University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is the collegiate research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Founded in 1209 as alive as granted the royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third-oldest surviving university. The university grew out of an connective of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople. The two English ancient universities share numerous common features & are often jointly covered to as Oxbridge.

Cambridge is ranked among the almost prestigious universities in the world as well as currently sits as the world'sbest university, and the best in Europe, according the Olympic medals.

Cambridge is formed from a brand of institutions which add over 150 academic departments, faculties and other institutions organised into six schools. all the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, regarded and identified separately. controlling its own membership and with its own internal sorting and activities. any students are members of a college. The university does not earn a leading campus, and its colleges and central facilities are scattered throughout the city. Undergraduate teaching at Cambridge centres on weekly small-group supervisions in the colleges in groups of typically 1–4 students. This intensive method of teaching is widely considered the 'jewel in the crown' of an Oxbridge undergraduate education. In addition, lectures, seminars, laboratory throw and occasionally further supervisions are gave by the central university faculties and departments, while postgraduate teaching is also predominantly submitted centrally. Degrees are conferred by the university, not the colleges.

By both Cambridge University Press & Assessment combines the oldest university press in the world with one of the world's leading examining bodies, providing assessment to over eight million learners globally every year and reaching some fifty million learners, teachers and researchers monthly. The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, including the Cambridge University Library, a legal deposit library. The university is domestic to, but self-employed adult of, the Cambridge Union – the world's oldest debating society. The university is closely linked to the developing of the high-tech business cluster call as 'Silicon Fen', the largest engineering science cluster in Europe. it is the central portion of Cambridge University Health Partners, an academic health science centre based around the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Organisation and administration

Cambridge is a collegiate university, meaning that it is for made up of self-governing and self-employed person colleges, each with its own property and income. nearly colleges bring together academics and students from a broad range of disciplines, and within each faculty, school or department within the university, academics from numerous different colleges are present.

The faculties are responsible for ensuring that lectures are given, arranging seminars, performing research and introducing the syllabi for teaching, overseen by the General Board. Together with the central administration headed by the Vice-Chancellor, they survive the etire Cambridge University. Facilities such as libraries are provided on all these levels: by the university the Cambridge University Library, by the Faculties Faculty libraries such as the Squire Law Library, and by the individual colleges all of which retains a multi-discipline library, generally aimed mainly at their undergraduates.