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VSU took light out of university life

The universities of Bologna and Paris vie for the title of the oldest European university and Oxford University is the oldest in the English-speaking world. It has no precise foundation date, but teaching existed there in 1096 and developed apace from 1167 when English students were banned by Henry II from attending the University of Paris. Oxford’s rival, the University of Cambridge, was founded in 1209.

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