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The University of Canterbury Central Library is the largest university library in New Zealand. [40] The Central Library has collections of over 2 million physical items including books, archives, journals and a miscellany of other items that support research and teaching in Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Commerce, Music, Fine Arts and ...
In 1872 the Canterbury Collegiate Union was established and this subsequently became Canterbury University College, affiliated to the University of New Zealand. By 1873, law students had the option to substitute university arts courses for the general knowledge exam, and initial law classes began at the University of Otago and Canterbury ...
In 1957 the art school was the first faculty of the university to move to Ilam where it was situated in Oakover House on the Ilam campus. [8] The following years John Simpson was appointed Senior lecturer and in 1961, aged 38, was made first Professor of Fine Arts at the School of Art Canterbury University. [9]
In 2014/2015, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University were worth £909m to city's economy and accounted for 16% of all jobs. [72] River punts provide tours of the city. Unemployment in the city dropped 0.6 percentage points to 1.7% from 2001 to 2007. [73] The registered unemployment rate as of September 2011 stood at 5.7%.
The Puaka–James Hight Building is the main library building of the University of Canterbury.It is named after Puaka the Māori star cluster also known as Rigel in the Orion constellation, [4] and Sir James Hight, former, professor, and rector at Canterbury College. [5]
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury (1 C, 223 P) Pages in category "University of Canterbury" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
This category is for the head of the administrators of Canterbury College and the University of Canterbury. The roles were called: Chairman of the Board of Governors (1873–1933) Chairman of the College Council (1933–1957) Chancellor (1957–present)
The Macmillan Brown Library was established in 1935 as a separate collection within the University of Canterbury Library. It was created through the philanthropy of Professor John Macmillan Brown , who was one of the first academics at the newly established Canterbury College in 1874, [ 4 ] one of the constituent colleges of the University of ...