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Siauliai University classical type higher educationinstitution located in the Northern region of Lithuania.Founded in 1997 by uniting Siauliai Pedagogical Instituteand Siauliai Polytechnic Faculty of Kaunas University of Technology.The university has: A community of about 12000 students.8 faculties: Arts, Education, Humanities, Mathematics andInformatics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Social Welfare and Disability Studies, Technology and ContinuingStudies Institute.Studies are organised into 3 cycles: first cycle Bachelor'sdegree, second cycle Special Professionals studies andMaster's degree studies, third cycle Doctoral.

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A community of about 12000 students.8faculties: Arts, Education, Humanities,Mathematics and Informatics, Natural Sciences, Social

Sciences, Social Welfare and Disability Studies, Technology and Continuing Studies Institute.Studies are organised into 3 cycles: first cycle Bachelor's degree, second cycle Special Professionals

studies and Master's degree studies, third cycle Doctoral.

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Duration of Semesters:

Autumn: 1 September - 31 January Spring: 1 February - 30 June

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Library: Over 390 thousands volumes of publications;access to reading rooms, bibliographical information,internet searching, photocopying, binding, scanning,printing, and laminating

Each faculty has their own small libraries and readinghalls designed to meet the needs of the students

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We are one of the world's oldest universities andleading academic centres, and a self-governedcommunity of scholars. Cambridge comprises 31Colleges and over 150 departments, faculties, schoolsand other institutions.

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In addition to the 31 colleges, the university is made up of over 150departments, faculties, schools, syndicates and other institutions.Members of these are usually also members of one of the colleges andresponsibility for running the entire academic programme of theuniversity is divided amongst them.

A "School" in the University of Cambridge is a broad administrativegrouping of related faculties and other units. Each has an electedsupervisory body the "Council" of the school comprisingrepresentatives of the constituent bodies. There are six schools: [32]

Arts and HumanitiesBiological SciencesClinical MedicineHumanities and Social SciencesPhysical SciencesTechnology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridgehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge

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The academic year is divided into three academicterms, determined by the Statutes of theUniversity. Michaelmas Term lasts from October toDecember;Lent Term from January to March;and Easter Term from April to June. Within these terms undergraduate teaching takesplace within eight-week periods called Full Terms.These terms are shorter than those of many otherBritish universities. Undergraduates are also expectedto prepare heavily in the three holidays (known as theChristmas, Easter and Long Vacations).

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The university has more than 100 libraries.The Cambridge University Library is the centralresearch library, which holds over 8 million volumesand, in contrast with the Bodleian or the BritishLibrary, many of its books are available on openshelves. It is a legal deposit library, therefore it isentitled to request a free copy of every book publishedin the UK and Ireland. It receives around 80,000 booksevery year.

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In addition to the University Library and its dependentlibraries, every faculty has a specialised library, which,on average, holds from 30,000 to 150,000 books; forexample the History Faculty's Seeley HistoricalLibrary posess more than 100.000 books. Also, every college has a library as well, partially for the purposesof undergraduate teaching, and the older colleges

often possess many early books and manuscripts in aseparate library. For example Trinity College's WrenLibrary, Cambridge has more than 200,000 booksprinted before 1800, while the Parker Library, CorpusChristi College posess one of the greatest early medieval European manuscript collections in the World, with over 600 manuscripts. The total numberof books owned by the university is about 13 million.

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Denis Kuznecov SGNSF kinezitheraphy I course

Wednesday, November 09, 2011