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Obligatory clip from Yes Minister https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WW7mhtp5a5E https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WW7mhtp5a5E

• lordnacho 7y ago
  Bailey College sounds a lot like Balliol College. I guess this was from the era where you didn't use actual names, though the universities themselves were named correctly IIRC (Hacker went to the LSE). The show also had imaginary countries that sounded like they belonged in certain regions. The comments about having classrooms is because the Oxford and Cambridge colleges tend not to teach people in groups the size you might be used to at high school. You'd have tutorials with one or two students and a Prof in their office, and if your Prof was nice they'd even give you some booze while sitting like the characters are doing there. There are lectures as well with hundreds of students in huge halls. Depends a lot of what you're studying but I did a mix of engineering and social science, so had a sniff of both.
  • peteretep 7y ago
    > though the universities themselves were named correctly Both of them! [0] 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOvEwtDycs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOvEwtDycs