HIGHER EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN

REQUIREMENTS:

good A-level results in at least 2 subjects

interviews

ACADEMIC YEAR

beginning of October

to the middle of December

middle of January to the end of March

middle of April to

the end of June

DEGREES

Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Science, Engineering, Medicine, etc

AFTER THREE YEARS OF STUDY

Master's Degree

Doctor's Degree

LATER: needs two further years of study, with examination papers and substantial dissertations

preparing theses which must make original contributions to knowledge

ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES DIFFER IN

UNIVERSITY

date of foundation

size

history

traditiongeneral organization

methods of instruction

way of student life

UNIVERSITY

Effective governing

body

Vice-chancellor

local notables

students’

representatives

lecturers

professors

= an academic

chief

TEACHING IS DONE BYLecturer• 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

TEACHING IS DONE THROUGH

lecture courses

laboratories

tutorial groups (for 3-4 students)

seminars (for 10

students)

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

UNIVERSITIES / GROUPS:

OXBRIDGE

REDBRICK UNIVERSITIES

NEW UNIVERSITIES

COLLEGEa hall

a chapel

common rooms

library

lecture rooms

REDBRICK

London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Shetfield, and Birmingham

founded in the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries

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

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

38 COLLEGES

7 RELIGIOUS PERMANENT PRIVATE HALLS (PPHS)

25 British Prime

Ministers

• Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair

25 other international

leaders

• King Harald V of Norway, King Abdullah II of Jordan, three Prime Ministers of Australia two Prime Ministers of India, and Bill Clinton

47 Nobel prize winners

BUILDINGS RANGE FROM MEDIEVAL TO VERY MODERN BUILDINGS