College
King’s College, one of the constituent col-
leges of the University of Cambridge
Government College for Women Dhoke Kala
Khan, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
College (Latin: collegium) is a term most of-
ten used today to denote degree awarding
tertiary
educational
institution.
More
broadly, it can be the name of any group of
colleagues, for example, an electoral college,
a College of Arms or the College of Cardinals.
Originally, it meant a group of persons living
together, under a common set of rules (con-
= "together" + leg- = "law" or lego = "I
choose"); indeed, some colleges call their
members "fellows". The precise usage of the
term varies among the English-speaking
countries.
History
In Sparta, the Agoge was the name for col-
lege. Origins are thought to be between the
7th and 6th century BC, for both men and
women.
Rome followed around the 3rd century BC
with their rhetoric schools
Later, there came the madrasah of the medi-
eval Islamic world. The madrasah in an
Islamic college of law and theology, usually
affiliated with a mosque, and is funded by a
charitable trust known as Waqf, the origins
of the trust law.[1] The internal organization
of the first European colleges was also bor-
rowed from the earlier madrasahs, like the
system of fellows and scholars, with the Latin
term for fellow, socius, being a direct transla-
tion of the Arabic term for fellow, sahib.[2]
While philosophy and the rational sciences
were often excluded from a madrasah’s cur-
riculum,[3] this varied among different insti-
tutions, with some only choosing to teach the
"religious sciences", and others teaching
both the religious and the "rational sciences",
usually logic, mathematics and philosophy.
Some madrasahs further extended their cur-
riculum to history, politics, ethics, music,
metaphysics, medicine, astronomy and chem-
istry.[1]
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, usage of the word
"college" remains the loosest, encompassing
a range of institutions:
Primary and secondary schools
• Certain private schools, known as "Public"
s