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. It is derived from the Latin term campus, meaning "a flat expanse of land, plain, field".^[1] For the community in Florida, see University, Florida. ... For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ...

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. 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). The University of Cambridge is an institute of higher learning. ... A grammar school is a school that may, depending on regional usage as exemplified below, provide either secondary education or, a much less common usage, primary education (also known as elementary). Grammar schools trace their origins back to medieval Europe, as schools in which university preparatory subjects, such as Latin... A comprehensive school is a secondary school that does not select children on the basis of academic attainment or aptitude. ...

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). 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. A collegiate university refers simply to a university that has more than one college within its ownership. ... The University of Nottingham is a leading research university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of 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 The University of Sussex (also known colloquially as Sussex Uni) is an English campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is four miles from Brighton. ... UEA redirects here. ... For other places with the same name, see Norwich (disambiguation). ... Affiliations University Alliance Association of Commonwealth Universities European University Association Website http://www. ... Canterbury is a cathedral city in east Kent in South East England and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England, head of the Church of England and of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... The University of Essex rules is a British plate glass university. ... For other places with the same name, see Colchester (disambiguation). ... The University of Warwick is a British campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry, West Midlands, England and is regarded as one of the countrys leading universities. ... For other uses, see Coventry (disambiguation). ... Keele University is a research-intensive campus university located near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. ... , For the larger local government district, see Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...

References

1. ^ Oxford Latin Dictionary, ed. P. G. W. Glare, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1982), p. 263

See also

• Robbins Report
• British universities
• New Universities
• Russell Group
• 1994 Group