Higher Education in The U.K.There are more than 60 universities in the U.K. The leading universitiesare Cambridge, Oxford and London. English universities differ from each otherin traditions, general organization, internal government, etc. British universitiesare comparatively small, the approximate number is about 7-8 thousand students.Most universities have under 3000 students, some even less than 1500 ones.
London and Oxford universities are international, because people from manyparts of the world come to study at one of their colleges. A number ofwell-known scientists and writers, among them Newton, Darvin, Byron wereeducated in Cambridge.A university consists of a number of departments art, law, music,economy, education, medicine, engineering, etc.After three years of study a student may proceed to a
Bachelor s degree,and later to the degrees of Master and Doctor. Besides universities there areat present in Britain 300 technical colleges, providing part-time and full-timeeducation.The organization system of Oxford and Cambridge differs from that of allother universities and colleges. The teachers are usually called Dons. Part ofthe teaching is by means of lectures organized by the
university. Teaching isalso carried out by tutorial system. This is the system of individual tuitionorganized by the colleges. Each student goes to his tutor s room once a week toread and discuss an essay which the student has prepared.Some students get scholarship but the number of these students is comparativelysmall. There are many associates and clubs at Cambridge and
Oxford. The mostcelebrating at Cambridge is the Debating Society at which students discusspolitical and other questions with famous politicians and writers. Sportingactivities are also numerous.The work and games, the traditions and customs, the jokes and debates -all are parts of students life there.It should be mentioned that not many children from the working-classfamilies are able to receive the higher education as the fees are very high more than
L1000 a year . Besides that special fees are taken for books, forlaboratory works, exams and so on.