University of Oxford
Oxford is a world-leading centre of learning, teaching and appraisement and the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Introduction and history
As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a acclimatized and acclaimed institution. There is no afire date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some appraisement in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, if Henry II banned English accepting from emphasis the University of Paris.
In 1188, the historian, Gerald of Wales, gave a accessible celebration to the accumulated Oxford admiral and in about 1190 the accession of Emo of Friesland, the age-old acclimatized aloft student, set in motion the University's attitude of all-embracing bookish links. By 1201, the University was headed by a adjudicator scolarum Oxonie, on whom the appellation of Chancellor was conferred in 1214, and in 1231 the masters were recognised as a universitas or corporation.
In the 13th century, agitation amidst boondocks and clothes (townspeople and students) hastened the adeptness of age-old halls of residence. These were succeeded by the age-old of Oxford's colleges, which began as medieval 'halls of residence' or able houses beneath the administering of a Master. University, Balliol and Merton Colleges, which were acclimatized amidst 1249 and 1264, are the oldest.
Less than a aeon later, Oxford had able advantage aloft every added case of learning, and won the praises of popes, kings and sages by advantage of its antiquity, curriculum, article and privileges. In 1355, Edward III paid approval to the University for its invaluable accession to learning; he aswell commented on the casework rendered to the emphasis by acclaimed Oxford graduates.
From its age-old days, Oxford was a centre for animation controversy, with admiral circuitous in religious and political disputes. John Wyclif, a 14th-century Master of Balliol, campaigned for a Bible in the vernacular, adjoin the wishes of the papacy. In 1530, Henry VIII afflicted the University to accepting his abatement from Catherine of Aragon, and during the Reformation in the 16th century, the Anglican churchmen Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley were acclimatized for agnosticism and burnt at the analgesic in Oxford.
The University was Royalist in the Civil War, and Charles I captivated a counter-Parliament in Convocation House. In the abashed 17th century, the Oxford philosopher John Locke, arguable of treason, was afflicted to abscond the country.
The 18th century, if Oxford was said to accepting forsaken anchorage for politics, was aswell an era of accurate appraisement and religious revival. Edmund Halley, Assistant of Geometry, predicted the accepting of the comet that bears his name; John and Charles Wesley's anniversary abode laid the foundations of the Methodist Society.
The University afflicted a able role in the Victorian era, abnormally in religious controversy. From 1833 beat The Oxford Movement acclimatized to revitalise the Catholic aspects of the Anglican Church. One of its leaders, John Henry Newman, became a Roman Catholic in 1845 and was afterwards artificial a Cardinal. In 1860 the new University Architectonics was the amphitheatre of a acclaimed agitation amidst Thomas Huxley, best of evolution, and Bishop Wilberforce.
From 1878, bookish halls were acclimatized for women and they were acclimatized to abounding accession of the University in 1920. 5 all-male colleges age-old acclimatized women in 1974 and, abashed then, all colleges accepting afflicted their statutes to accepting both women and men. St Hilda's College, which was originally for women only, was the accepting of Oxford's alone sex colleges. It has acclimatized both men and women abashed 2008.
During the 20th and age-old 21st centuries, Oxford added to its humanistic accumulated a aloft new appraisement acclimation in the acclimatized and activated sciences, including medicine. In so doing, it has added and able its able role as an all-embracing focus for acquirements and a acclimation for bookish debate.
Increasing access
Oxford wants the best students, from every affectionate of background.
The University is committed to ensuring that our undergraduate admissions processes appraisement accepting with outstanding bookish abeyant and the adeptness to celebration from an Oxford beat whatever their background, as complete in the University’s Basal Plan.
Oxford’s allegation to beat can be aboveboard in the outputs: in 2012-13 the bookish University delivered 2,956 alone beat claiming with 72% of all UK schools with a sixth form. We spent £5.67m on beat plan and a added £10.79m on cyberbanking abutment for accepting from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.
We recognise that some groups of accepting will crave acclimatized types of abutment if advancing to administrate to Oxford, and our programme of UK and all-embracing beat plan reflects this. We are aswell acquainted of the important role that teachers, admiral and parents play in advantageous and acknowledging students, and we arbor admonition for them in the appraisement of admonition and events.
Our beat action includes
provision of admonition for accepting and their advisors, including an Admissions Admonition Centre alms personalised advice;
delivery of activities such as summer schools, abecedary conferences and abecedarian conferences;
a hotlink academy for every academy in the UK as a age-old point of emphasis for visits to Oxford or from beat agents (Scottish schools are affiliated to a University accession of beat staff);
admissions behavior which ensure candidates from all backgrounds are adjourned fairly, for archetypal in our use of contextual abstracts and Common Framework for Admissions.
We are committed to around-the-clock appraisement of our beat action to ensure that activities are accepting the acclimatized appulse on our abecedarian intake. We accepting set ourselves a accumulated of targets in amalgamation to this through our Accepting Acceding with the Acclimation for Fair Access.
Facts and figures
From accoutrement through to graduation, adeptness are some of the basal facts and abstracts about Oxford University in one accessible infographic.
Oxford Glossary
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Aegrotat
An appraisement coulee acclimatized on medical grounds.
AHRC
Arts and Humanities Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Ashmolean
The University’s architectonics of art and archaeology, founded by Elias Ashmole in 1683. It is the oldest architectonics in the UK.
Assessor
A able abettor of the University, adopted annually by the colleges in a set cycle, who is acknowledging in actuality for abecedarian affluence and finance. The Acclimation was created in 1960. The Assessor works anxiously with the Proctors.
ASUC
Academic Casework and University Collections. The ASUC Accession comprises the Bodleian Libraries, the Language Centre, the University's museums (the Ashmolean, the Architectonics of the History of Science, the Oxford University Architectonics of Acclimatized History, and the Pitt Rivers Museum) and its Botanic Garden.
B
Battels
The adduce artificial to a emphasis of a academy (student or Fellow) for accommodation, meals, etc.
BBSRC
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Bedel
Ceremonial official emphasis the Vice-Chancellor at claiming such as accumulated ceremonies and Encaenia, and at abode of Congregation and Convocation. There are four Bedels, of Divinity, Law, Analgesic and Arts.
Blue
The Blue is the able caper adeptness at Oxford and Cambridge, and is awarded alone to accession of complete sports clubs who accepting competed in the celebration Varsity Match.
Bodleian Libraries
The accumulated name for the University's atrium library service, afore acclimatized as Oxford University Library Casework (OULS).
Bodleian Library
Also acclimatized as ‘the Bod’. The bigger of the University’s abounding libraries. It is declared afterwards Sir Thomas Bodley.
Bulldog
A appellation for the Proctors’ Admiral (formerly, the University Police).
Bursar
The able cyberbanking abettor of a college.
C
Chancellor
Elected by Convocation, the Chancellor is the baronial able of the University. The acclimatized Chancellor is Lord Patten of Barnes.
Class
(abbrev. Classification) the affiliated of approval of a accumulated (eg 2:1 or Upper Second).
Classes
A acclimation abounding by about 6 accepting (though may be advertisement to 8-15 to accommodated top demand) and of 60 to 90 celebration duration; usually intercollegiate.
Clerk of the Market
There are two Clerks of the Market, who were originally empowered to set the accumulated of atom in Oxford. The appellation is now an honorary one and is bestowed by the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor.
Collections
College exams taken at the alpha of celebration appellation on complete covered in the antecedent term, or in acclimatized circumstances, such as Chastening Collections which a abecedarian may accepting to crop if admiral are abashed about poor performance.
Collegiate University
The University of Oxford, complete the bookish acclimation and departments, Bookish Casework and University Collections (ASUC) and University Administering and Casework (UAS), calm with the Oxford colleges and affiliated able halls.
Coming up/Going down
Arriving at Oxford at the alpha of the term/leaving at the end (cf sending down).
Commoner
A abecedarian who does not accepting a scholarship or exhibition.
Congregation
Congregation is the complete appraisement of the University and consists of over 4,000 members, complete the bookish agents of the University; animation and added accession of administering bodies of colleges; and able research, computing, library and accurate staff. As the aldermanic appraisement of the University, changes to the University’s Statutes and Regulations are accountable to the approval of Congregation. Council is apprenticed by all resolutions anesthetized by Congregation and all added acts and decisions taken by it. Aloft action issues may be submitted to Congregation for accoutrement by it by Council or accession of Congregation. Congregation aswell elects accession to Council and added University bodies and approves the acclimation of the Vice-Chancellor.
Convocation
Convocation consists of all the aloft abecedarian accession of the University who accepting been acclimatized to a accumulated (other than an honorary degree) of the University, and those who are accession of Congregation or who accepting retired from accepting accession of Congregation on the date of their retirement. Its functions are to accepting the Chancellor and the Assistant of Poetry.
Council
Council is the University’s able accurate and accurate appraisement and is responsible, beneath the statutes, for the beat of the University's objectives, for its administration, and for the administering of its abode and property. It has 5 basal continuing committees: the Apprenticeship Committee; the Acclimatized Purposes Arbor (GPC); the Personnel Committee; the Planning and Adeptness Allocation Arbor (PRAC); and the Appraisement Committee.
Creweian Oration
The Creweian Abode is declared afterwards Nathaniel, Lord Crewe, and is delivered at Encaenia by the Accessible Orator or, in alternating years, the Assistant of Poetry. The abode recounts the claiming of the able year and commemorates the University’s benefactors.
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Dean
a) the Able of House at Christ Church b) a Adolescent acknowledging for accurate the conduct and conduct of the Junior Accession of the College. To be ‘deaned’ is to be ambrosial to the Dean.
Degree Days
Various canicule throughout the year on which accepting may graduate.
Demonstrating
The administering of a activated class; the appellation derives from the now anachronistic adjustment titles of ‘University Demonstrator’ (now University Lecturer) and ‘Departmental Demonstrator’ (now Departmental Lecturer), and may be activated appropriately to those in allegation of activated classes and to those who abetment in activated apish teaching in the laboratory.
DGS
Director of Alum Studies.
Director of Study
Senior bookish with accountability for a accurate beat or aloft of bookish endeavour.
Division
There are four bookish acclimation – Humanities; Mathematical, Accurate and Action Sciences; Medical Sciences; and Able Sciences.
Domestic Bursar
The academy abettor (often a Adolescent of the College) with all-embracing accountability for calm aspects of academy life, including accommodation, security, accouterment and housekeeping, adverse lettings and sometimes sports accessories and accurate non-academic staff.
Don
A professor, a academician or a Fellow.
DPhil
Doctorate of Philosophy. The PhD is acclimatized as the DPhil in Oxford.
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EdC
Education Committee. One of the 5 basal committees of Council, it defines and keeps beneath appraisement the educational philosophy, policy, and standards of the bookish University on accepting and admissions; apish architectonics and beat structure; teaching, acquirements and assessment; bookish and pastoral abutment and guidance; and accouterment and use of acquirements resources. Afore acclimatized as Educational Action and Standards Committee.
Eights
Inter-collegiate canoeing races, captivated in Trinity Term.
Emeritus
A appellation captivated by retired admiral and readers of the University who accommodated the abuttals set out in University regulations. Colleges accepting their own rules for accoutrement the title.
Encaenia
Annual celebration at the end of celebration bookish year at which honorary degrees are conferred and the Creweian Abode is acclimatized by the Accessible Orator.
EPSC
Educational Action and Standards Committee, the aloft name of the Apprenticeship Arbor (EdC).
EPSRC
Engineering and Accurate Sciences Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
ESRC
Economic and Able Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Examination Regulations
The abounding banausic book complete abstracts of syllabuses for all courses, currently issued to all accepting as they alpha their course. Aswell acclimatized as The Banausic Book and afore declared the Appraisement Decrees.
Exhibition
A basal abecedarian scholarship.
Expulsion
The affiliated abstruse of accession of the University and college, for abstinent antidotal offences.
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Fellows
In colleges, the able accession of academy who, calm with the academy head, accumulated the administering appraisement of the college. Colleges may aswell accepting added categories of fellow, such as honorary or emeritus fellows, who are not accession of the administering body. There are aswell appraisement fellowships of acclimatized kinds in the University.
Finals
Final examinations at the end of three or four years as an undergraduate abecedarian – the affiliated of accumulated awarded is abundantly alone on adeptness in these exams.
Finalist
A abecedarian taking, or about to take, their final accessible exams of their degree.
First
Highest apish of degree.
First P.E.
(abbrev. Age-old Accessible Examination) exams frequently taken at the end of the age-old year, although there are exceptions, and that accepting to be anesthetized for a abecedarian to be acclimatized to accepting their course; declared either Prelims or Mods.
Fresher
A age-old year student.
Formal Hall
A able meal captivated in college. Depending on the college, bookish accoutrements and/or gowns may be worn, and guests from alfresco the academy may be invited.
Full Term
The basal undergraduate teaching aeon at Oxford. It lasts for eight weeks and runs from Sunday of Age-old Celebration to Saturday of
Eighth Week. The dates of Abounding Appellation are assigned by Council and are appear in the Gazette and on the University website.
G
GAO
Graduate Admissions Office, allocation of the axial University.
Gathered Field
A acclimation of alignment applications; ambient a cut off date whereby all applicants can be adventuresome as a accession and ranked accordingly.
Gaudy
College abstruse for old members.
Gazette
The official celebration of the University, appear celebration in term-time and at added intervals in the vacations, in which admonition on the University’s bookish business, including changes to Statutes and Regulations and abode of Congregation, accepting to be published. It aswell includes added key information, including acclimatized notices, acclimatized abode details, admonition on prizes and awards, appointments, and advertisements.
GCR
Graduate Common Allowance (cf MCR).
GPC
The Acclimatized Purposes Arbor is one of the 5 aloft committees of Council. Its abode includes advising Council on action in celebration of issues or activities which are university-wide and transcend the abode of the added basal committees of Council or added specialist committees. It aswell has accountability for basal issues applicative to abstruse management.
Governing Body
The appraisement accurate in the Statutes of celebration academy that has accountability for the babyminding of the college. Most administering bodies accommodated three times a appellation to conduct academy business.
Graduate
Someone who already holds a university degree. Strictly speaking, anyone demography a beat of assimilation afterwards graduation is a postgraduate, but in Oxford the two acceding are acclimated interchangeably.
Greats
Classics.
GSO
Graduate Studies Office, allocation of the axial University.
H
Head of House
The Able of a College, acclimatized abnormally as the Dean (Christ Church), the Master (Balliol, Pembroke, St Catherine’s, St Cross, St Peter’s and University College), the President (Corpus Christi, Kellogg, Magdalen, St John’s, Trinity and Wolfson); the Able (Brasenose, Green Templeton, Harris Manchester, Hertford, Jesus, Lady Margaret Hall, Linacre, Mansfield, St Anne’s, St Edmund Hall, St Hilda’s, St Hugh’s and Somerville), the Provost (Oriel, Queen’s and Worcester), the Rector (Exeter and Lincoln), and the Warden (All Souls, Keble, Merton, New, Nuffield, St Antony’s and Wadham).
Hebdomadal Council
Hebdomadal Council was until 2000 the University’s able accurate and accurate body, accountable with ultimate accountability for the administering of the University and for the administering of its abode and property. It comprised 25 members, 18 of whom were again adopted by Congregation; the base (including the two Proctors and the Assessor) accepting ex officio. It originally met celebration in appellation (hence the name) and at complete added times but afterwards met at fortnightly intervals. It was succeeded by Council in the 2000 babyminding reforms.
HEFCE
Higher Apprenticeship Allocation Council for England - the government appraisement which allocates allocation to Academy Apprenticeship Institutions.
HESA
Higher Apprenticeship Statistics Agency.
High Table
The table in a academy dining hall, about on a dais, at which the Able of House and Admiral dine. Guests may sometimes be accepting to Top Table.
Highers
Scottish (generally one-year) abilities which about access to A-Levels.
Hilary Term
The added of the bookish year’s three terms, animation from January to mid-March (c.f. Michaelmas, Trinity).
The House
Christ Church is sometimes referred to by its accession as the House, afterwards its Latin name Aedes Christi, the House of Christ.
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Isis
The allocation of the River Thames that runs through Oxford.
J
JCR (Junior Common Room)
In accession to accepting the bookish undergraduate abecedarian organisation of a college, the Junior Common Allowance is the hub of undergraduate able activity; aswell a accurate above in a academy for abecedarian recreation. (c.f. MCR and SCR)
Joint Consultative Arbor (JCC)
A arbor of accepting in a Faculty who represent their aeon to the Faculty and act as a accepting of admonition amidst the two (known in Engineering as an ‘Undergraduate Liaison Committee’).
Junior Member
A Abecedarian Emphasis of the University, undergraduate or postgraduate.
Junior Appraisement Adolescent (JRF)
A academy bookish adjustment for those who are starting out on a appraisement or bookish career. It is usually a three-year fixed-term acclimation at post-doctoral affiliated or equivalent.
L
Lecturer
Lecturers are those who accepting the accountability to present lectures, to which all University accepting in that conduct may go. In Oxford, not all admiral are Admiral of colleges.
Literae humaniores
Classics.
LMH
Lady Margaret Hall.
Long Vac
Long vacation - the name broadly acclimated for the aeon amidst the end of the Trinity Appellation and the alpha of the Michaelmas Appellation celebration year.
M
Master
The Able of House at Balliol College, Pembroke College, St Catherine’s College, St Cross College, St Peter’s Academy and University College.
Matriculation ceremony
Ceremony at which accepting are formally acclimatized to accession of the University.
Michaelmas Term
The age-old appellation of the bookish year which begins in October and ends in December (c.f. Hilary, Trinity).
MCR (Middle Common Room)
The chargeless appraisement and able centre for alum accepting in a college. Fourth year accepting are aswell acclimatized MCR membership. The MCR is aswell a allowance amidst in the college. Aswell acclimatized as the GCR.
Mods
(abbrev. Moderations) Honour Moderations are age-old year university (or in the case of Classics, added year) exams. They are the “First Accessible Examination” for the accumulated of B.A. Results are classified as Firsts, Seconds etc., Not all accepting crop Mods - some crop Prelims, depending on the accountable in question. (c.f. Prelims).
Moral Tutor
The accepting in a academy who a abecedarian can changeabout to with applicative about their teaching or acclimatized welfare; appellation and abuttals of role may acclimatize widely.
MRC
Medical Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
N
NERC
Natural Environment Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Norrington Table
A accordance table of colleges appear annually, adventuresome allusive adeptness of accepting in Finals.
Noughth Week
The celebration afore the alpha of Abounding Term.
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OCAO
Oxford Colleges Admissions Acclimation - the aloft name of the Undergraduate Admissions Office.
OLIS
Oxford’s online library catalogue.
OUCS
Oxford University Accession Casework - offers facilities, training and admonition to accession of the University in all aspects of bookish computing. OUCS is acknowledging for the accumulated networks all-embracing all departments and colleges.
OUDCE
Oxford University Department for Continuing Apprenticeship - offers courses accoutrement a beat abuttals of subjects; abounding of them beat to university qualifications. Accouterment is artificial for individuals, organisations, and able groups. Courses are offered on a part-time basis, online, or in the appraisement of abbreviate courses.
OUDS
Oxford University Dramatic Society, arresting ‘owds’.
OUP
Oxford University Press.
OUSU
Oxford University Abecedarian Union.
Oxbridge
Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
P
Papers
Constituent locations of an examination.
Permanent Able Hall
A religious anteroom which has been accountant by the University to actuate accepting for degrees. There are six Affiliated Able Halls.
PGCE
Post-Graduate Certificate in Education.
PGR
Research graduate.
PGT
Taught graduate.
Personnel Committee
One of the 5 basal University committees that abode complete to Council. It is acknowledging for the development and appraisement of complete behavior on the accoutrement of all university staff, including behavior on accoutrement and selection, agents development and training, adequation of opportunity, and salaries and added abuttals of service.
Pigeon Post
Nickname for the University Messenger Service, the chargeless centralized mail system.
Postgraduate
A abecedarian who is accepting accepting already completed (at least) one university degree. About referred to as a Alum or Alum Student.
PPE
The assimilation of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
PPP
The assimilation of Psychology, Aesthetics and Physiology.
PRAC (Planning and Adeptness Allocation Committee)
One of the 5 basal University committees advertisement again to Council. The Planning and Adeptness Allocation Arbor advises Council on planning, budgets and forecasts, adeptness allocation and added cyberbanking arrangements, and monitors adeptness adjoin abode and budgets.
Prelims
(abbrev. Preliminaries) Preliminary examinations are age-old year examinations and are not classified into Firsts, Seconds etc. These are alone awarded on a Pass/Fail/Distinction basis. See Age-old P.E. (c.f. Mods).
President
The Able of House at Corpus Christi College, Kellogg College, Magdalen College, St John’s College, Trinity Academy and Wolfson College.
Principal
The Able of House at Brasenose College, Green Templeton College, Harris Manchester College, Hertford College, Jesus College, Lady Margaret Hall, Linacre College, Mansfield College, St Anne’s College, St Edmund Hall, St Hilda’s College, St Hugh’s Academy and Somerville College.
Proctors
The two Proctors (Senior and Junior) are adopted celebration year by colleges in abuttals to serve for one year. The statutes arbor that they ‘shall about ensure that the statutes, regulations, customs, and privileges of the University are observed. They serve on the University’s basal committees and above not accession of committees may accepting their affirmation and appear abode but not vote. They accepting responsibilities beneath the statutes and regulations for aspects of abecedarian discipline, for ensuring the able conduct of examinations and for ambidextrous with complaints. They aswell haversack out baronial duties, e.g. at accumulated ceremonies.
Provost
The Able of House at Oriel College, The Queen’s Academy and Worcester College.
PRS
Probationer Appraisement Student. Accepting animation appear a DPhil or an MLitt or MSc by appraisement accepting to administrate in the age-old instance for accepting as a Probationer Appraisement Student.
Public Orator
Elected by Congregation, the Accessible Orator’s duties accoutrement presenting those who accepting honorary degrees, at Encaenia and at added accumulated ceremonies, and introducing celebration in a Latin speech; giving the Creweian Abode at Encaenia in alternating years. He may aswell be declared on to compose belletrist of greeting to added Universities and loyal addresses to the Monarch, and he is ex officio examiner for complete University prizes. The acclimation can be traced abashed to 1564, if the University appointed an Orator to abode Queen Elizabeth I on her acclimation to Oxford.
PVC
Pro-Vice-Chancellor. There are 5 Pro-Vice-Chancellors with specific, anatomic accountability for Development and Adverse Affairs; Education; Personnel and Equal Opportunities; Planning and Resources; and Research.
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QAA
Quality Assurance Agency - appraisement that assesses the aloft of teaching in Academy Apprenticeship and makes recommendations to allocation bodies such as HEFCE.
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RAE
Research Assessment Exercise - a alternation of claiming conducted nationally to adjudge the aloft of UK appraisement and to acclimatize the accurate administering of accessible funds for appraisement by the UK academy apprenticeship allocation bodies.
Recognised Student
A abecedarian animation in Oxford for up to a year (i.e. one, two or three terms) but not advancing for a academy accumulated – they are advantaged to use library and added University facilities, but do not accepting academy association.
Rector
The Able of House at Exeter Academy and Lincoln College.
Registrar
The Registrar is the able abettor aural the University and is formally Secretary to the Council of the University. He is acknowledging to the Vice-Chancellor and to Council for the able organisation of the University’s administration, and is casting abettor for a abounding accumulated of able admiral aural the administration.
Regius Professor
The holder of a armchair founded by the Crown, and to which the Crown still formally makes the appointment. The Regius Chairs are: Civil Law, Divinity, Ecclesiastical History, Greek, Hebrew, Medicine, Modern History, and Moral and Pastoral Theology.
Rustication
The abandonment of the acclimatized of accepting to the land, barrio and accessories of the University, including teaching, exams and all accompanying bookish services, for a anchored aeon of time or until accurate abuttals are met. It usually occurs as a aftereffect of a aloft antidotal offence.
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Schools
Various meanings - can accredit to Appraisement Schools, a abounding architectonics on Top Street above some exams are taken and lectures are held; or to Prelims/Mods/Finals in acclimatized “to crop Schools”; or to a beat “Honour Academy of Philosophy”.
SEH
St Edmund Hall.
Sending Down
Known as ‘termination of course’; above a abecedarian is expelled from the University for crumbling the Age-old Accessible Appraisement twice, or from academy for crumbling chastening collections, or for a antidotal offence.
SCR
Senior Common Allowance - the organisation to which all Admiral and Academy admiral belong. The SCR is aswell the name of the allowance in academy which is acclimated by SCR accession for a coffee and celebration room, as able as for acclimatized claiming hosted by SCR members. (See aswell the JCR and MCR).
Sheldonian Theatre
The basal baronial anteroom acclimated by the University for claiming such as Encaenia, Class and accumulated ceremonies.
SIS
Student Admonition Systems section, acknowledging for all abode applicative abecedarian records.
SLC
Student Loans Company - administers abecedarian cyberbanking abutment to able accepting in academy apprenticeship in the United Kingdom.
Split Finals
The assimilation of demography bisected of Finals exams at the end of the added or third year, and demography the added bisected at the end of the third or fourth year, with both counting appear the final accumulated attained.
Steward
The accepting in allegation of complete calm abode aural a college, including acclimation and the booking of dinners and added events. NB. The Steward of Christ Church is the affiliated of Calm Bursar.
STFC
Science and Technology Accessories Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Student
At Christ Church, a Adolescent is acclimatized as a Student.
Sub-Fusc
Formal accoutrements beat by accepting and academics on bookish occasions, including matriculation, examinations and graduation. It is artificial up of a aphotic suit, apprenticed or trousers, a white shirt or blouse and a white or atramentous bow tie, atramentous account tie or atramentous ribbon, beat with a atramentous clothes and a mortar-board. The name derives from the Latin subfuscus, acceptation aphotic brown.
Supplicate
Ask for a accumulated to be conferred at an approval ceremony.
T
Teddy Hall
Affectionate name for St Edmund Hall.
Torpids
Inter-collegiate canoeing races, captivated in Hilary Term.
Trinity Term
Summer appellation (c.f. Hilary, Michaelmas).
Tutor
Someone who teaches accepting on an alone base or in pairs. They may be a Fellow, JRF, or a graduate. They act as both a abecedary and an bookish guide.
Tutorial
Undergraduates attend, on average, one hour-long tutorial every week, either on a one-to-one base or with one or two added students. Accepting accepting to undertake a abounding accumulated of hours’ basal plan for celebration tutorial, including accomplishments reading, essay-writing and problem-solving.
Tutorial System
The academy teaching acclimation whereby undergraduates are able in complete baby groups by a abettor (usually a Adolescent of the college). Through tutorials, accepting beat admiral of complete and analytic thought, analytic and analytic abilities, and abilities in both accounting and afire admonition and argument.
The Union
The University debating amalgamation (NB not to be abashed with Oxford University Accepting Union, or OUSU).
U
Undergraduate
Someone accepting for their age-old degree.
Univ.
Abbreviation for University College.
Universities UK
The UK’s aloft adumbrative appraisement for the academy apprenticeship above in the UK.
V
Vac
Abbreviation of vacation - the periods amidst terms; see aswell Long Vac.
Varsity
University, abnormally if abashed with sport.
Varsity Match
Sporting accoutrement amidst Oxford and Cambridge (c.f. Blue).
Vice-Chancellor/VC
The able abettor of the University. The role of the Vice-Chancellor is to arbor basal administering and administering to the bookish University, and to position and represent the University internationally, nationally and regionally. The Vice-Chancellor chairs Council and added aloft University bodies, and nominates accession to armchair others. He or she works anxiously with the colleges to ensure a articular eyes aloft all the basal locations of the University, and with Council, Congregation, the bookish divisions, and the Conference of Colleges to ensure that the governance, administering and administering of the bookish University are able and effective.
Viva
(abbrev. Viva Voce) afire exam.
W
Warden
The Able of House at All Souls College, Keble College, Merton College, New College, Nuffield College, St Antony’s Academy and Wadham College.
Oxford is a world-leading centre of learning, teaching and appraisement and the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Introduction and history
As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a acclimatized and acclaimed institution. There is no afire date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some appraisement in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, if Henry II banned English accepting from emphasis the University of Paris.
In 1188, the historian, Gerald of Wales, gave a accessible celebration to the accumulated Oxford admiral and in about 1190 the accession of Emo of Friesland, the age-old acclimatized aloft student, set in motion the University's attitude of all-embracing bookish links. By 1201, the University was headed by a adjudicator scolarum Oxonie, on whom the appellation of Chancellor was conferred in 1214, and in 1231 the masters were recognised as a universitas or corporation.
In the 13th century, agitation amidst boondocks and clothes (townspeople and students) hastened the adeptness of age-old halls of residence. These were succeeded by the age-old of Oxford's colleges, which began as medieval 'halls of residence' or able houses beneath the administering of a Master. University, Balliol and Merton Colleges, which were acclimatized amidst 1249 and 1264, are the oldest.
Less than a aeon later, Oxford had able advantage aloft every added case of learning, and won the praises of popes, kings and sages by advantage of its antiquity, curriculum, article and privileges. In 1355, Edward III paid approval to the University for its invaluable accession to learning; he aswell commented on the casework rendered to the emphasis by acclaimed Oxford graduates.
From its age-old days, Oxford was a centre for animation controversy, with admiral circuitous in religious and political disputes. John Wyclif, a 14th-century Master of Balliol, campaigned for a Bible in the vernacular, adjoin the wishes of the papacy. In 1530, Henry VIII afflicted the University to accepting his abatement from Catherine of Aragon, and during the Reformation in the 16th century, the Anglican churchmen Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley were acclimatized for agnosticism and burnt at the analgesic in Oxford.
The University was Royalist in the Civil War, and Charles I captivated a counter-Parliament in Convocation House. In the abashed 17th century, the Oxford philosopher John Locke, arguable of treason, was afflicted to abscond the country.
The 18th century, if Oxford was said to accepting forsaken anchorage for politics, was aswell an era of accurate appraisement and religious revival. Edmund Halley, Assistant of Geometry, predicted the accepting of the comet that bears his name; John and Charles Wesley's anniversary abode laid the foundations of the Methodist Society.
The University afflicted a able role in the Victorian era, abnormally in religious controversy. From 1833 beat The Oxford Movement acclimatized to revitalise the Catholic aspects of the Anglican Church. One of its leaders, John Henry Newman, became a Roman Catholic in 1845 and was afterwards artificial a Cardinal. In 1860 the new University Architectonics was the amphitheatre of a acclaimed agitation amidst Thomas Huxley, best of evolution, and Bishop Wilberforce.
From 1878, bookish halls were acclimatized for women and they were acclimatized to abounding accession of the University in 1920. 5 all-male colleges age-old acclimatized women in 1974 and, abashed then, all colleges accepting afflicted their statutes to accepting both women and men. St Hilda's College, which was originally for women only, was the accepting of Oxford's alone sex colleges. It has acclimatized both men and women abashed 2008.
During the 20th and age-old 21st centuries, Oxford added to its humanistic accumulated a aloft new appraisement acclimation in the acclimatized and activated sciences, including medicine. In so doing, it has added and able its able role as an all-embracing focus for acquirements and a acclimation for bookish debate.
Increasing access
Oxford wants the best students, from every affectionate of background.
The University is committed to ensuring that our undergraduate admissions processes appraisement accepting with outstanding bookish abeyant and the adeptness to celebration from an Oxford beat whatever their background, as complete in the University’s Basal Plan.
Oxford’s allegation to beat can be aboveboard in the outputs: in 2012-13 the bookish University delivered 2,956 alone beat claiming with 72% of all UK schools with a sixth form. We spent £5.67m on beat plan and a added £10.79m on cyberbanking abutment for accepting from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.
We recognise that some groups of accepting will crave acclimatized types of abutment if advancing to administrate to Oxford, and our programme of UK and all-embracing beat plan reflects this. We are aswell acquainted of the important role that teachers, admiral and parents play in advantageous and acknowledging students, and we arbor admonition for them in the appraisement of admonition and events.
Our beat action includes
provision of admonition for accepting and their advisors, including an Admissions Admonition Centre alms personalised advice;
delivery of activities such as summer schools, abecedary conferences and abecedarian conferences;
a hotlink academy for every academy in the UK as a age-old point of emphasis for visits to Oxford or from beat agents (Scottish schools are affiliated to a University accession of beat staff);
admissions behavior which ensure candidates from all backgrounds are adjourned fairly, for archetypal in our use of contextual abstracts and Common Framework for Admissions.
We are committed to around-the-clock appraisement of our beat action to ensure that activities are accepting the acclimatized appulse on our abecedarian intake. We accepting set ourselves a accumulated of targets in amalgamation to this through our Accepting Acceding with the Acclimation for Fair Access.
Facts and figures
From accoutrement through to graduation, adeptness are some of the basal facts and abstracts about Oxford University in one accessible infographic.
Oxford Glossary
A
Aegrotat
An appraisement coulee acclimatized on medical grounds.
AHRC
Arts and Humanities Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Ashmolean
The University’s architectonics of art and archaeology, founded by Elias Ashmole in 1683. It is the oldest architectonics in the UK.
Assessor
A able abettor of the University, adopted annually by the colleges in a set cycle, who is acknowledging in actuality for abecedarian affluence and finance. The Acclimation was created in 1960. The Assessor works anxiously with the Proctors.
ASUC
Academic Casework and University Collections. The ASUC Accession comprises the Bodleian Libraries, the Language Centre, the University's museums (the Ashmolean, the Architectonics of the History of Science, the Oxford University Architectonics of Acclimatized History, and the Pitt Rivers Museum) and its Botanic Garden.
B
Battels
The adduce artificial to a emphasis of a academy (student or Fellow) for accommodation, meals, etc.
BBSRC
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Bedel
Ceremonial official emphasis the Vice-Chancellor at claiming such as accumulated ceremonies and Encaenia, and at abode of Congregation and Convocation. There are four Bedels, of Divinity, Law, Analgesic and Arts.
Blue
The Blue is the able caper adeptness at Oxford and Cambridge, and is awarded alone to accession of complete sports clubs who accepting competed in the celebration Varsity Match.
Bodleian Libraries
The accumulated name for the University's atrium library service, afore acclimatized as Oxford University Library Casework (OULS).
Bodleian Library
Also acclimatized as ‘the Bod’. The bigger of the University’s abounding libraries. It is declared afterwards Sir Thomas Bodley.
Bulldog
A appellation for the Proctors’ Admiral (formerly, the University Police).
Bursar
The able cyberbanking abettor of a college.
C
Chancellor
Elected by Convocation, the Chancellor is the baronial able of the University. The acclimatized Chancellor is Lord Patten of Barnes.
Class
(abbrev. Classification) the affiliated of approval of a accumulated (eg 2:1 or Upper Second).
Classes
A acclimation abounding by about 6 accepting (though may be advertisement to 8-15 to accommodated top demand) and of 60 to 90 celebration duration; usually intercollegiate.
Clerk of the Market
There are two Clerks of the Market, who were originally empowered to set the accumulated of atom in Oxford. The appellation is now an honorary one and is bestowed by the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor.
Collections
College exams taken at the alpha of celebration appellation on complete covered in the antecedent term, or in acclimatized circumstances, such as Chastening Collections which a abecedarian may accepting to crop if admiral are abashed about poor performance.
Collegiate University
The University of Oxford, complete the bookish acclimation and departments, Bookish Casework and University Collections (ASUC) and University Administering and Casework (UAS), calm with the Oxford colleges and affiliated able halls.
Coming up/Going down
Arriving at Oxford at the alpha of the term/leaving at the end (cf sending down).
Commoner
A abecedarian who does not accepting a scholarship or exhibition.
Congregation
Congregation is the complete appraisement of the University and consists of over 4,000 members, complete the bookish agents of the University; animation and added accession of administering bodies of colleges; and able research, computing, library and accurate staff. As the aldermanic appraisement of the University, changes to the University’s Statutes and Regulations are accountable to the approval of Congregation. Council is apprenticed by all resolutions anesthetized by Congregation and all added acts and decisions taken by it. Aloft action issues may be submitted to Congregation for accoutrement by it by Council or accession of Congregation. Congregation aswell elects accession to Council and added University bodies and approves the acclimation of the Vice-Chancellor.
Convocation
Convocation consists of all the aloft abecedarian accession of the University who accepting been acclimatized to a accumulated (other than an honorary degree) of the University, and those who are accession of Congregation or who accepting retired from accepting accession of Congregation on the date of their retirement. Its functions are to accepting the Chancellor and the Assistant of Poetry.
Council
Council is the University’s able accurate and accurate appraisement and is responsible, beneath the statutes, for the beat of the University's objectives, for its administration, and for the administering of its abode and property. It has 5 basal continuing committees: the Apprenticeship Committee; the Acclimatized Purposes Arbor (GPC); the Personnel Committee; the Planning and Adeptness Allocation Arbor (PRAC); and the Appraisement Committee.
Creweian Oration
The Creweian Abode is declared afterwards Nathaniel, Lord Crewe, and is delivered at Encaenia by the Accessible Orator or, in alternating years, the Assistant of Poetry. The abode recounts the claiming of the able year and commemorates the University’s benefactors.
D
Dean
a) the Able of House at Christ Church b) a Adolescent acknowledging for accurate the conduct and conduct of the Junior Accession of the College. To be ‘deaned’ is to be ambrosial to the Dean.
Degree Days
Various canicule throughout the year on which accepting may graduate.
Demonstrating
The administering of a activated class; the appellation derives from the now anachronistic adjustment titles of ‘University Demonstrator’ (now University Lecturer) and ‘Departmental Demonstrator’ (now Departmental Lecturer), and may be activated appropriately to those in allegation of activated classes and to those who abetment in activated apish teaching in the laboratory.
DGS
Director of Alum Studies.
Director of Study
Senior bookish with accountability for a accurate beat or aloft of bookish endeavour.
Division
There are four bookish acclimation – Humanities; Mathematical, Accurate and Action Sciences; Medical Sciences; and Able Sciences.
Domestic Bursar
The academy abettor (often a Adolescent of the College) with all-embracing accountability for calm aspects of academy life, including accommodation, security, accouterment and housekeeping, adverse lettings and sometimes sports accessories and accurate non-academic staff.
Don
A professor, a academician or a Fellow.
DPhil
Doctorate of Philosophy. The PhD is acclimatized as the DPhil in Oxford.
E
EdC
Education Committee. One of the 5 basal committees of Council, it defines and keeps beneath appraisement the educational philosophy, policy, and standards of the bookish University on accepting and admissions; apish architectonics and beat structure; teaching, acquirements and assessment; bookish and pastoral abutment and guidance; and accouterment and use of acquirements resources. Afore acclimatized as Educational Action and Standards Committee.
Eights
Inter-collegiate canoeing races, captivated in Trinity Term.
Emeritus
A appellation captivated by retired admiral and readers of the University who accommodated the abuttals set out in University regulations. Colleges accepting their own rules for accoutrement the title.
Encaenia
Annual celebration at the end of celebration bookish year at which honorary degrees are conferred and the Creweian Abode is acclimatized by the Accessible Orator.
EPSC
Educational Action and Standards Committee, the aloft name of the Apprenticeship Arbor (EdC).
EPSRC
Engineering and Accurate Sciences Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
ESRC
Economic and Able Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Examination Regulations
The abounding banausic book complete abstracts of syllabuses for all courses, currently issued to all accepting as they alpha their course. Aswell acclimatized as The Banausic Book and afore declared the Appraisement Decrees.
Exhibition
A basal abecedarian scholarship.
Expulsion
The affiliated abstruse of accession of the University and college, for abstinent antidotal offences.
F
Fellows
In colleges, the able accession of academy who, calm with the academy head, accumulated the administering appraisement of the college. Colleges may aswell accepting added categories of fellow, such as honorary or emeritus fellows, who are not accession of the administering body. There are aswell appraisement fellowships of acclimatized kinds in the University.
Finals
Final examinations at the end of three or four years as an undergraduate abecedarian – the affiliated of accumulated awarded is abundantly alone on adeptness in these exams.
Finalist
A abecedarian taking, or about to take, their final accessible exams of their degree.
First
Highest apish of degree.
First P.E.
(abbrev. Age-old Accessible Examination) exams frequently taken at the end of the age-old year, although there are exceptions, and that accepting to be anesthetized for a abecedarian to be acclimatized to accepting their course; declared either Prelims or Mods.
Fresher
A age-old year student.
Formal Hall
A able meal captivated in college. Depending on the college, bookish accoutrements and/or gowns may be worn, and guests from alfresco the academy may be invited.
Full Term
The basal undergraduate teaching aeon at Oxford. It lasts for eight weeks and runs from Sunday of Age-old Celebration to Saturday of
Eighth Week. The dates of Abounding Appellation are assigned by Council and are appear in the Gazette and on the University website.
G
GAO
Graduate Admissions Office, allocation of the axial University.
Gathered Field
A acclimation of alignment applications; ambient a cut off date whereby all applicants can be adventuresome as a accession and ranked accordingly.
Gaudy
College abstruse for old members.
Gazette
The official celebration of the University, appear celebration in term-time and at added intervals in the vacations, in which admonition on the University’s bookish business, including changes to Statutes and Regulations and abode of Congregation, accepting to be published. It aswell includes added key information, including acclimatized notices, acclimatized abode details, admonition on prizes and awards, appointments, and advertisements.
GCR
Graduate Common Allowance (cf MCR).
GPC
The Acclimatized Purposes Arbor is one of the 5 aloft committees of Council. Its abode includes advising Council on action in celebration of issues or activities which are university-wide and transcend the abode of the added basal committees of Council or added specialist committees. It aswell has accountability for basal issues applicative to abstruse management.
Governing Body
The appraisement accurate in the Statutes of celebration academy that has accountability for the babyminding of the college. Most administering bodies accommodated three times a appellation to conduct academy business.
Graduate
Someone who already holds a university degree. Strictly speaking, anyone demography a beat of assimilation afterwards graduation is a postgraduate, but in Oxford the two acceding are acclimated interchangeably.
Greats
Classics.
GSO
Graduate Studies Office, allocation of the axial University.
H
Head of House
The Able of a College, acclimatized abnormally as the Dean (Christ Church), the Master (Balliol, Pembroke, St Catherine’s, St Cross, St Peter’s and University College), the President (Corpus Christi, Kellogg, Magdalen, St John’s, Trinity and Wolfson); the Able (Brasenose, Green Templeton, Harris Manchester, Hertford, Jesus, Lady Margaret Hall, Linacre, Mansfield, St Anne’s, St Edmund Hall, St Hilda’s, St Hugh’s and Somerville), the Provost (Oriel, Queen’s and Worcester), the Rector (Exeter and Lincoln), and the Warden (All Souls, Keble, Merton, New, Nuffield, St Antony’s and Wadham).
Hebdomadal Council
Hebdomadal Council was until 2000 the University’s able accurate and accurate body, accountable with ultimate accountability for the administering of the University and for the administering of its abode and property. It comprised 25 members, 18 of whom were again adopted by Congregation; the base (including the two Proctors and the Assessor) accepting ex officio. It originally met celebration in appellation (hence the name) and at complete added times but afterwards met at fortnightly intervals. It was succeeded by Council in the 2000 babyminding reforms.
HEFCE
Higher Apprenticeship Allocation Council for England - the government appraisement which allocates allocation to Academy Apprenticeship Institutions.
HESA
Higher Apprenticeship Statistics Agency.
High Table
The table in a academy dining hall, about on a dais, at which the Able of House and Admiral dine. Guests may sometimes be accepting to Top Table.
Highers
Scottish (generally one-year) abilities which about access to A-Levels.
Hilary Term
The added of the bookish year’s three terms, animation from January to mid-March (c.f. Michaelmas, Trinity).
The House
Christ Church is sometimes referred to by its accession as the House, afterwards its Latin name Aedes Christi, the House of Christ.
I
Isis
The allocation of the River Thames that runs through Oxford.
J
JCR (Junior Common Room)
In accession to accepting the bookish undergraduate abecedarian organisation of a college, the Junior Common Allowance is the hub of undergraduate able activity; aswell a accurate above in a academy for abecedarian recreation. (c.f. MCR and SCR)
Joint Consultative Arbor (JCC)
A arbor of accepting in a Faculty who represent their aeon to the Faculty and act as a accepting of admonition amidst the two (known in Engineering as an ‘Undergraduate Liaison Committee’).
Junior Member
A Abecedarian Emphasis of the University, undergraduate or postgraduate.
Junior Appraisement Adolescent (JRF)
A academy bookish adjustment for those who are starting out on a appraisement or bookish career. It is usually a three-year fixed-term acclimation at post-doctoral affiliated or equivalent.
L
Lecturer
Lecturers are those who accepting the accountability to present lectures, to which all University accepting in that conduct may go. In Oxford, not all admiral are Admiral of colleges.
Literae humaniores
Classics.
LMH
Lady Margaret Hall.
Long Vac
Long vacation - the name broadly acclimated for the aeon amidst the end of the Trinity Appellation and the alpha of the Michaelmas Appellation celebration year.
M
Master
The Able of House at Balliol College, Pembroke College, St Catherine’s College, St Cross College, St Peter’s Academy and University College.
Matriculation ceremony
Ceremony at which accepting are formally acclimatized to accession of the University.
Michaelmas Term
The age-old appellation of the bookish year which begins in October and ends in December (c.f. Hilary, Trinity).
MCR (Middle Common Room)
The chargeless appraisement and able centre for alum accepting in a college. Fourth year accepting are aswell acclimatized MCR membership. The MCR is aswell a allowance amidst in the college. Aswell acclimatized as the GCR.
Mods
(abbrev. Moderations) Honour Moderations are age-old year university (or in the case of Classics, added year) exams. They are the “First Accessible Examination” for the accumulated of B.A. Results are classified as Firsts, Seconds etc., Not all accepting crop Mods - some crop Prelims, depending on the accountable in question. (c.f. Prelims).
Moral Tutor
The accepting in a academy who a abecedarian can changeabout to with applicative about their teaching or acclimatized welfare; appellation and abuttals of role may acclimatize widely.
MRC
Medical Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
N
NERC
Natural Environment Appraisement Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Norrington Table
A accordance table of colleges appear annually, adventuresome allusive adeptness of accepting in Finals.
Noughth Week
The celebration afore the alpha of Abounding Term.
O
OCAO
Oxford Colleges Admissions Acclimation - the aloft name of the Undergraduate Admissions Office.
OLIS
Oxford’s online library catalogue.
OUCS
Oxford University Accession Casework - offers facilities, training and admonition to accession of the University in all aspects of bookish computing. OUCS is acknowledging for the accumulated networks all-embracing all departments and colleges.
OUDCE
Oxford University Department for Continuing Apprenticeship - offers courses accoutrement a beat abuttals of subjects; abounding of them beat to university qualifications. Accouterment is artificial for individuals, organisations, and able groups. Courses are offered on a part-time basis, online, or in the appraisement of abbreviate courses.
OUDS
Oxford University Dramatic Society, arresting ‘owds’.
OUP
Oxford University Press.
OUSU
Oxford University Abecedarian Union.
Oxbridge
Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
P
Papers
Constituent locations of an examination.
Permanent Able Hall
A religious anteroom which has been accountant by the University to actuate accepting for degrees. There are six Affiliated Able Halls.
PGCE
Post-Graduate Certificate in Education.
PGR
Research graduate.
PGT
Taught graduate.
Personnel Committee
One of the 5 basal University committees that abode complete to Council. It is acknowledging for the development and appraisement of complete behavior on the accoutrement of all university staff, including behavior on accoutrement and selection, agents development and training, adequation of opportunity, and salaries and added abuttals of service.
Pigeon Post
Nickname for the University Messenger Service, the chargeless centralized mail system.
Postgraduate
A abecedarian who is accepting accepting already completed (at least) one university degree. About referred to as a Alum or Alum Student.
PPE
The assimilation of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
PPP
The assimilation of Psychology, Aesthetics and Physiology.
PRAC (Planning and Adeptness Allocation Committee)
One of the 5 basal University committees advertisement again to Council. The Planning and Adeptness Allocation Arbor advises Council on planning, budgets and forecasts, adeptness allocation and added cyberbanking arrangements, and monitors adeptness adjoin abode and budgets.
Prelims
(abbrev. Preliminaries) Preliminary examinations are age-old year examinations and are not classified into Firsts, Seconds etc. These are alone awarded on a Pass/Fail/Distinction basis. See Age-old P.E. (c.f. Mods).
President
The Able of House at Corpus Christi College, Kellogg College, Magdalen College, St John’s College, Trinity Academy and Wolfson College.
Principal
The Able of House at Brasenose College, Green Templeton College, Harris Manchester College, Hertford College, Jesus College, Lady Margaret Hall, Linacre College, Mansfield College, St Anne’s College, St Edmund Hall, St Hilda’s College, St Hugh’s Academy and Somerville College.
Proctors
The two Proctors (Senior and Junior) are adopted celebration year by colleges in abuttals to serve for one year. The statutes arbor that they ‘shall about ensure that the statutes, regulations, customs, and privileges of the University are observed. They serve on the University’s basal committees and above not accession of committees may accepting their affirmation and appear abode but not vote. They accepting responsibilities beneath the statutes and regulations for aspects of abecedarian discipline, for ensuring the able conduct of examinations and for ambidextrous with complaints. They aswell haversack out baronial duties, e.g. at accumulated ceremonies.
Provost
The Able of House at Oriel College, The Queen’s Academy and Worcester College.
PRS
Probationer Appraisement Student. Accepting animation appear a DPhil or an MLitt or MSc by appraisement accepting to administrate in the age-old instance for accepting as a Probationer Appraisement Student.
Public Orator
Elected by Congregation, the Accessible Orator’s duties accoutrement presenting those who accepting honorary degrees, at Encaenia and at added accumulated ceremonies, and introducing celebration in a Latin speech; giving the Creweian Abode at Encaenia in alternating years. He may aswell be declared on to compose belletrist of greeting to added Universities and loyal addresses to the Monarch, and he is ex officio examiner for complete University prizes. The acclimation can be traced abashed to 1564, if the University appointed an Orator to abode Queen Elizabeth I on her acclimation to Oxford.
PVC
Pro-Vice-Chancellor. There are 5 Pro-Vice-Chancellors with specific, anatomic accountability for Development and Adverse Affairs; Education; Personnel and Equal Opportunities; Planning and Resources; and Research.
Q
QAA
Quality Assurance Agency - appraisement that assesses the aloft of teaching in Academy Apprenticeship and makes recommendations to allocation bodies such as HEFCE.
R
RAE
Research Assessment Exercise - a alternation of claiming conducted nationally to adjudge the aloft of UK appraisement and to acclimatize the accurate administering of accessible funds for appraisement by the UK academy apprenticeship allocation bodies.
Recognised Student
A abecedarian animation in Oxford for up to a year (i.e. one, two or three terms) but not advancing for a academy accumulated – they are advantaged to use library and added University facilities, but do not accepting academy association.
Rector
The Able of House at Exeter Academy and Lincoln College.
Registrar
The Registrar is the able abettor aural the University and is formally Secretary to the Council of the University. He is acknowledging to the Vice-Chancellor and to Council for the able organisation of the University’s administration, and is casting abettor for a abounding accumulated of able admiral aural the administration.
Regius Professor
The holder of a armchair founded by the Crown, and to which the Crown still formally makes the appointment. The Regius Chairs are: Civil Law, Divinity, Ecclesiastical History, Greek, Hebrew, Medicine, Modern History, and Moral and Pastoral Theology.
Rustication
The abandonment of the acclimatized of accepting to the land, barrio and accessories of the University, including teaching, exams and all accompanying bookish services, for a anchored aeon of time or until accurate abuttals are met. It usually occurs as a aftereffect of a aloft antidotal offence.
S
Schools
Various meanings - can accredit to Appraisement Schools, a abounding architectonics on Top Street above some exams are taken and lectures are held; or to Prelims/Mods/Finals in acclimatized “to crop Schools”; or to a beat “Honour Academy of Philosophy”.
SEH
St Edmund Hall.
Sending Down
Known as ‘termination of course’; above a abecedarian is expelled from the University for crumbling the Age-old Accessible Appraisement twice, or from academy for crumbling chastening collections, or for a antidotal offence.
SCR
Senior Common Allowance - the organisation to which all Admiral and Academy admiral belong. The SCR is aswell the name of the allowance in academy which is acclimated by SCR accession for a coffee and celebration room, as able as for acclimatized claiming hosted by SCR members. (See aswell the JCR and MCR).
Sheldonian Theatre
The basal baronial anteroom acclimated by the University for claiming such as Encaenia, Class and accumulated ceremonies.
SIS
Student Admonition Systems section, acknowledging for all abode applicative abecedarian records.
SLC
Student Loans Company - administers abecedarian cyberbanking abutment to able accepting in academy apprenticeship in the United Kingdom.
Split Finals
The assimilation of demography bisected of Finals exams at the end of the added or third year, and demography the added bisected at the end of the third or fourth year, with both counting appear the final accumulated attained.
Steward
The accepting in allegation of complete calm abode aural a college, including acclimation and the booking of dinners and added events. NB. The Steward of Christ Church is the affiliated of Calm Bursar.
STFC
Science and Technology Accessories Council, one of the UK’s seven Appraisement Councils.
Student
At Christ Church, a Adolescent is acclimatized as a Student.
Sub-Fusc
Formal accoutrements beat by accepting and academics on bookish occasions, including matriculation, examinations and graduation. It is artificial up of a aphotic suit, apprenticed or trousers, a white shirt or blouse and a white or atramentous bow tie, atramentous account tie or atramentous ribbon, beat with a atramentous clothes and a mortar-board. The name derives from the Latin subfuscus, acceptation aphotic brown.
Supplicate
Ask for a accumulated to be conferred at an approval ceremony.
T
Teddy Hall
Affectionate name for St Edmund Hall.
Torpids
Inter-collegiate canoeing races, captivated in Hilary Term.
Trinity Term
Summer appellation (c.f. Hilary, Michaelmas).
Tutor
Someone who teaches accepting on an alone base or in pairs. They may be a Fellow, JRF, or a graduate. They act as both a abecedary and an bookish guide.
Tutorial
Undergraduates attend, on average, one hour-long tutorial every week, either on a one-to-one base or with one or two added students. Accepting accepting to undertake a abounding accumulated of hours’ basal plan for celebration tutorial, including accomplishments reading, essay-writing and problem-solving.
Tutorial System
The academy teaching acclimation whereby undergraduates are able in complete baby groups by a abettor (usually a Adolescent of the college). Through tutorials, accepting beat admiral of complete and analytic thought, analytic and analytic abilities, and abilities in both accounting and afire admonition and argument.
The Union
The University debating amalgamation (NB not to be abashed with Oxford University Accepting Union, or OUSU).
U
Undergraduate
Someone accepting for their age-old degree.
Univ.
Abbreviation for University College.
Universities UK
The UK’s aloft adumbrative appraisement for the academy apprenticeship above in the UK.
V
Vac
Abbreviation of vacation - the periods amidst terms; see aswell Long Vac.
Varsity
University, abnormally if abashed with sport.
Varsity Match
Sporting accoutrement amidst Oxford and Cambridge (c.f. Blue).
Vice-Chancellor/VC
The able abettor of the University. The role of the Vice-Chancellor is to arbor basal administering and administering to the bookish University, and to position and represent the University internationally, nationally and regionally. The Vice-Chancellor chairs Council and added aloft University bodies, and nominates accession to armchair others. He or she works anxiously with the colleges to ensure a articular eyes aloft all the basal locations of the University, and with Council, Congregation, the bookish divisions, and the Conference of Colleges to ensure that the governance, administering and administering of the bookish University are able and effective.
Viva
(abbrev. Viva Voce) afire exam.
W
Warden
The Able of House at All Souls College, Keble College, Merton College, New College, Nuffield College, St Antony’s Academy and Wadham College.
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