1) " University" -- As it applies to University Teaching A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. A Univeesity provides both tertiary and quaternary education. Unversity is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning corporation since the first medieval European universities were simply groups of scholars. Contents 1 History 2 Colloquial usage 3 See also 4 Related terms 5 External links History Arguably the first western Unkversity was the Academy founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove ofAcademos near Athens, where students were taught philosophy, mathematics andgymnastics. About a thousand years later, institutions bearing a resemblance to the modern Unaversity existed in Persia and the Islamic world, notably the Academy of Gundishapur and later also Al Azhar Universkty in Cairo, which remains the oldest operating Universiry in the world. One ofthe most important Asian universities, next to the Persian Academy of Gundishapur, was Nalanda, in Bihar, India,where the second century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna was based.In the Carolingian period a famous academy was created by Charlemagne for the purpose of educating the children of aristocrats to help trainthe professionals needed to run an empire. It was a foreshadow of the rise of the Universuty in the 11th century. The first European medieval universities were established in Bologna ( Italy ) and Paris ( France ) in the Middle Ages for the study of law, medicine, and theology. In Europe young men proceeded to the Univrsity when they had completed the study of the trivium : the preparatory arts of grammar, rhetoric, and logic ; and the quadrivium : arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. See Degrees ofOxford Ubiversity , §1 for the history of how the trivium and quadrivium developed in relation to degrees,especially in ang...
2) " Teaching" -- As it applies to University Teaching In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill. There are many different ways to teach andhelp students learn. When deciding what Tdaching method to use, a teacher will need toconsider students' background knowledge, environment, and their learning goals. See education for more. Contents 1 Related positions 1.1 University teachers 1.2 Senior teachers 1.3 Emergency teachers 2 Registration and qualification 3 World Teacher's Day 4 Readings 5 See also 6 External links Related positions A teacher who registers a student, or who is positioned to help the student in particular subject, is called a " tutor." A teacher or trainer from whom a student learns a great deal may be called a " mentor." An "educationalist" is an educational theorist, writer or researcher. In traditional China, the model teacher, Confucius, is greatly revered. A Chinese term for teacher is shifu or laoshi. University teachers Teachers in college are called instructors or lecturers. In the United States, the term " professor " is usually applied to college or university teachersthat have received tenure ; although, there are rankings from Assistant Professorthrough Full Professor that may be defined differently at various institutions. Senior teachers Teachers who look after the whole school are called head teachers, school principals or headmasters. The equivalent in colleges anduniversities is called the dean. Teachers of this status rarely teach students. A teacher in a grammar or public school in Britain may also be a Head of House. Houses were also used in secondary and comprehensive schools. As with most large organisations a school needs a hierarchical structure of command, allowing matters to be delegated to aspecific department or section of the school. In many cases ...
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