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Christ Church, University of Oxford. During the 1990s, however, the University of Oxford introduced Titles of Distinction, enabling their holders to be termed professors or readers while holding academic posts at the level of lecturer. This results in a two-tier professoriate, with statutory professors – or named chairs – having higher ...
The rankings of each college in the Norrington Table are calculated by awarding 5 points for a student who receives a First Class degree, 3 points for a 2:1, 2 for a 2:2 and 1 for a Third; the total is then divided by the maximum possible score (i.e. the number of finalists in that college multiplied by 5), and the result for each college is expressed as a percentage, rounded to 2 decimal places.
In the 1994–95 academic year, Oxford's Congregation (the university's supreme governing body) decided to confer the titles of Professor and Reader on distinguished academics without changes to their salaries or duties; [1] the title of professor would be conferred on those whose research was "of outstanding quality", leading "to a significant ...
This is a list of professorships at the University of Oxford. During the early history of the university , the title of professor meant a doctor who taught. From the 16th century, it was used for those holding a professorship, also known as a chair.
This is also called the "Oxford scale" and the "old OECD scale". Mentioned by the OECD in the 1980s for possible use in countries without an established scale. [2] 1.0 to the first adult; 0.7 to the second and each subsequent person aged 14 and over; 0.5 to each child aged under 14.
At some universities in Canada, such as the University of King's College [9] and the University of New Brunswick, [10] a don is the senior head of a university residence. At these institutions, a don is typically a faculty member, staff member, or postgraduate student, whose responsibilities in the residence are primarily administrative.
Later, the Statute of Artificers 1563 implemented statutes of compulsory labor and fixed maximum wage scales; Justices of the Peace could fix wages according "to the plenty or scarcity of the time". To counteract the increase in prevailing wages due to scarcity of labor, American colonies in the 17th century created a ceiling wage and minimum ...
Several UK universities have dispensed with the reader grade, such as the University of Oxford, [9] and the University of Leeds in 2012; [10] ...