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Martyn W Jones
Professor Martyn W Jones is a British academic, currently serving as Chancellor of BPP University and Director General of UCFB in the UK. Biography Professor Jones was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University between 2014 and 2024, and was Pro Vice-Chancellor at Kingston in 2007–2014. Professor Jones has previously served as Director of Kent Business School at the University of Kent, as Head of Aberystwyth Business School at Aberystwyth University, and as MBA Director at Cranfield School of Management. Prior to joining Cranfield in 1995, Martyn Jones was a British Army officer. He speaks English and Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop .... References {{Reflist British academics British academic administrators Academics of Kingston University [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BPP University
BPP University is a private university in the United Kingdom. History Name The university takes its name from the founders Alan Brierley, Richard Price and Charles Prior, who in 1975 set up Brierley Price Prior to train accountancy students. University status BPP was first granted degree-awarding powers in 2007, and degree-awarding powers for an indefinite time period in 2020. On 8 August 2013, BPP University College of Professional Studies was granted the title of university and rebranded as BPP University. That November, BPP was awarded the EducationInvestor magazine's "Higher/Professional Education Provider of the Year 2013" title. The August 2013 granting of university status to BPP was criticised by the University and College Union in an open letter. During the previous March, the union had written to then UK Business Secretary Vince Cable, urging him to suspend BPP's application for university title, pending an investigation into its relationship with its parent compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCFB
UCFB (University Campus of Football Business) is a higher education institution offering undergraduate and postgraduate university degrees and executive education in the football business, sport and events industries. UCFB is a college of the University of East London. UCFB became the world's first higher education institution with university degrees in the football and sports industry when it was opened at Burnley F.C.'s Turf Moor in 2011. Campus locations UCFB's first campus, UCFB Burnley, opened in 2011 at Burnley Football Club. The Queen and Prince Philip visited UCFB Burnley during their tour of Turf Moor and Burnley F.C. as part of the Jubilee Celebrations. UCFB Wembley opened in 2014 at Wembley Stadium. In 2016, opened a flagship campus based in and around the Etihad Stadium. UCFB Etihad Campus' facilities include access to sporting facilities such as the Manchester Regional Arena Manchester Regional Arena is a multipurpose stadium in Manchester, England, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston University
, mottoeng = "Through Learning We Progress" , established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute , type = Public , endowment = £2.3 m (2015) , chancellor = , vice_chancellor = Steven Spier , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , city = Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, London KT1 2EE , country = United Kingdom , campus = Urban , athletics = , colours = Blue and White , website = , logo = , administrative_staff = , coor = , affiliations = Association of MBAs ACU University Alliance EUA Universities UK Kingston University London is a public research university located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Kent
, motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' (University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990) page 36 As Martin notes "Our former Information Officer has ventured the opinion that Thomas Cranmer, Cranmer would not have got very high marks had this phrase appeared in an General Certificate of Education#O-level, O-Level Latin paper!" , top_free_label = , top_free = , type = Public university, Public , established = , closed = , founder = , parent = , affiliation = , affiliations = Universities UKSGroup European Universities' NetworkEuropean University Association, EUAAssociation of Commonwealth Universities, ACUEastern ARCUniversities at Medway , religious_affiliation = , academic_affiliation = , endowment = Pound sterling, £5.528 million (2018) , budget = , officer_i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberystwyth University
, mottoeng = A world without knowledge is no world at all , established = 1872 (as ''The University College of Wales'') , former_names = University of Wales, Aberystwyth , type = Public , endowment = £30.9 million (2021) , budget = £116.8 million (2020-21) , administrative_staff = , vice_chancellor = Elizabeth Treasure , chancellor = John, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , city = Aberystwyth , state = , country = Wales , campus_type = Campus , campus_size = , colours = , affiliations = , website = , logo = Aberystwyth University logo.svg Aberystwyth University ( cy, Prifysgol Aberystwyth) is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cranfield School Of Management
Cranfield School of Management, established in 1967, is a business school that is part of Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. It was ranked Top 10 in the UK and 34th in Europe in the Financial Times European Business Schools 2021 rankings. Cranfield School of Management is triple accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), EQUIS and AACSB. Cranfield University, the UK's only wholly postgraduate university, specialises in science, technology, engineering, and management. Campus The Cranfield University campus, which includes the School of Management, is located just outside the village of Cranfield in the Bedfordshire countryside, near Milton Keynes. The School's Management Information Resource Centre offers access to electronic resources and is equipped with a Bloomberg Suite, a series of terminals offering access to live financial services news and data on industries, markets, economic indicators, equities, bonds and derivatives. The school also has a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas, and 28,330 volunteer reserve personnel. The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with antecedents in the English Army and Scots Army that were created during the Restoration in 1660. The term ''British Army'' was adopted in 1707 after the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Therefore, Parliament approves the army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence and commanded by the Chief of the General Staff. The Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Both the Welsh and English languages are ''de jure'' official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 17.8% (538,300 people) and nearly three quarters of the population in Wales said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 29.7% (899,500) of people aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in June 2022. Almost half of all Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent Welsh speakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academics
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academic Administrators
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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