Campus university - Citizendia

A campus university is a British term for a University situated on one site - with student accommodation, teaching and research facilities, and leisure activities all together. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects It is derived from the Latin term campus, meaning "a flat expanse of land, plain, field". Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. A campus is traditionally the land on which a College or University and related institutional buildings are situated ^[1]

The founding of these new institutions initiated a wave of far reaching expansion in Higher Education within the UK and helped open access to Higher Education to students who found access to the more traditional universities difficult or closed. Higher education is Education that is provided by universities, vocational universities, Community colleges Liberal arts colleges The traditional universities tended to attract students from the exclusive private education sector in the UK and from privileged backgrounds whereas Campus Universities attracted students from all classes, backgrounds and schools (especially the state funded Grammar and then later Comprehensive schools). A grammar school is one of several different types of School in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries A comprehensive school is a Secondary school and State school for children from the age of 11 to at least 16 that does not select children on the basis of academic

These institutions also promoted "new" courses of study and so helped initiate not just a great expansion in numbers of students but in the range of subjects studied.

Therefore many students in the Campus Universities, particularly in the post war period 1950 to 1970 were the first member of their family ever to go to University and studying new and "exciting" topics, which lent a radical edge to the experience of Higher Education. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Originally looked down on by the older universities many Campus Universities within the UK are now large elite institutions, educationally on a par with their older rivals.

Campus Universities are contrasted to Collegiate universities, based on a number of Colleges (such as Oxford, Durham or Cambridge Universities) or a university consisting of a number of sites, or even individual buildings, spread throughout a town (such as Edinburgh University). A collegiate university is a University whose functions are divided between the central administration of the university and a number of constituent colleges Confusingly, multi-site universities often call each separate site "a campus" and many original Campus Universities now have expanded to more than one site (or campus), for example the University of Nottingham. The University of Nottingham is a Public, Co-educational institution of Higher learning in the city of Nottingham, England.

The classic Campus University is often found on the edge of cities, such as the University of Sussex which is a few miles from the city of Brighton, the University of East Anglia which is just on the edge of the city of Norwich, the University of Kent which is just on the edge of the city of Canterbury, the University of Essex near Colchester, the University of Warwick near Coventry or Keele University near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire

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^ Oxford Latin Dictionary, ed. The University of Sussex is a British Campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is from Brighton The University of East Anglia is a campus-based University located in Norwich, England, and founded in 1963 History Roman The Romans had their regional capital at Venta Icenorum on the river to the south which is near modern-day Caistor St Edmund The University of Kent is a plate glass campus University in Kent, England. Canterbury ( ˈkæntəbɹ̩i is a City in eastern Kent in the South East region of England. The University of Essex is a British Campus university located near the town of Colchester, England Colchester ( /ˈkəʊltʃɛstə/ is a town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester, in Essex, England. The University of Warwick is a British Campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry, West Midlands, England and is Coventry ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in the County of West Midlands in England. Keele University is a research-intensive Campus university located near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Newcastle-under-Lyme, known simply as "castle" to many local people is a Market town in Staffordshire, England, and is the principal Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. P. G. W. Glare, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1982), p. 263

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