Note that Scotland had four universities when England only had two. They were Saint Andrews (1412), Glasgow (1451), Edinburgh and Aberdeen - also in the 15th century.
But the two English universities were founded hundreds of years before Scotland's first university. In addition, they were both much larger being made up of many separate colleges.
Michaelmas is pronounced Mickle-mass with the 'i' sound like in 'tick' (as said by someone who is a little grumpy that his university, which also has a Michaelmas term, didn't make the list). Michaelmas is a religious feast day at the end of September, shortly before the term starts.
Ah, so it wasn't just me? I winced each time the word was mangled. It's not an unusual word, or one that's never used, both in ecclesiastic and secular, as well as scholastic, circles. I've no idea how AI works, but isn't human agency involved in programming it...or whatever the proper word for it is? It comes up with such mish-mashing of words - and even titles - that they're ludicrous. It worries me a little that people who've never come across a word, hear it repeatedly mispronounced, they've no reason not to mispronounce it themselves. Which'll lead to other people not having the slightest idea of what they're saying? (And/Or sniggering!)
@@cireenasimcox1081 my undergrad was actually AI, funnily enough. Text to speech is very hard because of the sheer variability of human speech even with the same speaker and word. We actually pronounce words differently depending on the words that surround them, to make them less tiring/damaging to our throats and mouths. It’s a problem far too complex for programming. This is why almost all modern text to speech uses machine learning instead: you feed the training algorithm as many examples as possible of pairs of text and speech and let it find patterns that explain the data best with the fewest rote memorisations. This works most of the time, but sometimes it will see a word that wasn’t in its training data and will need to make a plausible guess. ETA: my postgrad was also AI, and natural language understanding even, but not text to speech so I’m not an expert on this specific field and going by my occasional dabbles into those papers and undergrad background knowledge here.
St Andrews has like 0 post grads so they only really rank highly in undergraduate rankings (since they focus on that) They also do like 0 research compared to the unis on this list which is another reason noone except the guardian ranks them high.
No he didn’t!!!! He noticed a reaction. That’s all. The actual work turning an observation into to life saving miracle was done by a group of four, working together in England BUT funded by an American university. So this “British” discovery resulted in the British paying fees to the Americans. It’s quite a well-known story.
The accepted account of penicillin is wrong. Fleming noticed a reaction. That’s all. The actual work turning an observation into to life saving miracle was done by a group of four, working together in England BUT funded by an American university. So this “British” discovery resulted in the British paying fees to the Americans. It’s quite a well-known story.
hey Connor, about the Law question, every international business employs local Lawyers due to the differing laws around the world it's standard practice nowadays. after all you can't know every law in every country as an example my Local university Newcastle has approx 3000 Chinese students at any time , they come here to learn international law, they then go back to China and get jobs with international companies.Also the chinese students pay approx twice the price for their education than UK students so it pays well to keep them happy.....
I am glad I am not the only one to notice Connors love for our verdant ground cover . Lol I cannot recall the name of it but there is a word begining with O for a passion for grass. I did tell him once in a comment but am unsure as to whether or not he read it. Oh gee ... Grass .. lol. I guess grass is not so green on the other side of the fence there in Rhode Island...
You have a grass fetish! Glasgow is a bigger city but Edinburgh is the Capital City of Scotland. There are four mediaeval universities in Scotland, St Andrew's, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen which originally had two - don't ask! Imperial was created, 1903, in the University of London (now UCL 1823) to address the Science teaching research shortage it in London. At Oxford and Cambridge many of the buildings are mediaeval. The New College at Oxford has its original buildings from 1368. Balliol College''s 'new' library dates from 1332 and Merton College's 'Mob Quadrangle' from 1280.
I grew up being able to see Old Joe from my room, that's the clocktower at the University Of Birmingham, its the tallest free standing clocktower in the world. Might not be rated in the top 5 but it's a top University and stunningly beautiful. If it were in London it would be a famous landmark.
Indeed, Paul. I live in Edgbaston and can testify that the clock tower dominates the skyline of South Birmingham. The University of Birmingham ranks 10th in the UK according to the QS University Rankings and the 2022 U.S. News & World Report places it 91st in the world. It has top medical teaching facilities with the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and also includes the world renowned Barber Institute of Fine Arts. It is a truly exceptional academic establishment and worthy of any future top 10 countdown.
The òldest buildings which make up the university are churches and chapels from the 12th and 13th century, there are walls and parts of buildings from around 1100, but the main college buildings you are thinking of are Tudor and Stuart. A lot of money from the dissolution of monasteries made its way to the city. The Oldest College is Balliol which has been on the same site since the mid 13th century.
UCL was my Uni for my Engineering Doctorate, bloody brilliant uni and I also attended several other uni's for my other degrees and this was my favourite uni.
As a former Oxford undergraduate - I didn't complete my degree - I nevertheless have to point out that, in the Cambridge section, the shots at 12:00 and 12:40 show one of the most beautiful buildings in the UK, King's College Chapel, built around 1500. There is great rivalry as to which Oxford College is the oldest. My College (Merton) tells our rivals University and Balliol that ours is the first purpose-built College on the modern sense, as a place where undergraduates could be protected from the hurly-burly of University life. Some of our purpose-built accommodation dates back to 1283. Our Garden includes part of the old City wall, from at least a century before that.
The terms are 10 weeks long, with 2 weeks between each. So, Autumn starts in Sept/Oct, Spring term starts in January, & Summer term start is about Eastertime. Essentially, study is over three seasons, with the actual summer being a long break.
Studying law at University does not entitle you to practice law. To do that, after getting your law degree (or the alternative one-year postgraduate qualification) you must take a one-year professional course approved by the Law Society or the Inns of Court to go on to qualify as a practising lawyer. As a former solicitor I didn't have a law degree but as a graduate I took a one-year course in basic law and then went on to the professional examination course, both these being full-time one year courses. Then you get taken on in a law firm as a trainee and work in various areas of law before qualifying. The system is similar but different for barristers who do not work face to face with clients but act as specialists and also as advocates in the higher courts. They're the ones in wigs you see in British films and TV speaking in front of the judge. They have a different training but as specialised. If you just have a law degree it's just another academic qualification.
My eldest daughter went to Westminster to study Law but then went to Canada on holiday, fell in love with it and moved there, supposedly for three years in September 2019. And, she is still there, so I doubt somehow that she will return to us here in the UK. I fully expect her to request renewals of her work visa then apply for Canadian Citizenship if possible...and, no, she did not apply to study Law there but has a job which was deemed an essential networker during the pandemic, so seems to have found work that she enjoys and is successful in.
I've worked with several people with law degrees but who were not qualified solicitors, they just used their legal expertise within the company. Typically it would be drawing up or checking contracts, or attempting to resolve disputes with other companies before solicitors and courts became involved.
I recall that 40yrs ago when I was at 'uni' neither IC nor UCL would have made the top 5. After Oxford and Cambridge, the leading contenders for the other three slots would've included Bristol, Manchester, St Andrews, York, Durham and, most probably, LSE as the only London based institution with a serious chance.
There are many modern (ie 20th Century ) universities in the UK, including The Open University and University of the Highlands and Islands which are distance learning institutions. My own local one, Stirling University dates from the late sixties, and is built on an absolutely beautiful campus - an old country estate with its own loch and hills in the background. The Universities of Glasgow, St Andrews and Aberdeen are all about 500 to 600 years old. I studied for my degree 9at Glasgow Uni, but I've also done courses through the Open University, and I found it to be excellent.
I was at UCL 50 years ago. My choice of university was a bit limited because I had not taken Latin at ‘O’ Level which was still a requirement at many of the older universities if you wanted to study an arts subject or any subject at Oxford or Cambridge. I opted for UCL because I thought that it ‘looked’ like a university. should look. Oxford and Cambridge were sometimes referred to affectionately as ‘certain provincial universities’. I don’t think that the video referred to the Slade School of Fine Art at UCL, which is perhaps the most renowned art school in the UK.
You seem in awe of the lawns. An apocryphal story is told of a visitor to a Cambridge college waxing lyrical about the magnificence of the quad lawn. He asked the groundsman how it got this way, as he wanted the same back home in this US college town. "Oh, sir, 'tis easy", replied the worker, "We simply roll the grass with a great, heavy roller, every day......for 600 years." 😂
St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Manchester, UMIST, Durham, Bristol, Newcastle, Leeds etc., etc., etc. not mentioned, in case you thought we don't have many.
My elder daughter went to UCL. Its in Gower St It was founded by Jeremy Bentham ,an Atheist (I think his mummified body is in the main reception.) UCL students are known as "The Godless of Gower Street" 🙂
Nah, Bentham's not mummified, just bits of him (his skeleton and hair basically) are encased in a wax and dressed in his clothes as an auto icon and housed in a box in the cloisters...
Your on the right track with the lawyer. You can be the best lawyer ever but you are only a lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction. You have to qualify to practice in each one you want to operate in legally. Youll find that lawers tend to specialise in one or two disciplines much like doctors.
I'm going to Cambridge in the autumn to study Law. Lots, and I mean LOTS, of international students study Law here, especially those from common law systems like USA, Canada, Australia, etc (basically the Commonwealth plus a few more). They are surprisingly transferable because they all derive from English law. The other type of law system is civil, derived from the Romans. All countries are either civil or common, or a slight blend of both!
Hmm, I commented further up that he actually discovered it at St Mary's, Paddington. There's a plaque on the wall to prove it. (Purple not blue for some strange reason.)
I find it funny how all the achievements that they mentioned are connected to people from Scotland. Dolly the Sheep from the Roslin Institute, Penicillin from Alexander Fleming, and The Noble Gases from William Ramsay. (Although, they were referring to Morris Travers whom worked with Ramsay to find 3 of them). Also, here's the order of when the universities were founded (there are multiple possible dates): (rc meaning when the university was granted its royal charter) 1. University of Oxford (c. 1096/ c. 1200/ 1214/ rc 1244) 2. University of Cambridge (1209/ rc 1231) 3. University of St. Andrews (1410/ 1411/ 1413/ rc 1532) 4. University of Glasgow (1451/ rc 1453) 5. University of Aberdeen (rc 1495/ 1860 (merged with Marischal College (1593)) 6. University of Edinburgh (rc 1582/ 1583) 7th place is debated between the University of Manchester (1824/ 1851/ 1880/ rc 2004), University College London (1826/ rc 1836), and Durham University (1832/ rc 1837). Just the fact that England had two universities, then had to wait 600 years to get a third.
Fleming may have come from Scotland but his research work was at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington in West London. It’s part of the federal University of London. The actual discovery of penicillin was at his weekend cottage at Barton Mills, Suffolk, two miles from where I live.
Note that UCL (University College London) was the first College in England to admit students only on the basis of their potential ability to do their proposed course. You did not have to be a fully paid up, card-carrying member of the Church of England - you could be a Roman Catholic, nonconformist Protestant such as a Methodist or Baptist, a Jew, Hindu, Muslim or atheist. You could also - shock, horror! - be a woman, or a member of 'the lower classes'. UCL was the first University in England to have women Professors. Btw, there have been a lot of Nobel Prizewinners from UCL, not just in 1907.
@@user-rg9ct6wv3r You don't need a wide mower to make wide stripes on the lawn ! You just cut it one way and then move a " bout " along before making a cut in the other direction .Then go just beyond your first cut for the next cut in the original direction. Repeat three to five times and you can make big broad stripes.
When you see "burgh" say it as "burruh" like burrow (as in animal burrow) but we get lazy and change the "ow" to "uh". We get lazy with "shire"... Say "sure" but add an H... "shure" see? Easy.
As far as the Uk is concerned if anyone is in any doubt if you just work on the assumtion Scotland as a whole and Glasgow in particuar is best where almost everything is concerned - you wont go far long if you think along these lines
My daughter went to Trinity College, Cambridge. It's the one with the big green square where you halted the video. If nothing else, Trinity is the richest educational establishment in Britain
Fleming enjoyed taking all the credit for penicillin, but all he did was to notice a reaction. That’s all. The actual work turning an observation into to life saving miracle was done by a group of four, working together in England BUT funded by an American university. So this “British” discovery and work resulted in the British paying fees to the Americans. It’s quite a well-known story.
I had an offer from University of Edinburgh to study nursing and I would've got in as I got 3 A's in my A-Levels (I redid them this year, and I'm 32, having a career change from teacher to medical nurse), but because of the cost of living crisis, I've had to accept my place at Northumbria University in my hometown Newcastle. Mind, I'm not sad about it as Northumbria University has great facilities for Nursing and a good reputation with the Newcastle NHS Trust. Maybe I'll choose University of Edinburgh for a Masters in 3 years time.
Another fun fact: 4 of the top 10 universities in the world, according to latest rankings, are in the UK. 4 are in America. For a country with a population 5x smaller, the UK punches above its weight with top universities!
I forgot this fact re UCL: you did not need to be a Royalist to enter, you could be a Republican (in the French sense). King's College London was founded a few years after UCL as a reaction to its political impartiality. You had to be a Royalist and member of the Church of England and male to apply to it. UCL and Imperial College have traditionally cooperated with each other, doing some joint post-graduate degrees, for example. But UCL does not cooperate with King's College.
Age of a university doesn’t always guarantee excellence because the oldest university in Europe and the second oldest in the world is not Oxford but the university of Bologna in Italy founded in 1088 but is only ranked 161 in the world.😂
This video is out of date. For the last few years St Andrews University in Scotland has been in the top three and is currently rated number one, Oxford 2nd and Cambridge 3rd.
Even though (sadly) we have left the EU institutions have tried to maintain reciprocal arrangements with EU counterparts. These things are 'above' politics and have benefits for both sides.
Not EU, European students. The 2 are different. EU is a very recent political project, Europe is an ancient continent with close ties hundreds of years before the EU which itself has it roots i the 1970’s and was officially formed in 1993, The Netherlands, known as the Maastricht treaty.
Take this video with a large pinch of salt. Whilst Cambridge and Oxford are considered the top two universities in the country, if not the world, 'Best' is a very subjective term. I'm a little surprised they put Oxford ahead of Cambridge as academically Cambridge tends to top the tables, especially in scientific subjects. However Oxford arguably has more famous/powerful alumni, especially politicians. All universities have certain subjects which they are considered good at to some degree. e.g. They may be highly rated for medicine, or Law or Engineering, etc but not so much in some other subjects. For instance my father used to be a lecturer at Bristol University (before that he worked at the Bank of England). His department (economics) was regularly rated second in the country behind Cambridge. Oxford on the other hand doesn't rate at all as it only teaches economics as a minor part of other degrees such as PPE*. There are ratings guides that are published every year and they look at not just academic results, but what percentage of graduates from each dept got jobs in their subject after leaving, resources per student, living costs, student support, etc. Other stuff such as student happiness, living costs, night life, extra curricular activities, etc may also be considered when deciding the 'best' university. Terms: This can differ slightly depending on the uni and your course but as a rule of thumb the Autumn term is late Sept/early Oct to mid/late Decemebr with 2-3 weeks off for Christmas. Spring term is Jan -Easter with 2 weeks off. The summer term is from after Easter until sometime in June. with July, August and September (or most of it) off. The number of hours of lectures/seminars, etc can vary hugely between degrees. Things like medicine, veterinary and biology degrees tend to have the highest workload and may have slightly longer terms than normal. At the other end of the scale are the Mickey-Mouse degrees. These are degrees that have a very light workload and are very easy to get onto. They're generally taken by people who either fucked up their A levels and couldn't get onto the course they wanted, or who aren't very academic, but want the university experience because most of their friends are going. Classic examples of Micky-Mouse degrees are Media Studies and Business Studies. To give you some idea my own degree had 6 extra weeks compared to most degrees with 24 hrs of lectures a week (plus lots of reading and assignments) compared to 6hrs for media studies and 8 hrs for business studies, so my workload was roughly 4x that of those degrees. *PPE (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) is a degree that many politicians take, especially Tories. The economics side is just a basic overview and doesn't go into much depth. Many of them then get an inflated idea of their own competency about running the country and economy, rather like a first aider believing they can perform brain surgery. Consequently they tend to make major fuck ups because their economic understanding is in reality severely limited. N.B. Glasgow is the third biggest UK city after London and Birmingham with a population of 612,000. Edinburgh is 9th with 488,000. Edinburgh is the capital for historic reasons. Glasgow grew in the industrial revolution and had lots of heavy industry such as steel and ship building, most of which has gone now.
I read mathematics at Oxford. Got a BA. Read that again. A BA in mathematics. You only got that in Oxford or Cambridge. Probably Americans do this now too. /yawn But I put it proudly on my CV. And nobody bloody notices. 😊
@caw25sha I was told that, too. You know what? How much of my life did I spend there? Most. Of. My. Life. Still not been "promoted." But BA. In mathematics. Where can you get that?
No, it's not great grass. It's not well mown, there's brown stems showing, the species are coarse not fine, and there are many weeds. Go and sit on it and look.
This is a pretty useless video to review. In any case University rankings are so subjective. Edinburgh often comes out high but my daughter’s friend got in there with much lower grades than any of her peers at other less well known institutions and when she got there they could not provide the course she applied for so she had to cobble together a first year course.
My eldest daughter got a law degree at Westminster, my son attended St George's and Kings College studying Bio.Meduxal Engineering ...my youngest daughter missed her chance to apply for a course in Geology due to falling ill due to paracetamol allergy which resulted in anaphylactic shock and now looks after me full-time due to my various co.morbidities . I am the dunce like their Dad but we cannot call attend Uni... My great love was and always has been and will be horses, so I worked in riding schools for years, teaching horseriding and stable management and my only regrets are that I had to give up working with horses full time when I got married and had my children.. I do not regret my children, only not riding horses anymore . As I will be 70 in August and not well enough to ride anymore, I can only encourage people to not give up on their dreams and ambitions. As my late Mum used to say... Do as I say, not as I do. Ah well... ... Qué Sera Sera.
I guess we still allow EU students access to our top universities out of the kindness of our hearts and cognisant of the fact that the EU has no universities in the top 10 (the UK has 4) and not that many in the top 100. The poor things need some help ;P
Both Oxford and Cambridge have Trinity Colleges. There is no Trinity University in the UK though. Trinity College is the only college of Dublin University which is perhaps unusual.
Fleming did NOT "discover Penicillin in 1945" but in 1928, 17 years earlier. He did not do a great deal with it and it was left to a team headed by the Australian Scientist Howard Florey to develop it into a useful drug. Both Fleming and Florey received the Nobel Prize along with a fellow Researcher, Ernst Chain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_penicillin#Discovery
Note that Scotland had four universities when England only had two. They were Saint Andrews (1412), Glasgow (1451), Edinburgh and Aberdeen - also in the 15th century.
But the two English universities were founded hundreds of years before Scotland's first university. In addition, they were both much larger being made up of many separate colleges.
Michaelmas is pronounced Mickle-mass with the 'i' sound like in 'tick' (as said by someone who is a little grumpy that his university, which also has a Michaelmas term, didn't make the list). Michaelmas is a religious feast day at the end of September, shortly before the term starts.
Ah, so it wasn't just me? I winced each time the word was mangled. It's not an unusual word, or one that's never used, both in ecclesiastic and secular, as well as scholastic, circles.
I've no idea how AI works, but isn't human agency involved in programming it...or whatever the proper word for it is? It comes up with such mish-mashing of words - and even titles - that they're ludicrous. It worries me a little that people who've never come across a word, hear it repeatedly mispronounced, they've no reason not to mispronounce it themselves. Which'll lead to other people not having the slightest idea of what they're saying? (And/Or sniggering!)
@@cireenasimcox1081 my undergrad was actually AI, funnily enough. Text to speech is very hard because of the sheer variability of human speech even with the same speaker and word. We actually pronounce words differently depending on the words that surround them, to make them less tiring/damaging to our throats and mouths. It’s a problem far too complex for programming. This is why almost all modern text to speech uses machine learning instead: you feed the training algorithm as many examples as possible of pairs of text and speech and let it find patterns that explain the data best with the fewest rote memorisations. This works most of the time, but sometimes it will see a word that wasn’t in its training data and will need to make a plausible guess.
ETA: my postgrad was also AI, and natural language understanding even, but not text to speech so I’m not an expert on this specific field and going by my occasional dabbles into those papers and undergrad background knowledge here.
Surprised not to see University of St Andrews.
It’s hardly at the cutting edge of anything. Used mainly by posh kids who failed to get into Oxbridge.
@@rosemarymee the recent guardian rankings put it better than oxbridge 😂
@@Alexander-vo4gv Certainly better for catching a rich husband from an Anglo-German family…
St Andrews has like 0 post grads so they only really rank highly in undergraduate rankings (since they focus on that)
They also do like 0 research compared to the unis on this list which is another reason noone except the guardian ranks them high.
Fleming has probably saved tens of millions of lives at this point, maybe more. What a legend.
A farmer's son from Darvel !
There's a plaque outside St Mary's Hospital in Paddington saying he discovered penicillin there.
200m
No he didn’t!!!! He noticed a reaction. That’s all. The actual work turning an observation into to life saving miracle was done by a group of four, working together in England BUT funded by an American university. So this “British” discovery resulted in the British paying fees to the Americans.
It’s quite a well-known story.
The accepted account of penicillin is wrong. Fleming noticed a reaction. That’s all. The actual work turning an observation into to life saving miracle was done by a group of four, working together in England BUT funded by an American university. So this “British” discovery resulted in the British paying fees to the Americans.
It’s quite a well-known story.
Scotish law is very diffrent from English law and Glasgow is the biggest city in Scotland.
hey Connor, about the Law question, every international business employs local Lawyers due to the differing laws around the world it's standard practice nowadays. after all you can't know every law in every country as an example my Local university Newcastle has approx 3000 Chinese students at any time , they come here to learn international law, they then go back to China and get jobs with international companies.Also the chinese students pay approx twice the price for their education than UK students so it pays well to keep them happy.....
Tuition costs for EU students...its a reciprocal arrangement.
This man cracks me up when he sees grass
I am glad I am not the only one to notice Connors love for our verdant ground cover . Lol I cannot recall the name of it but there is a word begining with O for a passion for grass. I did tell him once in a comment but am unsure as to whether or not he read it.
Oh gee ... Grass .. lol. I guess grass is not so green on the other side of the fence there in Rhode Island...
You have a grass fetish!
Glasgow is a bigger city but Edinburgh is the Capital City of Scotland. There are four mediaeval universities in Scotland, St Andrew's, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen which originally had two - don't ask!
Imperial was created, 1903, in the University of London (now UCL 1823) to address the Science teaching research shortage it in London.
At Oxford and Cambridge many of the buildings are mediaeval. The New College at Oxford has its original buildings from 1368. Balliol College''s 'new' library dates from 1332 and Merton College's 'Mob Quadrangle' from 1280.
Bristol and Durham are 2 very good uni's as well.
Too dull of depressed Oxbridge rejects though.
How very true... I went to Bristol (I didn't apply to Oxbridge), and found it was full of public school educated oxbridge rejects.@@nicolad8822
@@nicolad8822Is Durham dull? Ive heard a-lot of people saying that its dead and boring is that true?
I grew up being able to see Old Joe from my room, that's the clocktower at the University Of Birmingham, its the tallest free standing clocktower in the world.
Might not be rated in the top 5 but it's a top University and stunningly beautiful. If it were in London it would be a famous landmark.
Indeed, Paul. I live in Edgbaston and can testify that the clock tower dominates the skyline of South Birmingham. The University of Birmingham ranks 10th in the UK according to the QS University Rankings and the 2022 U.S. News & World Report places it 91st in the world. It has top medical teaching facilities with the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and also includes the world renowned Barber Institute of Fine Arts. It is a truly exceptional academic establishment and worthy of any future top 10 countdown.
The òldest buildings which make up the university are churches and chapels from the 12th and 13th century, there are walls and parts of buildings from around 1100, but the main college buildings you are thinking of are Tudor and Stuart. A lot of money from the dissolution of monasteries made its way to the city. The Oldest College is Balliol which has been on the same site since the mid 13th century.
university challenge would blow your mind as to how much diverse knowledge these students have
UCL was my Uni for my Engineering Doctorate, bloody brilliant uni and I also attended several other uni's for my other degrees and this was my favourite uni.
Idk the proper terms but to go with what you said about law, there are separate qualifications even for England and Scotland
As a former Oxford undergraduate - I didn't complete my degree - I nevertheless have to point out that, in the Cambridge section, the shots at 12:00 and 12:40 show one of the most beautiful buildings in the UK, King's College Chapel, built around 1500.
There is great rivalry as to which Oxford College is the oldest. My College (Merton) tells our rivals University and Balliol that ours is the first purpose-built College on the modern sense, as a place where undergraduates could be protected from the hurly-burly of University life. Some of our purpose-built accommodation dates back to 1283. Our Garden includes part of the old City wall, from at least a century before that.
The terms are 10 weeks long, with 2 weeks between each.
So, Autumn starts in Sept/Oct,
Spring term starts in January,
& Summer term start is about Eastertime. Essentially, study is over three seasons, with the actual summer being a long break.
Oxford terms are only eight weeks long. ;-)
Studying law at University does not entitle you to practice law. To do that, after getting your law degree (or the alternative one-year postgraduate qualification) you must take a one-year professional course approved by the Law Society or the Inns of Court to go on to qualify as a practising lawyer. As a former solicitor I didn't have a law degree but as a graduate I took a one-year course in basic law and then went on to the professional examination course, both these being full-time one year courses. Then you get taken on in a law firm as a trainee and work in various areas of law before qualifying. The system is similar but different for barristers who do not work face to face with clients but act as specialists and also as advocates in the higher courts. They're the ones in wigs you see in British films and TV speaking in front of the judge. They have a different training but as specialised. If you just have a law degree it's just another academic qualification.
My eldest daughter went to Westminster to study Law but then went to Canada on holiday, fell in love with it and moved there, supposedly for three years in September 2019. And, she is still there, so I doubt somehow that she will return to us here in the UK. I fully expect her to request renewals of her work visa then apply for Canadian Citizenship if possible...and, no, she did not apply to study Law there but has a job which was deemed an essential networker during the pandemic, so seems to have found work that she enjoys and is successful in.
I've worked with several people with law degrees but who were not qualified solicitors, they just used their legal expertise within the company. Typically it would be drawing up or checking contracts, or attempting to resolve disputes with other companies before solicitors and courts became involved.
I recall that 40yrs ago when I was at 'uni' neither IC nor UCL would have made the top 5. After Oxford and Cambridge, the leading contenders for the other three slots would've included Bristol, Manchester, St Andrews, York, Durham and, most probably, LSE as the only London based institution with a serious chance.
Wasn't LSE part of UCL back then?
@@caw25sha No, it's been a separate institution within UoL since the early C20th
Birmingham over York I would have thought?
There are many modern (ie 20th Century ) universities in the UK, including The Open University and University of the Highlands and Islands which are distance learning institutions. My own local one, Stirling University dates from the late sixties, and is built on an absolutely beautiful campus - an old country estate with its own loch and hills in the background. The Universities of Glasgow, St Andrews and Aberdeen are all about 500 to 600 years old. I studied for my degree 9at Glasgow Uni, but I've also done courses through the Open University, and I found it to be excellent.
I don’t think that’s a canal - it’s the River Cam, and the bridge going over it between parts of one of the colleges is the Bridge of Sighs.
I was at UCL 50 years ago. My choice of university was a bit limited because I had not taken Latin at ‘O’ Level which was still a requirement at many of the older universities if you wanted to study an arts subject or any subject at Oxford or Cambridge. I opted for UCL because I thought that it ‘looked’ like a university. should look. Oxford and Cambridge were sometimes referred to affectionately as ‘certain provincial universities’. I don’t think that the video referred to the Slade School of Fine Art at UCL, which is perhaps the most renowned art school in the UK.
Yes. I did Latin O Level, and went to Durham University.
You seem in awe of the lawns. An apocryphal story is told of a visitor to a Cambridge college waxing lyrical about the magnificence of the quad lawn. He asked the groundsman how it got this way, as he wanted the same back home in this US college town. "Oh, sir, 'tis easy", replied the worker, "We simply roll the grass with a great, heavy roller, every day......for 600 years." 😂
St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Manchester, UMIST, Durham, Bristol, Newcastle, Leeds etc., etc., etc. not mentioned, in case you thought we don't have many.
My elder daughter went to UCL. Its in Gower St It was founded by Jeremy Bentham ,an Atheist (I think his mummified body is in the main reception.)
UCL students are known as "The Godless of Gower Street" 🙂
Nah, Bentham's not mummified, just bits of him (his skeleton and hair basically) are encased in a wax and dressed in his clothes as an auto icon and housed in a box in the cloisters...
@@firstsurname7099 I thought I might have got that bit wrong!
Try Time Team, you will hopefully find them interesting.
Some European countries have access to free or low-cost education. This is taken into account in British educational establishments.
The Autumn Term is from September to December, the Spring Term from January to March or April and the Summer Term from April to July.
yes,Glasgow is bigger than Edinburgh,i think it is 3rd or 4th largest in the whole UK,
Your on the right track with the lawyer.
You can be the best lawyer ever but you are only a lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction. You have to qualify to practice in each one you want to operate in legally.
Youll find that lawers tend to specialise in one or two disciplines much like doctors.
That 'canal' is the River Cam - hence Cam bridge.
I'm going to Cambridge in the autumn to study Law. Lots, and I mean LOTS, of international students study Law here, especially those from common law systems like USA, Canada, Australia, etc (basically the Commonwealth plus a few more). They are surprisingly transferable because they all derive from English law. The other type of law system is civil, derived from the Romans. All countries are either civil or common, or a slight blend of both!
at 6.33am every morning, camb students have to get up and micturate on an allocated 3sq metres of lawn.......its the nitratesthat keep it so green.
I thought alcohol killed grass.
Take issue with him on Fleming . Penicillin was initially discovered in 1928 and was first used on a patient in 1941.🇬🇧
Hmm, I commented further up that he actually discovered it at St Mary's, Paddington. There's a plaque on the wall to prove it. (Purple not blue for some strange reason.)
Spread across Edinburgh, Scotland? Phew, I was worried for a moment that this might have been an Edinburgh somewhere else
I find it funny how all the achievements that they mentioned are connected to people from Scotland.
Dolly the Sheep from the Roslin Institute,
Penicillin from Alexander Fleming,
and The Noble Gases from William Ramsay. (Although, they were referring to Morris Travers whom worked with Ramsay to find 3 of them).
Also, here's the order of when the universities were founded (there are multiple possible dates):
(rc meaning when the university was granted its royal charter)
1. University of Oxford (c. 1096/ c. 1200/ 1214/ rc 1244)
2. University of Cambridge (1209/ rc 1231)
3. University of St. Andrews (1410/ 1411/ 1413/ rc 1532)
4. University of Glasgow (1451/ rc 1453)
5. University of Aberdeen (rc 1495/ 1860 (merged with Marischal College (1593))
6. University of Edinburgh (rc 1582/ 1583)
7th place is debated between the University of Manchester (1824/ 1851/ 1880/ rc 2004), University College London (1826/ rc 1836), and Durham University (1832/ rc 1837).
Just the fact that England had two universities, then had to wait 600 years to get a third.
Fleming may have come from Scotland but his research work was at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington in West London. It’s part of the federal University of London. The actual discovery of penicillin was at his weekend cottage at Barton Mills, Suffolk, two miles from where I live.
We date a university from its charter, not from its constituent colleges or predecessors.
In some other rankings Durham University is placed above University College London and Edinburgh
Yes, I believe Glasgow is Scotland's largest city.
Too right it is Jimmy - bigger and better than Edinburgh
Durham Uni is older than London Uni or any of London's collegs.
Note that UCL (University College London) was the first College in England to admit students only on the basis of their potential ability to do their proposed course. You did not have to be a fully paid up, card-carrying member of the Church of England - you could be a Roman Catholic, nonconformist Protestant such as a Methodist or Baptist, a Jew, Hindu, Muslim or atheist. You could also - shock, horror! - be a woman, or a member of 'the lower classes'. UCL was the first University in England to have women Professors. Btw, there have been a lot of Nobel Prizewinners from UCL, not just in 1907.
I am surprised about St Andrews not even a mention after all our future king and Queen went there.
cloning a sheep is no different than cloning a human
They would have drive on mowers for lawns that size 0.13
Probably a large tractor comes along to mow it maybe? They do that on the recreation ground near my house due to the size of it.
@@user-rg9ct6wv3r You don't need a wide mower to make wide stripes on the lawn ! You just cut it one way and then move a " bout " along before making a cut in the other direction .Then go just beyond your first cut for the next cut in the original direction. Repeat three to five times and you can make big broad stripes.
@@user-rg9ct6wv3r Probably judging by the width of the strips
To be so impressed with green grass he must live in Nevada or somewhere like that 😅
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland by size and population.
What was the " ah water !!" outburst for !!??
When you see "burgh" say it as "burruh" like burrow (as in animal burrow) but we get lazy and change the "ow" to "uh".
We get lazy with "shire"... Say "sure" but add an H... "shure" see? Easy.
As far as the Uk is concerned if anyone is in any doubt if you just work on the assumtion Scotland as a whole and Glasgow in particuar is best where almost everything is concerned - you wont go far long if you think along these lines
My daughter went to Trinity College, Cambridge. It's the one with the big green square where you halted the video. If nothing else, Trinity is the richest educational establishment in Britain
Fleming enjoyed taking all the credit for penicillin, but all he did was to notice a reaction. That’s all. The actual work turning an observation into to life saving miracle was done by a group of four, working together in England BUT funded by an American university. So this “British” discovery and work resulted in the British paying fees to the Americans.
It’s quite a well-known story.
I had an offer from University of Edinburgh to study nursing and I would've got in as I got 3 A's in my A-Levels (I redid them this year, and I'm 32, having a career change from teacher to medical nurse), but because of the cost of living crisis, I've had to accept my place at Northumbria University in my hometown Newcastle. Mind, I'm not sad about it as Northumbria University has great facilities for Nursing and a good reputation with the Newcastle NHS Trust. Maybe I'll choose University of Edinburgh for a Masters in 3 years time.
Another fun fact: 4 of the top 10 universities in the world, according to latest rankings, are in the UK. 4 are in America. For a country with a population 5x smaller, the UK punches above its weight with top universities!
UK universities now often favour overseas student applicants as they can charge more for their fees.
Just see my sweet stall on Cambridge market 😀
I forgot this fact re UCL: you did not need to be a Royalist to enter, you could be a Republican (in the French sense). King's College London was founded a few years after UCL as a reaction to its political impartiality. You had to be a Royalist and member of the Church of England and male to apply to it.
UCL and Imperial College have traditionally cooperated with each other, doing some joint post-graduate degrees, for example. But UCL does not cooperate with King's College.
Age of a university doesn’t always guarantee excellence because the oldest university in Europe and the second oldest in the world is not Oxford but the university of Bologna in Italy founded in 1088 but is only ranked 161 in the world.😂
All we may learn from this study is that the grass is green!
This video is out of date. For the last few years St Andrews University in Scotland has been in the top three and is currently rated number one, Oxford 2nd and Cambridge 3rd.
Even though (sadly) we have left the EU institutions have tried to maintain reciprocal arrangements with EU counterparts. These things are 'above' politics and have benefits for both sides.
No mention of Warwick? Founded in 1965. My niece found it easier to get into Oxford than Warwick.
Not EU, European students. The 2 are different. EU is a very recent political project, Europe is an ancient continent with close ties hundreds of years before the EU which itself has it roots i the 1970’s and was officially formed in 1993, The Netherlands, known as the Maastricht treaty.
It is a river not a canal.
Take this video with a large pinch of salt.
Whilst Cambridge and Oxford are considered the top two universities in the country, if not the world, 'Best' is a very subjective term. I'm a little surprised they put Oxford ahead of Cambridge as academically Cambridge tends to top the tables, especially in scientific subjects. However Oxford arguably has more famous/powerful alumni, especially politicians.
All universities have certain subjects which they are considered good at to some degree. e.g. They may be highly rated for medicine, or Law or Engineering, etc but not so much in some other subjects. For instance my father used to be a lecturer at Bristol University (before that he worked at the Bank of England). His department (economics) was regularly rated second in the country behind Cambridge. Oxford on the other hand doesn't rate at all as it only teaches economics as a minor part of other degrees such as PPE*.
There are ratings guides that are published every year and they look at not just academic results, but what percentage of graduates from each dept got jobs in their subject after leaving, resources per student, living costs, student support, etc. Other stuff such as student happiness, living costs, night life, extra curricular activities, etc may also be considered when deciding the 'best' university.
Terms: This can differ slightly depending on the uni and your course but as a rule of thumb the Autumn term is late Sept/early Oct to mid/late Decemebr with 2-3 weeks off for Christmas. Spring term is Jan -Easter with 2 weeks off. The summer term is from after Easter until sometime in June. with July, August and September (or most of it) off.
The number of hours of lectures/seminars, etc can vary hugely between degrees. Things like medicine, veterinary and biology degrees tend to have the highest workload and may have slightly longer terms than normal.
At the other end of the scale are the Mickey-Mouse degrees. These are degrees that have a very light workload and are very easy to get onto. They're generally taken by people who either fucked up their A levels and couldn't get onto the course they wanted, or who aren't very academic, but want the university experience because most of their friends are going.
Classic examples of Micky-Mouse degrees are Media Studies and Business Studies. To give you some idea my own degree had 6 extra weeks compared to most degrees with 24 hrs of lectures a week (plus lots of reading and assignments) compared to 6hrs for media studies and 8 hrs for business studies, so my workload was roughly 4x that of those degrees.
*PPE (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) is a degree that many politicians take, especially Tories.
The economics side is just a basic overview and doesn't go into much depth. Many of them then get an inflated idea of their own competency about running the country and economy, rather like a first aider believing they can perform brain surgery. Consequently they tend to make major fuck ups because their economic understanding is in reality severely limited.
N.B. Glasgow is the third biggest UK city after London and Birmingham with a population of 612,000. Edinburgh is 9th with 488,000.
Edinburgh is the capital for historic reasons. Glasgow grew in the industrial revolution and had lots of heavy industry such as steel and ship building, most of which has gone now.
Lots of people injured at the end of WW2 would not have survived if penicillin had not been discovered.
When I went to UCL, it was ranked 4th in the world.
Surprised not to see the University of Royal Hard Knox . 😂 🛏️
I read mathematics at Oxford. Got a BA.
Read that again. A BA in mathematics.
You only got that in Oxford or Cambridge.
Probably Americans do this now too. /yawn
But I put it proudly on my CV. And nobody bloody notices.
😊
I heard somewhere that after a few years Oxbridgeites automatically get "promoted" to MA without actually doing anything. I'm slightly sceptical tbh.
@caw25sha I was told that, too.
You know what? How much of my life did I spend there? Most. Of. My. Life. Still not been "promoted."
But BA. In mathematics. Where can you get that?
Four of the world’s top ten universities are in the UK
Don’t they smoke grass in the USA?
Yeah we have really great universities but really shouldn't clone anything
Why?
@@generaladvance5812 why what, that we shouldn't clone anything, you tell me what purpose is it to clone something and where do we stop
Grass again... Lol
St Andrews University??
theres the eec and the eu and europe uk is part of two of them
I thought Durham would be in the top 5.
He didn't need to add an 's' to Law; it is LAW not LAWS
I think Manchester should have been on there
Many UK universities are not very old compared to US ones.
It’s reciprocal,,,, and frankly Brexit hasn’t really happened in full yet ,,,,,if ever .
No, it's not great grass. It's not well mown, there's brown stems showing, the species are coarse not fine, and there are many weeds. Go and sit on it and look.
This is a pretty useless video to review. In any case University rankings are so subjective. Edinburgh often comes out high but my daughter’s friend got in there with much lower grades than any of her peers at other less well known institutions and when she got there they could not provide the course she applied for so she had to cobble together a first year course.
SUPRISED MANCESTER DID T GET A LOÒ IN WITH ITS INVENTIONS, COMPUTER GRAPHINE ETC
My eldest daughter got a law degree at Westminster, my son attended St George's and Kings College studying Bio.Meduxal Engineering ...my youngest daughter missed her chance to apply for a course in Geology due to falling ill due to paracetamol allergy which resulted in anaphylactic shock and now looks after me full-time due to my various co.morbidities . I am the dunce like their Dad but we cannot call attend Uni...
My great love was and always has been and will be horses, so I worked in riding schools for years, teaching horseriding and stable management and my only regrets are that I had to give up working with horses full time when I got married and had my children.. I do not regret my children, only not riding horses anymore . As I will be 70 in August and not well enough to ride anymore, I can only encourage people to not give up on their dreams and ambitions. As my late Mum used to say...
Do as I say, not as I do. Ah well...
... Qué Sera Sera.
I guess we still allow EU students access to our top universities out of the kindness of our hearts and cognisant of the fact that the EU has no universities in the top 10 (the UK has 4) and not that many in the top 100. The poor things need some help ;P
Trinity is in ireland not the Uk
Comments are annoying
Trinity is ireland
Both Oxford and Cambridge have Trinity Colleges. There is no Trinity University in the UK though. Trinity College is the only college of Dublin University which is perhaps unusual.
BRITISH UNIVRCITIES ARE STRUGGLING TO GET EU STUDENTS AFTER BREXIT AS PRICES HAVE GONE UP QUITE A LOT
Fleming did NOT "discover Penicillin in 1945" but in 1928, 17 years earlier. He did not do a great deal with it and it was left to a team headed by the Australian Scientist Howard Florey to develop it into a useful drug.
Both Fleming and Florey received the Nobel Prize along with a fellow Researcher, Ernst Chain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_penicillin#Discovery