Education received at prestigious universities in Great Britain is highly regarded in scientific, educational, cultural and literary circles and, in general, in society. You can recall many names of great people who, with their achievements, raised the authority of UK universities: Swift, Carroll, Thatcher, Hawking - the list is endless. We have prepared an overview of the top three universities in the UK.
Oxford
Oxford is known in history as one of the first English-speaking universities, the exact date of the opening of which is difficult to establish. The first mention of the city was found in written records of 912, when a nunnery was located in its place. In 1117, the first university in Great Britain for the clergy was organized there. Oxford is 90 km away. from London, it is now home to about 154,000 people, 30,000 of whom are students. The name of the city sounds very prosaic in translation into Russian - “bull's ford”.
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Notable lecturers and alumni of Oxford
The teaching staff is represented by 4000 highly educated, intelligent scientists who have more than one academic degree, laureates of prestigious awards and honorary titles that the UK is proud of. The University has a Russian Society, founded in the early 19th century by Oxford graduate Felix Yusupov in order to ensure closer ties between Russia and the prestigious university.
Outstanding personalities came out of the walls of Oxford, glorifying it with their brilliant creations in different eras. Everyone knows the author of the famous "Gulliver's Travels" - Jonathan Swift, a brilliant allegorical satirist who made fun of the vices of 17th century English society.
Not inferior to him in a deep satirical depiction of the famous Oxford graduate - Oscar Wilde with the immortal "Portrait of Dorian Gray" about the dead end of life, which leads to excessive human vanity and self-admiration. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was also a student at Oxford University.
Famous for their progressive power, the English kings Edward VII and Edward VIII were educated at Oxford.
World famous Prime Ministers of England W. Gladstone, G. Wilson, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Margaret Thatcher are also graduates of the famous educational institution. Russia is proud that talented Russian writers and poets: V.A. Zhukovsky, I.S. Turgenev, I. Brodsky, K. Chukovsky, A. Akhmatova were awarded honorary academic degrees from Oxford.
Cambridge university
Cambridge can be called a rival to Oxford in terms of age and social and scientific importance. The educational institution, founded in 1209, is an example of a high-quality educational institution saturated with the spirit of the Middle Ages, innovative progress and the preservation of purely English traditions.
Since the 13th century, the humanitarian, theological, medical, and law faculties have trained qualified specialists whose names are associated with the oldest university: Thomas More, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Charles Darwin, I. Newton, E. Rutherford and other luminaries of science.
The territory of Cambridge is huge: in addition to a large number of educational buildings, there are 8 solid museums that invariably attract the attention of not only students, but also ordinary tourists. The beautiful botanical garden is another active attraction for everyone who comes to Cambridge. The university is proud of its traditions and reveres them sacredly, so no one is surprised by students dressed in black robes and hats.
The university is striking in its scale: it has more than 150 faculties, departments, various scientific schools and associations, dozens of creative clubs, more than a hundred libraries. Figuratively, Cambridge can be called a huge forge of scientific and professional personnel, a bright hearth of spiritual, intellectual and aesthetic culture, a beacon of the collective mind.
Edinburgh University
It was founded in 1583 and now, along with Oxford and Cambridge, is an authoritative, popular university in many countries of the world, where thousands of applicants are striving to enter. Given this fact, the university is actively opening branches of some faculties in other states, including Russia.
Notable faculty and alumni of the University of Edinburgh
The history of the university is associated with the names of the great scientists-inventors who gave the world a telephone, TV, steam engine: with A. Bell, James Watt, John Baile and others.
For some time, the future Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill, who noted the extraordinary talent of the Scots, headed the university.
Graduates of the University of Edinburgh were the classics of world literature Walter Scott, Conan Doyle, Robert Stevenson, who glorified her name "Harry Potter" J.K. Rowling. Famous British politicians Gordon Brown and Robin Cook received an excellent education here.
The pioneer of education at the University of Edinburgh from Russia was the son of Princess Yekaterina Dashkova, one of the most enlightened women of the 18th century, who led the Russian Academy of Sciences. Now Russian students also study here, among the many departments of the educational institution there is a department of the Russian language.
The academic basis of a modern university is made up of 3 large-scale colleges with a huge number of faculties of different directions. At the university, research institutes and centers have been opened, where every talented student or graduate can engage in scientific activities, according to the results of which the educational institution ranks 5th among all UK universities.
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