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Buckingham is independent
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"I left Cambridge to come to Buckingham because I wanted to work at the only British university which puts the student first." Dr Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor |
Buckingham was founded in 1976 by a group of Oxford academics who despaired of the way the other British universities were going. The other universities are all funded by the state, and the state is their customer, so they have to do what the state says. That is why, to save money at the students' expense, the state spends only half as much per student as it did 20 years ago. But the customer at Buckingham is you . We're not perfect, but our every effort is directed at your learning and social experience, not at meeting some Government minister's bureaucratic target.
See also: The history of the University