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The visit to the University of Bristol, conducted by
Mr. Tim Jones, Director of International Affairs, was an opportunity for
the delegation to get a glimpse of the University campus and experience
some ongoing work at first hand. The visit began with the neo-Gothic
splendour of the Wills Memorial Building at the top of Park Street. It
then continued to the high technology of the Merchant Venturers building,
home to
Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, where they
visited a computer teaching laboratory. Professor Muir Wood, Professor of
Civil Engineering, then showed them the earthquake shaking table and the
wind tunnel laboratories in the Queen's Building. The visit was rounded
off in the ornate plasterwork surroundings of Royal Fort House, once home
to the Tyndall family.
The University of Bristol: University College, Bristol,
was founded in 1876. The Bristol Medical School, founded in 1833, soon became associated
with the College, and became part of it in 1893. In 1909 the College combined with the Merchant
Venturers' Technical College to become the University of Bristol, and was granted a
Royal Charter.
In the academic year 2000-2001 there are nearly 12,200 students on full-time programmes
in 6 Faculties, 60 departments and 15 research
centres. 2200 of those students are studying at Master's or PhD level.
The University is very much a part of the City. For most Bristolians the University is the Wills
Memorial Building, with its great Gothic tower which dominates the city skyline, standing at the
junction of Park Street and Queen's Road, in a lively area of
Bristol only four or five minutes' walk from any point in the University precinct.
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