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Why aren’t the University Colleges and Institutes just called "University" The simpler answer is that, with a few %xceptions, the University Colleges and Institutes do not usually award all their own degrees. At least some of the degrees, especially at postgraduate level, are likely to be awarded by a large university with which the college or institute is associated.
University Colleges and Institutes tend to be much smaller than typical British universities.
But it is not only a matter of size, but their origins that make them somewhat different from British Universities, old or new. Typically, the present University Colleges and Institutes have developed and grown from Teachers’ Colleges. Until about 20 years ago in most cases, they would have been exclusively concerned with the professional training of teachers. Then they started to offer other courses and degrees, broadly comparable to any university, the only diffe
A. They offer degree-level courses
B. They are more famous
C. They can award more degrees
D. They have larger size
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Why aren’t the University Colleges and Institutes just called "University" The simpler answer is that, with a few %xceptions, the University Colleges and Institutes do not usually award all their own degrees. At least some of the degrees, especially at postgraduate level, are likely to be awarded by a large university with which the college or institute is associated.
University Colleges and Institutes tend to be much smaller than typical British universities.
But it is not only a matter of size, but their origins that make them somewhat different from British Universities, old or new. Typically, the present University Colleges and Institutes have developed and grown from Teachers’ Colleges. Until about 20 years ago in most cases, they would have been exclusively concerned with the professional training of teachers. Then they started to offer other courses and degrees, broadly comparable to any university, the only diffe
A. They have similar origins
B. They both offer a variety of courses and degrees
C. They both provide degrees in Law, Engineering and Medicine
D. They have similar campus sites
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Why the inductive and mathematical sciences, ,after their first rapid development at the culmination of Greek civilization, advanced so slowly for two thousand years and why in the following two hundred years a knowledge of natural and mathematical science has accumulated, which so vastly exceeds all that was previously known that these sciences may be justly regarded as the products of our own times are questions which have interested the modern philosopher not less than the objects with which these sciences are more immediately conversant. Was it the employment of a new method of research, or in the exercise of greater virtue in the use of the old methods, that this singular modern phenomenon had its origin Was the long period one of arrested development, and is the modern era one of normal growth Or should we ascribe the characteristics of both periods to sc-called historical accidents to the influence of conjunctions in circumstances of whi
A. the similarity between the two periods
B. that it was an act of God
C. that both tried to develop the inductive method
D. due to the decline of the deductive method
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