King's College London

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King's College London (unofficial King's or KCL ) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a federal founding constituent college University of London. King's was founded in 1829 by King George IV and Duke of Wellington, when it received its first royal charter (as a university college), and claimed to be the fourth oldest university institution in Britain. In 1836, King became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. At the end of the 20th century, King grew up through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (in 1985), Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St House Thomas's Illness and School of Nursing and Midwifery Florence Nightingale (in 1998).

King's has five campuses: the historic Strand Campus in central London, three other Thames-side campuses (Guy's, St Thomas' and Waterloo) and one at Danish Hill in south London. In 2016/17, King's had total revenues of £ 778.2 million, where Ã, £ 192.6 million came from grants and research contracts. It is the 12th largest university in the UK with total registration. It has the fifth largest donation from every UK university, and the largest in London. His academic activities are organized into nine faculties that are divided into various departments, centers and research divisions.

King's is generally regarded as part of the 'golden triangle' of intensive research universities in the UK with Oxford University, Cambridge University, College College London, Imperial College London and the London School of Economics. It is a member of academic organizations including the Commonwealth University Association, the European University Association, and the Russell Group. King's is home to six centers of the Medical Research Council and is a founding member of the academic health center of King's Health Partners, the Francis Crick Institute and MedCity. It is the largest European center for graduates and post-graduate medical teaching and biomedical research, with a number of students, and including the world's first nursing school, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Florence Nightingale.

Globally, ranked 23rd at QS World University Ranking 2018, ranking 34th on CWTS Leiden Rankings 2017, 36th rank in 2018 THE World University Rankings, and 46th on ARWU 2017. King's is ranked 41st in the world for a reputation in the Times Higher Education annual survey for academics for 2017. Nationwide, 26th place in the 2019 Complete University Guides, 28th at the Times Times/Sunday Times Guide 2018, and 58th at the Guardian 2019 University Guide.

Alumni and King staff include 12 Nobel Prize winners; contributor discovery of DNA structure, Hepatitis C and Higgs boson; pioneer in-vitro fertilization, stem cell/mammalian cloning and modern hospice movements; and the lead researchers are advancing radar, radio, television and cell phones. Alumni also include heads of state, government and intergovernmental organizations; the current nineteen members of the House of Commons and the current seventeen members of the House of Lords; and a recipient of two Oscars, three Grammys and an Emmy.

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History

Foundation

King's College, so named to showcase the protection of King George IV, was founded in 1829 in response to the theological controversy surrounding the establishment of "University of London" (later University of London, London) in 1826. The University of London was founded, with the support of utilitarian, Jewish and non-Christian Anglican, as a secular institution, is meant to educate "the youth of our wealthy middle-aged between the ages of 15 or 16 and 20 or more" to give his nickname, "godless college at Gower Road".

The need for such an institution is the result of the religious and social nature of the universities in Oxford and Cambridge, which then only educates the wealthy Anglican sons. The secular nature of the University of London is not approved by The Establishment, indeed, "the flaming opposition storms around it threaten to destroy every spark of vital energy remaining". Thus, the formation of a competitor represents Tory's response to reaffirming The Establishment's educational values. More broadly, the King's was one of the first of a series of institutions that emerged in the early nineteenth century as a result of the Industrial Revolution and the great social change in Britain after the Napoleonic Wars. Based on the principle, King's has enjoyed the protection of the king, the Archbishop of Canterbury as a visitor and during the nineteenth century counted among his official governors, Lord Rà © gà © nellor, Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Mayor of London.

Duel at Battersea Fields, March 21, 1829

Simultaneous support from Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (who was also Prime Minister of the then British Empire), for the King of Anglican Kings of London and the Roman Catholic Relief Act, leading to almost full civil rights granting to Catholics, was challenged by George Finch-Hatton , The 10th Earl of Winchilsea, early in 1829. Winchilsea and his supporters wanted the King to submit to the Test Acts, such as the university at Oxford, where only members of the English Church could matriculate, and Cambridge, where non-Anglican could matriculate but not pass, but this is not Wellington's intention.

Winchilsea and about 150 other contributors drew their support from King's College London in response to Wellington's support for Catholic emancipation. In a letter to Wellington, he accused the Duke of having thought "dangerous designs for violations of our freedom and the introduction of Popery to every State department". The letter provoked an angry correspondence exchange and Wellington accused Winchilsea of ​​accusing him of "disgraceful and criminal motives" in founding King's College London. When Winchilsea refused to revoke his statement, Wellington - with his own admission, "no thrust to duel" and a virgin virgin - demand satisfaction in a weapons contest: "Now I call your Lord Darlington to give me satisfaction over your behavior that a man has the right to ask for, and which was never rejected by a man. "

The result was a duel at Battersea Fields on 21 March 1829. Winchilsea did not shoot, his plan and the second were almost decided before the duel; Wellington shoots and shoots to the right. Different accounts about whether Wellington missed deliberately. Wellington, well known for his poor goals, claimed that he did, another report more sympathetic to Winchilsea claimed that he intended to kill. Honor was rescued and Winchilsea wrote Wellington apology. "Duel Day" is still celebrated on the first Thursday after March 21st each year, marked by events throughout the King's, including a re-show.

19th century

King's opened in October 1831 with scholar William Otter who was appointed as the first principal and lecturer in divinity. Archbishop Canterbury presided over the opening ceremony, where a sermon was given in the chapel by Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London, with the subject incorporating religious teaching with an intellectual culture. Despite attempts to create an Anglican-only King, early prospectuses were allowed, "nonconformists of all sorts to enter college freely". William Howley: the governors and professors, except linguists, must be members of the Church of England but the students do not, even though the presence in the chapel is mandatory.

King's is divided into senior departments and junior departments, also known as King's College School, which was originally located in the basement of the Strand Campus. The Junior Department started with 85 students and only three teachers, but quickly grew to 500 by 1841, surpassing the facility and leading to move to Wimbledon in 1897 where he remains today, though no longer linked to King's College London. In the teaching of the Senior Department is divided into three courses: the general course consists of divinity, classical languages, mathematics, English literature and history; medical courses; and other subjects, such as law, political economy and modern languages, are not associated with a systematic course of study at the time and depend on its continuation on the occasional student supply. In 1833, a general course was reorganized leading to the granting of Associate of King's College (AKC), the first qualification issued by King's. The course, which concerns ethical and theological questions, is still given today for students and staff who take an optional three-year course alongside their studies.

The river front was completed in April 1835 at a cost of Ã, £ 7,100, the completion of King's College London conditions securing the site from the Crown. Unlike those at school, the number of students in the Senior department remains almost stationary during the first five years of King's existence. During this time medical schools are damaged by inefficiencies and loyalty shared by staff that causes the decline to remain stable. One of the most important appointments was Charles Wheatstone as professor of Experimental Philosophy.

At this time both King's, "London University", as well as medical schools in London hospitals can not grant degrees. In 1835 the government announced that it would form a board of examiners to award a degree, with "University of London" and its second King being an affiliated college. It became the University of London in 1836, the former "University of London" became University College, London (UCL). The first University of London degree was awarded to King's College London students in 1839.

In 1840, King's opened its own hospital on Portugal Street near Lincoln's Inn Fields, an area consisting of a crowded cemetery marked by poverty and disease. The Government of King's College Hospital was later transferred to a hospital company established by King's College Hospital Act 1851. The hospital moved to a new place in Denmark Hill, Camberwell in 1913. The appointment of Joseph Lister in 1877 as professor of clinical surgery greatly benefited the medical school, and the introduction of Lister's antiseptic surgical method gained an international reputation in the hospital.

In 1845 King founded the Military Department to train officers for the British East India and Indian Army, and in 1846 a Department of Theology to train Anglican priests. In 1855, the night classes pioneered by King in London; that the students who were awarded the King in the evening class certificate of lecture attendance to enable them to sit the University of London examinations cited as an example of the worthless of these certificates in a decision by the University of London to terminate the affiliated college system in 1858 and open their examinations for every one.

In 1882, the King's College London Act changed the constitution. The move removed the King's proprietary nature, renamed the corporation of the "Governor and Owner of King's College, London" to "King's College London" and annulled the 1829 charter (though King remained incorporated under the charter). The move also changed King's College London from a nonprofit (technically) to a nonprofit company (no dividends paid for over 50 years) and expanded the King's property to include women's education. The Ladies' Department of King's College London opened at Kensington Square in 1885, which in 1902 became King's College Women's Department.

20th century

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The King's College London Act 1903, removes all remaining religious tests for staff, except in the Theological department. In 1910, King's (with the exception of the Department of Theology) joined the University of London under King's College London (Transfer) Act 1908, losing his legal freedom.

During World War I medical school opened for women for the first time. The end of the war saw the influx of students, who tensed the existing facilities to the point where several classes were held at the Principal's house.

In World War II, King's College London buildings were used by the Auxiliary Fire Service with a number of King's staff, especially those who were known as college employees, serving as firewatchers. Part of the Strand building, rectangle, and apse roof and stained glass windows in the chapel suffered bomb damage at the Blitz. During the post-war reconstruction, the dome beneath the square was replaced by a two-story laboratory, which opened in 1952, for the departments of Physics and Civil and Electrical Engineering.

One of the most famous pieces of scientific research conducted at King's was an important contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953 by Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, along with Raymond Gosling, Alex Stokes, Herbert Wilson and other colleagues in the Randall Division Cells and Biophysics Molecules in the King's.

The King's major reconstruction began in 1966 after the publication of Robbins's Report on Higher Education. A new block facing the Strand was designed by E. D. Jefferiss Mathews opened in 1972. In 1980, King regained his independence legally under the new Charter of the Kingdom. In 1993 King's, along with other London University colleges, gained direct access to government funding (which had already been through the university) and the right to award a University of London degree alone. It contributes to King's and other major colleges deemed to be the de facto university in their own right.

King's College London underwent several mergers with other institutions in the late 20th century. These included reincorporations in the 1983 School of Medicine and Dentistry of King's College, which had become independent of King's College Hospital at the National Health Service foundation in 1948, merged with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology in 1985, and the Institute of Psychiatry in 1997. In 1998 United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals joined King's to establish the GKT Medical Education School at King's College London. Also in 1998 the original training school of Florence Nightingale for nurses joined the Nursing Studies Department of King as the Nightingale Nursing and Nursing School. That same year King acquired the former Public Records Office at Chancery Lane and converted it at a cost of £ 35 million to Maughan Library, which opened in 2002.

2001 to present

In July 2006, King's College London granted the title mastering power in its own right, as opposed to the University of London, by the Advisory Board. This strength remained unmonitored until 2007, when King announced that all students who started the program from September 2007 onwards would be awarded a degree awarded by King's himself, not by the University of London. But the new certificate still refers to the fact that King's is a constituent college of the University of London. All current students with at least one year of remaining studies in August 2007 offer the option of choosing to earn a University of London degree or a King degree. The first King title was awarded in the summer of 2008.

In April 2011, King became founding partner at the UK Center for Medical Research and Innovation, later renamed Francis Crick Institute, with a commitment of £ 40 million for the project. Chemistry Department reopened in 2011 after closing in 2003. In February 2012, Her Royal Highness officially opened Somerset House East Wing.

In September 2014 King's College London opened the Mathematics School of King's College London, a sixth school located in Lambeth that specializes in mathematics. In October 2014, Ed Byrne replaced Rick Trainor as Principal of King's College London, the latter having served for 10 years. In December 2014, King announced his plans to change his name to 'King's London'. It was emphasized that there was no plan to change King's legal name, and that the name 'King's London' was designed to promote the King's and to highlight the fact that King's is a university in its own right. The king announced that the rebranding plan had been canceled in January 2015.

On March 10, 2015, King earned a 50-year lease for the Aldwych Quarter site that incorporates the historic Bush House historic building. It begins the occupation of the Bush House Building in September 2016 and will occupy the adjacent King House and Strand House from 2017 and the Melbourne House from 2025. In October 2016, King announced that it has also taken a separate 50-year contract in North-West Blok from Aldwych Quarter to be merged from 2018.

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Campus

Strand Campus

The Strand Campus is King's founding campus and is located on the Strand in Westminster City, sharing its front along the Thames River. The original campus consisted of the Grade I listed King Building in 1831 designed by Sir Robert Smirke, and the redesigned King's College London Chapel in 1864 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, with subsequent purchases from many nearby Surrey Street (including the Norfolk Buildings and Chesham). ) since the Second World War and 1972 Strand Building. The Macadam Building of 1975 houses the Student Union of Strand Campus and is named after the alumnus King Sir Ivison Macadam, the first President of the National Student Union.

The Strand Campus has King's art and science faculty, including the Arts & amp; Humanities, Law, Social Sciences & amp; Public Policy and Natural & amp; Mathematical Sciences (formerly Science Physics & Engineering).

Since 2010, the campus has grown rapidly to incorporate East Wing from Somerset House and Virginia Woolf Building next to the LSE in Kingsway. On March 10, 2015, King earned a 50-year lease for the Aldwych Quarter site that incorporates the historic Bush House historic building. It begins the occupation of the Bush House Building in September 2016 and will occupy the adjacent King House and Strand House from 2017 and the Melbourne House from 2025. In October 2016, King announced that it has also taken a separate 50-year contract in North-West Block which will be merged starting 2018.

The nearest underground stations are Temple, Charing Cross, and Covent Garden.

Guy Campus

The Guy Campus is located close to the London Bridge and Shard on the South Bank of the Thames and is home to the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and Dental Institute.

The campus is named after Thomas Guy, founder and philanthropist Guy's Hospital founded in 1726 at the London Borough of Southwark. Buildings include; the Henriette Raphael building, built in 1902, the Gordon Pathology Museum, the Hodgkin House, the Shepherd House, and Guy's Chapel. The Guy's Student Center at Guy's is located in Boland House. The Guy campus is located opposite the Old Operating Theater Museum, which is part of St. Thomas Hospital in Southwark.

The closest underground stations are London Bridge and Borough.

Waterloo Campus

Waterloo Campus is located opposite Waterloo Bridge from Strand Campus, near South Bank Center in London Borough of Lambeth and consists of James Clerk Maxwell Building and Franklin-Wilkins Building.

The Cornwall House, now the Franklin-Wilkins Building, was built between 1912 and 1915 initially the Noble Office of the Writing Station (responsible for copyright and National Archives), but was requested to be used as a military hospital in 1915 during World War I. It became King George's Military Hospital, and housed about 1,800 patients in 63 wards.

Now the largest university building in London, this building was purchased by King's in 1980 and underwent extensive refurbishment in 2000. The building is named after Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins for their major contribution to the discovery of DNA structures. Today is home to:

• School of Biomedical Sciences, Diabetes & amp; Nutrition Sciences Division (part of the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine)
• School of Education, Communication & amp; Society (part of the Faculty of Social & Public Policy)
• LonDEC - London Dental Education Center (part of the Dental Institute)

The adjacent James Clerk Maxwell building houses Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & amp; Midwifery, many functions of professional service center from College and President & amp; Headmaster office. The building is named after the Scottish mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who was Professor of Natural Philosophy at King's 1860-1865.

The nearest underground station is Waterloo.

St Thomas Campus

The St Thomas campus at London Borough of Lambeth, overlooking the Parliament Building across the River Thames, houses sections of the School of Medicine and Dental Institute. Florence Nightingale Museum is also located here. The museum is dedicated to Florence Nightingale, founder of the Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas' Hospital (now Kingingale King's School of Nursing and Midwifery). St. Thomas' Hospital became part of King's College London School of Medicine in 1998. The St Thomas Hospital and Campus was named after St. Thomas Becket. TwinsUk Research Department, King's College London is located at St. John's Hospital. Thomas.

The closest underground station is Westminster.

Denmark Hill Campus

Denmark Hill Campus is located in south London near the border of London's Borough of Lambeth and London Borough of Southwark in Camberwell and is the only campus not located on the River Thames. The campus consists of King's College Hospital, Maudsley Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN). In addition to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, part of the Dental Institute and School of Medicine, and the large residence hall, King's College Hall, is located here. Other buildings include a campus library known as the Weston Education Center (WEC), James Black Center, the Rayne Institute (haemato-oncology) and the Cicely Saunders Institute (palliative care).

The Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute was opened by Princess Royal in 2015 at Danish Hill Campus. It's named after the English philanthropist Maurice Wohl, who has a long relationship with King and supports many medical projects.

The nearest Overground station is Danish Hill.

Reworking program

In 2016, the King is undergoing a £ 1 billion rebuilding program from his estate. Since 1999 more than half of the King's activities have been moved in new and updated buildings. Large projects completed including £ 35 million worth of renovations from Maughan Library in 2002, £ 40 million worth of renovation of buildings in Strand Campus, renovations worth £ 25 million Somerset House East Wing, renovations worth 30 million pounds Denmark Hill Campus in 2007, the renovation of the Franklin-Wilkins Library at the Waterloo Campus and the completion of Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care worth  £ 9 million in 2010. The campus chapel at Strand Campus was also restored in 2001.

The Strand Campus redevelopment won the Green Gown Award in 2007 for sustainable development. The award recognizes "energy reduction and carbon emissions from continuous improvement of the historic South Building Range of the King's". King's was also the recipient of the 2003 City Heritage Award for the conversion of Maughan Grade II * Library listed.

Current projects include the development of £ 45 million for the Clinical Neuroscience Institute Maurice Wohl, Ã £ 18 million to modernize the learning and teaching environment of the King, a sports pavilion at Honor Oak Park. In April 2012, the £ 20 million Quad Campus redevelopment was announced and will provide an additional 3,700 square meters of teaching space and student facilities.

King earned a lease for Aldwych Quarter for a period of 50 years. The King will occupy the Bush House and Strand House starting September 2016, and the House of Kings and Houses of Melbourne starting 2025. King's College London chairman Duke of Wellington says that King's Strand Campus has inadequate and narrow teaching space for too long, and the Acquisition will transform the campus original King who dates back to 1829.

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Organization and administration

Government

The head of King's College London is officially the principal and president, currently held by Ed Byrne. The Office was established by the King's Charter as "the chief academic and administrative officer of the College" and the King's law requires the principal to have a general responsibility to the council to "ensure that the objects of the College are met and to maintain and promote efficiency, discipline and good order of College ". The charter and law granted in 2009 created an additional position of "president". Thus the full title of King's College London's head is "Principal and President". The senior officer is called the Center Team. Six vice principals have specific responsibilities for education; research and innovation; strategy and development; art and science; international (developing King's global research network); and health (where there are also deputy vice principals).

The Council is the highest governing body of King's College London established under a charter and law, consisting of 21 members. Its membership includes the chairman of the College College of London (KCLSU), as a student; principals and presidents; up to seven other staff members; and up to 12 lay members who may not be King's employees. This is supported by a number of standing committees. Sir Christopher Geidt succeeded Charles Wellesley, Duke of Wellington 9th as Chairman of the Board since the beginning of the academic year 2016.

The Dean of King's College is an ordained man, unusual among British universities. The Dean "is responsible for overseeing the spiritual development and well-being of all students and staff". The Dean's Office coordinates the Associateship of King's College program, chaplains and choral choirs, which include 25 choir scholarships. One of the dean's roles is to encourage and cultivate a call to the Church of the Priesthood of England.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is a visitor of King's College London with the right of office because of the role of the Church of England in the foundation of King.

Faculties and departments

In the 19th century, King's College London has five departments: Theology, Literature and Public Science, Applied Science, Medical and Military. The Department of Theology provides studies in ecclesiastical history, pastoral theology, and exegesis of wills. Language and literature, history, law and jurisprudence, political economy, commerce, fencing, mathematics, zoology and natural history are taught within the Department of Literature and Public Science, and natural philosophy, geology, mineralogy and subjects related to art are taught in the Department Applied Science.

In 2017, King's consists of nine academic faculties, which are divided into schools (for Social Sciences & Public Policy, Life Sciences & Medicine), departments, centers and research divisions. The latest addition is the King Business School, held at the Bush House, which opened in August 2017.

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities was formed in 1989 after the merging of the Faculty of Arts, Music and Theology. The faculty includes traditional disciplinary subjects, as well as less common subjects such as Hellenic, Portuguese and Medieval Studies, and emerging disciplines such as Digital Humanities and Queer Studies.

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is administered through King's, and its students graduate with members of the department who form the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Because RADA has no title power, the program is validated by King's.

Dental Institute

The Dental Institute is King's dental school and focuses on understanding disease, improving health and restoring function. The Institute is the successor of Guy's Hospital Dental School, King's College of Dental Schools, Royal Dental Hospital of the London School of Dental Surgery, and United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals. It was part of the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the King until 2005, when the dental school became the Dental Institute.

In 1799 Joseph Fox began giving a series of lectures on dental surgery at Guy Hospital, and was appointed as a dental surgeon in the same year. Thomas Bell succeeded Fox as a dental surgeon in 1817 or 1825. Frederick Newland Pedley, who was appointed as a dental assistant at Guy Hospital in 1885, advocated the establishment of a dental school within the hospital, and he flooded two dental schools in London, The Metropolitan School of Dentistry and the London School of Dental Surgery, with patients to prove that further hospitalization is required. In December 1888, Guy's School Dental Hospital was established. The Guy's Hospital Dental School was recognized as a University of London school in 1901. In the 1970s, due to a decrease in demand for dental services, the UK Department of Health suggested that there should be a decrease in the number of undergraduate students of dentistry as well as the duration of all programs. In response to the recommendation, the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery joined Guy's Hospital Dental School from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals on 1 August 1983.

The establishment of the Dental School of King's College Hospital was proposed by Viscount Hambleden at the Hospital Management Committee meeting on April 12, 1923. The school was opened on 12 November 1923 at King's College Hospital. Under the National Health Act of 1948, School of Medicine and Dentistry King split from King's and became an independent school, but the school was rebuilt with King's in 1983. The school later joined the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals in 1998..

Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine

The Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine was created as a result of the merging School of Medicine with the School of Biomedical Sciences in 2014.

There are two schools of education in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine: The GKT School of Medical Education is responsible for medical education and student training on the MBBS program, and the School of Bioscience Education is responsible for the biomedical and health professions of Education and Training. Faculty is divided into 7 schools, including Basic & amp; Medical Bioscience, Biomedical & amp; Science Imaging, Cancer & amp; Pharmaceutical Science, Cardiovascular & amp; Science, Immunology & amp; Microbial Sciences, Life Sciences and Population Health Sciences.

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a faculty and research institute dedicated to discovering what causes mental illness and brain disease, and to help identify new treatments of the disease. This institute is the largest center for research and postgraduate education in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience in Europe. Originally founded in 1924 as Maudsley Hospital Medical School, the institute was renamed the Institute of Psychiatry in 1948, joined King's College London in 1997, and renamed IoPPN in 2014.

Dickson Poon Law School

The Dickson Poon School of Law is King's law school. The law has been taught at King since 1831. The Faculty of Law was founded in 1909 and became the Faculty of Law in 1991.

The school includes research centers and groups that serve as a focal point for research activities, including the European Law Center (established in 1974), the Center for Legal and Medical Ethics (established in 1978), the Center for Constitutional and British Law (established 1978 ). in 1988), Center for Construction Law, Technology Center, Ethics and Law in Society, Political Center, Philosophy and Law, Transnational Law Institution and Trust Law Committee.

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics was founded in 2010, after the reorganization of the School of Physics and Engineering Sciences. The faculty provides education and research in the fields of chemistry, informatics, physics, mathematics and telecommunications. Physics and Mathematics have been studied at universities since 1829 and 1830 respectively, and there are six Nobel laureates who are either students or faculty academic staff.

Chemistry has been taught at King since its foundation in 1829, and Copley's Medalist John Frederic Daniell was appointed the first professor. The Chemistry Department was forced to close in 2003 due to a decrease in student numbers and reduced funds. In 2012, a new Department of Chemistry was established and a new bachelor's degree, Chemistry with Biomedicine, was launched. The new department covers the fields of traditional chemistry (organic, inorganic, physical and computational chemistry) and other academic disciplines including cell biology and physics.

The Department of Engineering was founded in 1838, making it the oldest engineering school in England. The Engineering Department was the largest engineering school in England in 1893. The Engineering Division closed in 2013.

Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery

Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Florence Nightingale is a school for nurses and midwives. It also conducts nursing research and provides ongoing professional development and graduate programs. Formerly known as Nightingale and Home for Nurses Training School, the faculty was founded by Florence Nightingale in 1860, and is the first nursing school in the world that continues to connect with hospitals and medical schools that fully serve.

The Nightingale Training School was merged in 1996 with the Olive Haydon Midwifery School and Thomas Guy and Lewisham Nursing School, and all staff and students were integrated into the King's in 1996.

Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy

The Faculty of Social and Public Policy was founded in 2001, and is one of the largest university centers focused on policy-oriented research in the UK. After restructuring in 2016, it is divided into four schools:

• Political School & amp; Economics (European & International Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Economy, Russian Institute)
• School of Education, Communication & amp; Community
• School of Global Affairs (Geography, Global Health & Medicine, International Development, Brazilian Institute, Indian Institute, Lau Institute of China)
• School of Security Studies (Department of Defense Studies, Department of War Studies)

The Department of War Studies is unique in the UK and is supported by research facilities such as King's Strategic Communications Center, Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives and Military Health Research Center (KCMHR) King.

Formed in 2002, King's Risk Management Center (KCRM) conducts international research related to risk management, governance and communications, and supports various projects, conferences and academic fellowships, facilitates the translation of risk research into relevant and practical policy solutions.

The Faculty is also home to the African Leadership Center, the Institute of Contemporary English History, and the London Asia Pacific Center for Social Science.

King Business School

King's Business School was founded in 2017 at the Bush House. The School of Management and Business within the Faculty of Social and Public Policy is reformed to create the King Business School. It offers programs in economics, management, finance, entrepreneurship, human resource management and marketing.

Financial

In the financial year ending July 31, 2014, King's had total revenues of £ 603.67 million (2012/13 - £ 586.95 million) and total expenses of £ 605.81 million (2012/13 - Ã, Â £ 577.38 million). Major sources of income include Ã, Â £ 201.08 million of school fees and educational contracts (2012/13 - Ã, Â £ 174.58 million), Ã, Â £ 171.55 million of research grants and contracts (2012/13 - £ 164.03 million), Ã, Â £ 122.43 million from the Funding Fund grant (2012/13 - Ã, Â £ 130.67 million) and Ã, Â £ 5.77 million of donation and investment income ( 2012/13 - Ã, Â £ 6.4 million). During the 2012/13 financial year, King has a capital expenditure of Ã, £ 105.9 million (2012/13 - Ã, Â £ 73 million).

On July 31, 2014, King had a total donation of £ 162.6 million (July 31, 2013 - £ 154.09 million) and total net assets of Ã, Â £ 828.37 million (July 31, 2013 - Ã, Â £ 810.05 million). King's has an AA credit rating of Standard & amp; Poor.

In 2013/14, King's has the seventh highest total income of all UK universities.

In October 2010, King's launched a massive fundraising campaign - "The world question | King's answer" - fronted by former British Prime Minister John Major, with the aim of raising £ 500 million by 2015. This even surpasses before 2015 and the next King increasing its target to Ã, Â £ 600 million. Once again meet and beat this new target by raising Ã, Â £ 610 million.

Symbol

The symbol shown on King's College London's charter is George IV. The shield depicts the royal emblem together with the emblem of the House of Hanover, while its proponents embody the motto of King sancte et sapienter No/san/there is a correspondence that is believed to be viable about the choice of this emblem, either in the King's file or at the College of Arms, and unofficial adaptations have been used throughout King's history. The current emblem was developed after mergers with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College in 1985 and incorporating aspects of their emblem. The official emblem, in heraldic terminology, is:

Senjata:

Or at Azure Pale between the rampant Lions, the Gules, the Anchor Gold being appointed by the Royal Crown right on the Argent Head of an Ancient Lamp that inflamed the Golden between two Blazing Hearths is also right .

Symbol and supporters:

On Helm with Flower or Azure Helmet on a Book lifted from the Coronet Or a rim with two gems Azure (one manifest) four Vert (two manifest) and two Gules one by one Lion Gules holding the Rod of Dexter a female figure inhabited Azure robe coated coined and arm clasp Argent in the hands of a Londy Cross Botanical Gold and creepy figure of the Long Coat Azure man is trimmed with Sable proper shirt Argent holds in the hands of the correct Book interior.

Medical school syllabus

Although St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School and Guy's Medical School became separate bodies from St. Thomas Hospital and Guy Hospital in 1948, the tradition of using hospital shields and symbols continued to this day.

In 1949, St. Thomas Hospital Medical School was given its own symbol. However, the emblem of St. Thomas Hospital is still in use. Guy's Medical School proposed to propose his own emblem after parting from Guy's Hospital, but the school decided to continue using Guy's Hospital's arm in 1954. The two medical schools joined in 1982 and became the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital (UMDS ). Simon Argles, UMDS secretary, said that because the name of medical school is more appropriate to use the hospital symbol.

UMDS joined King's College Hospital to become Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine in 1998. The Guy's and St. Thomas hospital shields were used in conjunction with the King's shield in medical school graduation materials and materials.

Affiliates and partnerships

King's College London is a constituent college and is one of two founding members of the Federal University of London. King's is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the European University Association (EUA) and the University of UK. In 1998, King joined the Russell Group, an association of 24 public research universities founded in 1994. Today King is the only British member of the Institutional Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA), a network of higher education institutions big. in the European capital.

King's is a founding member of Global Medical Excellence Cluster (GMEC), the world's largest bio-cluster of life sciences established with Cambridge and Oxford Universities, University College London and Imperial College London. King's is also a founding partner of FutureLearn, a large open online learning course platform established in December 2012. Launched in 2014, MedCity is a collaboration between King's and two other major science universities in London, Imperial College and University College London. In 2016, King's College London, along with Arizona State University and the University of New South Wales, formed the PLUS Alliance, an alliance of international universities to tackle global challenges. King's is usually also considered part of the "golden triangle", a group of elite universities located in the English cities of Cambridge, Oxford and London, including Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Imperial College London, the London School of Economics and University College. London.

King's College London is also part of King's Health Partners, an academic health science center composed of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital, the NHS Foundation Trust, South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London itself. King's is a participant and one of the founding members of the Francis Crick Institute. King's offers degrees with many other universities and institutions, including Columbia University, University of Paris I, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, Royal Academy of Music, British Library, Tate Modern, Shakespeare's Globe, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and British Museum.

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Academics

Reception

King's has the highest 15th entry average qualification for undergraduate students in the UK by 2015, with freshmen averaging 432 points UCAS (pre-2017 tariff), equivalent to just above A * AAb or ABBab at level A -level. By 2015, the university offers admission to 66.7% of applicants, the 7th lowest among Russell Group.

24.4% of King's students are privately educated, the highest proportion of fourteen among the major UK universities. In the academic year 2016-17, the university has details of domicile 67:12:20 UK: EU: non-EU students each with a ratio of women and men 62:37.

The demand for freedom of information by 2015 reveals that the university received 31,857 undergraduate applications and made 13,302 offers in 2014-15. This resulted in an offer rate of 41.8%, the yield rate at 45.3% and the overall acceptance rate of 18.9%. The School of Medicine received 1764 applications, only 39 offers made yielding a bid rate of only 2.2%. Seedling & amp; Midwifery, Physiotherapy and Clinical Dentistry have the lowest offer rates of 14%, 16% and 17% respectively.

Teaching

King's academic year runs from Monday last September to the first Friday of June. Different faculties and departments adopt the structure of different academic terms. For example, the academic year of School Mathematics and the Department of War Studies is divided into three terms (Autumn, Spring and Summer); while the Faculty of Arts & amp; The academic year's humanities run in two semesters.

Graduation

Graduation ceremonies are held in January (winter) and June or July (summer), with ceremonies for students from most of the faculty held in Europe's largest art complex, the Barbican Center. Thanks to the roots of the St Thomas Medical School traced to the St Mary Overie Priory, students from the GKT School of Medical Education and Institute of Dentistry graduate from Southwark Cathedral adjacent to Guy's College.

Having been granted the powers to grant their own degrees separately from the University of London in 2006, graduates began wearing King's College London's academic outfit in 2008. King's graduates have since been dressed in a dress designed by Vivienne Westwood.

Research

In 2013/14 King's has a total research income of Ã, £ 171.55 million, of which Ã, £ 47.64 million comes from the British charity; Ã, £ 38.26 million from the Research Council; Ã, Â £ 32.97 million from the UK central government, local authorities, health authorities and hospitals; Ã, Â £ 21.38 million from EU governments and other bodies; Ã, Â £ 17.09 million from abroad (excluding the EU); Ã, Â £ 13.11 million from the UK industry, commerce and public companies; and Ã, Â £ 1.11 million from other sources.

King's submitted a total of 1,369 staff across 27 assessment units to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment (compared to 1,172 submitted to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008)). In the REF results 40% of King's proposed research is classified as 4 *, 45% as 3 *, 13% as 2 * and 2% as 1 *, giving an overall GPA of 3.23. In the rankings produced by Times Higher Education based on the results of REF King's was ranked 6th overall for research strength and 7 for GPA (compared to 11 and 22 together respectively in equivalent ratings for RAE 2008). The Times Higher Education describes King's as "arguably the biggest winner" in REF2014 after rising 15 places in the IPK, while sending about 200 more people.

Medicine

The King claims to be the largest center of health education in Europe. King's College London School of Medicine has more than 2,000 undergraduate students, more than 1,400 teachers, four major education hospitals - Guy Hospital, King's College Hospital, St Thomas Hospital and Lewisham University Hospital - and 17 district public hospitals. King's College London Dental Institute is Europe's largest dental school. Nursing School Florence Nightingale & amp; Midwifery is the oldest professional nursing school in the world.

King's is a major center for biomedical research. It is a founding member of King's Health Partners, one of the largest academic health sciences centers in Europe with a turnover of more than Ã, Â £ 2 billion and approximately 25,000 employees. It is also home to six centers of the Medical Research Council, and is part of two of the twelve biomedical research centers established by the NHS in the UK - the NIHR Biomedical Research Center in Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, and Research Center Biomedical NIHR in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London.

The Center for Drug Control at King's was founded in 1978 and is the only WADA accredited anti-doping laboratory in the UK and holds an official British contract to run doping tests on British athletes. In 1997, he became an accredited laboratory of the first International Olympic Committee that met the ISO/IEC 17025 quality standards. The center is an anti-doping facility for the London Olympics and Paralympic Games 2012.

Library

King's library facilities are spread all over the campus. This collection includes over a million printed books, as well as thousands of journals and electronic resources.

Maughan Library

Maughan Library is King's largest library and housed in the 19th century Classical Gothic Note * public office building listed on Chancery Lane in Strand Campus. The building was designed by Sir James Pennethorne and is home to the books and journals of the School of Arts & amp; Humanities, Law, Nature & amp; Mathematics, and Social Sciences & amp; Public policy. It is also home of Special Collections and rare books. Inside the Library there is an octagonal Round Reading Room, inspired by the British Museum's reading room, and the former Rolls Chapel (renamed Weston Room after donations from Garfield Weston Foundation) with stained glass windows, mosaic floors and monuments, including Renaissance terracotta figures by Pietro Torrigiano of Dr Yonge, Master of the Rolls, who died in 1516.

Other libraries

• Foyle Special Collections Library: Located in Chancery Lane, the library stores a collection of 180,000 prints and thousands of maps, slides, sound recordings, and some script material. This collection was built by purchases, gifts, and heritage for centuries, covering all subject areas and containing many special items, including the incunabula. This collection is very strong in the history of the military and diplomatic Europe, Jewish and Christian theology, the history of the British Empire, Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, Germany, travel and travel, medicine and science.
• Tony Arnold's Library: Located in Chancery Lane, it houses over 3000 legal books and 140 journals. It was named after Tony Arnold, the longest serving secretary of the Institute of Taxation. The library opened on December 18, 1997, and in September 2001, the library became part of King's College's law collection of London.
• Archive Reading Room: Located in Chancery Lane, this place stores a collection of research and institutional documents from King's and organizations that are merged with or established by King's (such as King's College Hospital, Guy's and St. Thomas 'medical and dental school, Institute of Psychiatry). The reading room is also where research papers for former staff and students, including Sir Charles Wheatstone, Maurice Wilkins and Eric Mottram.
• The Franklin-Wilkins Library: Located on the Waterloo Campus, the library is home to extensive management and education, and extensive biomedical, health and life sciences including nursing, midwifery, public health, pharmacy, biology and environment, biochemistry and forensic science.
• Library and Keats Room: Located in the Hodgkin Building on Guy's Campus, originally the main library for Guy's Hospital Medical School. The Wills Library was rewarded in 1903 by former governor Guy's Hospital, the late Sir Frederick Wills and opened as a School of Medicine Library. Many of the books, archives and documents kept in the Wills Library, such as Guy's committee books, have been transferred to the archives of King's College London in 2004, although the library still contains a collection of books that can be taken on request. The Wills Library also incorporates the Keats Room named after the alumni of King John Keats, who is a medical student at Guy Hospital.
• New Hunt House Library: Located in Guy's Campus, this library covers all aspects of biomedical science, including anatomy, biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and physiology. There is also a vast resource for medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy, and health care.
• St Thomas 'House Library: Located in St Thomas' Campus, its holdings cover all aspects of basic medical science, clinical medicine and healthcare research, and especially focus on dermatology and pediatrics.
• Library of the Institute of Psychiatry: The Library is the largest psychiatric library in Western Europe, holding 3,000 printed journal titles, 550 of which are current subscriptions, as well as access to over 3,500 electronic journals, 42,000 books, and training materials. This collection focuses on psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, neurology, genetics, and psychotherapy.
• Weston Education Center Library: Located in Denmark Hill Campus, the library has special powers in the fields of gastroenterology, liver disease, diabetes, obstetrics, gynecology, paediatrics, and medical history. This collection supports the teaching and research of GKT School of Medicine and Dental Institute, as well as clinical work from King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

In addition, King's students and staff have full access to the Senate House Library, the central library for the University of London and the School of Advanced Study. Undergraduate and graduate students also have access to references to libraries from other London University institutions under the University Library London Access Agreement.

Museums, galleries, and collections

King's currently operates two museums: Gordon Museum of Pathology and Museum of Life Sciences. Opened in 1905 at Guy's Campus, the Gordon Museum is the largest medical museum in the United Kingdom, and houses a collection of about 8,000 pathological specimens, artifacts, models and paintings, including the Astley Cooper specimen and Sir Joseph Lister's antiseptic spray. The Museum of Life Sciences was founded in 2009 adjacent to the Gordon Museum, and stores a collection of historic biology and pharmacy from modern King's College London constituent colleges.

Between 1843 and 1927, the King George III Museum is a museum in King's College London which houses a collection of scientific instruments George III and 19th-century scientists (including Sir Charles Wheatstone and Charles Babbage). Due to space constraints at King's, many museum collections are transferred on loan to the Science Museum in London or stored at King's College London Archives.

The Anatomy Museum is a museum located on the 6th floor of the King's House on the Strand Campus. Theater Anatomy was built next to the museum in 1927, where dissection of anatomy and demonstrations took place. The Anatomy Museum collections include injury molds, leather models, leather animals from Western Australia donated to the museum in 1846, and the leaders of John Bishop and Thomas Williams, murderers in the murder of Italian boys in 1831. The final stage in the Theater Anatomy was performed in 1997. The Anatomy Theater and Museum was renovated and refurbished in 2009, and is now a facility for teaching, research, and performances at King's.

The Foyle Special Collection Library also stores a number of special collections, from the fifteenth century to the present, and its subjects from human anatomy to modern Greek poetry. The History Collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is the largest collection of material from the previous FCO Library. The collection is a work tool used by the British government to inform and influence foreign and colonial policy. Moved to King's in 2007, the FCO Historical Collection contains over 80,000 items including books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and photographic materials. The Medical Collection includes a collection of historical libraries from constituent medical schools and King's institutes. The Rare Books Collection holds 12,000 printed books, including the printing of Venetian 1483 from Silius Italicus Punica , first edition of Charles Dickens novel, and 1937 (first) George Orwell's edition The Road to Wigan Wharf >.

King's College London Archives holds agency records, which is one of the richest high school records in London. The King's collection of archives includes King's institutional archives since 1828, archives of institutions and schools created by or have joined the King's, and records relating to the history of medicine. Founded in 1964, the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives holds personal papers of over 800 senior British defense personnel holding offices since 1900.

London Science Gallery will open in 2016 at King's Guy's Campus. It is a public science center where 'art and science collide', and is part of the Global Science Gallery Network. A flagship project for 'Culture at King's College London', Science Gallery will include 2,000 m ² (21.528Ã, sqÃ,f) public spaces and newly decorated Georgian courtyards. There will be exhibition galleries, theaters, meeting rooms and cafes; while unlike other science centers, it will not have a permanent collection. Daniel Glaser, former Head of Engaging Science at the Wellcome Trust, is Director of the London Science Gallery.

Rating and reputation

Internationally, King's is consistently upgraded among the world's top universities by all the leading global university rankings, which have been placed among 19 by 2015 QS World University Rankings , ranked 27th by the world's universities of Times Higher Education and ranked 50th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

In 2017, King's is ranked among the top seven British universities in all six major academic rankings of the global universities: QS , Times Higher Education , ARWU >, University Rankings by Academic Performance , US News & amp; World Report (Global Best University Rank) and World University Ranking Center.

King's was ranked 14th overall in the 10-year old (1998-2007) The Sunday Times (1998-2007) ratings average of British universities based on consistent league table performance. However, in recent years, universities have performed poorly in domestic league tables, placed outside the top 20 in all three main tables for 2016. It should be noted that the methodology of this table includes student satisfaction scores with teaching and feedback. as a significant input. Similar to most other London institutions, King's performed poorly in the National Student Survey (NSS), ranked 133th for student satisfaction (from 160 institutes) in the 2015 survey.

According to the Book Guide 2015 Times and Sunday Times , their inclusion of student satisfaction scores, along with international guidance including reputation scores from academics and entrepreneurs, explains the difference between the King rankings in tables ( domestic) and their global tables. They added that when universities ranked according to student satisfaction scores from students on factors such as academic support, teaching, assessment and feedback, "King's ranked 106 out of 123 institutions", although "despite the fragile student satisfaction score, students continue to apply here in their droves "with an average of 8.1 applicants per venue available for 2014 entries. However, although the University Guide has used NSS results since at least 2011, King remained in the top 20 positions until the 2015 table (published 2014) , managing the 19th position on the 2014 table even though its rank is ranked 102nd (out of 124) for student satisfaction.

According to the 2017 Complete University Guide , 8 of 30 subjects offered by King rankings in the top 10 nationals, including Education (4), Food Science (4), Dentistry (5), Law (5) , Music (5), Business & amp; Management Studies (6), History (9), and Classics & amp; Ancient History (10). Guardian University Guide 2017 puts King's in the top ten in 8 subjects, including Law (4), Economics (6), Media & amp; film studies (6), Anatomy & amp; physiology (8), Dentistry (8), Politics (9), Classical & amp; ancient history (10), and History (10). King's College London has had the top 24 subjects rated 5 or 5 * for research quality, and in 2007 got good results in its audit by the Quality Assurance Agency. This is at the top level for research earnings. The Times Higher Education enrolled King's College London as the eighth in a list of the top 10 clinical, pre-clinical and health universities ranked 2016.

In September 2010, the Sunday Times chose King's as "University of the Year 2010-11". King's is ranked 5th as the best university in the UK for the quality of graduates according to recruiters from big companies in the UK.

In a survey by The New York Times that rated graduates most appreciated by business leaders, the graduates of King's College London were ranked 22nd in the world and ranked fifth in the UK. In Global Employability University S

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