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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ancient universities of Scotland
		The University of Aberdeen is one of the ancient universities of Scotland.
		The University of Dundee is the principal university in the city and Royal Burgh of Dundee, Scotland.
		Uniquely, the five ancient universities award a degree bearing the title of Master of Arts for undergraduate courses in Arts, Humanities, Fine Art, Divinity and sometimes Social Sciences; this is roughly equivalent to a bachelor's degree from the rest of the United Kingdom.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ancient-universities-of-Scotland (2008 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Ancient university is a term used to describe the medieval and renaissance universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland that have continued to exist.
		The University of Dundee was established as an independent institution by Royal Charter in 1967, but has a history going back to the 19th century and was fully incorporated as a college of the University of St Andrews for most of its history, known as University College Dundee and Queen's College at various periods.
		While the term 'ancient university' is generally concentrated on the universities of the British Isles, there are several universities in the world which are very much ancient and often pre-date those in the UK and Ireland.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Ancient_university (1022 words)

	University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		University is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning corporation (since the first medieval European universities were often groups of scholars-for-hire).
		It was a foreshadow of the rise of the University in the 11th century.
		The first European medieval universities were established in Bologna (Italy) and Paris (France) in the Middle Ages for the study of law, medicine, and theology.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Universities (1077 words)

	UNIVERSITIES - LoveToKnow Article on UNIVERSITIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The university of masters at the former was probably slightly anterior to the university of students at the latter; but there is good reason for believing that Paris, in reducing its traditional customs to statutory form, largely availed itself of the precedents afforded by the already existing code of the Transalpine centre.
		The university which rose on the banks of the Henaresandbecamefamousunderthe direction of the eminent Ximenes, was removed in 1623 to Madrid; and for the next century and a half theforemost place among the universities of Spain must be assigned to Salamanca, to which Seville, in the south, stood in the relation.
		The most ancient of the universities of Scotland, with its three colleges, was thus reared in an atmosphere of medieval theology, and undoubtedly designed as a bulwark against heresy and schism.
	88.1911encyclopedia.org /U/UN/UNIVERSITIES.htm (19193 words)

	Ancient university - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ancient university is a term used to describe the medieval and renaissance universities of Britain and Ireland that have continued to exist.
		Because no universities were founded in these countries between the 16th and 19th centuries, an ancient university effectively means one that was founded before the 19th century.
		No more universities were created in the United Kingdom until the Red Brick universities of the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_university (193 words)

	University of Edinburgh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is one of the ancient universities of Scotland and is amongst the largest and most prestigious in the United Kingdom.
		The University was established by a Royal Charter granted by James VI in 1582.
		It was a joint project between private finance, the local authorities and the University to create a large modern hospital, veterinary clinic and research institute and thus the University is currently (2003) in the process of moving its Veterinary and Medical Faculties there (and quite possibly also the School of Nursing).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Edinburgh (1565 words)

	Catriona II - eLib Update, Ariadne, issue 14
		Six of the thirteen Scottish Universities have been surveyed — Abertay and Napier (two of the five 'new' universities), Stirling and Strathclyde (two of the four 'modern' universities), and Edinburgh and St. Andrews (two of the four 'ancient' universities).
		Looking at university type, it appeared that both modern and new universities seemed to be equally likely to have such material (74%) and much more likely to have it than ancient universities (57%).
		In very general terms, there was a fairly predictable variation in the balance of research and teaching responsibilities amongst respondents from different types of institutions, with academics at the ancient universities spending more time on research activities than their colleagues at the modern or new universities surveyed.
	www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue14/catriona (2308 words)

	Ancient university - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Among British universities, an ancient university is one founded before the 19th century in Britain.
		University of Dublin – founded 1592 (The Republic of Ireland may not be part of the UK today, but it was when this university was established.
		The University of Durham is also sometimes counted, although it only started granting degrees in the 19th century.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Oxbridge (134 words)

	The University in History: 1088 And All That
		The history of the idea of the idea of a university is one of continuing reinterpretation and re-adaptation in which the strongly felt need to assert a continuity with the past confronts the project of giving new life and form and purpose to the higher learning under circumstances quite remote from that past.
		Newman's new university was, after all, to be a Catholic foundation, and his goal was to find the means by which the best of liberal learning and the training of the mind could be given life and power in a way that would be congruent also with the prescriptions of faith and obedience.
		The university movement of the nineteenth century, as it gained momentum, conceived an idea of a university quite removed from the existing collegiate model, with its constricted required curriculum designed to educate clergy and citizens and its self-conception as the home of inherited learning and its transmission.
	iotu.uchicago.edu /gray.html (5886 words)

	University - WebArticles.com
		University is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning corporation (since the first medieval European universities were simply groups of scholars).
		The first European medieval university was the University of Magnaura in Constantinople, founded in 849 by the emperor Bardas, followed by the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy, and the University of Paris in Paris, France.
		Many historians state that the universities and cathedral schools are part of the continuation of the interest in learning kept up by the monks in their monasteries during the dark age.
	www.webarticles.com /print.php?id=280 (1227 words)

	Ancient Bharat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The term 'university' as used in ancient times means a centre where higher education was imparted to the aspiring students.
		The oldest amongst the universities in ancient Bharat, is Takshasila.(1000 BC to 500 AD) Though it was well known since 700 B.C. its activities started a few centuries earlier.
		The University was founded by Sakraditya and extended and followed by his son and grandson Buddhaguptaraja and Tathagataguptaraja.
	www.vandemataram.com /html/1anbht/anuniver (590 words)

	Origins of Hospitals and Schools of Higher Learning
		The earliest universities - Bologna, Paris, and Oxford - were not officially founded or created, but in time the popes and kings granted them and other universities charters of self-government.
		The charters gave legal status to the universities and rights to the students, such as freedom from the jurisdiction of town officials.
		Since we [the nation of India] inherited the present system of university education from the British, one may be tempted to believe that university education had its origins in the West.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /history/medical_school.html (1949 words)

	History of India
		These universities became popular in the seventh and eighth centuries A.D. People flocked to the Sarnath university to study Buddhist religion and to Ajanta to specialize in art, architecture and painting.
		It was probably, the earliest of the ancient seats of higher education.
		This university was responsible for spreading Indian culture in Tibet and Nepal.
	indiansaga.com /history/golden_education.html (590 words)

	NAHSTE: Navigational Aids for the History of Science Technology & the Environment
		The teaching in the Scottish universities was by this time provided in lectures delivered by the professors, and was a marked contrast to the teaching of Oxford and Cambridge which was still provided by college tutors.
		It is usually said that the Scottish universities were less successful in producing the kind of specialist education required by the new industrialising Britain and her Empire than the new civic universities established in England.
		George Davie's influential histories of the Scottish universities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Democratic Intellect (1961) and The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect (1986), found a readership beyond historians and became banners for Scottish patriots lamenting the Anglicisation of Scottish education and the death of the lad o' pairts.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /research/essay.html (2851 words)

	Australian Tertiary Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Higher Education Institutions in the UK Higher education and research opportunities in the UK is the gateway to the UK's universities, colleges and research organisations.
		The Russell group is a self-selected group of universities with the biggest research budgets.
		The Coalition of modern universities is the group of higher education institutions formed in or after 1990 which were subsequently designated universities.
	www.gu.edu.au /text/vc/ate/content_inst_uk.html (114 words)

	American universities dominate British newspaper's top 20 list - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Fellow US university the Massachusetts Institute of Technology moved up a position to second place, while ancient British universities Cambridge and Oxford leapfrogged US rivals Stanford and Berkeley into third and fourth place respectively.
		The exceptions are the National Autonomous University of Mexico and São Paulo in Brazil.
		A spokesperson for Cambridge, which was voted the world's top science university, said they were pleased to have done well in a ranking that measures quality in both teaching and research.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20051029T170000-0500_91360_OBS_AMERICAN_UNIVERSITIES_DOMINATE_BRITISH_NEWSPAPER_S_TOP____LIST__.asp (472 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.6.16
		The hero here is Classics itself, a generic entity that transcends the collectivity of major classicists and their scholarship, and its adventure is one of slow decline to marginalization (Stray's favoured term) in the context of modern British society and institutions.
		The relation between schools and universities, always particularly close in Britain, is kept constantly before us as defining the milieu within which the label "classical scholarship" must be applied.
		The abolition of Greek as an entrance requirement at the ancient universities in 1919 had dealt that language a death-blow that would reverberate throughout the academic system.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/98.6.16.html (1466 words)

	Ancient Hebrew Poetry
		A weblog on ancient Judaism and its context
		Ancient Hebrew Poetry is a weblog of John F. Hobbins.
		Unless otherwise indicated, the contents of Ancient Hebrew Poetry, including all text, images, and other media, are original and licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	www.ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com (5908 words)

	Education \| Oxbridge identity crisis
		The way the ancient English universities govern themselves is of public concern, and the way they run themselves is borderline farce.
		That is to say, 1,000 of the 3,200 university staff eligible to vote bothered to turn out and a small majority said no, even though the administration's inefficiency has cost staff dear.
		That is because universities have to be "autonomous" of an oppressive state and nowhere is this contention more deeply rooted than at Oxbridge.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4617573-108729,00.html (814 words)

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		The final meeting of the Council of Europe’s project on the heritage of European Universities, called ‘Ancient Universities Route’, was held in Kraków on 23-24 October 2000.
		Kraków was chosen because of its position and tradition of the Jagiellonian University as one of the oldest in Europe.
		The papers and discussion were devoted to the idea of Europe through universities: Europe as a heritage of European Universities yesterday, today and tomorrow.
	www.uj.edu.pl /IRO/NEWSLET/IRO14/Alcala.htm (239 words)

	The Causes and Consequences of Corporatisation in Higher Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		In the corporate university, the student is seen as a customer or client, a conception which follows logically from the visualisation of a university as a business producing and selling knowledge in the form of vocationally-oriented courses.
		In France where academics are public servants under the Ministry of Universities it is institutionalised, though there is a case at present in progress concerning the dismissal of Professor Faurisson from a chair of History at the University of Lyons on grounds of Holocaust denial.
		In the corporate university, administrators are expected to behave as would the executives in any other large commercial enterprise except that the stakeholders are now the whole of society.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /atp/articles/bostock.html (5442 words)

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		Pictures, sounds, examples from Ancient Greek texts along with their citations, background information on historical aspects that make cited Greek texts more interesting, use of jokes and other fascinating texts are employed in order to add excitement in learning an important but difficult language.
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	Ancient Coins for Education - Home
		Ancient Coins for Education, Inc. (ACE) was established in 2001 as a registered non-profit organization to encourage learning about Classical (Greek, Roman, and Byzantine) history through the use of ancient numismatics.
		ACE is run by volunteers and works primarily with middle and high schools (both public and private), with some elementary schools and universities also participating in specially directed versions of the program.
		Donations of uncleaned optimal quality ancient coins, identified ancient coins for the school program, prize coins for essay contests and Teacher supplied Resource prizes, coin flips, magnifiers, etc. are also needed to support the ACE program.
	www.ancientcoinsforeducation.org (568 words)

	Nalanda Digital Library-Nalanda Heritage-Nalanda,the first residential international University of the World
		A walk in the ruins of the university, takes you to an era, that saw India leading in imparting knowledge, to the world - the era when India was a coveted place for studies.
		Although Nalanda is one of the places distinguished as having been blessed by the presence of the Buddha, it later became particularly renowned as the site of the great monastic university of the same name, which was to become the crown jewel of the development of Buddhism in India.
		Modern historians have tentatively dated the founding of a monastery at Nalanda as being in the fifth century.However, this may not be accurate.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /about/NalandaHeritage.html (919 words)

	FORVM ANTIQVVM: Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Ancient Egypt); each is internally organized by category (e.g., Archaeological Field Projects, Related Organizations, etc.).
		Numismatics: The study of ancient coins as historical evidence.
		Universities and Colleges offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in Ancient History, Archaeology, and Classical Studies.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~ekondrat/ForumAntiquum.html (457 words)

	Ancient India's Contribution to Science and Technology
		Today after a gap of one thousand years, the spirit of humanness can again breathe freely and it is about time that we recollect it and the successes it propelled the human mind to achieve.
		The human spirit in Ancient India has given to the world, the values of non-violence, religious tolerance, renunciation alongwith many elements of knowledge in fields like production technology, mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, navigation, architecture, civil engineering, medical science, physics, chemistry, logic, astronomy, mathematics and so on.
		The fact that these products were manufactured in ancient India, presumes that in those times Indians had some apparatus in place, and some knowledge of chemical engineering.
	www.hindubooks.org /sudheer_birodkar/india_contribution (1558 words)

	On the ruin - Motoring Getaway, Business Standard Motoring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		On the reddish brown tomb are various stucco figures of the Buddha and his disciples, some vandalised and the others still pristine.
		All around me, on an immaculately maintained lawn, were the remains of the ancient world’s greatest seat of learning.
		Walking along the long passage into the university is Hiuen Tsang in orange robes, and there is the resplendent royal retinue of Harshavardhana, one of Nalanda’s most ardent patrons.
	www.bsmotoring.com /getaway/sep2002.htm (2424 words)

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