The university of Oxford is oldest English Université . The date of its foundation is not known precisely. The oldest traces of an activity of teaching in Oxford go back to 1096. The university has in fact really started to develop starting from 1167, when Henri II of England prohibited to the English students to follow the courses of the Université of Paris.

It accommodates a little more than 18.000 students, who are divided in 39 colleges and 7 Permanent Private Halls (religious foundations).

The majority of them are installed in beautiful old buildings in the middle of the old city of Oxford (to be seen: Christ Church, Merton College, Magdalen College, University College, New College). It is especially the Gothic style which dominates and which gave to the university town its nickname of quoted of bell-towers dreamers , while the cathedral (of Church Christ) (12th-15th centuries) and the church Saint Peter in the East (12th S.) belong mainly to the Romance Norman. The frontage of Queen' S College shows the Classicisme and one finds examples of modernistic architecture (for example, St Catherine' S College).

On the Radcliffe public garden Radcliffe Camera (1747) is, which shelters a room of reading of the Bibliothèque bodléienne, one of the richest libraries of the world. Bodléienne is one of the libraries of Copyright of the United Kingdom which receive, according to the law, a specimen of all the books published in the country.

The Ashmolean Museum, founded in 1659, is the oldest museum of the the United Kingdom; its department of antiquities preserves in particular the brought back parts of Cnossos by John and Arthur Evans.

The Université of Cambridge was rested by professors and student taken refuge of the plague which reigned in Oxford at one time during the Moyen-âge.

General information

Contrary at the end French, the " college" indicate the place of dwelling and life of the students and not their place of studies. In addition to the rooms which sometimes in the oldest buildings, are true continuations or apartments of several tens of m ², the colleges have all: a vault, a dining room where the table of the professors is perpendicular and elevated compared to that of the students, a living room with television, a laundry, etc and especially of the sports grounds, often outside the city. Until in the years 1970, the students were to come to table out of black toga and was to put " upright; with the blow of gong" to recite the " benedicite" in Latin. At the wall of the dining rooms richly decorated, are fixed the portraits of famous old college.

" collèges" have since oldest, until most modern one extremely neat architecture, contrary to the buildings of study or research which do not have for the majority any originality. The 39 colleges and the 7 religious foundations are independent of the university and enjoy a considerable autonomy. For example, the colleges choose the students whom they wish to accommodate (although that is currently called into question) as well as the speakers. They are responsible for the conveniences and the social security for the students, as well as courses in restricted group. In addition, much of colleges are richer than the university itself (Christ Church and St John' S College in particular).

Today, the Chancelier of the university is the Baron Patten off Barnes and the vice-chancellor is the professor Dr. John Hood.

Colleges

The Permanent Private Halls

External bonds

• Banner page of the University of Oxford

Bibliographical orientation

• Francoise of the Sorb (1991). Oxford, 1919-1939. A intellectual crucible or metamorphoses of a generation. Otherwise (Paris), Series Memories : 287 p.

Simple: Oxford University Zh-yue: 牛津大學

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