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This is the elite of elites among Caledonian research; the Charter Committee seeks the premiere thinkers, researchers, theorists, engineers and academics in a variety of fields, from abstract philosophy to arts, humanities and literature to particle physics, and pays them to serve 2-5 years tutoring a select group of 3-10 students in the subject exclusively. Being invited to serve as a tutor is considered a very high honor among Caledonian academics; between 75 and 100 tutors are engaged at a given time. | This is the elite of elites among Caledonian research; the Charter Committee seeks the premiere thinkers, researchers, theorists, engineers and academics in a variety of fields, from abstract philosophy to arts, humanities and literature to particle physics, and pays them to serve 2-5 years tutoring a select group of 3-10 students in the subject exclusively. Being invited to serve as a tutor is considered a very high honor among Caledonian academics; between 75 and 100 tutors are engaged at a given time. | ||
| − | Admission to the program is incredibly competitive; between 100 and 2,000 applications are received for every place in the program (and the number of places varies according to the number and disciplines of the tutors invited). | + | Admission to the program is incredibly competitive; between 100 and 2,000 applications are received for every place in the program (and the number of places varies according to the number and disciplines of the tutors invited). The students accepted vary widely at the discretion of the tutors; while most are graduates of other colleges and universities studying at a graduate level, students have also included child prodigies, self-taught geniuses, and accomplished but unlettered practitioners. |
Graduates from the program have gone on to be leaders in technology, research, medicine, philosophy, arts and letters, and government. Many of the invited tutors are themselves graduates of the program. | Graduates from the program have gone on to be leaders in technology, research, medicine, philosophy, arts and letters, and government. Many of the invited tutors are themselves graduates of the program. | ||
Revision as of 21:14, 10 October 2013
The Royal University of Caledon (RUC) is actually a loosely-knit federation of institutions run by a government-chartered "philanthropic corporation". Founded by a charter issued by Prince John III in 57, the institution is governed by the "Charter Committee", a 27 member board of academics, businessmen and nobels filled by invitation from a five member "Chamber Committee" appointed by the Sovereign Prince.
Organization
The organization of the RUC is very fluid; institutions are formed, flourish, fade and are dissolved as their need ebbs and flows (e.g. the "Duke of Pratt Institute of Fission Studies" was phased out when Fission power became obsolete).
Institutions
The RUC currently includes the following institutes:
Catherine College
This is the elite of elites among Caledonian research; the Charter Committee seeks the premiere thinkers, researchers, theorists, engineers and academics in a variety of fields, from abstract philosophy to arts, humanities and literature to particle physics, and pays them to serve 2-5 years tutoring a select group of 3-10 students in the subject exclusively. Being invited to serve as a tutor is considered a very high honor among Caledonian academics; between 75 and 100 tutors are engaged at a given time.
Admission to the program is incredibly competitive; between 100 and 2,000 applications are received for every place in the program (and the number of places varies according to the number and disciplines of the tutors invited). The students accepted vary widely at the discretion of the tutors; while most are graduates of other colleges and universities studying at a graduate level, students have also included child prodigies, self-taught geniuses, and accomplished but unlettered practitioners.
Graduates from the program have gone on to be leaders in technology, research, medicine, philosophy, arts and letters, and government. Many of the invited tutors are themselves graduates of the program.
Saints College
This is, essentially, an advanced prep school for nobles. Saints is academically adequate-to-good - but classroom education is a secondary mission at Saints. The primary mission is to help young nobles build a network among nobles througout the Principality, as well as developing the skills and attributes that are considered desirable in a noble.
Saints also provides - optionally - military education; it graduates many young officers for the Army and the various planetary defense services. Saints students also serve as staff for the House of Lords and Privy Council, as well as with major corporations.
The Regent's University
Regents is a decentralized system, a "virtual campus" with branches on most of the Principality's constituent worlds. It operates on the principle of providing a networked infrastructure for small, semi-formal "study groups" scattered all about the Principality, directed by academics who are also decentralized (although many live and work at or around the central campus in Selkirk for convenience sake).
Regent's is the largest grantor of academic degrees in the Principality.
The Armstrong Center
The Armstrong Center is an elite engineering and hard-science research center. Based near the Caledon Downport at Leithdoun, Armstrong has led the Principality's research into jump drives, high-energy research and other applied physical sciences.
College Of Surgeons
The Principality's main medical school and medical research institution.