Oxford

There are about 90 Universities in Great Britain, the biggest one is London University. The oldest is Oxford university.

Oxford was founded in the 12th century (1133) as an aristocratic University. It has an aristocratic character
today.

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It has an aristocratic character today.

The cost of studies in the university is rather high. Students have to pay for using libraries and laboratories, as for taking exams.

The university is a collection of 35 colleges: two for women only, the rest are for man and women.

Each college gives students a specialized training in arts, law, medicine, science. The largest college has over 500 students, the smallest – 100 students.

The academic year has three terms, each lasts from eight to ten weeks.
The students have three exams: in autumn, in spring, in summer.
Final exams take place at the end of the course of studies.
If a student fails the exam, he may take it again.
Only two re – examinations
are allowed.

The formal head of the University is the Chancellor,
but the real power in the University has Vice – Chancellor who is responsible for everything in the University.
He is elected for seven years.
John Hood, vice Chancellor
elected in 2004
Andrew D Hamilton, Vice Chancellor,
2009

50 scientists – laureates of the Nobel Prize studied in Oxford University.

Frederic Soddy
1921 radio – chemist
Hinshelwood Cyril
1956 physicist and chemist

Only in the 19th century women
of any race could
enter the
University.