From Charter to Compliance

Part I opening essay

The Necessary Nuisance

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Our history

University of Oxford.

Used for evidence of teaching at Oxford before 1100, Oxford’s rapid development after Henry II barred English students from Paris in 1167, and the emergence of the office of chancellor.

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Preface: Constitution and Statute-making Powers of the University

University of Oxford.

Used for the 1214 award of the papal legate Nicholas de Romanis, the jurisdiction of the chancellor, the application of universitas to Oxford’s masters from 1216 and Oxford’s development as a corporate body.

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History of Finance Division

University of Oxford.

Used for the 1208–09 killing, the execution of two or three scholars with King John’s support, the dispersal of scholars and the terms imposed on the town in 1214.

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Early records

University of Cambridge.

Used for the migration of Oxford scholars to Cambridge in 1209, early town-and-gown friction, the usual age of students, complaints about rents and food, and Henry III’s protection of the scholars in 1231.

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The Medieval University

University of Cambridge.

Used for the medieval curriculum, the bachelor and master stages, the licensing of masters to teach, oral disputations and the development of advanced study in divinity, law and medicine.

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Theodore of Tarsus and the Study of Computus at the Canterbury School

Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge University Press.

Used for Bede’s account of the Canterbury curriculum associated with Theodore and Hadrian, including Scripture, metre, astronomy, Latin, Greek and calculation of the Church calendar.

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Degree awarding powers

Office for Students.

Used for the OfS power to authorise registered English higher education providers to grant taught awards, research awards or both under the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.

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Check if your university or college can award a degree

UK Government.

Used for the distinction between an institution that teaches a course and the institution with legal authority to award the resulting degree.

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