Modern universities

First of all, I would like to take a quick look at the history to realise the main difference between olden universities and the ones we have now. It is important to point up that there is a controversy about which university is the oldest or the first, because we can read word “university” in two different ways.
If we consider a university as “corporation of students”, we can maintain that Plato’s Academy in Greece or even Shangyang in China was the first. Ancient students were taught only few subjects; they did not get any marks and diplomas. What is more, these “universities” were not organised into the form of permanent institutions of learning.
But if we understand university as a higher institution, the oldest universities are medieval universities such as Universities of Solerno and Bologna in Italy or University in Paris. Although they were very similar to modern universities, we can notice few differences. First of all, they didn’t have libraries, laboratories or museums, which belonged only to them. Secondly, there were no students’ societies or activities for young people, because nobody cared about health and lifestyle. Lastly, universities had no board of trustees.
Reformation, which started in 16th century, brought a great change in education, because many protestant universities were built. What is more, following of Counter Reformation were moved to establish catholic universities in response to protestant revolution. Because of that, more people were able to study. Ever since, education has become increasingly important as it is central to economic success and good social status.
Today there are a lot of various universities all over the world. Each of them has its own structure and is differently organised, but they all have few common features. Firstly, universities generally are divided into a number of departments, schools and faculties. Secondly, there is...

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