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The University of Strathclyde was the UK's first technological university, reflecting its history, teaching and research in technological education. Between the granting of the Charter and the late 1970s, the university expanded rapidly in size, in tandem with the ongoing regeneration of the Townhead area of the city where the campus is located.
The Royal College of Science and Technology was a higher education college that existed in Glasgow, Scotland between 1887 and 1964. Tracing its history back to the Andersonian Institute (founded in 1796), it is the direct predecessor institution of the University of Strathclyde (along with the Scottish College of Commerce).
The University of Strathclyde approached the college, and an agreement between both institutions was reached. In 1993 Jordanhill College became the University of Strathclyde Faculty of Education . With better use of facilities, and an ageing campus at Jordanhill which was highly protected by preservation orders, in 2010 the decision was made to ...
The list of University of Strathclyde people includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with the University of Strathclyde. Principals and vice chancellors [ edit ]
Professor John R. Hume OBE is an architectural and business historian, author and photographer. He spent 20 years at the University of Strathclyde, researching and lecturing on Economic and Industrial History, before being employed as the principal inspector of ancient monuments, and then of historic buildings, for Historic Scotland.
The Andersonian Institute, a precursor of the University of Strathclyde, was established in 1796 and used the title Anderson's University between 1828 and 1887, but the University of Strathclyde did not receive a royal charter granting university status until 1964. [28]
Sir Samuel Crowe Curran, [1] FRS, [2] FRSE (23 May 1912 – 15 February 1998) was a Scottish physicist and academic who was the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde – the first of the new technical universities in Britain.
The University’s Faculty of Education was formed in 1992 when the world-renowned Jordanhill College of Education (the first institution in Europe to train teachers [2]) made the decision to merge with the University of Strathclyde in order to create a new faculty. The new Faculty, which was launched on 1 April 1993, already had a long history ...