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University
A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education.
History
Arguably the first university was the Academy founded in 387BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove of Academos near Athens, where students were taught philosophy, mathematics and gymnastics.
The first European Medieval universities were established in Italy and France in the Middle Ages for the study of law, medicine, and theology. Before that, similar institutions already existed in the Islamic world, notably in Cairo. The most important Asian university was Nalanda, in Bihar, India, where the second century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna was based.
In Europe young men proceeded to the university when they had completed the study of the trivium: the preparatory arts of grammar, rhetoric, and logic and the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
In the United Kingdom, a University is instituted by Royal Charter and only institutions with such a charter can award degrees of any kind.
In the last decades of the 20th century, a number of Mega Universities have been created, teaching with distance learning techniques.
See also: List of oldest universities in continuous operation
Related terms
- academia - academy - admission - alumnus - aula - business schools - campus - college - college and university rankings - dean - degree - diploma - discipline - dissertation - faculty - fraternities and sororities - graduate student - graduation - perpetual student - Privatdozent - professor - provost - rector - research - scholar - student - tenure - tuition - universal access
See also: List of colleges and universities, School and university in literature
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eshelifeeshe@yahoo.com - November 26th, 2005
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Dear Sietske, As you responded before to write a 500 word essay to be considered in bursary /scholarship, I have written it as follows: My name is Eshetie Sisay Tarekegn I was born in 1982 in ETHIOPIA. After seven year I lost my right leg by earth slide accident. Now I am a university graduate with a BA degree in business management that is achieved with the grant of Belgian government money scholarship and I have been working as junior labor relation and staff benefits officer in one pharmaceutical factory for one year and four months. As you may know,
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University of sweden
eshelifeeshe@yahoo.com - November 26th, 2005
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Dear My name is Eshetie Sisay Tarekegn I was born in 1982 in ETHIOPIA. After seven year I lost my right leg by earth slide accident. Now I am a university graduate with a BA degree in business management that is achieved with the grant of Belgian government money scholarship and I have been working as junior labor relation and staff benefits officer in one pharmaceutical factory for one year and four months. As you may know, my country Ethiopia has several problems both naturally& artificially. In spite of the fact that the problems are shared by all dwellers, the
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eshelifeeshe@yahoo.com - November 26th, 2005
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Dear ' My name is Eshetie Sisay Tarekegn I was born in 1982 in ETHIOPIA. After seven year I lost my right leg by earth slide accident. Now I am a university graduate with a BA degree in business management that is achieved with the grant of Belgian government money scholarship and I have been working as junior labor relation and staff benefits officer in one pharmaceutical factory for one year and four months. As you may know, my country Ethiopia has several problems both naturally& artificially. In spite of the fact that the problems are shared by all dwellers,
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