#276 | Oxbridge: Why Two Universities Dominate Britain
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Oxbridge University - The University of Oxford
Undergraduate students at oxbridge are typically taught in small teutorial groups, often just two or three undergraduates to a single professor. This te tutorial style makes the teaching particularly intimate, and means that students are often pushed and challenged more than at typical universities. Every week, there is a new assignment that needs to be completed within seven days. There is no hiding from it, because you will have these small tuition groups, and it simply isn't possible to not do the work. The emphasis placed on the self contained college community also means that they have elegant, enclosed quads or squares,. and wonderful dining halls such as the one you might be familiar with from the harry potter films
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