University college
University colleges existing today generally cater for specific subjects (such as theology or the arts).
These halls of residence are common in Australian universities and primarily provide accommodation to students.
However, the French community makes a difference between Hautes écoles and Écoles supérieures des arts, which are specialised art schools authorized to select incoming students.
[2] Some Canadian university colleges are public institutions, some are private; some are regulated by government agencies, others are not.
The Council of Ministers of Education maintains a list of accredited institutions through the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC).
However, some specialized universities are called korkeakoulu, because unlike classical universities, they focus only on one discipline, even though they have the same status as an yliopisto; for example, Teatterikorkeakoulu, a theatre school, can be considered a single "theater college".
[4] Its main project is hosting the first public English-language Liberal Arts and Sciences program in Germany.
The term university college in Malaysia denotes institutions that are granted the authority to issue degrees in their own names within specialised fields and disciplines.
In contrast, an institution granted the status of "university" provides courses of training in multiple disciplines.
While university colleges provide a broad liberal arts, often interdisciplinary education, similar to American small liberal arts colleges, a hogeschool is higher education context that focuses on vocational or applied training.
University of the Punjab has many constituent colleges like In the 1950s, new academic units and degree programs were established at the University of the Philippines; the General Education (GE) Program, a series of core courses prescribed for all students at the undergraduate level were being taught at the then-College of Liberal Arts (now the College of Arts and Letters [1]), was introduced in 1959.
Together with similarly minded individuals, all former UP educators and administrators, Dr. Abueva formed Kalayaan College.
Under a memorandum of agreement between KC and UP, 'UP-quality education' is made possible by active members of the UP academic community being given teaching stints in KC,[11] as well as the adoption of the same GE Program and grading system offered in UP.
The college aims to develop the critical and creative faculties of its students in the basic fields of knowledge; particularly in the natural and physical sciences, the social sciences and the humanities to help them compete in a fast-changing environment.
[12] In Spain, a escuela universitaria is the name given to some higher education teaching centers where both undergraduate and postgraduate studies are taught.
Together with the faculties, they are the centers in charge of organizing the teachings and academic, administrative and management processes of the universities.
In the United Kingdom, the use of the word university (including university college) in the name of an institution is protected by law and must be authorised by an act of parliament, a royal charter, or by the privy council.
