University Life in the Victorian Era

Docs en anglais | 4 pages | 26-11-2005 | Format : | Note : Non noté

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Résumé

Voyage dans un monde en pleine transformation, celui de la libéralisation et de la démocratisation du monde universitaire britannique - notamment les prestigieuses universités d'Oxford et Cambridge - forge des mythes qui ne sont pas prêts de mourir.

Cet exposé de 4 pages au format Word traite en anglais la question suivante :

To what extent was university life transformed during the Victorian era?

Extrait:

British universities, during the Victorian era, underwent a process of democratisation and liberalisation, which allowed more people to make the most of higher education, and in the same time classical higher education was challenged by a series of reforms with the aim of adapting it to the modern world.

Democratisation of higher education was first reflected in a quantitative point of view, with the increase of university attendance figures within the period. Indeed, attendance figures seem to show a rapid and accelerating growth at the English universities from 1860 to the end of the century.

This expansion may be associated with a process of qualitative democratisation, that is the opening to a less exclusively male Anglican upper-class audience. Indeed, the English universities of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were defined by an alliance between [...]

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