university
(juːnɪvɜːʳsɪti )
Word forms: universities
variable noun & countable noun A1
A university is an institution where students study for degrees and where academic research is done.
Patrick is now at London University.
They want their daughter to go to university, but they are also keen that she get a summer job.
The university refused to let the controversial politician speak on campus.
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Quotations:
Oxford gave the world marmalade and a manner, Cambridge science and a sausage
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible
Collocations:
engineering university found a university private university top university university awards university class university community university course university employs university exam university graduation university institution university lecture university partnership university recruit university researcher university scholarship university scientist university study university teaching world-class university
At the same time, engineering faculties from outside were absorbed to become a specialized engineering university.
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He started this event with the help of over 35 of the worlds top engineering universities.
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Some engineering universities and educational agencies around the world have changed the term industrial to broader terms such as production or systems, leading to the typical extensions noted above.
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A record number of school-leavers have found a university place through the clearing system.
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Students returning to revisit their youth will have found a university that continues to flourish in a spectacular setting.
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University found that 26% of undergraduates wished they had done more research into their university choices, and 1 in 10 regretted the decision they had made.
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Should the money - which amounted to a sixtieth of the nation's entire annual budget - found a university, a library, an observatory or a publisher?
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Eventually the university found an office for him on a campus nearer his home.
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She dropped out at 17 and enrolled at a private university.
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Plans by top academics to create a private university charging fees of 18,000 a year have been criticised by teachers' leaders.
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Four years at a public university costs on the average $23,892; at a private university, $59,644.
Christianity Today
We also cover the debate on the emerging role of the private university in the higher education sector and examine how the new technologies have changed the way we learn.
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The main tranche of letters focused on the new private university in the pipeline and were largely critical, redressing the balance from the previous day's reports.
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He said that one of the key benefits of studying at a top university was meeting like-minded individuals.
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They will have smart school uniforms and get good exam grades and a place in a top university, he asserts.
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To draw up a realistic balance sheet, establish whether you are entitled to a government grant, or one of the bursaries that every university awards.
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Most hold a first class honours degree and many have also received university awards for excellence.
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The university awards undergraduate and graduate degrees in several disciplines through all of its ten different schools.
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The university awards bachelor's degrees and master's degrees each year.
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The university awards degrees in engineering and science subjects at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels.
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The photographs, taken in university class rooms and lecture halls, not only show the lecturer but also the listeners and students in the audience.
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He graduated first in his university class, and held leadership roles in student government and student activism.
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True, in the late 1930s he attended university classes, but in 1942 he began working as an editor and literary journalist.
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She attends university classes regularly, but may fall asleep in them due to her low stamina.
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Since the school year 2006-07, there are four university classes: mathematics, computer science, chemistry and humanities.
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Since we draw from a university community, we have many individuals who express themselves rationally and never really get in touch with their emotions.
Christianity Today
Student drop-out rates have caused concern in recent years — but fee waivers and a strong university community could help to solve the problem.
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His qualities of wisdom and incisiveness were widely recognised in the university community where he held various important posts.
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He knew the university community in which he served read his newsletter with a magnifying glass but paid little attention to whether his programs were properly developed.
Christianity Today
Through workshops and one-toone coaching, students work in small teams to develop projects to benefit their local or university community.
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She had asked to be allowed to return to start her university course.
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During his university course he was particularly interested in the injection of diesel fuel into engines.
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He took an immediate dislike to the dictator's son and later even switched his university course from engineering to law to avoid him.
The Sun
Depending on the demands of the chosen university course, students might be expected to work part-time to contribute towards the cost of their education.
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He had been recommended for the university course by a friend already studying there.
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The university employs 11,000 people, while the football club have just seven full-time, nonplaying staff.
The Sun
The university employs 540 faculty members and 400 administrative staff.
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In addition to alumni, the university employs 2,040 faculty and 5,843 staff.
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The university employs 2,777 management, professional and support staff.
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The university employs 1,278 staff, including 780 full-time teachers.
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I even had to take a university exam over the phone.
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It's a typical scene at the start of university exam season.
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Will there be a correlation between school/university exam results and the people who end up being selected?
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He also criticised the applicants' poor school and university exam grades.
The Sun
They have a warrant against him for leaking the university exam papers.
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Meanwhile, we have fallen from near the top of the international league table for university graduation rates to mid-table and falling.
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He taught high school and coached basketball for two years after his university graduation.
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It was the venue of music concerts, university graduation ceremonies, and other events of the community.
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Some of them continue working in the science industry after university graduation.
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Those who complete two years of coursework may attain university graduation at the end of four years.
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The university institution of freshers week appears to be at something of a crossroads.
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Stage two of the process brought more architects to the area as well as non-architect professionals, often employed at a university institution.
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This university institution has been credited with strengthening the citys economy.
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The former are now referred to as constituent universities institutions that are essentially universities in their own right.
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Before that, this was the rule only for university institutions.
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Semi-official concerts and heated political discussions took place in cafés and university lecture halls.
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Civilisation demonstrated that colour television could deliver to millions something equivalent to a first-rate university lecture course.
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The logistical problems he highlights could be resolved by moving trials into unused university lecture theatres or hotel conference rooms.
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In principle this means that students with a degree or equivalent can qualify as solicitors without seeing the inside of a physical or remote university lecture hall.
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She wrote it 'off the cuff in a university lecture'.
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A network of 60 overseas university partnerships provides for those who want to explore even further afield.
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The alliance members run nearly 1,000 university partnerships worldwide.
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This led the region to devote its resources to on its internal recovery, with less scope for international university partnerships.
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It also reflects numbers of international academics and students each university recruits.
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Universities recruited 9,820 more students this year due to the relaxing of admissions controls.
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He suggested universities recruit them as part of their access agreements, which they have to sign to gain permission to charge high fees.
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More than 100 universities recruited at least 90 per cent of their students from state schools.
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The university recruits heavily from overseas with more than 160 countries represented on campus.
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That seemed to map out a respectable but hardly lucrative career as a university researcher.
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She has since worked as a university researcher.
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He was a university researcher studying high-energy particle physics from 1968 to 1978.
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Being given a taste of the high life leaves you feeling low, according to university researchers.
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The pharmaceutical industry will go where it can recruit the best-trained scientists and can interact with the best university researchers.
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He eventually won a university scholarship to play football but drifted from college to college when his grades failed to match his on-field prowess.
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She has lost her chance at a university scholarship; love proved too distracting.
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About this time he obtained a university scholarship.
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There are also four university scholarships awarded each year.
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Have a look at the annual grants register of charities as well as state and university scholarships.
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On the town's website locals boast that the 'great mystery' has attracted attention from university scientists all over the world.
The Sun
University scientists found that lonely people tend to share the feeling with acquaintances.
The Sun
University scientists continued their research, and their contributions to applied science allowed improvements in aircraft development, the accuracy of artillery fire, etc.
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They spend four years combining university study with working at the firm's nearby offices, then two years working towards a chartered accountancy qualification.
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Since last year's general election this has been ratcheted up as the government announced plans to measure university teaching standards.
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Particularly damaging has been its effect on university teaching.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Inevitably changes to student funding and the increased competitive nature of the job market have impacted on university teaching.
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The state sector and its teachers do an amazing job in trying to create a fairer and equal access to a world-class university system.
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It will be a sad day when any world-class university has to say to students that they did not earn their places on academic merit alone.
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We already have some world-class universities because, among other reasons, they are highly selective.
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World-class universities are what they are because they have world-class students and academics.
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If we are to attract more students to our world-class universities, we must also break the link between short-term study and permanent settlement in this country.
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Translations:
Chinese: 大学
Japanese: 大学
- silver wedding
- silvery
- silvery hair
- silvery scales
- silvery sheen
- silvery tone
- sim
- SIM card
- simian
- similar
- similar arrangement
- similar background
- similar case
- similar characteristics
- similar circumstances
- similar complaint
- similar conclusion
- similar dilemma
- similar experience
- similar fashion
- similar finding
- similar format
- similar function
- similar incident
- similarity