Oxford university

Oxford University

Teacher:Z.V.Tskhovrebova School №1

Kakhun 2011

Oxford University is the oldest one in England and is situated 100 kilometres outside London in the city of Oxford.

It is the second oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest university in the English-speaking world . Although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, there is evidence of teaching there as far back as the 11th century.The University grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris .

The University’s origin can be traced to the early 12-th century. It was modelled after the University of Paris with initial facilities of theology, law,medicine and liberal arts.

The coat of arms of the University of Oxford.

University of Oxford seal

Certuficate of the Oxford University

Oxford is a collegiateUniversity. It consists of 39colleges.

Colleges are self-governing institutions consisting of a head and fellows. Each college has its own hall, chapel,library and endowments.

The university has 16 faculties including medieval and modern European languages and literature, agricultural science,social studiesand others.

Exeter College

Lincoln College

Pembroke College

Worcester College, backs of medieval cottages.

Trinity College

Merton College

St.John’s College

University College

St.Catherine’s College

Magdalen’s Colege

Merton’s College

Bellerby’s College

Brasenose College

Keble College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

Since 2008, when St.Hilda’s first admitted men, all Oxford colleges have been co-educational.

Students of the Oxford University.

Oxford houses the Bodlean Library.

The Ashmolean Museum is the oldest museum in Britain.

Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

The Museum of the History of the Oxford University.

Oxford University park

Oxford University Botanic Garden.

The Oxford University Press, established in 1478, is one of the largest and most prestigious university publishers in the world.

Matthew Pinsent

Rupert Murdoch

Some fifty Olympic medal-winners have academic connections with the university, including Sir Matthew Pinsent , quadruple gold-medallist rower. TE Lawrence was a student at Jesus College , while other illustrious students include the explorer, courtier, and man of letters, Sir Walter Raleigh , (who attended Oriel College but left without taking a degree) to the Australian media oligarch, Rupert Murdoch .The founder of Methodism , John Wesley , studied at Christ Church and was elected a fellow.

The long list of writers associated with Oxford includes John Fowles , Theodor Geisel , Thomas Middleton , Samuel Johnson , Robert Graves , Evelyn Waugh , Lewis Carroll , Aldous Huxley , Oscar Wilde , CS Lewis , JRR Tolkien , Graham Greene , Phillip Pullman , Joseph Heller , Vikram Seth , the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley , John Donne , AE Housman , WH Auden , TS Eliot , Wendy Perriam and Philip Larkin , and seven poets laureate ( Thomas Warton , Henry James Pye , Robert Southey , Robert Bridges , Cecil Day-Lewis , Sir John Betjeman , and Andrew Moti

Oscar Wilde

Samuel Johnson

Adam Smith Alfred Marshall

Thomas Hobbes

Albert Einstein

Economists Adam Smith , Alfred Marshall , EF Schumacher and Amartya Sen , and philosophers, John Locke , Thomas Hobbes and Jeremy Bentham , have all spent time at Oxford, as have major scientific pioneers such as Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger .

Tony Blair

Margaret Thatcher

David Cameron

Twenty-six British prime ministers have attended Oxford, including William Gladstone , Herbert Asquith , Clement Attlee , Harold Macmillan , Harold Wilson , Edward Heath , Margaret Thatcher , Tony Blair and most recently David Cameron .

Richard Dawkins

Anthony James Leggett

Tim Berners-Lee

Some contemporary scientists include Stephen Hawking , Richard Dawkins ,Nobel prize-winner Anthony James Leggett , and Tim Berners-Lee ,co-inventor of the World Wide Web .

Sir Hubert Parry

William Walton

Andrew Lloyd-Webber

Composers Sir Hubert Parry , George Butterworth , John Taverner , William Walton , and Andrew Lloyd-Webber have all been involved with the university.