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The word “Oxbridge” may be confusing to people from outside the UK.
If you look at a map of the UK, you will not find any place with this name.
This is because the word is combination of Oxford and Cambridge and refers to the two ancient universities.
These two universities share so many similarities that it is possible to refer to them using only one word.
Both universities are made up of separate colleges: Oxford has 39 and Cambridge has31.
Each student belongs to one particular college.
This is where the student lives, usually for the first two years of a standard three-year university course.
Most of the student’s classes also take place in the college, through large scale lectures are usually held in the large faculty buildings.
Each college is independent and controls its own finances and property.
The teaching system is also very similar in both universities.
The basis of it is the tutorial system.
Each student has his or her own personal tutor.
This tutor supervises the student’s work throughout his or her time at university.
Students normally see their tutor once a week in groups of two or three.
During this meeting, they read out their assignments, receive criticism and guidance, and have the opportunity to discuss their work and their progress.
Thames and Cambridge are built beside rivers.
Oxford is on the River Thames and Cambridge on the River Cam.
Neither are very large rivers, and so they carry very little commercial traffic.
In the summer months, one of the student’s favourite leisure activities is to rent a punt
------a kind of small, flat-bottomed boat that is moved and steered by means of a long pole------ and spend an afternoon gliding slowly down the river.
Punting usually involves stopping to visit a riverside pub or to have a picnic under the trees.
There are some differences between the two universities, however.
Oxford situated in the middle of four large and important cities -----London, Birmingham, Southampton and Bristol------- and so became an important commercial center.
It was also the site of Britain’s first car factory: the Morris works at Cowley.
Cambridge is located in the east of England in a quiet, mainly agricultural region, and is much smaller and less busy than Oxford.
Because Oxford University established itself in a busy commercial center, the colleges are spread all over the city.
In Cambridge, however, almost all of the colleges are built in a line with their backs to the river.
Both Universities have an excellent reputation in many fields, and so it is impossible to say which is better.
Cambridge has a reputation for producing gifted scientists and mathematicians.
Oxford, on the other hand, seems to produce politicians.
Of the last eight British prime ministers, six, including Tony Blair, were Oxford graduates.
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