Education
in Great Britain
by Daria Usynina
Westminster school
Westminster School is one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the UK, and it's hard to imagine a school with a more royal status. It was founded in 1179. Graduates of the school were lots of famous people.
The Perse School
The Perse School is considered one of the oldest schools in the world. It was founded on the project and at the expense of the English scientist and philanthropist Stephen Percy (1548-1615). The Perse school has advantages over other schools.
Cardiff College
Cardiff College (Cardiff Sixth Form College) is a private co-educational school for students aged 15 to 19, offering A-level and Cambridge Pre-U graduation programs. Here, a student can also take qualified, specialized training courses at a selected university. The school is proud of the high academic results of graduates.
One of the oldest universities in the world, the first English-language and in the British Isles. Although the exact date of the founding of the university is unknown, there is evidence that training took place there already in 1096. Oxford University has had an impact on culture. A student costume is world famous, one of the attributes of which is the Oxford "bags".
University of Oxford
Glasgow University
Glasgow University was founded in 1451 and is the fourth on the list of the oldest universities in English-speaking countries. Their graduates include 7 Nobel Prize winners, one Prime Minister and one First Minister of Scotland. Within the walls of our university, Albert Einstein lectured on the origin of the general theory of relativity.
University of Nottingham
University scientists have created the smallest periodic table. Having taken Professor Martin Polyakov’s hair as a “substrate”, the staff of his laboratory, using an ion beam and an electron microscope, applied the designation of all 118 elements of the periodic table and presented it to the professor for his birthday.
The school has existed since 1829. It was founded by King George IV. Among its teachers were well-known talented people: the English poet Gabriele Rossetti and his son, the artist Dante Rossetti. Already in 1843, there were 500 students at King's College School.
King’s College School
Cambridge university
This university is already many years old; it was founded back in 1209. They say that the founders are Oxford students who fled from there due to some kind of conflict.
It is here, outside the walls of this educational “epicenter” that the most famous discoveries and inventions were made:
University of Reading
Reading was the first UK university to appoint a woman professor. In 1908, Edith Morley was appointed professor of English at the university. The event took place 10 years before women got the right to vote in the UK. She held the position until 1940 and was awarded the MBE for services to the university.
University College London
Jeremy Bentham, the "spiritual father" of the college, bequeathed to dissect his corpse for the benefit of science and put it in a box behind glass in the walls of the institution. After his death, the skeleton was really wrapped in hay and dressed in clothes that Bentham wore during his life. It was not possible to save the real head, but it was replaced with a wax replica.
The school was founded by William Wainflet as a branch of Magdalen College to educate sixteen boys-singing colleges who sang in the college chapel, as well as other local children with high academic achievements. The first definitive evidence of the school dates back to 1480. Since then, its size has increased from thirty boys to more than 850 children.
Here they study the design of clothes and costumes, art, interior design, space and objects. More than half of the designers who have ever taken part in London Fashion Week are graduates of the University of London. Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Ralph Fiennes and others.