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Keele University was established in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, at the initiative of A. D. Lindsay, then Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Lindsay was a strong advocate of working-class alt ecation,[7] who had first suggested a "people's university" in an address to the North Staffordshire Workers' Ecational Association in 1925.[8]
On 13 March 1946, Lindsay wrote to Sir Walter Moberly, chair of the University Grants Committee (UGC), suggesting the establishment of a college “on new lines”.[9] Established practice was for new colleges to be launched without degree-awarding powers, instead taking external degrees of the University of London. Crucially, Lindsay wanted to “get rid of the London external degree”, instead forming a college with the authority from the start to set its own syllabus, perhaps acting under the sponsorship of an established university. Lindsay wrote also to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, tentatively requesting just such sponsorship.[9]
An exploratory committee was established by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, chaired by Lindsay and supported by Alderman Thomas Horwood, Vicar of Etruria and leader of the Labour group on the City Council.[10] Having secured public funding from the UGC in January 1948,[11] the Committee acquired Keele Hall, a stately home on the outskirts of Newcastle-under-Lyme, from its owner, Ralph Sneyd.[12] The Hall, ancestral residence of the Sneyd family, had previously been requisitioned by the War Office for military use ring World War II, and was supplied with the bulk of the Sneyd estate and a number of prefabricated structures erected by the Army, for the sum of £31,000.[12]
The first graate was Margaret Boulds in 1954. Growing steadily, the University College was promoted to university status in 1962,[13] receiving a new Royal Charter in January of that year,[14] and adopting the name The University of Keele. This remains the official name, although Keele University is now the name used by the University itself.
In 1968, the Royal Commission on Medical Ecation (1965–68) issued its report (popularly known as the Todd Report), which considered the possibility of a medical school being established at Keele University. It was generally considered that North Staffordshire would be a good site for a new medical school, having a large local population and several large hospitals. However, it was considered that a minimum intake of 150 students a year would be necessary to make a medical school at Keele economically and ecationally viable, and it was considered that Keele University was at that time too small an institution to be able to support a medical school of this size. However, in 1978, Keele Department of Postgraate Medicine opened. This department concted medical research, and played a part in postgraate medical ecation, but did not teach undergraate medical students. This was followed, in 2002, by medical students from Manchester Medical School being taught at Keele, eventually leading to Keele's own medical school starting in 2007.
In 1994, the Oswestry and North Staffordshire School of Physiotherapy (ONSSP), which had been a separate institution based at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, Shropshire, merged with Keele University, becoming Keele's Department of Physiotherapy Studies, and relocating from Oswestry to the Keele University campus. In August 1995, Keele University merged with North Staffordshire College of Nursing and Midwifery, forming the new School of Nursing and Midwifery.
In 1998 and 1999 there was some controversy over the decision by University authorities to sell the Turner Collection, a valuable collection of mathematical printed books including some which had belonged to - and had been heavily annotated by - Isaac Newton, in order to fund major improvements to the University Library. The collection also included first printed editions of Euclid in most of the major European languages. Senior University officials authorised the sale of the collection to a private buyer, with no guarantee that it would remain intact or within the UK. Although legally permissible, the sale was unpopular among the academic community and the controversy was fuelled by prolonged negative press coverage suggesting that the £1m sale price was too low and that the collection was certain to be broken up.[15]
The University estimates that there are now upwards of 5,600 full-time students at Keele; 1,300 part-time students; and around 4,000 participants on professional and short courses.[16] The University is committed to further growth,[17] with the stated objective of increasing its numbers to 10,000 full-time students.[16]
