{"id":233794,"date":"2017-06-29T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/gsi_study_guides\/interesting-facts-about-uk-universities\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:54:00","slug":"interesting-facts-about-uk-universities","status":"publish","type":"gsi_study_guides","link":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/study-in-uk\/study-guides\/interesting-facts-about-uk-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Facts About UK Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/study-in-uk\/\">studying in the UK<\/a>, but want to learn something a little different about some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/study-in-uk\/study-info\/university-rankings\/\">best universities in the world<\/a>? The Independent newspaper compiled a list of the most obscure facts about <a href=\"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/study-in-uk\/university-rankings\/\">UK universities<\/a>, and we selected five of the best below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Search: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/study-in-uk\/course-search\/\">UK university courses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you wish to study in the UK,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/study-in-uk\/free-consultation\/\">arrange a free consultation<\/a> with our international application experts today. We can help you achieve your dream of joining a UK university.<\/p>\n<h2>Five interesting facts about UK universities<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Warwick and its car powered by chocolate<\/h3>\n<p>Researchers at Warwick Manufacturing Group at the <a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/warwick\/\">University of Warwick<\/a> designed and developed an F3 racing car powered by chocolate, steered by carrots and has a bodywork made from potatoes!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/warwick\/courses\/\">View Warwick courses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">2. York and its duck population<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/york\/\">University of York<\/a> is famous for its duck population, and it is suggested that 14 ducks inhabit every 1\/4 of an acre on the campus. Students have even named a particularly aggressive red and yellow head duck &#8216;Beer Monster&#8217;!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/york\/courses\/\">View York courses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Cambridge and Lord Byron&#8217;s pet bear<\/h3>\n<p>In the 19th century, the poet Lord Byron tried to keep a pet dog while he attended the <a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/cambridge\/\">University of Cambridge<\/a> but was made to get rid of it. In protest, he got himself a pet bear instead, and as there was nothing in the statute to state that he couldn&#8217;t have one, the university had no legal argument against him.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/cambridge\/courses\/\">View Cambridge courses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Edinburgh\u00a0and the UK&#8217;s oldest student newspaper<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/edinburgh\/\">University of Edinburgh<\/a>\u00a0is home to the UK\u2019s oldest student newspaper, which was started in 1887 by Robert Louis Stevenson, author of\u00a0Treasure Island\u00a0and\u00a0The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/edinburgh\/courses\/\">View Edinburgh courses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Coventry&#8217;s sanctified ground<\/h3>\n<p>Right next to the admin block in <a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/coventry\/\">Coventry University&#8217;s<\/a> campus stands a patch of grass full of tombstones. This is because a Church used to stand where the university now does, but as it is classed as sanctified ground, the tombstones cannot be removed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/institutes\/universities\/coventry\/courses\">View Coventry courses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Study in the UK<\/h2>\n<p>Are you interested in studying in the UK? <a href=\"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/study-in-uk\/free-consultation\/\">Arrange a free consultation<\/a> in London today and we can help get your application started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"study-guide-destinations":[127],"study-guide-canada-categories":[],"study-guide-australia-categories":[],"study-guide-usa-categories":[],"study-guide-uk-categories":[],"study-guide-nz-categories":[],"study-guide-ireland-categories":[],"class_list":["post-233794","gsi_study_guides","type-gsi_study_guides","status-publish","hentry","study-guide-destinations-study-in-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gsi_study_guides\/233794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gsi_study_guides"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gsi_study_guides"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"study-guide-destinations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-destinations?post=233794"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-canada-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-canada-categories?post=233794"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-australia-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-australia-categories?post=233794"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-usa-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-usa-categories?post=233794"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-uk-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-uk-categories?post=233794"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-nz-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-nz-categories?post=233794"},{"taxonomy":"study-guide-ireland-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gostudyin-dev.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/study-guide-ireland-categories?post=233794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}