Oxford, kötött számú leütésben
On Oxford in a Set Number of Words

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article, lecturer at Babeº-Bolyai University, shares herimpressions about academic life in Oxford, gathered during a one-yearresearch scholarship. The article starts with an astonishing assertion:contrary to general belief, the University of Oxford does not exist. Theinstitution exists of course, but not as a central university building, a factthat that tends to confuse the East-European visitor tempted to connect thetwo. We then learn that the curricula is centered around traditional subjects;there is no department of journalism. Surely, there are journalismdepartments at other British universities, but a diploma in this field in not astrict precondition for practicing the profession, and any creditable diplomacould constitute a sound standing-point. This rule is applicable not only inmedia, but in other fields as well: Oxford headhunters say anybody canbecome anything (but mainly a financial expert).

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