|
St Mary's College, Durham
St Mary’s College is a Colleges of Durham University, constituent college of Durham University. It is located mainly on Elvet, Elvet Hill to the South of the city centre, becoming the first of Durham’s “Colleges of the University of Durham#Hill and Bailey, hill colleges”. Following the grant of a supplemental charter in 1895 allowing women to receive degrees of the university, St Mary's was founded as a Women's college, women’s only college called the Women’s Hostel in 1899, adopting its present name in May 1920. It enjoys a reputation as one of the most attractive colleges of Durham because of its neoclassical architecture and picturesque landscape. The college is co-educational, having only begun to admit men in 2005, the last of Durham’s original Single-sex education, single-sex colleges to do so. The college has 750 undergraduate students, around 150 full-time postgraduates students and 200 part-time postgraduate students reading for a Durham degree. St Mary� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham University
Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to open in England for more than 600 years, after University of Oxford, Oxford and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, and is thus the third-oldest university in England debate, third-oldest university in England. As a collegiate university, its main functions are divided between the academic departments of the university and its Colleges of Durham University, 17 colleges. In general, the departments perform research and provide teaching to students, while the colleges are responsible for their domestic arrangements and welfare. The university is a member of the Russell Group of British research universities and is also affiliated with the regional N8 Research Partnership and int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epiphany Term
Epiphany term is the second academic term at Durham University, falling between Michaelmas term and Easter term, as in the Christian Feast of the Epiphany, held in January. The term runs from January until March, equivalent to the Spring term at many British universities, Hilary term at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford, Oxford, and Lent term at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury Christ Church, Lancaster University, Lancaster, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, London School of Economics, LSE and Swansea University, Swansea. Historically, the name has been in use at Durham since the university's opening in 1833, and was also used at Newcastle University (formerly King's College of Durham University) until 2004. It was also used at Durham's overseas affiliated colleges: Codrington College, Barbados, and Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, and is used (as of July 2018) by Sierra Leone Law School. In the United States, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's College Boat Club
St Mary's College Boat Club (SMCBC) is the rowing club of St Mary's College at Durham University in the North East of England. The club has over 40 members and uses Clive’s Boat House on the banks of the River Wear. The club is a participant at Durham Regatta, races across the north east, and Durham College Rowing events. SMBC is is a registered Boat Club through British Rowing, with Boat Code "SMC" and is a member organisation of Durham College Rowing. Membership and Structure Members are taken from the students at St Mary's College and any member of the JCR or MCR are allowed to join. Any other members of Durham University are permitted to join with the permission of the current President. A subscription fee is charged by the club, and this goes towards the upkeep of boats, payment for trailering and the purchase of spare parts. The club is run by an executive committee, elected in the final few weeks of the Epiphany term. The committee runs the club for one year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matriculation
Matriculation is the formal process of entering a university, or of becoming eligible to enter by fulfilling certain academic requirements such as a matriculation examination. Australia In Australia, the term ''matriculation'' is seldom used now. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, all states replaced the matriculation examination with either a certificate, such as the Higher School Certificate (HSC) in Victoria and New South Wales, or a university entrance exam, such as the Tertiary Entrance Exam in Western Australia. These have all been renamed (except in New South Wales) as a state-based certificate, such as the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) or the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE). Some Catholic university colleges in Australia have reintroduced matriculation ceremonies. New students at the College of St John the Evangelist within the University of Sydney and new students at Campion College Australia sign the college register during a formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenwick Lawson
Fenwick Justin John Lawson, Royal College of Art, ARCA (born 19 May 1932 in South Moor, County Durham) is an English sculptor based in the north-east of England. Life Fenwick Lawson was born in 1932 in South Moor, County Durham, and spent his childhood in the neighbouring village of Craghead. He studied at the Sunderland College of Art (1951–54) and Royal College of Art, London (1954–57), under John Skeaping and under the influence of Jacob Epstein (then in the college working on the Llandaff Christ). In 1958 and 1959, having been awarded the Sir James Knott Travelling Scholarship, he completed his studies by travel in France, Italy and Greece, being influenced by the sculptural masters such as Michelangelo and Donatello and by the simplicity of form in Cycladic art. In 1961, he was appointed lecturer in sculpture at Newcastle-upon-Tyne College of Art and when this merged into Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic in 1970, he became a principal Lecturer and head of sculpture be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pace
George Gaze Pace, (31 December 1915 – 23 August 1975) was an English architect who specialised in ecclesiastical works. He was trained in London, and served in the army, before being appointed as surveyor to a number of cathedrals. Most of his work was carried out on churches, although he did some secular work. His architectural style was Modernist, but he respected traditional styles, and on occasions combined both styles in his works. Early life and training George Pace was born in Croydon, Surrey, the son of a ship owner's clerk. He was educated at Addiscombe New College, and then became articled to James Ransome and Cootes in London. He studied in the evenings at Regent Street Polytechnic. Then went on to work with Darcy Braddell and Humphrey Deane, and then with Pite, Son, and Fairweather. During this time he won prizes, including the Pugin scholarship. After qualifying as an architect in 1939, he taught at the polytechnic, but in 1941 he was called up for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Harris
Emanuel Vincent Harris (26 June 1876 – 1 August 1971), often known as E. Vincent Harris, was an English architect who designed several important public buildings in traditional styles. Early life He was born in Devonport, Devon, Devonport, Devon, and educated at Kingsbridge Grammar School. He was articled to the Plymouth architect James Harvey in 1893;Julian Holder (2007), ''Emanuel Vincent Harris and the survival of classicism in inter-war Manchester'', in: Clare Hartwell & Terry Wyke (editors), ''Making Manchester'', Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, in 1897 he moved to London, where he assisted E. Keynes Purchase, Leonard Stokes and Sir William Emerson (British architect), William Emerson. From 1901 to 1907 he worked for the London County Council before setting up in private practice. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1919 Birthday Honours (OBE), 1919 Birthday Honours. Work He was primarily a Classical architectur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. She had been queen regnant of List of sovereign states headed by Elizabeth II, 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was the monarch of 15 realms at her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days is the List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longest of any British monarch, the List of longest-reigning monarchs, second-longest of any sovereign state, and the List of female monarchs, longest of any queen regnant in history. Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George V. She was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon Abdication of Edward VIII, the abdic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
