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Cambridge

There are 22 universities in Great Britain: 16 in England, 4 in Scotland, 1 in Wales and 1 in Northern Ireland. A university consists of a number of faculties: medicine, arts, law, music, natural science, agriculture, commerce and education. After three years of study, a student may proceed to a Bachelor's degree and later to the degree of Master and Doctor. The colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, are essentially residential institutions and apart from lectures they mainly use a tutorial method. Each student goes to his tutor's room once a week to read and discuss an essay which he has prepared.

The oldest and most famous universities in England are Oxford and Cambridge. Oxford and Cambridge are rather far from London and therefore the students have to live in the university hostel or in a private room.

Cambridge is mainly a town of students. Many great men studied at Cambridge, among them Newton, the scientist Bacon, the philosopher Milton, the poet, Сromwell, the soldier and statesman.

There are 19 colleges at the University now, two of them are for women students. Women students do not take a very active part in university life at Cambridge.

The students are mainly English but there are plenty of others. There is a variety of races, religions and points of view among the students of the University.

Wireless is of importance in university education. At home students after their day's work can hear lectures by eminent teachers on all kinds of subjects. Every student has a tutor. The tutor plans his students work and discusses with them their work.

The story of Cambridge University began in 1209. That year several hundred students arrived in the little town of Cambridge from Oxford. Life at Oxford was very hard at that time as there was constant trouble between the people of the town and the students. In protest all the students moved to different parts of the country and some came to Cambridge and so the new University began.

Informatics

Information (data) is a set of marks that have meaning. Informatics is a collection of computer theo­ries and novel information technologies.

Throughout the centuries man has developed and refined the ability to record, process, and communicate information. The principal use of computers has been in the area of applied mathematics. Nowadays computers have become increasingly important as basic tools for analysis. This operation requires highly refined and flexible techniques.

An important aspect of the work in informatics for mathematicians deals with the math theory of communication.

The problems of decision-making, thinking and synthesis, imagination and creative endeavor of people, come under the scrutiny of informatics.

Informatics is a young science and yet it is increas­ingly applied in various branches of industry and research, invading a wide range of fields in human activity. Informatics endeavors to find the answer to two major questions: the best way of controlling this or that process, and the best way of utilizing a machine (if possible) for controlling this process.