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Each year over 2,000 international students study at the university's Preston Campus. UCLan has over 3,000 students enrolled offshore, across a diverse range of countries including China, Greece, India, Mauritius, Singapore and the United States. In 2012 the university opened UCLan Cyprus, a €53 million branch campus in Larnaka, Cyprus.
In 2010, the University won the Broadcast Journalism Training Council's award for general excellence. [4] In 2022, The Guardian University Guide ranked UCLan's journalism courses as the best in England; [ 5 ] in the same year, the journalism degree was recognised as the top-performing undergraduate programme by the National Council for the ...
In the 19th century, it became legal to raise money for libraries by local taxation, and the town of Preston wanted a grand museum and library for its inhabitants. From 1850, local people held fund-raising events; and in 1877 Edmund Robert Harris, a Preston lawyer, left in his will £300,000 to establish a trust and support a public library, museum and art gallery with Preston Corporation.
The School of Business at the University of Central Lancashire (previously known as Lancashire Business School) at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is a business school based in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. It is located in a building at the heart of UCLan’s campus, close to the city centre.
Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues of many major research libraries and specialist libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales. [1]
Preston is the seat of Lancashire County Council, houses the main campus of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and is home to Preston North End, a founding member of the Football League and the first English football champions in 1889. In that season, the team also won the league and cup double and went unbeaten in the league. It took ...
The college contains Lark Hill House, built in 1797 as private house for Samuel Horrocks, a cotton manufacturer and later Mayor and Member of Parliament for Preston. [2] [3] The house was unoccupied after the deaths of both Horrocks in 1842 and his son four years later, until 1860 when it was sold to the Faithful Companions of Jesus Sisters, to become Lark Hill House School for girls.
Preston College is a further education in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. The college originally opened as W. R. Tuson College in September 1974 and was renamed Preston College on 1 September 1989.