
University education system has had a chequeredhistory.Before Christ, we have evidence of the existence of the universities of sort inIndia - Nalanda and Taxila to count a few. Back in Europe, the unorganised groupof students and teachers was called a stadium generale, a name indicating eitherthat a generality of studies was here pursued, or that the students were drawnfrom the widest territorial limits. Politically, ecclesiastically andtheologically, the universities were the bulwark of freedom during the centuriesfrom dark ages to Reformation. This book, full of such facts, gives afascinating account of the evolution and development of university education.
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