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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.[a] 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.[1]

University of Buckingham
MottoLatin: Alis Volans Propriis
Motto in English
Flying on Our Own Wings
TypePrivate
Established1973; as university college[1]
1983; as university[1]
ChancellorDame Mary Archer
Vice-ChancellorJames Tooley
Administrative staff
97 academic, 103 support[2]
Students3,100 (2019/20)[3]
Undergraduates1,645 (2019/20)[3]
Postgraduates1,460 (2019/20)[3]
Location,
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.

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.[8] 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.[9][10][11]

History edit

Some of the founding academics migrated from the University of Oxford,[12] 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 [the] great private foundations in the USA".[13]

Three London conferences followed which explored this idea.[14]

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.[15]

Its development was influenced by the Institute of Economic Affairs, in particular, Harry Ferns and Ralph Harris, heads of the institute.[16] 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.[17]

From 2004, students at Buckingham have been eligible for government student loans, which led to an increase in UK students at the university.[18]

Campus edit

 
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.[19]

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. [citation needed]

Organisation and governance edit

Chancellor edit

On 24 February 2020, Dame Mary Archer was installed as chancellor of the university.[20]

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),[21] and Lady Keswick (from 2014 to 2020).[22]

Vice-chancellor edit

Since October 2020, the vice-chancellor is Professor James Tooley.[23][24]

Academic profile edit

Teaching edit

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.[25] 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".[26] 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.[27]

School of Medicine edit

The Medical School offers a 4.5 year MB ChB medical degree, accredited by the General Medical Council.[28] 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.[29]

"Alternative" medicine edit

The university ran a diploma course in "integrated medicine" that was later withdrawn under pressure from David Colquhoun,[30] 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,[31] 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.[30] 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.[30] Andrew Miles is on the scientific council of the College of Medicine[32] an alternative medicine lobby group linked to the then Prince of Wales.[33] Sikora is also a "professional member" of this organisation.[34] The degree was stripped of validation by the University of Buckingham prior to the first graduation.[35]

School of Postgraduate Medicine and Allied Health edit

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.[36]

School of Education edit

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 edit

The University of Buckingham has a business school[37] which offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications for students.

The dean of the school is Debarpita Bardhan-Correia.[38] A range of undergraduate and postgraduate business, entrepreneurship, accounting and finance degrees are offered by the Business School.[37]

There are a number of lecturers including many BLEU (Buckingham Lean Enterprise Unit)[39] 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 edit

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.[40]

Degrees edit

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.)[41]

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.[26] 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 edit

The university awards undergraduate and graduate (Masters/MBA) degrees to students who have studied at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology.[42]

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.[43] The company was wound up in September 2019.[44]

Research edit

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.[45][46]

Alan Smithers runs the Centre for Education and Employment Research (CEER), from within the School of Humanities.[47][48]

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.[49]

Reputation and rankings edit

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.[52] The university is not listed in the Guardian University Guide.[53] 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.[54] It was ranked 17th for graduate employability in 2015.[55] It was ranked joint second for student satisfaction in the 2018 National Student Survey,[56] however a fall in satisfaction in the 2019 National Student Survey saw it fall out of the top ten.[57]

Departments edit

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.[53]

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.[54] in 2022 Economics had fallen to 69th.

Quality assurance edit

Buckingham has been reviewed voluntarily by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) from 2001.[58][59] 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 [had] been flagged by external examiners".[58] The university was subsequently judged to "meet UK expectations" in its 2012 review.[60] 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.[61] An "alternative providers" (i.e. private universities) review by the QAA in 2017 found again that Buckingham met UK expectations in all areas.[62]

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.[63]

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.[64]

University of Buckingham Press edit

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[65] and it is now available in print and its whole archive is online.[66]

It also publishes three other journals: The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics,[67] The Journal of Prediction Markets,[68] and The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics.[69] It has a co-publishing arrangement with Policy Exchange[70] for its Foundations series.

Notable alumni edit

British alumni include Bader Ben Hirsi, playwright and director;[72] The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE, MP for Great Yarmouth, (as of 6 July 2022) Secretary of State for Northern Ireland;[73] Mark Lancaster, Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton, former Armed Forces minister;[74] Graham Roos, appointed in 2011 as the university's first Creative Artist in Residence;[citation needed] James Henderson (former CEO of Bell Pottinger);[citation needed] Michael Ellis, MP for Northhampton, serving Minister for the Cabinet Office since 2022 and Paymaster General since 2021.[75]

International alumni include Anifah Aman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia from April 2009 to May 2018.[citation needed] Mohammadin Ketapi, a government minister in Malaysia;[citation needed] 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;[citation needed] Mahamudu Bawumia, Current Vice-President of Ghana, since 7 January 2016, and former deputy Governor of The Bank of Ghana;[citation needed] Lawyer Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the Member of the Parliament of Effutu (Ghana parliament constituency);[citation needed] Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former Governor of Osun State, Nigeria;[citation needed] racing driver Marc Gené, winner of the Le Mans 24-Hour Race in 2009;[76] Mariano Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Graetz, current head of the Austria-Italian, House of Windisch-Graetz;[citation needed] BMW heiress, Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten;[77][78][better source needed] and Yosef Elron (a current Justice at the Supreme Court of Israel).[79][better source needed]

Notable academics edit

Past
Present

Notes edit

References edit

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Not to be confused with Buckinghamshire New University The University of Buckingham UB is a non profit private university in Buckingham England and the oldest of the country s six private universities a 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 1 University of BuckinghamMottoLatin Alis Volans PropriisMotto in EnglishFlying on Our Own WingsTypePrivateEstablished1973 as university college 1 1983 as university 1 ChancellorDame Mary ArcherVice ChancellorJames TooleyAdministrative staff97 academic 103 support 2 Students3 100 2019 20 3 Undergraduates1 645 2019 20 3 Postgraduates1 460 2019 20 3 LocationBuckingham England51 59 45 N 0 59 31 W 51 99583 N 0 99194 W 51 99583 0 99194ColoursBlue and redWebsitebuckingham wbr ac wbr uk The Church of St Rumbold in Buckingham now forms part of the University of Buckingham 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 8 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 9 10 11 Contents 1 History 2 Campus 3 Organisation and governance 3 1 Chancellor 3 2 Vice chancellor 4 Academic profile 4 1 Teaching 4 2 School of Medicine 4 2 1 Alternative medicine 4 3 School of Postgraduate Medicine and Allied Health 4 4 School of Education 4 5 School of Business 4 5 1 Vinson Centre for Economics and Entrepreneurship 4 6 Degrees 4 7 External degrees and validation 4 8 Research 5 Reputation and rankings 5 1 Departments 5 2 Quality assurance 6 University of Buckingham Press 7 Notable alumni 8 Notable academics 9 Notes 10 References 11 External linksHistory editSome of the founding academics migrated from the University of Oxford 12 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 the great private foundations in the USA 13 Three London conferences followed which explored this idea 14 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 15 Its development was influenced by the Institute of Economic Affairs in particular Harry Ferns and Ralph Harris heads of the institute 16 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 17 From 2004 students at Buckingham have been eligible for government student loans which led to an increase in UK students at the university 18 Campus edit nbsp A weir and mill that fall within Buckingham University s Hunter Street campus nbsp 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 19 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 citation needed Organisation and governance editChancellor edit On 24 February 2020 Dame Mary Archer was installed as chancellor of the university 20 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 21 and Lady Keswick from 2014 to 2020 22 Vice chancellor edit Since October 2020 the vice chancellor is Professor James Tooley 23 24 Academic profile editTeaching edit 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 25 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 26 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 27 School of Medicine edit The Medical School offers a 4 5 year MB ChB medical degree accredited by the General Medical Council 28 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 29 Alternative medicine edit The university ran a diploma course in integrated medicine that was later withdrawn under pressure from David Colquhoun 30 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 31 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 30 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 30 Andrew Miles is on the scientific council of the College of Medicine 32 an alternative medicine lobby group linked to the then Prince of Wales 33 Sikora is also a professional member of this organisation 34 The degree was stripped of validation by the University of Buckingham prior to the first graduation 35 School of Postgraduate Medicine and Allied Health edit 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 36 School of Education edit 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 edit The University of Buckingham has a business school 37 which offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications for students The dean of the school is Debarpita Bardhan Correia 38 A range of undergraduate and postgraduate business entrepreneurship accounting and finance degrees are offered by the Business School 37 There are a number of lecturers including many BLEU Buckingham Lean Enterprise Unit 39 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 edit 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 40 Degrees edit 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 41 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 26 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 edit The university awards undergraduate and graduate Masters MBA degrees to students who have studied at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology 42 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 43 The company was wound up in September 2019 44 Research edit 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 45 46 Alan Smithers runs the Centre for Education and Employment Research CEER from within the School of Humanities 47 48 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 49 Reputation and rankings editRankingsNational rankingsComplete 2024 50 126Times Sunday Times 2024 51 85 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 52 The university is not listed in the Guardian University Guide 53 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 54 It was ranked 17th for graduate employability in 2015 55 It was ranked joint second for student satisfaction in the 2018 National Student Survey 56 however a fall in satisfaction in the 2019 National Student Survey saw it fall out of the top ten 57 Departments edit 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 53 The subject league tables in the Complete University Guide 2020 ranked Buckingham 79th for Accounting and Finance 76th for Business amp Management 82nd for Computer Science 52nd for Economics 73rd for English 49th for Law 73rd for Politics and 92nd for Psychology 54 in 2022 Economics had fallen to 69th Quality assurance edit Buckingham has been reviewed voluntarily by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education QAA from 2001 58 59 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 had been flagged by external examiners 58 The university was subsequently judged to meet UK expectations in its 2012 review 60 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 61 An alternative providers i e private universities review by the QAA in 2017 found again that Buckingham met UK expectations in all areas 62 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 63 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 64 University of Buckingham Press editThe 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 65 and it is now available in print and its whole archive is online 66 It also publishes three other journals The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics 67 The Journal of Prediction Markets 68 andThe Journal of Gambling Business and Economics 69 It has a co publishing arrangement with Policy Exchange 70 for its Foundations series Notable alumni editSee also Category Alumni of the University of Buckingham nbsp Brigadier John Mark Lancaster Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton TD VR PC graduated with a BSc in Business Studies nbsp The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE MP graduated with a BSc Economics and LLB Hons Law from the University of Buckingham nbsp Mariano Hugo Prince of Windisch Graetz graduated in 1975 with a degree in philosophy economics and political science nbsp Susanne Klatten graduated with a BSc Business Studies nbsp Marc Gene i Guerrero graduated with an economics degree and a master s degree at Buckingham nbsp 7th Vice President of Ghana Mahamudu Bawumia graduated in 1987 with a degree in economics nbsp Michael Ellis MP graduated with an Upper Second Class degree in Law in 1993 nbsp Guy Opperman MP for Hexham has an Honours Degree in Law from the University of Buckingham 71 nbsp Glenys Margaret Elaine Hanna Martin current Minister of Education of the Bahamas as of 2021 obtained an LLB in 1985 This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources University of Buckingham news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2019 Learn how and when to remove this message British alumni include Bader Ben Hirsi playwright and director 72 The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE MP for Great Yarmouth as of 6 July 2022 update Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 73 Mark Lancaster Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton former Armed Forces minister 74 Graham Roos appointed in 2011 as the university s first Creative Artist in Residence citation needed James Henderson former CEO of Bell Pottinger citation needed Michael Ellis MP for Northhampton serving Minister for the Cabinet Office since 2022 and Paymaster General since 2021 75 International alumni include Anifah Aman Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia from April 2009 to May 2018 citation needed Mohammadin Ketapi a government minister in Malaysia citation needed 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 citation needed Mahamudu Bawumia Current Vice President of Ghana since 7 January 2016 and former deputy Governor of The Bank of Ghana citation needed Lawyer Alexander Kwamina Afenyo Markin the Member of the Parliament of Effutu Ghana parliament constituency citation needed Olagunsoye Oyinlola former Governor of Osun State Nigeria citation needed racing driver Marc Gene winner of the Le Mans 24 Hour Race in 2009 76 Mariano Hugo Prince of Windisch Graetz current head of the Austria Italian House of Windisch Graetz citation needed BMW heiress Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten 77 78 better source needed and Yosef Elron a current Justice at the Supreme Court of Israel 79 better source needed Notable academics editSee also Category Academics of the University of Buckingham Past Norman P Barry 1944 2008 political philosopher 80 Anne Beloff Chain 1921 1991 biochemist 81 Mark Blaug 1927 2011 economist Bruce Charlton Visiting Professor of Theoretical Medicine retired Olufemi Elias lecturer in law retired Robert Garner political scientist John Jewkes 1902 1988 economist Geraint Jones dean of School of Education 2014 2018 Terence Kealey born 1952 former Vice Chancellor Andrew George Lehmann 1922 2006 Professor of European Studies Ram Mudambi lecturer in business strategy Dennis O Keeffe 1939 2014 Professor of Social Science Sir Alan Peacock 1922 2014 economist Robert A Pearce born 1951 Professor in Law 1990 2003 Anthony Seldon Vice Chancellor 2015 2020 Nicolaus Tideman born 1943 economist Chris Woodhead 1946 2015 professor of education Sir David Yardley 1929 2014 Rank Foundation Professor of Law 1980 1982 Present Susanna Avery Quash art historian Hugh Belsey art historian Lloyd Clark military historian Saul David military historian John M L Drew Professor of English Literature Gert Rudolf Flick Visiting Professor in art history Simon Sebag Montefiore Visiting Professor in humanities Julian Morris Visiting Professor in economics Anthony O Hear Professor of Philosophy Jane Ridley professor of modern history Karol Sikora Professor of Medicine Alan Smithers Director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research James Tooley born 1959 Vice ChancellorNotes edit The other five are the non profit Regent s University London 4 and Richmond American University London and three for profit institutions the University of Law 5 BPP University 6 and Arden 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