The University consists of 38 faculties and colleges, as well as the so-called six dormitories - private schools that do not have the status of college and belonging, as a rule, religious orders. All exams, like most of lectures and laboratory exercises, organized centrally, while individual colleges run courses for students and seminars.
Historian Gerard of Wales lectured to students as early as 1188, and the first mention of foreign students was in 1190, the first foreign student to documents was «Emo of Friesland». The head of the University was (and is to this day) the chancellor. Non-English students were divided into northern British (Scots) and southern (Irish and Welsh). In later centuries, geographical origin continued to influence many students when the friendship between the colleges and halls of residence was custom. Members of many religious orders: the Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, Augustinians, settled in Oxford in the mid-13th century. They influenced and supported the student's home.
If over time through Oxford almost required to attend the members of high society, in the Middle Ages, before that it was still far away. Students were only clergy, they rented a room from local residents and were often poor.
(School examinations in the UK and are not held to standardize the schools, and the central examination boards - examination boards, accredited by the state.) Because of university places available before most students finish school exams, students are generally accepted on the condition that their estimates for the new academic year will be not less than a specified score (conditional offer). It is also necessary to know English better than the English (Certified IELTS - 6.5, TOEFL - 230).
Do not apply the statements in the same year in both Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Now Oxford has more than 20,000 students , about a quarter of them - foreign. Their number increases dramatically in the summer, when opened summer language school. Rector of Oxford - Sir Chris Patten. Women in Oxford began to take only 1920., But in the 70's was abolished segregation.
The main areas of training students - humanities, mathematics, physics, social sciences, medicine, life sciences and the environment.
Clinical Laboratory Science;
Clinical Medicine;
Clinical Neurology;
Clinical Pharmacology;
genetics;
Molecular Medicine;
obstetrics and gynecology;
ophthalmology;
pediatrics;
psychiatry;
health and first aid;
surgery;
Experimental Psychology;
Anatomy and Human Genetics;
pathology;
pharmacology;
physiology;
Africa;
Brazil;
Modern China;
Japan;
Latin America;
Russia and Eastern Europe;
South Asia;
the economy;
education;
Institute of the Internet;
law;
management;
politics and international relations;
social policy and social work;
sociology;
additional education.
From the walls of Oxford was a whole group of brilliant men of science, literature, art - are taught by Christopher Wren, John Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, attended Roger Bacon and Margaret Thatcher. 25 British Prime Ministers finished Oxford.
Oxford University has had an impact on culture. The world-famous costume student, one of the attributes which - Oxford "bags"
Aldous Huxley - writer
Stephen Hawking - physicist
Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of the World Wide Web
Edward VII - King of Great Britain from 1902 to 1910
Edward VIII - King of Great Britain in 1936
William Pitt, 1st Earl Chetem - 10th Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768
Margaret Thatcher - British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990
Karekin I - 131st Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians from 1995 to 1999
Edward Heath - British Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974
Abingdon Willoughby Bertie - composer and philanthropist
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