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In September 2023 British Council took over as Secretariat of the scheme from the Association of Commonwealth Universities. [ citation needed ] In October 2018, the Chevening Scholarships Programme celebrated its 35th anniversary by awarding a total number of 1,800 scholarships from 160 countries for the 2018–19 school year. [ 8 ]
Fundación Caja Cantabria is a Spanish banking foundation based in Santander.It is the entity resulting from the transformation, in 2014, of Caja de Ahorros de Santander y Cantabria, a savings bank whose commercial name was "Caja Cantabria," which had transferred its financial activity to Liberbank in 2011.
University of Cantabria (UC) (Spanish: Universidad de Cantabria), is a public university located in Santander, Torrelavega and Comillas in Cantabria, Spain. It was founded in 1972 and is organized in 15 schools and colleges. It was selected as Campus of International Excellence by the Government of Spain in 2009. [5]
On 27 July, a "War Committee" was formed to direct the war effort, while the "Santander Defense Council" was in charge of directing the regional government. On 23 December, the government of the Spanish Republic decided to create three Interprovincial Councils to replace the Defense Councils in Asturias and León , Santander, Palencia and ...
The British Accreditation Council has been a member of Enqua since 2015, [3] became a member of INQAAHE [4] in 2006 and has a memorandum of agreement with the Quality Assurance Agency. [5] The Chief Executive of the BAC is a member of the British Council ’s Accreditation Scheme Advisory Committee. [ 6 ]
By 1900, the travelling scholarship had become an important part of settler universities' educational visions. It served as a crucial mechanism by which they sought to claim their citizenship of what they saw as the expansive British academic world. The Rhodes program was a copy of others that soon became the best-known version. [8]
The Cathedral of Santander: The lower temple, called "cripta del Cristo" was built around 1200 on other earlier Roman buildings. It is 31 metres (102 ft) long and 18 metres (59 ft) wide, organised into three naves. Its style is a transition from Romanesque to Gothic. [22] The Lighthouse of Cabo Mayor presides over the entrance to the Bay of ...
British migration to Spain has resulted in Spain being home to one of the largest British-born populations outside the United Kingdom in the world, and the largest in Europe. Migration from the UK to Spain has increased rapidly since the late 1990s and the registered population of British nationals in Spain in 2014 was 297,229 (2014).