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  Balliol College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Balliol is the only Oxford college to have its own bridge club; bridge is an integral part of Balliol and the club recently provided all four team in the cuppers semi-finals, a notable achievement.
The patron saint of the College is Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
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 Balliol College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The college provides its students with a broad range of facilities including accommodation, the great hall (refectory), a library, three bars, and separate common rooms for the fellows, the and undergraduates.
The undergraduates are housed within the main college or in the modern annexes around the sportsground.
Balliol has produced an impressive range of graduates in the fields of economics, history, law, humanities, mathematics, science, technology, media, philosophy, poetry, politics and religion.
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 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 15 January 2004
In this case the lecturer would be expected to visit the college for a period of between one and four weeks, at a time to be mutually agreed by the college and the lecturer, to deliver his or her lectures.
Balliol College proposes to elect two non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellows, one in an arts or social science subject (excluding political science) and one in a science subject, from 1 October 2004.
Balliol College is an equal opportunities employer and a charity which exists to promote excellence in education and research.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2003-4/weekly/150104/appts/entry_16.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Search Results for Oxford
Merton College was one of the Oxford Colleges with a strong historical mathematical connection, since the first school of mathematics there was organised by Thomas Bradwardine in the middle of the 14th Century.
In 1946 Kendall was elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in mathematics.
Oxford was to remain Atiyah's base until 1990 when he became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and Director of the newly opened Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge.
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 Reporter 14/10/98: Balliol College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Balliol College proposes to appoint, in January 1999, an IT Manager, who will be responsible for the management of all aspects of the use of Information Technology within the College.
If the College is unable to find a suitable candidate for this position, it reserves the right to make an appointment instead to a Computer Officer post, with a reduced job specification, a lower salary, and reduced Common Room rights.
The College has engaged the services of an Employment Bureau to identify suitable applicants for interview, but is additionally willing to accept applications direct.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1998-9/weekly/5750/33.html   (251 words)

  
 OUP: Balliol College: A History, Second Edition: Jones
By this token it is the oldest College in Oxford or Cambridge.
Balliol men were prominent in the collection of humanist literature in the fifteenth century, and the College was notorious in the century after that for adherence to Rome.
Balliol blazed the trail in the early nineteenth century by introducing a competitive entrance examination, becoming a dominant influence throughout the British Empire in Victorian and Edwardian times.
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 Balliol College Virtual Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Balliol College maintains a claim to be the oldest college in the University.
The college is thought to date back as far as 1263 when John Balliol, a wealthy English Lord, and his wife Princess Dervorguilla of Galloway bought and maintained a house for poor students in the suburbs of Oxford as an act of charity.
The college occupies a significant portion of Broad Street, and extends onto land further east in the form of the "Master's Field" and Holywell Manor Complex.
www.chem.ox.ac.uk /oxfordtour/balliolcollege/front.htm   (172 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 31 October 2002
Balliol College proposes, if a suitable candidate applies, to appoint a six-hour Stipendiary Lecturer in Modern European and World History for Hilary and Trinity Terms 2003.
Balliol College proposes, if a suitable candidate applies, to appoint a six-hour Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics for the calendar year 2003.
Balliol College intends to award for 2003 a Vaughan Memorial Travelling Scholarship, as established by the will of the late Mrs D.J. Vaughan, if a suitable candidate appears.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2002-3/weekly/311002/appts/entry_7.htm   (574 words)

  
 Balliol : 2007/8 Oxford University Undergraduate Admissions
Balliol is one of the oldest, most centrally situated and most diverse of the Oxford colleges.
In the 19th century, Balliol pioneered the selection of students solely on the basis of academic ability and this remains the cornerstone of the college's admissions policy.
The daily life of Balliol is focused around its buildings in Broad Street, close to the principal libraries and the centre of the city.
www.admissions.ox.ac.uk /colleges/ball.shtml   (559 words)

  
 Balliol College, Broad Street, Oxford
This Gothic range of Balliol College is known as the Brackenbury Buildings.
We recorded last year the demolition of a portion of the old buildings, and the commencement of the new ones in Broad Street, but the latter were not sufficiently advanced to enable us to speak of them in detail.
The very curious bosses in the roof of the old tower gate-way, and the sculptured arms of the Balliol family, on the original Broad-street front, had to be removed, but these interesting memorials have been preserved.
www.headington.org.uk /oxon/broad/buildings/north/balliol_college.htm   (428 words)

  
 Oxford University
Balliol was established in 1263 and Merton, the first residential college, arrived the following year.
Oxford University was first granted the right to have two MPs in 1613.
Oxford, a name known throughout the learned world, is the greatest (if not the most ancient) university in the island of Great Britain.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /EDoxford.htm   (420 words)

  
 BALLIOL COLLEGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Balliol College maintains one of the largest Physics Schools within the University of Oxford with some 40 undergraduate and 12 graduate students as members of the College, spread over the various disciplines represented in the research departments of the University.
The essence of the ‘tutorial teaching’ system in Balliol is the weekly paired or small group teaching and supervision of undergraduate students by the senior academic staff of the College.
The College component of this combined stipend of the Fellowship/University Lectureship is on the following scale according to age: at present it rises from £2,028 at age 25 to £6,506 at age 45.
www.physics.ox.ac.uk /pnp/jobs/jobs-archive/lect01-fp-balliol.htm   (590 words)

  
 Balliol College - Welcome
Balliol has approximately 400 undergraduate and 170 postgraduate students and we are committed to attracting students of exceptional talent regardless of their social, cultural or educational background.
Whether you are visiting this website as a potential student, an academic from another university, a former member of the College or just out of curiosity, I appreciate your interest in Balliol.
The Balliol College Register Seventh Edition, 1950-2000 was completed in late 2005.
www.balliol.ox.ac.uk   (121 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Balliol College, Oxford Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Balliol College Established 1263 Sister College St John's College Master Andrew Graham Graduates 228 Undergraduates 403 Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the Univ...
Yes Minister Sir Humphrey Appleby, the wily civil servant went to Balliol (pronounced Baillie in the television programme) from where he got an MA.
He went on to become Master of Balliol College when he retired from the Service.
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 Jowett, Benjamin
In 1842 he was appointed to a tutorship at Balliol, which he held till he became master of the college in 1870.
At Oxford he had fallen into the very midst of the Tractarian movement, and his Evangelical views were shaken by daily intercourse with his friend William George Ward (q.v.).
He was waiting to attain to greater clearness and certainty, hoping that these would come with time; but the exhausting labors which he took upon himself as master of Balliol after 1870, and as vice-chancellor of the university 1882-86, left him no leisure for elaborating his views.
www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc06/htm/iii.lvii.cxxxiv.htm   (855 words)

  
 Balliol College : Oxford University Graduate Studies Prospectus 2006/07
Balliol is one of Oxford's foremost Graduate Centres, and some 65–75 graduate students are admitted each year.
The Graduate Centre at Holywell Manor, some 10 minutes' walk from the College, provides accommodation for more than a hundred graduates and is the envy of Oxford.
The College awards a small number of Graduate Bursaries that are given annually.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /postgraduate/colleges/ball.shtml   (799 words)

  
 Corpus Christi, with Cat and Mouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Commissioned by the Masters and Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford, to commemorate the centenary of the death of Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol 1870-93
Composed for Balliol College, Oxford, this is a substantial showpiece designed for non-professional choirs who can share in the poetry and amusement it finds in picking its way through an early sixteenth-century commonplace book preserved in the college library.
Corpus Christi, with Cat and Mouse was written for the Choir of Balliol College, Oxford, and Davies assembled its texts from Richard Hill's Commonplace Book, an early sixteenth-century manuscript in the Balliol library.
www.maxopus.com /works/corpchri.htm   (725 words)

  
 Balliol College: Computing Rules
Balliol College accepts no liability for any loss of data or consequential damage arising from the use of its computer systems.
If anyone feels that they are being unnecessarily troubled by another user they should report the matter to the Dean or IT Manager.
College computer equipment may not be used for commercial purposes.
www.balliol.ox.ac.uk /comp/rules/index.asp   (547 words)

  
 Ved Mehta | Writings | Up at Oxford
To be at Oxford: the university had occupied Ved Mehta’s imagination ever since he was a small, blind Hindu boy, during the British Raj.
While he is not surprised at being intellectually challenged at Oxford by the erudition of his tutors, he is floored by the achievements of his contemporaries.
In Up at Oxford Ved Mehta recalls the nuances of his conversations and his meditations, the range of his youthful emotions, and the sounds, smells, and tastes of undergraduate life, and along the way he draws memorable portraits of; among others, novelists, poets, scholars, and peers.
www.vedmehta.com /writings/oxford.html   (647 words)

  
 Balliol College, Oxford -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A recent Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Anthony Leggatt, studied Ancient History with Latin and Greek.
There is a list of Balliol College academics past and present.
Balliol, especially the Master, Andrew Graham, played a major role in 2000 and 2001 in setting up the Oxford Internet Institute Oxford Internet Institute.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Balliol_College,_Oxford   (1405 words)

  
 oxford internet institute :: people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Andrew Graham is the Master of Balliol College, Oxford, a non-Executive Director of Channel 4 Television and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute.
Professor Paul Jeffreys is Director of the Oxford University Computing Services, Director of the Oxford University e-Science Centre and a Professorial Fellow at Keble College.
Victoria Nash received her M. Phil in Politics from Magdalen College in 1996, after completing a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, before going on to complete a D. Phil in Politics from Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1999.
www.oii.ox.ac.uk /people?rq=management   (849 words)

  
 Reporter 8/10/97: Balliol College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Fellowship is associated with a stipendiary C.U.F. Lecturership of the University.
Further particulars and application forms may be obtained from the College Secretary, Balliol College, Oxford, OX1 3BJ.
Applications, including a curriculum vitae, should be sent to reach Balliol College not later than 1 November 1997.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1997-8/weekly/5714/30.html   (140 words)

  
 Student killed in Balliol plunge
James Ferrada, 20, was in the room at the college with an old school friend when he fell.
Mr Ferrada had gone to the college on Sunday night to visit Archie Campbell, 20, who had been a fellow pupil at the City of London Freeman's School at Ashtead, Surrey.
The Oxford term ended on Friday but some students were still at Balliol yesterday.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/03/14/nox14.html   (505 words)

  
 Alliance of Literary Societies, Gazetteer. Oxfordshire
This is located just south of the (now) Northern By-Pass (A40).  He later (in 1940) took lodgings at a house in Trinity College where Stella Weaver's (friend of Vivien) husband was President.  GG moved the family from Crowborough which he thought too close to the South Coast in the event of an invasion.
Robert Francis Kilvert (1840-1879) Went up as a commoner to Wadham College, Oxford, in 1858, and took fourth-class honours in law and modern history in 1862.
Shelley (1792-1822) Oxford, University College, commemorated in Christchurch, Dorset and University College, Oxford and Westminster Abbey.
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