INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIVERSITY
View of the Old Schools from Great St Mary’s Church
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The University
Schools & Faculties
Colleges
6 Schools – including:
31 Colleges – of which:
Over 100 Faculties and Departments
6 Graduate Only
Libraries & Museums
3 Women Only
University Administration
Oldest founded 1284 AD
Examinations Syndicate (IELTS, etc.)
Newest founded 1998 AD
Cambridge University Press
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY - Student Numbers 2005-06
Total Student Numbers
18,022
Undergraduates
Home/EU
Overseas
Total
10,689
1,040
11,729
Postgraduates
Home/EU
Overseas
Total
Source: Facts and Figures: January 2007
4,126
2,167
6,293
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY – Staff Numbers
Academic
1,558
Academic Related
1,167
Contract Research
2,494
Technical
1,144
Clerical & Secretarial
1,519
Manual & Domestic
496
Others
224
Total
8,602
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How Are We Funded?
Amount in £ 000s
HEFCE & TDA Grants
£178,077
31.5%
Research Grants & Contracts
£203,886
36.0%
Fee Income
£59,008
10.4%
Endowment & Investment
£32,293
5.7%
Other
£92,454
16.3%
TOTAL
£565,718
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TREASURY
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE
AND INDUSTRY
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
SHEFC
HEFCE
COLL
HEFCW
COLL
OFFICE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH COUNCILS
AHRB
COLL
UNIVERSITY
COLL
MRC
NERC
ESRC
COLL
COLL
- EDUCATION SHEFC= Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
HEFCE= Higher Education Funding Council for England
HEFCW= Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
BBSRC
EPSRC
- RESEARCH -
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COLLEGES
31 Colleges: 6 are graduates only; 3 are women only
Oldest:
Peterhouse, 1284
Newest:
St Edmund’s, 1998
Largest:
Trinity, 1070 students
Smallest:
Clare Hall, 191 students
Clare College
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PROVISION OF SERVICES
The University
The Colleges
• Sets the courses
• Select undergraduates
• Provides lectures and
classes
• Accommodate students
• Sets examinations
• Awards degrees
• Look after students
• Provide small group
supervisions
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PROVISION OF FACILITIES
The University
The Colleges
• Lecture Halls
• Accommodation
• Research Libraries
• Dining Hall
• Laboratories
• College Libraries
• Museums
• Seminar Rooms
• Specialist Sports Facilities
• Sports Facilities
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WHO’S WHO
The Chancellor
HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
The Vice-Chancellor
Professor Alison Richard
Pro-Vice-Chancellors (5)
Deputy Vice-Chancellors (6)
(All Heads of Colleges)
Chairs of Schools (6)
Heads of Faculties &
Departments
Other Heads of Colleges
Master
Mistress
President
Principal
Provost, etc.
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE - Councils of Schools
6 Schools
Over 100 Faculties & Departments
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
TECHNOLOGY
CLINICAL MEDICINE
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Simplified
Organisation
Chart
Council Institutions
Other General Board
Institutions
Board of
Graduate
Studies
Faculty
Degree
Committees
Board of
Examinations
Senate
Regent House
Council
General Board
Of the Faculties
Councils of
The Schools
Finance
Committee
Planning & Resources
Committee
Resource Management
Committee
Boards of Electors
Appt Committees
Faculty Boards
Faculties and
Departments
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Why Are we Famous?
• Our age – 800 years old in 2009
• Famous Alumni and Teachers – Darwin, Newton, Whittle
• League Tables
• Nobel Prize Winners – 82
• Global Outreach
• The Cambridge Phenomenon – largest Technology Cluster in
Europe
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‘CAMBRIDGE PHENOMENON’
1960
‘CON SULT AN CY WAVE’
1965
Cambridge Consultants & others
[brought up by Clive Sinclair]
Wilkes, Atlas 2 ICL
1977-85
Sinclair & Acorn  independent software vendors H ARDWARE  SOFT WARE
1988-99
Convergence of computers & communications,
AN ALYSIS, etc.
CAM BRIDGE = ‘CAD CIT Y’
CAM BRIDGE
COM M UN ICAT ION S
PH EN OM EN ON
Up to this point (and still) largely start-up companies which don’t do research and don’t make
much money; University welcomes them because Enterprise & D evelopment are good.
1991-99
Arrival of BIG companies X erox, SRI International,
AT& T, Olivetti, H itachi, M icrosoft, BP, Unilever
CAM BRIDGE
PH EN OM EN ON
Big companies do do research & contribute intellectual as well as commercial & financial
strength to the University.
1998-99
~ 1200 companies with 30,000 employees
700 companies in Biotechnology
500 companies in hitech/communications
CAM BRIDGE N ET WORK
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