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British university with most students |
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Open University |
Open University first broadcast (on TV) |
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1971 |
Open University awarded its first degrees |
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1973 |
Old Alleynians are former pupils of |
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Dulwich College |
Old Carthusians are former pupils of |
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Charterhouse |
Old Wykhamists are former pupils of |
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Winchester |
Cambridge terms | October to December |
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Michaelmas |
January to March |
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Lent | |
April to June |
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Easter |
Oxford terms | October to December |
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Michaelmas |
January to March |
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Hilary | |
April to June |
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Trinity |
Term common to Oxford and Cambridge |
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Michaelmas |
Length of each term, at Cambridge |
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60 days (8 weeks 4 days) |
Length of each term, at Oxford |
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56 days (8 weeks) |
Cambridge terms run from Tuesday to Friday; Oxford terms run from Sunday to Saturday.
Some of these include the name of the town or city in their full titles. Obviously you wouldn't include any of these in the question.
Note also that some of them have campuses in other places. If in doubt, question setters may be well advised to ask where the main campuses are.
Falmer – site of the University of Sussex's main campus – is on the ouskirts of |
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Brighton |
McGill (founded in 1821, by royal charter issued by King George IV) |
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Montreal |
Influential headmaster of Rugby School, 1828–42 |
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Thomas Arnold |
French school–leaving certificate & university entrance qualification |
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Baccalaureate |
The Cavendish Laboratory – a world–renowned centre for experimental physics – is the Department of Physics at the University of |
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Cambridge |
Samuel Pepys's diaries are kept at his university – (which is) | ||
King's School, England's oldest independent school (founded 597) is in |
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Canterbury |
First Chancellor of Birmingham University |
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Joseph Chamberlain |
Prestigious music school in the centre of Manchester: established in 1969, incorporating the Hospital School of the same name, which was founded as a charity school in 1653 |
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Chetham's |
Difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic (understanding numbers, how to manipulate numbers, etc.) – the numerical equivalent of dyslexia |
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Dyscalculia |
Ivy League university that administers the Pulitzer Prize (after newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer left money to it in his will for the purpose) |
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Columbia |
Founded 1440 by Henry VI, to prepare students for Cambridge |
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Eton College |
Private school in Edinburgh, founded 1870, attended by Tony Blair and James Bond |
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Fettes College |
Game similar to squash, which originated at Eton |
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Fives |
Private clubs for male students at US colleges |
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Fraternities |
School near Elgin, Scotland, founded in 1934 by the German–born educator Kurt Hahn; attended by Princes Philip, Charles, Andrew and Edward (and Peter and Zara Philips); also "Nasty" Nick Bateman, Charles Kennedy, and Jason Connery; referred to by Prince Charles as "Colditz in kilts" |
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Gordonstoun |
Byron, Sheridan, Peel, Palmerston, Churchill: all attended |
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Harrow School |
The game of squash originated at | ||
Israel's second oldest university (after the Technion) – founded 1918: its first board included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and, Chaim Weizmann (who later became Israel's first president – a post that Einstein turned down following his death); Einstein bequeathed it the copyright to all his personal writings, and the use of his name and associated imagery |
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
One who supervises exam candidates (esp. to prevent cheating) |
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Invigilator |
The Technion (based in Haifa), founded in 1912 under the Ottoman Empire, and specialising in science subjects – is the oldest university in |
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Israel |
Eight long–established and prestigious US universities |
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Ivy League |
Influential university based in Baltimore, Maryland: founded 1876, named after its founding benefactor |
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John Hopkins |
First British university to award degrees to women (1878) |
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London |
Birkbeck, Goldsmiths and Queen Mary are three of the 18 colleges of (British university) | ||
School founded in 1843 for the sons of Church of England clergy: attended by Princess Eugenie and Kate Middleton |
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Marlborough |
Headquarters of the Open University |
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Milton Keynes |
Nursery education: providing generous facilities for practical play and allowing children to develop at their own pace |
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Montessori method |
Size of bottles in which free school milk was provided |
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One third of a pint |
Women's college at Harvard |
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Radcliffe |
Professorships created by kings or queens at various British (and Irish) universities |
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Regius professorships |
Famous girls' school on the outskirts of Brighton – founded in 1885 |
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Roedean |
School founded in 1567 by Lawrence Sheriff |
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Rugby |
Founded in Oxford, 1899 to provide educational opportunities for working class men and those with no previous qualifications – not part of Oxford University. Named after the leading English art critic of the Victorian era – also a social critic and philanthropist – who was Oxford's first Slade Professor of Fine Art |
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Ruskin College |
Group of large, research–led British universities, established 1994 |
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Russell Group |
Art collector and philanthropist, 1788–1868, established (in his will) chairs (professorships) of Fine Art at Oxford, Cambridge and London universities; the School of Fine Art, founded in his name in 1871 and linked to University College London, resulted from the same bequest |
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Felix Slade |
American universities: second–year student |
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Sophomore |
College of the University of Paris, founded 1257 (ten years after Oxford), whose name is informally used to refer to the university itself (which was actually founded approximately 100 years earlier) |
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Sorbonne |
US university, where a notorious 'prison experiment' was carried out in 1971: students were chosen to role–play prisoners and guards; abandoned after six days (of a planned 14) after 'guards' enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some 'prisoners' to "psychological torture" |
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Stanford |
Public school in Buckinghamshire, founded 1923 by J. F. Roxburgh |
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Stowe |
Controversial, unconventional boarding school in Suffolk, founded 1921 by A. S. Neill |
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Summerhill |
University: rustication |
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Suspension |
Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School of Brandford, Connecticut; renamed in 1718 after a governor of the East Inda Company, in recognition of a gift |
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Yale University |
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