Harper Adams
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| Motto | Utile Dulci (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Useful and agreeable |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 2012: gained University Status 1998: gained University college status 1901: Founded as Harper Adams College |
| Chancellor | HRH the Princess Royal |
| Vice-Chancellor | David Llewellyn |
| Students | 5,575 (2015/16) |
| Undergraduates | 4,985 (2015/16) |
| Postgraduates | 595 (2015/16) |
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Other students
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60 FE |
| Location |
Edgmond, Shropshire, TF10 8NB, United Kingdom 52°46′47″N 2°25′39″W / 52.779651°N 2.427517°W |
| Campus | Rural |
| Colours | Blue and gold |
| Website | Harper Adams University |
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Complete (2018, national) |
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Times/Sunday Times (2018, national) |
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| Teaching Excellence Framework | Gold | |
Harper Adams University (previously known as Harper Adams College) is a public university located close to the village of Edgmond, near Newport, in Shropshire, UK. Established in 1901, the university is a specialist provider of higher education for the agricultural and rural sector. The university provides more than 50 foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes to students from over 30 countries. The university is set within a 550 hectare (1360 acre) working farm.
Harper Adams College was founded in 1901 under leadership of Principle Headworth Foulkes (1901-1922) after Thomas Harper Adams, a wealthy Shropshire gentleman farmer who has died in 1892, bequeathed the estate. The College had just six students. In 1909 a specialist poultry husbandry was created.
During the First World War, Harper Adams remained open, and in 1915 the first women were admitted into the College on wartime farm courses. Harper Adams was the first institute to do so, and in 1916 women were admitted as full-time students onto a wide variety of courses. Approximately, 200 staff and former students served during the war and 40 are known to have died. In 2015, 10 additional names were added to the university's memorial board, after previously unrecorded alumni were also discovered to been killed in action. A board in the Old Library listing the names of those killed was dedicated in March 2015, crafted by Peter Nunn of the university's estate department, whilst a new memorial garden was also created outside the library.
The agricultural depression of the 1920s onwards leg to a drop in student numbers. In 1922, Charles Crowther (1922 - 1944) became Principle and efforts were taken to ensure the College stayed open. The National Institute of Poultry Husbandry opened in 1926, bringing with it to Harper a high profile in areas of teaching and research. The College managed to stay open during the Second World War, and in 1939 the first girls arrived at the College. Bill Price (1946-1962) become Principal in 1946 and student numbers steadily rose to 222. The Jubilee Hostel was opened in 1951.
Reginald Kenny became Principle in 1962 until 1977. In 1964, the funding of the College was passed from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Department of Education and Science. The first Higher National Diploma students were enrolled in 1969. Tony Harris was later appointed Principle in 1977 until 1994. Degree courses were first introduced at Harper Adams in 1981. The university was one of the first institutions to introduce a BSc. sandwich course. The [CNAA] granted Harper Adams the authority to validate its own courses. In 1985, the science building was opened by HRH The Princess Margaret.
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