2. REQUIREMENTS:
good A-level results in at least
2 subjects
interviews
3. ACADEMIC YEAR
beginning of
middle of
October to
April to the
the middle
end of June
of December
middle of January
to the end of
March
4. DEGREES
Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Science, AFTER THREE YEARS
Engineering, Medicine, etc OF STUDY
LATER: Master's Degree needs two further years of study,
with examination papers and
substantial dissertations
Doctor's Degree preparing theses which
must make original contributions
to knowledge
5. ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES DIFFER IN
date of
foundation
way of
size
student life
UNIVERSITY
methods of
history
instruction
general
tradition
organization
7. TEACHING IS DONE BY
Lecturer
• who produces published research
papers
• who can be promoted to a reader
Reader
• after this it’s necessary to move to
another university to be appointed to a
professor
Professor
8. TEACHING IS DONE THROUGH
lecture courses
seminars
(for 10 laboratories
students)
tutorial groups (for 3-4
students)
9. Council for National Academic Awards
(CNAA)
college which has developed a course at university level may apply to it,
asking to have the course recognised as a degree-level course in its own
right
CNAA looks thoroughly at the structure and content of the courses, the
teaching facilities of every kind and the proposed system of
examination
CNAA satisfied – the college may then organise its own syllabuses,
teaching and examinations
11. common
rooms
a chapel library
lecture
a hall COLLEGE
rooms
12. founded in the nineteenth and the early
part of the twentieth centuries
London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool,
Shetfield, and Birmingham
13.
14.
15. POLITECHNICS
offer first and higher degrees
offer full-time and sandwich courses (for working students)
COLLEGES OF EDUCATION
provide two-year courses in teacher education or sometimes
three years if the graduate specializes in some particular subjects
16. study in their own free time
‘attend’ lectures by watching TV and
listening to the radio
keep in touch by phone and letter with
tutors
attend summer schools
have no formal qualifications
are unable to enter ordinary universities
17.
18.
19.
20. 25 British • Margaret Thatcher
Prime
Ministers and Tony Blair
• King Harald V of Norway,
King Abdullah II of
25 other
international
Jordan, three Prime
leaders Ministers of Australia two
Prime Ministers of India,
and Bill Clinton
47 Nobel
prize
winners
