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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
No. of Teach- No. of Teach-
Col- ing students — Col- ing Students leges Staff leges Staff England and j Scotland. Wales. . ' Universities : — Universities .-^ — Oxford^ . Cambridge^ Durham . 23 19 1 91 122 18 5,412 3,019 171 Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow St. Andrews 1 1 1 2 58 100 102 31 749 ': 2,813 i 1,918 254 Colleges : — Aberystwith . Bangor . Manchester^ . 32 34 97 407 315 1,008 1 Colleges : — Glasgow^2 _ Dundee!^ . 1 1 20 32 260 100 Newcastle^ 2 69 880 Nottingham^ . 80 1,857 Ireland. Sheffield'5 . . 57 291 Birmingham^ . 64 615
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BristoP . 77 305 Dublin . 1 66 1,084 'Cardiff^ . 33 1,730 Colleges : — Lampeter 9 109 Queen's, Belfast 1 23 343 Leeds^ 94 714 ,, Cork. 1 23 187 LiverpooP 63 480 ,, Galway 1 37 91 London : —
University^". 47 1,100 Total United King's^^ 117 322 Kingdom . 69 1,596 24,534
1 Owens College, Manchester, University College, Liverpool, and Yorkshire College, Leeds, are associated together as the Victoria University ; and the Welsh colleges at Aberystwith, Bangor, and Cardiff, as the University of Wales. 2 Undergraduates. At Oxford in 1897 there were 852 matriculations ; at Cambridge, in 1898, 931. •* Besides 156 evening students. 4 The College of Science has 47 teachers, 463 day students, and 1,042 evening students ; the College of Medicine has 22 teachers and 217 students. 5 Including evening students. 6 Besides 810 evening students. 7 Besides 352 evening students 8 Besides 278 evening st' dents. 9 Besides 325 evening students. ^'^ Exclusive of school ; the figures are for 1896. n Exclusive of school ; there were, besides, 88 lecturers, <fec., in the ladies' and Civil Service departments, and 3,655 non-matriculated day and evening students. J2 Besides 44 j^rofessors, (fee, and 3,442 .students at evening classes, i^ Besides 83 evening students. London University is only an examining body, with power to grant degrees to all candidates who pass its examinations : in 1898 it had 79 examiners, and in 1897, 6,294 candidates underwent its various examinations. The Royal University of Ireland holds a similar position in Ireland : in 1898 it had 48 examiners ; in 1898, out of 2,808 Avho entered its various examinations, 1,797 passed. The Catholic University of Ireland includes, besides University College, Dublin, seven other Catholic colleges. It grants degrees in theology and philo-sophy, and sends up its students for other degrees to the examinations of the Royal University. For medical education, besides the faculties attached to some of the universities and colleges, there are medical schools attached to the hospitals of most of the large towns in England. In a few of the colleges female students are admitted. There are, besides, several university colleges for ladies: — Newnham College, Cambridge, a staff of 17, and 171 students in 1898 ; Girton College, Cambridge, with 6 resident and 31 outside lecturers, and 115 students ; and Lady Margaret and Somerville Halls, Oxford, the former with 48 students
