English Universities

PLAN
Introduction
Main part
History of Cambridge university
Interesting facts about Cambridge university
Conclusion
The list of used literature

INTRODUCTION
The education system of Great Britain is very developed, especially higher education. A lot of worldwide leaders, artists, writers and scientists graduated from English universtites.
There are more than 60 universities in the U.K. The leading
universities are Cambridge, Oxford and London.
The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's third-oldest surviving university.
Especially a will introduce for you some facts, history and interesting materials about Cambridge University.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
The University of Cambridge was officially started in 1209 by an association of scholars who came from Oxford. There are rumours that these scholars where in trouble with the law in Oxford and made a run for it to Cambridge (not something that Cambridge people care to admit or are particularly proud of).

Motto in Latin: Hinc lucem et pocula sacra
Motto in EnglishLiteral: From here, light and sacred draughts
Non-literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge
THE AMBLEM OF CAMBRIDGE

INTERESTING FACTS
The University has over 29,000,000 books and receives a free copy of every book published in the UK every year. That’s quite a lot of reading…

The first official game of football with rules we would recognise was played on Parker’s Piece, the big public park in the middle of Cambridge. It was played in 1848 between the City and the University.

The mathematical bridge which crosses the river Cam was designed by Isaac Newton and is held together only by gravity with no nails, screws or fixings. Years later, students took it apart to try to understand how it worked, but couldn’t put it together again without screws and nails!

Affiliates of Cambridge University have won 89 Nobel Prizes covering all six disciplines.
Cambridge has won most Nobel Prizes in Physics, 29 in all.

John Harvard, the founder of Harvard University in the US – the oldest university in the country, was a graduate of Cambridge.

The statesman Oliver Cromwell and the popular poet John Milton were graduates of the University of Cambridge.

In addition, the naturalist Charles Darwin and the economist John Maynard Keynes both graduated at the Cambridge.

This public university has 1,539 administrative staffs with 18,396 students; 12,018 of which are undergraduates while 6,378 are post graduates.

The man who was responsible for the first cloning of a mammal with “Dolly the Sheep” in 1996 – Sir Ian Wilmut, was a graduate student at Darwin College in Cambridge university.

The University of Cambridge is consists of the colleges; King's College, Trinity Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Darwin College, Trinity College, Corpus Christi College, Downing College, Wolfson College, St John's College, Queens' College, Girton College, Clare Hall, St Catharine's College, Newnham College, Robinson College, Peterhouse, Jesus College, Selwyn College, Lucy Cavendish College, Clare College, Christ's College, Fitzwilliam College, St Edmund's College, Pembroke College, Magdalene College, Churchill College, Hughes Hall, Gonville & Caius College, Emmanuel College, New Hall and Homerton College.

CONCLUSION
English higher education system is one of the best in Europe and in the whole world. The special feature of English higher education system is that learning is based not only on modern technologies, but also on the age-old traditions. Graduates of English universities are always employed because studying in the best universities of Great Britain makes them true experts in their field.