Flashcards: Understanding UK Top Universities — 18 cards

UK education levels — number?

Four levels: primary, secondary, further, higher

Undergraduate degree duration?

Usually 3 years in the UK

Postgraduate taught degrees — length?

Typically 1 year

Assessment methods — examples?

Assignments, exams, projects, presentations

UK academic calendar — terms?

Autumn, Spring, Summer

Oxford colleges — total?

38 colleges

Oxford teaching evidence?

From as early as 1096

First Oxford college?

Established in 1249 by Oxford Dons

Women at Oxford — halls start?

Academic halls for women began in 1878

Women full enrolment at Oxford?

Full enrolment in 1920

Oxford colleges admitting women?

All colleges by 1974

Cambridge notable alumni?

Newton, Hawking, Turing, Darwin

Cambridge BAME students 2020?

Record number of British BAME students accepted

Stormzy Scholarship — funded students?

Funds two black students annually

Oxford acceptance rate?

17.5%, slightly more competitive than Cambridge

Alumni names — Oxford?

Oxonians

Alumni names — Cambridge?

Cantabrigians

Cambridge scientific contributions?

Newton, Hawking, Turing, Darwin