Cambrige and Oxford

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There are about 90 Universities in Great Britain, the biggest one is London University. The oldest is Oxford university.

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Oxford was founded in the 12 th century (1133) as an aristocratic University. It has an aristocratic character today.

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The cost of studies in the university is rather high. Students have to pay for using libraries and laboratories, as for taking exams.

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The university is a collection of 35 colleges: two for women only, the rest are for man and women .

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Each college gives students a specialized training in arts, law, medicine, science. The largest college has over 500 students, the smallest – 100 students.

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Only in the 19 th century women of any race could enter the University.

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Cambridge is the second oldest university in Britain. It was opened in 1284. 1828 - 1831

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In old times students of Cambridge were not allowed to play games , sing, hunt, fish, dance. They wore special dark clothes and “squares”, the academic caps, they wear them in our days.

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80 Nobel Prize winners studied in this University : 29 in physics, 22 in medicine, 18 in chemistry, 7 in economics, 2 in literature, 2 World Nobel Prize.

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Study well and you’ll have a chance to enter these universities.