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FOUNDED on October 27, 1857, Wigan and "F District Mining and Technical College has just celebrated its ninetieth anniversary. In its first session the average attendance was 15; now it has some 2,800 students. The intervening ninety years show a continuous record of expansion and progress in spite of many difficulties. Like most higher institutions of learning in Britain to-day, the College is overcrowded and badly in need of extended accommodation and additional facilities, particularly for postgraduate and research work. Founded primarily to develop mining education, and still maintaining a leading position in that field, it has never confined itself to mining alone. Its range of work covers also engineering, chemistry, physics, geology, biology, mathematics, building, commerce, economics, art, and other subjects.
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Wigan Mining College. Nature 161, 1027 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/1611027a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1611027a0