Argument
University of Reading
Overview
The University of Reading ( RED-ing) is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christ Church, Oxford, and became University College, Reading in 1902. The institution became a university with the power to grant its own degrees in 1926 by royal charter from King George V, and was the only university to receive such a charter between the two world wars. The university is usually categorised as a red brick university, reflecting its original foundation in the 19th century.
Reading has four major campuses. In the United Kingdom, the campuses on London Road and Whiteknights are based in the town of Reading itself, and Greenlands is based on the banks of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire. It also has a campus in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia. The university has been arranged into 16 academic schools since 2016. The annual income of the institution for 2024–25 was £347.8 million of which £33.9 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £366.1 million.
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Possible passages
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Seven years seem anciently to have been, all over Europe, the usual term established for the duration of apprenticeships in the greater part of incorporated trades. All such incorporations were anciently called universities, which, indeed, is the proper Latin name for any incorporation whatever. The university of smiths, the university of tailors, etc. are expressions which we commonly meet with in the old charters…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Close in meaning to University of Reading; the term itself is not named.
On the side of aims, the ideal of the kindergarten was the moral development of the children, rather than instruction or discipline; an ideal sometimes emphasized to the point of sentimentality. The primary school grew practically out of the popular movement of the sixteenth century, when along with the invention of printing and the growth of commerce, it became a business necessity to know how to read, write, and…
John Dewey, The School and Society Being three lectures
Close in meaning to University of Reading; the term itself is not named.
In other universities, the teacher is prohibited from receiving any honorary or fee from his pupils, and his salary constitutes the whole of the revenue which he derives from his office. His interest is, in this case, set as directly in opposition to his duty as it is possible to set it.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Close in meaning to University of Reading; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed University of Reading
- Antony Flew
- Julian Baggini
- John Cottingham
- Michel Foucault
- David Papineau
- Otto Neurath
- Galen Strawson
- Jonathan Dancy
- Brad Hooker
- Simon Glendinning
- Paul Copan
- Paul Snowdon
- David S. Oderberg
Related ideas
- Royal charter
- Antony Flew
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Sociology
- Mathematics
- Archaeology
- The Guardian
- Meteorology
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Cybernetics
- UNESCO
- John Cottingham
- United Kingdom
- University of Oxford
- William Shakespeare
- Zoology
- Malaysia
- The Times
- Chemistry
- Galen Strawson
- International relations
- Economics
- England
- Jonathan Dancy
Place in the tradition
Part of Direct and indirect realism.