Education

History of Education

Qarawiyyin Mosque, originally founded 859 AD and claiming to be the world's oldest university, is in		Fez, Morocco
Al–Azhar University, founded 969 AD and also claiming to be the world's oldest, is in		Cairo
Europe's oldest university (founded 1088)		Bologna
Britain's oldest university (first college – University College – founded 1249)		Oxford
Britain's second oldest university (first college – Peterhouse – founded 1284)		Cambridge
Scotland's oldest university, and Britain's third oldest (1411)		St. Andrew's
Britain's fourth oldest university (1451)		Glasgow
Britain's fifth oldest university (1495)		Aberdeen
Britain's sixth oldest university (1583)		Edinburgh
England's third oldest university, and Britain's seventh oldest (1832)		Durham
Northern Ireland's oldest university (1845)		Queen's, Belfast

Timeline

Eton School founded by King Henry VI		1440
Harrow School founded		1571
Oxbridge's first college for women (Girton, Cambridge – known at the time as the College for Women) – opened (successful students were awarded 'titular degrees')		1868
Oxford's first women's colleges (Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville) established		1879
Oxford University awards degrees to women for the first time		1920
Cambridge University awards degrees to women for the first time		1947
Churchill (Cambridge) becomes the first Oxbridge college to admit both men and women		1972
Hughes Hall (Cambridge) – previously mature women students only – begins admitting mature men		1973
Five Oxford men's colleges (Brasenose, Jesus, Wadham, Hertford and St. Catherine's) begin admitting women		1974
Girton begins admitting men (other women's colleges – Newnham 1871, New Hall 1954, Lucy Cavendish 1965 – have not yet followed suit)		1979
Oriel – Oxford's last men–only college – begins admitting women		1985
St. Hilda's – Oxford's last single–sex college – begins admitting men		2008

British university with most students		Open University
Open University first broadcast (on TV)		1971
Open University awarded its first degrees		1973

The Ivy League

Name		Location		Founded
Harvard		Cambridge, Massachusetts		1636
Yale		New Haven, Connecticut		1701
Pennsylvania		Philadelphia		1740
Princeton		Princeton, New Jersey		1746
Columbia		New York City		1754
Brown		Providence, Rhode Island		1764
Dartmouth College		Hanover, New Hampshire		1769
Cornell		Ithaca, New York		1865

Old Boys

Old Alleynians are former pupils of		Dulwich College
Old Carthusians are former pupils of		Charterhouse
Old Wykhamists are former pupils of		Winchester

Oxbridge

Cambridge terms	October to December		Michaelmas
	January to March		Lent
	April to June		Easter

Oxford terms	October to December		Michaelmas
	January to March		Hilary
	April to June		Trinity

Term common to Oxford and Cambridge		Michaelmas
Length of each term, at Cambridge		60 days (8 weeks 4 days)
Length of each term, at Oxford		56 days (8 weeks)

Cambridge terms run from Tuesday to Friday; Oxford terms run from Sunday to Saturday.

Cambridge colleges		31
Oxford colleges (not including six Permanent Private Halls)		38
Oxford college that has no students (every member automatically becomes a Fellow, or don); the first Oxbridge college, alphabetically; founded in 1438, and officially known as The Warden and the College of the Souls of All Faithful People Deceased in the University of Oxford		All Souls
Name given to the riverside lawns where Cambridge colleges back onto the River Cam		The Backs
Abbreviation for a degree from Cambridge University		Cantab
Oxford college: founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey, as Cardinal College; suppressed in 1531, after Wolsey's fall, but refounded in 1532 by Henry VIII as King Henry VIII's College; refounded again by Henry VIII in 1546 (under its current name) as part of the reorganisation of the Church of England		Christ Church
Seat of the Bishop of Oxford – the world's only educational institution that's also a cathedral
Has produced 13 prime ministers – more than any other college
The first Cambridge college, alphabetically (founded in 1505)		Christ's
Oxford has quads (quadrangles); Cambridge has		(Great) Courts
Oxford college formed in 2008 by the merger of two existing colleges, founded in 1979 and 1969 respectively		Green Templeton
The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols has been held every Christmas Eve since 1918, and broadcast every year since 1928 (except 1930), from (Cambridge college)		King's
St. David's College – affiliated to both Oxford and Cambridge (?)		Lampeter
Gained a First in maths at Oxford, 1985, aged 13		Ruth Lawrence
Prestigious chair of mathematics at Cambridge, established in 1664: holders include Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac, Stephen Hawking		Lucasian Chair
Cambridge college for women only, founded in 1954 as New Hall; name changed in 2008 in honour of its founder and its new benefactors		Murray Edwards
Cambridge University's oldest college, founded in 1284 (the claim to be Oxford's oldest is disputed between University, Balliol and Merton)		Peterhouse
Cambridge University's newest college (founded in 1977)		Robinson
Oliver Cromwell's Cambridge college (founded in 1596, he was one of its first students; his head was interred there in 1960, having been detached from his body and put on public display after his disinterment from Westminster Abbey following the Restoration; it survived in private hands; the fate of the rest of the body is not known.)		Sidney Sussex
Margaret Thatcher's college (Oxford)		Somerville
Oxford's last single–sex college – admitted its first male students 2008 (Cambridge still has three women–only colleges)		St. Hilda's
Traditionally Cambridge's most prestigious college: founded by Henry VIII in 1546 (same year as he refounded Christ Church, Oxford)		Trinity
Famous for its Great Court (the largest enclosed court in Europe) – not least because of the fabled Great Court Run, featured in the film Chariots of Fire (although Harold Abrahams in fact never did it)
Prince Charles's college
Cambridge's last college, alphabetically: founded in 1965 as University College, changed its name in 1973 in recognition of a charitable benefaction		Wolfson
The last Oxbridge college, alphabetically: founded in 1714 and named after the home county of its benefactor		Worcester (Oxford)

Subjects

Christopher Wren was a professor (at Oxford, 1661–73) of		Astronomy
Carol Vorderman's degree subject		Engineering
Prince Charles's degree subject		History
Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)'s subject		Mathematics

Colloquial name for an undergraduate course focused on classics (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Latin, ancient Greek, and philosophy) at Oxford and some other universities – also known by the Latin name Literae humaniores ("more human studies") – as opposed to divine studies, or theology		Greats
Colloquial name for the Politics, Philosophy and Economics course at Oxford		Modern greats

University Locations

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.

Anglia Ruskin (main campus)		Cambridge
Aston		Birmingham
Bishop Grosseteste		Lincoln
Brunel (town in West London)		Uxbridge
Central Lancashire (University of)		Preston
De Montfort		Leicester
East Anglia (University of)		Norwich
Essex		Colchester
Hallam		Sheffield
Harper Adams (former agricultural college)		Newport, Shropshire
Heriot–Watt		Edinburgh
John Moores		Liverpool
Kent		Canterbury
The Open University (headquarters of)		Milton Keynes
Queen's		Belfast
Robert Gordon		Aberdeen
Royal Agricultural (formerly the Royal Agricultural College)		Cirencester
Surrey		Guildford
Warwick		Coventry
West of England (University of)		Bristol

Falmer – site of the University of Sussex's main campus – is on the ouskirts of

Brighton

McGill (founded in 1821, by royal charter issued by King George IV)

Montreal

Other

Influential headmaster of Rugby School, 1828–42		Thomas Arnold
French school–leaving certificate & university entrance qualification		Baccalaureate
The Cavendish Laboratory – a world–renowned centre for experimental physics – is the Department of Physics at the University of		Cambridge
Samuel Pepys's diaries are kept at his university – (which is)
King's School, England's oldest independent school (founded 597) is in		Canterbury
First Chancellor of Birmingham University		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		Chetham's
Difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic (understanding numbers, how to manipulate numbers, etc.) – the numerical equivalent of dyslexia		Dyscalculia
Ivy League university that administers the Pulitzer Prize (after newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer left money to it in his will for the purpose)		Columbia
Founded 1440 by Henry VI, to prepare students for Cambridge		Eton College
Private school in Edinburgh, founded 1870, attended by Tony Blair and James Bond		Fettes College
Game similar to squash, which originated at Eton		Fives
Private clubs for male students at US colleges		Fraternities
Flagship international educational exchange programme, sponsored by the US government: named after the Senator who founded it in 1946		Fulbright Program
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"		Gordonstoun
Byron, Sheridan, Peel, Palmerston, Churchill: all attended		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		The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
One who supervises exam candidates (esp. to prevent cheating)		Invigilator
The Technion (based in Haifa), founded in 1912 under the Ottoman Empire, and specialising in science subjects – is the oldest university in		Israel
Eight long–established and prestigious US universities		Ivy League
Influential university based in Baltimore, Maryland: founded 1876, named after its founding benefactor		John Hopkins
First British university to award degrees to women (1878)		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		Marlborough
Headquarters of the Open University		Milton Keynes
Nursery education: providing generous facilities for practical play and allowing children to develop at their own pace		Montessori method
Size of bottles in which free school milk was provided		One third of a pint
Women's college at Harvard		Radcliffe
Professorships created by kings or queens at various British (and Irish) universities		Regius professorships
International postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford: named after the English businessman and politician who established it in 1902		Rhodes Scholarship
Famous girls' school on the outskirts of Brighton – founded in 1885		Roedean
School founded in 1567 by Lawrence Sheriff		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		Ruskin College
Group of large, research–led British universities, established 1994		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		Felix Slade
American universities: second–year student		Sophomore
College of the University of Paris, founded in 1257 (ten years after Oxford), whose name is informally used to refer to the university itself (which was actually founded approximately 100 years earlier)		Sorbonne
"Private research university" sited between San Jose and San Francisco, California: founded in 1885 by a US Senator, a former railroad tycoon and Governor of California (and his wife); named after their only child, Leland Jr., who had died of typhoid fever the previous year aged 15		Stanford
In a notorious 'prison experiment' that was carried out there 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"
Public school in Buckinghamshire, founded 1923 by J. F. Roxburgh		Stowe
Controversial, unconventional boarding school in Suffolk, founded 1921 by A. S. Neill		Summerhill
University: rustication		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		Yale University

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