University of Birmingham
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Motto | Latin: Per Ardua Ad Alta |
Formation | February 23, 1875 |
Headquarters | Birmingham, England |
Type | Public |
University located in Birmingham, England |
The University of Birmingham is a public research university located in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
It is a research institution, with over 19,000 undergraduate students and over 11,000 graduate students[1]. It is a founding member of the Russell Group university group, and of the global university research group Universitas 21.
History
Founded on February 23, 1875 by the Birmingham industrialist Josiah Mason, Mason Science College marked the beginning of higher education and teaching in Birmingham and was to become part of the newly founded University of Birmingham 25 years later. However, it was Joseph Chamberlain's passionate commitment to what was, from the point of view of the time and in comparison to traditional English universities, a more progressive and liberal educational policy that was actually significant for its creation. The university still relies on this entrepreneurial spirit today.
Alumni on Wikispooks
Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
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Valerie Amos | 13 March 1954 | Politician | British Labour politician | ||
Hilary Armstrong | 30 November 1945 | Politician | |||
Luciana Berger | 13 May 1981 | Politician | Former Labour MP Liverpool Wavertree, former Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. After parliament started working for PR-company Edelman. | ||
Kevin Bonavia | Politician Lawyer | Future Labour MP? | |||
Neville Chamberlain | 18 March 1869 | 9 November 1940 | UK | Politician | |
Nick Cull | 1964 | UK | Propaganda expert | ||
David Kelly | 14 May 1944 | 17 July 2003 | UK | Whistleblower | Dr David Kelly, a UN weapons inspector who died in highly suspicious circumstances |
Martin Landray | 1968 | UK | Epidemiologist Big pharma/Lobbyist | UK epidemiologist working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who used potentially deadly dose in trial of COVID-drug hydroxychloroquine. | |
Raimonda Murmokaitė | 17 July 1959 | Lithuania | Diplomat | Lithuanian diplomat who was President of the United Nations Security Council in February 2014 and May 2015, and Chairman of the UNSC's Counter-Terrorism Committee 2014-2015. | |
Mark Pyman | UK | Propagandist | Institute for Statecraft specialist in "anti-corruption" linkedIn=https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mark-pyman-curbingcorruption | ||
Phil Shiner | 25 December 1956 | UK | Academic Lawyer | ||
Ruth Smeeth | 29 June 1979 | Politician | |||
Zarah Sultana | 31 October 1993 | Politician | |||
Yanis Varoufakis | 24 March 1961 | ||||
Brian Whitaker | 1947 | UK | Journalist | Guardian journalist with an interest in Bellingcat | |
Ann Widdecombe | 4 October 1947 | UK | |||
Hossein Yassaie | |||||
Faik Öztrak | 26 March 1954 | Turkey | Politician | Turkish politician identifying with the West |