Brunel University is a higher education institution situated in West London, England. In the latest Government Research Assessment Exercise, 82% of research submitted was rated as of international standing. The university has recently spent £250 million redeveloping its campus, including new and refurbished social, teaching and sporting facilities.
Brunel is one of a number of British universities created in the 1960s following the Robbins Report...
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Brunel University is a higher education institution situated in West London, England. In the latest Government Research Assessment Exercise, 82% of research submitted was rated as of international standing. The university has recently spent £250 million redeveloping its campus, including new and refurbished social, teaching and sporting facilities.
Brunel is one of a number of British universities created in the 1960s following the Robbins Report on higher education (often called the plate glass universities).
The university's origins lie in Acton Technical College, which was split into two sections in 1957 – Acton Technical College continued to cater for technicians and craftsmen, and the new Brunel College of Technology (named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the British engineer) was dedicated to the education of chartered engineers.
In 1961 Brunel College of Technology was awarded the status of College of Advanced Technology, and it was decided that it should expand at another site...
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