KPDS 1998-1 Soru=96

According to the passage, one of the primary goals of a university is to ____ .

Universities are institutions of higher education whose
principal objects are the increase of knowledge over a
wide field through original thought and research and its
extensions by the teaching of students. Such societies
existed in the ancient world, notably in Greece and India,
but the origin of the University as we know it today lies in
medieval Europe, the word “universitas” being a
contraction of the Latin term for corporations of teachers
and students organised for the promotion of higher
learning. The earliest bodies to become recognised under
this description were at Bologna and Paris in the first half
of the 12th century. Oxford was founded by an early
migration of scholars from Paris, and Cambridge began
with a further migration from Oxford. Other universities
sprang up all over Europe from the 14th century onwards