Dloko

History Main Gate Jeremy Bentham UCL was founded in 1826 under the name "University of London" as an alternative to strict religious tradition universities of Oxford and Cambridge. However, it was not until 1836 (the year that London University was founded) that the school was legally recognized and granted the ability to give formal academic qualifications. Thus, their legal status as a university is a post at the University of Durham (founded 1832), however, because the UCL was actually founded in 1826, is often considered the third oldest university in England after Oxford and Cambridge. It is also said that since the charter of King's College London (granted in 1829) predates that of UCL by five years, the UCL should not even be considered the oldest school of the University of London.The school was the first institution of higher education in the United Kingdom to accept students of any race, political or religious creed. bender ball It was possibly the first to accept women on equal terms with men (although this would be shared with the University of Bristol), the first to establish a student union (although men and women had separate unions until 1945), and the first in have professors of chemical engineering, chemistry, Egyptology, electrical engineering, English, French, Geography, German, Italian, phonetics, psychology and zoology. In 1907 the University of London was reconstituted and many schools, including UCL, lost their legal independence. This situation continued until 1977, which drafted the letter that restored the independence of the UCL. In 1985 the main building in Gower Street was finished - 158 years after the first foundation.Even today, the UCL has a strictly secular position and, unlike most UK universities, has no chapel for Christians and prayer rooms for Muslims. Because of this policy, the UCL is also known as "godless institution of Gower Street. UCL Library has its own reputation and his collection includes a first ion of Newton's Principia. In October of 2002 he announced a plan to merge UCL with Imperial College London. Most of the staff of the UCL and the school student unions regarded this union as a de facto absorption of UCL by Imperial College and opposed it. A month later, and thanks to an active campaign by these groups, the project was abandoned.