The UK is a famously modest place and we don’t like to brag about the excellence of our universities (if you really want to know, click here). So instead I thought I’d list a few fun facts about universities in the UK.
Durham is the UK’s most haunted university (the link has the Top 10, including Exeter, York and Royal Holloway).
At Oxford all new students must swear an oath promising to protect and preserve the contents of the Bodleian Library. The oath reads: “I hereby undertake not to remove from the library, or to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document, or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the library or kindle therein any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the library; and I promise to obey all rules of the library.”
University College London (UCL) was the first to admit female students on the same campus as men in 1878.
Edinburgh University boasts the UK’s Oldest Student Newspaper. ‘The Student’ was established in 1887. The paper was established by Robert Louis Stephenson, author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.