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Foundation of Leeds school
The school of Leeds was founded on the basis of the Leeds School of Medicine. A group of young men established the Leeds School of Medicine which meant that medical students no longer had to go to Scotland, London or overseas to study. -
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Adding of Yorkshire College of Science
The Yorkshire College of Science was added to the future university. The Yorkshire College of Science was founded around 40 years later largely as a result of concerns by the wool and textile industries that the rapid development of new technologies in Europe posed a threat to the local cloth trade. -
Collage and medical school
Yorkshire College of Science was merged with the School of Medicine -
College joined the Federal University of Queen Victoria
Yorshirsky College joined the Federal University of Queen Victoria in conjunction with similar institutions in Liverpool and Manchester. -
Day Training College
Unlike Owens College Manchester, the Yorkshire College had always permitted women as students. However, they did not enrol in significant numbers until special facilities were provided at the Day Training College in 1896. -
Open the Leeds University
The University of Leeds was founded in 1904. King Edward VII granted the University its own Charter as an independent institution. -
Royal Charter
At the time that the Yorkshire College received its Royal Charter, seven out of eight students came from Yorkshire. -
New way
Within three or four years the number of students began to increase rapidly and changes to state education meant that students were arriving with a better educational foundation. The ten years to the outbreak of war in 1914 were ones of growth and consolidation. Most importantly, the new University started to develop a strong tradition of research. -
The first women graduation
The first women graduated from the University of Leeds. -
The famous teachers
At the University of Leeds taught William Bragg, John Tolkien, Geoffrey Hill. -
Mark Freuder Knopfler
A student, the future famous guitar player. -
Zygmunt Bauman
student, sociologist, philosipher -
John Whitaker Straw
A student, British politics and a minister of law. -
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka
A student, a poet, a playwright. -
Piers John Sellers
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International status of university
Now, the University of Leeds not only welcomes students from all over the United Kingdom, its reputation worldwide makes it a truly multi-cultural and international institution with students and staff from over 100 countries studying and working on campus. -
Nowadays
Leeds university todaynow Leeds University is one of the best educational institutions in the UK, leading in areas such as electronics, food production, urban planning, transportation, chemistry of dyes, teaching English and foreign languages. The rinking of university is 95 according to QS 2013
