreign Languages, and the Foundation programmes, and also some of the teaching rooms and one of the lecture theatres for Medicine. It also houses the Ian-Fairburn Lecture Theatre, the largest lecture theatre on the river-side site. Adjacent to the Chandos Building, is the Department of Education. This has both a research arm, and also a teacher training (PGCE) faculty. 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 School of Law, 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. Teaching on some master's degrees takes place in London, in ], at the home of one its partner institutions: the ], and some Life Science programmes are also run in Central London, in conjunction with Medipathways College (see ]). 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. {{citation needed|date=August 2020}}


==Organisation and governance== ==Organisation and governance==

===Chancellor=== ===Chancellor===
Since 2014, the Chancellor of the University is The Hon. Tessa, Lady Keswick. The immediate past- Chancellor is Sir ], Chairman of ] PLC, and Share PLC (in Aylesbury), and the director of other companies including Oxford Playhouse Trust. He was Chairman of ] PLC from 1995 to 2000 and last year retired from the boards of ] and ]. Former Chancellors of the university have been ] who retired in 1999, and ].


On 24 February 2020, ] was installed as ] of the university.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dame Mary Archer appointed new Chancellor of the University of Buckingham |url=https://www.buckinghamtoday.co.uk/news/people/dame-mary-archer-appointed-new-chancellor-university-buckingham-1373931 |website=Buckingham & Winslow Advertiser |access-date=7 April 2020 |date=23 January 2020}}</ref>
] was appointed to succeed Sir Martin as Chancellor in May 2010. He stepped down in 2013.<ref name=Graduation>{{cite web|url=http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/latest-news/graduation-2013/|title=Graduation 2013}}</ref>


Former chancellors were ] (from 1973 to 1993), ] (from 1993 to 1998), ] (from 1999 to 2010), ] (from 2010 to 2013),<ref name=Graduation>{{cite web|url=http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/latest-news/graduation-2013/|title=Graduation 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107175629/http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/latest-news/graduation-2013/|archive-date=7 January 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and ] (from 2014 to 2020).<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of University of Buckingham |url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/about/history/ |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=University of Buckingham |language=en}}</ref>
===Vice-Chancellor===
Sir Anthony Seldon was appointed as vice-chancellor from 1 September 2015 from Wellington College where he was 13th Master. The outgoing Vice-Chancellor was ], formerly of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at ], who had held the post since April 2001. Kealey is known for his research that challenges the idea that education and science are public goods needing public subsidies. He wrote an academic book on the subject in 1996, "The Economic Laws of Scientific Research", which he repackaged and updated for a general audience in 2008 as "Sex, Science and Profits".<ref name=Sex-Science>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0099281937|title=Sex, Science and Profits}}</ref>


===Vice-chancellor===
In February 2010, Kealey proposed the establishment of a new independent university, modelled on American liberal arts colleges, that would concentrate on undergraduate teaching rather than research.<ref name=NewUni1>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7017836.ece|title=Private schools plan to set up university|date=7 February 2010|author=Sian Griffiths|publisher=Sunday Times|accessdate = 2010-03-17 | location=London}}</ref><ref name=NewUni2>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-big-question-should-we-encourage-independent-schools-to-set-up-a-private-university-1894475.html|title=The Big Question: Should we encourage independent schools to set up a private university?|date=10 February 2010|author=Lucy Hodges|publisher=Independent|accessdate = 2010-03-17 | location=London}}</ref> The plan is currently being considered by the ] (HMC), whose 243 members include independent schools such as ], ] and ]. Kealey believes that complaints about impersonal teaching and oversized classes at many traditional universities mean there will be strong demand for higher education with staff-student ratios similar to that provided by independent secondary schools.
Since October 2020, the vice-chancellor is Professor ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/news/new-vice-chancellor-appointed-at-the-university-of-buckingham/ |title=New Vice-Chancellor appointed at the University of Buckingham |date=15 July 2020 |website=News |publisher=University of Buckingham |access-date=17 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Sir Anthony Seldon to leave the University of Buckingham |url= https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/education/sir-anthony-seldon-leave-university-buckingham-2662479 | work =The Bucks Herald | date= 1 May 2020}}</ref>
He stepped down in July 2014.<ref></ref>


==Academic profile== ==Academic profile==


===Teaching=== ===Teaching===
The university's five schools are: Law; Humanities; Arts and Languages; Business; and Science and Medicine. Each of these is presided over by a Dean. 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/about/schools|title=Schools|website=University of Buckingham|access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref> 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 ] (QAA). 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 ] (QAA).


The university was created as a ], and still describes itself as such, although in an interview with '']'' 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".<ref name="woodward20030106">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jan/06/highereducation.education2 |title=Lessons on paying for higher education |last1=Woodward |first1=Will |date=2003-01-06 |work=The Guardian |access-date=2019-12-05 |last2=editor |first2=education |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> 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 ], as a single honours subject, and in combinations with English Language, or Journalism, and related areas.
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 is home to some of the most prominent educationalists in Britain, including ] (former head of ]) and ] (director of the ]). Its ] – which deals with both the state and the ] – is accredited with ] which means that it also qualifies graduates to teach in the state sector.


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.<ref name=TimesOnline>{{cite news|work=The Times|date=14 February 2008|title=A student's guide to... University of Buckingham|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/university_guides/article2764572.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516103217/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/university_guides/article2764572.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 May 2008 | location=London | access-date=27 May 2010}}</ref>
The university was created as a ], and still describes itself as such, although in an interview with '']'' 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".<ref>, '']'', 6 January 2003</ref> Consequently, major humanities subjects such as ] and ] are no longer offered as stand-alone degrees, instead being combined with ] as a degree in international studies. Economics, however, is available as a stand-alone degree as is ], as a single honours subject, and in combinations with English Language, or Journalism, and related areas. The Professor of Economics, and Dean of Humanities, ], is the chair of the ] Academic Advisory Council.


===School of Medicine===
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.<ref name=TimesOnline>{{cite news|publisher=Times Online|date=14 February 2008|title=A student's guide to... University of Buckingham|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/university_guides/article2764572.ece | location=London | accessdate=27 May 2010}}</ref>
The Medical School offers a 4.5 year ] medical degree, accredited by the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/medicine|title=Medicine|website=University of Buckingham|access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref> 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 ].<ref name="Stu BMJ">{{cite journal|journal=Student BMJ |title=First UK private medical school to open in 2015 |department=News in brief: October 2013 |volume=21 |date = Sep 2013 |doi=10.1136/sbmj.f5768 |s2cid=220142455 |id={{ProQuest|1786239299}}}}</ref>


====School of Medicine==== ===="Alternative" medicine====
The university ran a diploma course in "integrated medicine" that was later withdrawn under pressure from ],<ref name=DC>{{cite web|author=David Colquhoun|url=http://www.dcscience.net/?p=2881|title=University of Buckingham does the right thing. The Faculty of Integrated Medicine has been fired.|date=1 April 2010|publisher=DC's Improbable Science}}</ref> a campaigner against ] and alternative medicine. The Dean of the School, ], was a Foundation Fellow of ]'s now-defunct alternative medicine lobby group, ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fih.org.uk/about_us/foundation_fellows.html |title=FIH Foundation Fellows |publisher=Fih.org.uk |access-date=26 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422061837/http://www.fih.org.uk/about_us/foundation_fellows.html |archive-date=22 April 2012 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=DC/> Daniel has been criticised by David Colquhoun for breaches of the ], regarding claims she made for ], a herbal dietary supplement with no utility in treating cancer.<ref name=DC/> Andrew Miles is on the scientific council of the '']''<ref name=DC_COLLEGE>{{cite news|url=http://www.dcscience.net/?p=3632|title=Don't be deceived. The new "College of Medicine" is a fraud and delusion | date=29 October 2010 |author=David Colquhoun}}</ref> an alternative medicine lobby group linked to the then Prince of Wales.<ref name=BMJ_COLLEGE>{{cite news | title=Prince's foundation metamorphoses into new College of Medicine | author=Nigel Hawkes | work=British Medical Journal | year=2010 | volume=341 | pages=6126 | doi=10.1136/bmj.c6126|url=http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6126.full}}</ref> Sikora is also a "professional member" of this organisation.<ref>Sikora's {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522183935/http://www.collegeofmedicine.org.uk/professor-karol-sikora |date=22 May 2013 }} is on the College of Medicine website.</ref> The degree was stripped of validation by the University of Buckingham prior to the first graduation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/its-terminal-for-integrated-medicine-diploma/411217.article|title=It's terminal for integrated medicine diploma|date=15 April 2010|website=Times Higher Education (THE)}}</ref>
The School of Medicine offers postgraduate ] programmes for qualified doctors in a range of specialisations.<ref> {{snd}} University of Buckingham, accessed May 2016</ref> From January 2015 it offers an undergraduate medical qualification (])<ref name=MBChB> {{snd}} University of Buckingham, accessed May 2016</ref> and started accepting its first batch of undergraduates at a cost of £35,000 per year.<ref name = "Stu BMJ"></ref> The university accepts international and EU students. The school is known as the '''University of Buckingham Medical School''' and is in partnership with ] ] Trust and ].<ref name = "Stu BMJ"/>


===School of Postgraduate Medicine and Allied Health===
====Alternative medicine====
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 ] and ] programmes aimed at overseas-qualified doctors preparing for the ]'s ] in order to practice in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/pg-medicine-allied-health/postgraduate-medicine|title=Postgraduate Medicine|website=University of Buckingham|access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref>
Historically, the University had several associations with the ] community. The University ran a Diploma course in ] that was later withdrawn under pressure from ],<ref name=DC>{{cite web|author=David Colquhoun|url=http://www.dcscience.net/?p=2881|title=University of Buckingham does the right thing. The Faculty of Integrated Medicine has been fired.|date=April 1, 2010|publisher=DC's Improbable Science}}</ref> a campaigner against ] and ]. The Dean of the School, ], was a Foundation Fellow of ]'s now-defunct alternative medicine lobby group, the ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fih.org.uk/about_us/foundation_fellows.html |title=FIH Foundation Fellows |publisher=Fih.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-07-26 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20120422061837/http://www.fih.org.uk/about_us/foundation_fellows.html |archivedate=April 22, 2012 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=DC/> Daniel has been criticised by David Colquhoun for breaches of the ], regarding claims she made for ], a herbal dietary supplement with no utility in treating cancer.<ref name=DC/> Andrew Miles is on the scientific council of the '']''<ref name=DC_COLLEGE>{{cite news|url=http://www.dcscience.net/?p=3632|title=Don’t be deceived. The new "College of Medicine" is a fraud and delusion | date=29 October 2010 |author=David Colquhoun}}</ref> an alternative medicine lobby group linked to the Prince of Wales.<ref name=BMJ_COLLEGE>{{cite news | title=Prince’s foundation metamorphoses into new College of Medicine | author=Nigel Hawkes | publisher=British Medical Journal | year=2010 | volume=341 | pages=6126 | doi=10.1136/bmj.c6126|url=http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6126.full}}</ref> Sikora is also a "professional member" of this organisation.<ref>Sikora's is on the ''College of Medicine'' website.</ref>

===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 ] (former head of ]) and ] (director of the ]). Its ] – which deals with both the state and the ] – is accredited with ] which means that it also qualifies graduates to teach in the state sector.

===School of Business===
The University of Buckingham has a business school<ref name="buckingham.ac.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/business/|title=Business School}}</ref> which offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications for students.

The dean of the school is Debarpita Bardhan-Correia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/mrs-debarpita-bardhan-correia/|title=Dr Deba Bardhan-Correia}}</ref> A range of undergraduate and postgraduate business, entrepreneurship, accounting and finance degrees are offered by the Business School.<ref name="buckingham.ac.uk"/>

There are a number of lecturers including many BLEU (Buckingham Lean Enterprise Unit)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/business/bleu/|title=Lean Enterprise}}</ref> certified ones, which are individuals who have completed a MSc with the university since 1999. There are also a number of lecturers who are ] 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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Buckinghamshire Business First |title=Launch of Vinson Centre for Economics and Entrepreneurship |url=https://bbf.uk.com/news/launch-of-vinson-centre-for-economics-and-entrepreneurship |website=bbf.uk.com |language=en |date=4 December 2018}}</ref>


===Degrees=== ===Degrees===
The university offers traditional ] over a shorter 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).<ref name=MBChB /> From September 2009, tuition fees for full-time UK and EU ] students have been £8,040 per year for these two-year ] programmes. For non-EU students, fees are equivalent to £13,500 p.a. Because Buckingham's degrees take two years to complete, the university views its courses as cost-effective compared to ordinary UK university courses, once living expenses and the income from an extra year's employment are taken into account. In some subject areas, notably Humanities, the university is now offering its degrees over different time-scales, i.e. both the 2-year 'intensive' model, working the extra summer term per year, and also the traditional 3-year model with the usual summer break each year. The university offers traditional ] 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.)<ref name=MBChB> {{snd}} University of Buckingham. Retrieved May 2016</ref>
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.{{r|woodward20030106}} 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=== ===External degrees and validation===
The university awards undergraduate and graduate (Masters/MBA) degrees to students who have studied at the ].{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} The university awards undergraduate and graduate (Masters/MBA) degrees to students who have studied at the ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=SSST |title=SSST University |url=https://ssst.edu.ba/ |access-date=2022-09-05 |website=ssst.edu.ba |language=en}}</ref>


The University validates courses in medicine at ], a small private college based in London. Medipathways operates dentistry and medicine courses and in late 2014 was found by the Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency 'to be at serious risks of failure'; the University disagreed with the assessment.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/private-medical-college-decries-poor-diagnosis/2016777.article | title=Private medical college decries poor diagnosis | publisher=Time Higher Education | date=November 6, 2014 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/private-medical-college-decries-poor-diagnosis/2016777.article | title=Private medical college decries poor diagnosis | publisher=Time Higher Education | date=6 November 2014 }}</ref> The company was wound up in September 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MEDIPATHWAYS LIMITED - Filing history (free information from Companies House) |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07270142/filing-history |access-date=2020-08-16 |website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref>


===Research=== ===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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/research/hri|title=Humanities Research Institute|publisher=|accessdate=6 October 2014}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|date=March 2012}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2014/05/amesbury-confimed-uks-oldest-settlement|title=Amesbury Confirmed as the UK's Oldest Settlement|publisher='']''|accessdate=19 August 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/research/hri|title=Humanities Research Institute|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2014/05/amesbury-confimed-uks-oldest-settlement|title=Amesbury Confirmed as the UK's Oldest Settlement|publisher=]|access-date=19 August 2015}}</ref>


] runs the Centre for Education and Employment Research (CEER), from within the School of Humanities.<ref>, '']'', May 11, 2008</ref><ref>, '']'', September 7, 2004</ref> ] runs the Centre for Education and Employment Research (CEER), from within the School of Humanities.<ref>, '']'', 11 May 2008</ref><ref>, '']'', 7 September 2004</ref>


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.<ref>, '']'', 4 August 2011</ref> 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.<ref>, '']'', 4 August 2011</ref>

Anthony Glees is Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies.<ref>, ''Buckingham Advertiser'', 14 August 2014</ref>


==Reputation and rankings== ==Reputation and rankings==
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The university was awarded the Times/Sunday Times University of the Year for Teaching Quality in 2016 and ranked 38 overall out of all 127 UK Universities.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} The Guardian University Guide for 2013 ranked Buckingham in 16th position out of 120 UK higher education institutes.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2012/may/21/university-league-table-2013|title=University guide 2013: University league table|work=]|accessdate=1 May 2013|location=London|date=21 May 2012}}</ref> The Complete University Guide for 2014 ranked Buckingham in 57th place out of 124 UK higher education institutes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings|title=The Complete University Guide|work="]"|accessdate=1 May 2013}}</ref> The Times Good University Guide 2013 ranked Buckingham in its league tables in 41st position out of 120 UK higher education institutes. The Sunday Times University Guide for 2013 ranked Buckingham in its league tables in 61st (2012: 56th) position out of 122 UK higher education institutes. It was ranked 17 for graduate employability in 2015.<ref>https://secure.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/university-graduate-employment-performance-revealed</ref> It is not mentioned on top of the NSS 2015.<ref>https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/top-20-uk-universities-national-student-survey-and-world-university-rankings</ref> It comes 55th in the 'Complete University Guide 2017'.<ref>http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/news/the-university-of-buckingham-is-awarded-times-university-of-the-year-award-for-teaching-quality|title=The University of Buckingham is awarded Times University of the Year Award for Teaching Quality|date=18 September 2015|publisher= University of Buckingham|access-date=15 June 2019}}</ref> The university is not listed in the Guardian University Guide.<ref name="Guardian University Guide">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2019/jun/07/university-league-tables-2020|title= University league tables 2020|work=]|date=7 June 2019 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Complete University Guide">{{cite web|url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/buckingham/performance|title=The University of Buckinghame|work=Complete University Guide|access-date=15 June 2019}}</ref> It was ranked 17th for graduate employability in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-graduate-employment-performance-revealed|title=University graduate employment performance revealed|date=2 July 2015|website=Times Higher Education (THE)}}</ref> It was ranked joint second for student satisfaction in the 2018 National Student Survey,<ref>{{cite news|work=Times Higher Education|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/national-student-survey-2018-overall-satisfaction-results|title=National Student Survey 2018: overall satisfaction results|author=Seeta Bhardwa|date=27 July 2018}}</ref> however a fall in satisfaction in the 2019 National Student Survey saw it fall out of the top ten.<ref>{{cite news|work=Times Higher Education|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/national-student-survey-2019-overall-improvement-masks-falls|title=National Student Survey 2019: overall improvement masks falls|author=Simon Baker|date=3 July 2019}}</ref>


===Departments=== ===Departments===
The most recent league tables of individual university departments in ''The Guardian University Guide 2013'', produced by '']'' newspaper, ranked the Business department as 28th (out of 116) in the country, English as 14th (out of 106), Economics as 17th (out of 70), Psychology 20th (out of 109), and Law as 30th (out of 97). It is not represented in any other field.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/series/university-guide-2013-subjects | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=University guide 2013 subjects | date=22 May 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Guardian University Guide"/>


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.<ref name="Complete University Guide"/> in 2022 Economics had fallen to 69th.
===Quality===
The university's ], unlike those of other universities, provides for three sovereign bodies, the third one (in addition to the usual Council and Senate) being the Academic Advisory Council, which is a group of external academics that audits the academic staff.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}}


===Quality assurance===
When the national Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) was created, the university felt it should join, even though it perceives itself as markedly different from the state-funded universities that the QAA otherwise audits.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}} The university got confidence (the highest band) in its first QAA audit in 2003. The QAA indicated the university has limited confidence since 2007,<ref>https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/qaa-finds-fault-with-buckingham/403950.article</ref> while subsequently 'meeting UK expectations' for institutional matters in a 2012 review.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.qaa.ac.uk/en/ReviewsAndReports/Documents/University%20of%20Buckingham/University-of-Buckingham-IRENI-12.pdf | title=Institutional Review - University of Buckingham | accessdate=18 May 2016}}</ref> It has breached its plagiarism rules in 2014.<ref>http://www.bbc.com/news/education-32034849</ref>
Buckingham has been reviewed voluntarily by the ] (QAA) from 2001.<ref name="THE QAA">{{cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/qaa-finds-fault-with-buckingham/403950.article|title=QAA finds fault with Buckingham|date=16 October 2008|work=Times Higher Education}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/reports/university-of-buckingham-her-ap-17.pdf?sfvrsn=f851f581_4|title=Higher Education Review (alternative providers): University of Buckingham|date= October 2017|page=3|access-date=15 June 2019|publisher=QAA}}</ref> 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 been flagged by external examiners".<ref name="THE QAA"/> The university was subsequently judged to "meet UK expectations" in its 2012 review.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/reports/university-of-buckingham-ireni-12.pdf?sfvrsn=d351f581_4 | title=Institutional Review – University of Buckingham | date= August 2012| publisher=Quality Assurance Agency|access-date=18 May 2016| page=2}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/education-32034849|title=Buckingham University 'breached own plagiarism rules'|author=Judith Burns|date=24 March 2015|work=BBC News}}</ref> An "alternative providers" (i.e. private universities) review by the QAA in 2017 found again that Buckingham met UK expectations in all areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/reports/university-of-buckingham-her-ap-17.pdf?sfvrsn=f851f581_4|title=Higher Education Review (alternative providers): University of Buckingham|date= October 2017|page=2|access-date=15 June 2019|publisher=QAA}}</ref>

In June 2017 the university was judged by the ] panel to be "of the highest quality found in the UK" and given a gold award.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/teaching/tef-outcomes/#/provider/10007787|title=TEF outcomes: The University of Buckingham|access-date=15 June 2019|publisher=]}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/dec/22/university-of-buckingham-fined-for-filing-accounts-two-years-late |title=University of Buckingham fined for filing accounts two years late|access-date=24 December 2022|work=The Guardian|date=22 December 2022 |last1=Adams |first1=Richard }}</ref>


==University of Buckingham Press== ==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<ref name="denninglawjournal.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.denninglawjournal.com |title=Home |publisher=Denninglawjournal.com |date= |accessdate=2010-07-26}}</ref> and it is now available in print and its whole archive is online.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ubpl/dlj |title=IngentaConnect Publication: Denning Law Journal |publisher=Ingentaconnect.com |date= |accessdate=2010-07-26}}</ref> 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<ref name="denninglawjournal.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.denninglawjournal.com |title=Home |publisher=Denninglawjournal.com |access-date=26 July 2010}}</ref> and it is now available in print and its whole archive is online.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ubpl/dlj |title=IngentaConnect Publication: Denning Law Journal |publisher=Ingentaconnect.com |access-date=26 July 2010}}</ref>


It also publishes three other journals: The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics,<ref>The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics, http://www.ubpl.co.uk/index_files/journals.htm</ref> The Journal of Prediction Markets,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.predictionmarketjournal.com |title=Home |publisher=Predictionmarketjournal.com |date= |accessdate=2010-07-26}}</ref> and The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jgbe.com |title=Home |publisher=Jgbe.com |date= |accessdate=2010-07-26}}</ref> It has a co-publishing arrangement with The Policy Exchange<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.policyexchange.org.uk |title=Policy Exchange |publisher=Policy Exchange |date= |accessdate=2010-07-26}}</ref> for its Foundations series. It also publishes three other journals: ''The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ubpl.co.uk/index_files/journals.htm|title=The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics}}</ref> ''The Journal of Prediction Markets'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.predictionmarketjournal.com |title=Home |publisher=Predictionmarketjournal.com |access-date=26 July 2010}}</ref> and'' The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jgbe.com |title=Home |publisher=Jgbe.com |access-date=26 July 2010}}</ref> It has a co-publishing arrangement with ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.policyexchange.org.uk |title=Policy Exchange |publisher=Policy Exchange |access-date=26 July 2010}}</ref> for its Foundations series.


==Notable people== ==Notable alumni==
{{See also|Category:Alumni of the University of Buckingham|Category:Academics of the University of Buckingham}} {{See also|Category:Alumni of the University of Buckingham}}<gallery>
File:Official portrait of Mark Lancaster crop 2.jpg|alt=|] ], ], ], ], graduated with a ] in Business Studies
File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Brandon Lewis MP crop 3.jpg|alt=|Former MP The Rt Hon ] CBE graduated with a BSc Economics and <abbr>LLB</abbr> Hons (Law) from the University of Buckingham.
File:2019 Mariano Hugo zu Windisch-Graetz.jpg|alt=|] graduated in 1975 with a degree in philosophy, economics and political science
File:2017-09-12 IAA 2017 Susanne Klatten bei BMW by Olaf Kosinsky-10.jpg|alt=|] graduated with a BSc Business Studies
File:Marc Gene 2007 Montjuic.jpg|alt=|] graduated with an economics degree and a master's degree at Buckingham
File:Mahamudu Bawumia (portrait).jpg|alt=|7th ], ], graduated in 1987 with a degree in economics
File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Michael Ellis MP crop 2.jpg|alt=|Former MP ] graduated with an Upper Second Class degree in Law in 1993
File:Official portrait of Guy Opperman crop 2.jpg|alt=|], former MP for Hexham, has an Honours Degree in Law from the University of Buckingham<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Guy |url=https://www.guyopperman.co.uk/about-guy |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Guy Opperman |language=en}}</ref>
File:Glenys Hanna-Martin.png|alt=|] current Minister of Education of the Bahamas, as of 2021, obtained an LLB in 1985.
</gallery>{{more citations needed|section|date=July 2019}}


British alumni include ], playwright and director;<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=British-Yemeni Society: Bader Ben Hirsi: a Passage to Yemen |url=http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/hirsi00.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026193521/http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/hirsi00.htm |archive-date=2006-10-26 |access-date=2022-07-06 }}</ref> ], former MP for ] and former ];<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE MP |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/brandon-lewis |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=GOV.UK }}</ref> ], former Armed Forces minister;<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rt Hon Mark Lancaster TD |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/mark-lancaster |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref> ], appointed in 2011 as the university's first Creative Artist in Residence;{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} ] (former CEO of ]);{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} ], former MP for Northampton, former ] and former ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Ellis MP |url=https://www.northamptonconservatives.com/people/michael-ellis-mp |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=Northampton |language=en}}</ref>
Alumni include ], playwright and director; ], MP for ]; ], MP for ]; ], Global President and CEO of ]; and ], appointed in 2011 as the University's first Creative Artist in Residence.


International alumni include ], Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia from April 2009 to May 2018.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} ], a government minister in Malaysia;{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} ], MP in the ], former Deputy Prime Minister, and leader of one of ]'s main parties, the ];{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} ], Current ], since 7 January 2016, and former ] of The ];{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} Lawyer ], the Member of the Parliament of ];{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} ], ] of ], Nigeria;{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} racing driver ], winner of the ] in ];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alumni Stories |url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/alumni-giving/stay-connected/alumni-stories/ |access-date=2022-07-05 |website=University of Buckingham |language=en}}</ref> ], current head of the Austria-Italian, ];{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}<!--DO NOT USE https://www.smomembassytoslovenia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Windisch-Graetz-wikipedia.pdf, it is a copy of a poor version of a Misplaced Pages article --> ] heiress, ];<ref>{{Cite web |last=Klatten |first=Susanne |title=Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten |url=https://www.sglcarbon.com/pdf/SGL-CV-Susanne-Klatten-DE.pdf |website=SGL Carbon SE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Buckingham alumna donates £1.8m to create major University innovation and enterprise initiatives |url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/news/buckingham-alumna-donates-1-8m-to-create-major-university-innovation-and-enterprise-initiatives/ |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=University of Buckingham |language=en}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=content written by the subject|date=July 2022}} and ] (a current Justice at the ]).<ref>{{Cite web |title= Elron, Yosef |url=https://versa.cardozo.yu.edu/justices/elron-yosef |access-date=4 July 2022 |website=VERSA}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=content written by the subject|date=July 2022}}
International alumni include ], MP in the ], former Deputy Prime Minister, and the leader of one of ]'s main parties, the ]; ], ] of ], ], racing driver ], winner of the ] in ]; and ], Deputy Chairman of ], and former Inspector-General of the ].


==Notable academics==
==References==
{{See also|Category:Academics of the University of Buckingham}}
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;Past
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*] (1944–2008), political philosopher<ref>, ], 12 November 2008 {{subscription required}}</ref>
*] (1921–1991), biochemist<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=30913|title=Chain, Sir Ernst Boris (1906–1979)|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/50825|first=E. P.|last=Abraham}}</ref>
*] (1927–2011), economist
*], Visiting Professor of Theoretical Medicine (retired)
*], lecturer in law (retired)
*], political scientist
*] (1902–1988), economist
*], dean of School of Education, 2014–2018
*] (born 1952), former Vice-Chancellor
*] (1922–2006), Professor of European Studies
*], lecturer in business strategy
*] (1939–2014), Professor of Social Science
*] (1922–2014), economist
*] (born 1951), Professor in Law 1990–2003
*], Vice-Chancellor, 2015–2020
*] (born 1943), economist
*] (1946–2015), professor of education
*] (1929–2014), Rank Foundation Professor of Law 1980–1982
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*], art historian
*], art historian
*], military historian
*], military historian
*], Professor of English Literature
*], Visiting Professor in art history
*], Visiting Professor in humanities
*], Visiting Professor in economics
*], Professor of Philosophy
*], professor of modern history
*], Professor of Medicine
*], Director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research
*] (born 1959), Vice-Chancellor
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==Notes== ==Notes==
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Private university in Buckinghamshire, UK Not to be confused with Buckinghamshire New University.

University of Buckingham
MottoLatin: Alis Volans Propriis
Motto in EnglishFlying on Our Own Wings
TypePrivate
Established1973; as university college
1983; as university
ChancellorDame Mary Archer
Vice-ChancellorJames Tooley (suspended)
Administrative staff97 academic, 103 support
Students3,760 (2022/23)
Undergraduates1,770 (2022/23)
Postgraduates1,990 (2022/23)
LocationBuckingham, England
51°59′45″N 0°59′31″W / 51.99583°N 0.99194°W / 51.99583; -0.99194
ColoursBlue and red
Websitebuckingham.ac.uk
The Church of St Rumbold in Buckingham now forms part of the University of Buckingham.

The University of Buckingham (UB) is a non-profit private university in Buckingham, England, and the oldest of the country's six private universities. It was founded as the University College at Buckingham (UCB) in 1973, admitting its first students in 1976. It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983.

Buckingham was closely linked to Margaret Thatcher, who as Education Secretary oversaw the creation of the university college in 1973, and as Prime Minister was instrumental in elevating it to a university in 1983; thus creating the first private university in the UK since the establishment of the University Grants Committee in 1919. When she retired from politics in 1992, Margaret Thatcher became the university's second chancellor, 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 Office for Students or Research England) although its students can receive student loans from the Student Loans Company. It has formal charity status as a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the ends of research and education.

History

Some of the founding academics migrated from the University of Oxford, disillusioned or wary of aspects of the late-1960s ethos. On 27 May 1967, The Times published a letter from J. W. Paulley, a physician, who wrote:

"Is it now time to examine the possibility of creating at least one university in this country on the pattern of great private foundations in the USA".

Three London conferences followed which explored this idea.

The university was incorporated as the "University College of Buckingham" in 1976 and received its royal charter as a university from the Queen in 1983. As of May 2016, it is the only private university in the UK with a royal charter.

Its development was influenced by the Institute of Economic Affairs, in particular, Harry Ferns and Ralph Harris, heads of the institute. The university's foundation-stone was laid by Margaret Thatcher, who became the university's chancellor between 1993 and 1998.

The university's vice-chancellors have been: Lord Beloff, former Gladstone Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford; Alan Peacock, founder of the economics department at the University of York and Fellow of the British Academy; Michael Barrett; Richard Luce, now Lord Luce, former Minister for the Arts; Robert Taylor; Terence Kealey; Anthony Seldon and James Tooley.

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

Campus

A weir and mill that fall within Buckingham University's Hunter Street campus.
Tanlaw Mill, formerly the old Town Mill (OTM)

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 chancellor of the university.

Former chancellors were Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (from 1973 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 James Tooley.

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 Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).

The university was created as a liberal arts college, and still describes itself as such, although in an interview with The Guardian 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 English literature, 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 MB ChB medical degree, accredited by the General Medical Council. 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 David Colquhoun, a campaigner against pseudoscience and alternative medicine. The Dean of the School, Karol Sikora, was a Foundation Fellow of Prince Charles's now-defunct alternative medicine lobby group, The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, 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 Cancer Act 1939, 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 Master of Surgery and Master of Medicine programmes aimed at overseas-qualified doctors preparing for the General Medical Council's Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board 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 Chris Woodhead (former head of Ofsted) and Anthony O'Hear (director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy). Its postgraduate certificate in education – which deals with both the state and the independent sector – 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 degrees 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.)

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

Rankings
National rankings
Complete (2025)126
Times / Sunday Times (2025)114

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 The Guardian 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 Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (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 been 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 Teaching Excellence Framework 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 (Office for Students) 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 Policy Exchange for its Foundations series.

Notable alumni

See also: Category:Alumni of the University of Buckingham
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British alumni include Bader Ben Hirsi, playwright and director; The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE, former MP for Great Yarmouth and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; 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 Bell Pottinger); Michael Ellis, former MP for Northampton, former Minister for the Cabinet Office and former Paymaster General.

International alumni include Anifah Aman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia from April 2009 to May 2018. Mohammadin Ketapi, a government minister in Malaysia; Pravind Jugnauth, MP in the National Assembly of Mauritius, former Deputy Prime Minister, and leader of one of Mauritius's main parties, the Militant Socialist Movement; Mahamudu Bawumia, Current Vice-President of Ghana, since 7 January 2016, and former deputy Governor of The Bank of Ghana; Lawyer Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the Member of the Parliament of Effutu (Ghana parliament constituency); Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former Governor of Osun State, Nigeria; racing driver Marc Gené, winner of the Le Mans 24-Hour Race in 2009; Mariano Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Graetz, current head of the Austria-Italian, House of Windisch-Graetz; BMW heiress, Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten; and Yosef Elron (a current Justice at the Supreme Court of Israel).

Notable academics

See also: Category:Academics of the University of Buckingham
Past
Present

Notes

  1. The other five are the non-profit Regent's University London, and Richmond American University London, and three for-profit institutions, the University of Law, BPP University and Arden University.

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