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That's an intesting way of looking at it and I certainly agree that the autonomy played a part in the definition of the difference between educational institutes and universities as a more defined structure. Though I think it goes a lot further than that other than that the University of Bologna...

I don't normally post (in fact I've had this lurker account since 09), just wanted to respond to claim that the first university was built in Africa, whilst the Al Quaraouiyine was founded in 859 (which is the normal claim though there are a couple of other institues that make claims around the...