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Oxbridge

You have certainly heard or read something about the oldest British Universities - Oxford and Cambridge. Here are some facts about them. Oxford is the older of the two, for its history goes back to the twelfth century. Cambridge is a century younger than Oxford. The University is a federation of colleges, each largely independent. A college consists of a certain number of students and teachers or tutors. It doesn’t train students in a particular subject or a particular branch of science. The members of a college may be studying all the subjects the University provides for. A college is a place where the students live, while the University is mainly an administrative centre which organizes lectures, arranges examinations and gives degrees. There are nineteen colleges at Cambridge and thirty at Oxford including two for women at Cambridge and five-at Oxford.

A University consists of a number of faculties: medicine, arts (philosophy), law, music, natural sciences, commerce and education. The students have three short terms a year, eight weeks each, beginning in October, January and May. During the terms students attend lectures given by professors, readers and lecturers. Their studies are sometimes directed by tutors who are responsible for students’ work at the University.

After three or four years of study final examinations are held. Tuition at the University isn’t free, of course. The fee at Oxford and Cambridge is so high that only rich people can afford to attend them. Very few of those who are accepted to the University get grants. That is why only three per cent of the students are children of the working people.

Many great men studied at Cambridge and Oxford: among them Bacon the philosopher, Byron the poet, Cromwell the soldier, Newton the scientist, Margaret Thatcher the former Prime Minister.

Questions

1. What does the abbreviation “Oxbridge” stand for?

2. What is distinctive of these Universities?

3. What is the fee at Oxbridge?

4. Do students of Oxbridge get grants?

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