{"id":348,"date":"2015-05-20T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2015-05-20T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:47:50","slug":"public-institutions-and-organisations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/capitalisation\/proper-nouns\/public-institutions-and-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Public institutions and organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the words, including the generic terms, that are part of the official name of public institutions, organisations, societies, associations and movements should be capitalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nthe Faculty<\/span> of Chemistry<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nthe Department<\/span> of Business Management<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nthe Language Service<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nthe Board<\/span> of Trustees<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nthe General Directorate<\/span> of Universities<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When the names of organisations are in the plural or have a more general meaning, the generic terms should be lowercased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe departments<\/span> of History and Psychology are piloting a new teaching methodology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nOne of the aims of a university language service<\/span> is to prepare students to compete in a globalised society.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When the full name of the organisation is abbreviated by deleting a word or words, the capitals should be maintained (see \u201cReference<\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe D<\/span>epartment [of History] is piloting a new teaching methodology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe U<\/span>niversity [of Barcelona] is engaged in a far-reaching process of internationalisation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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All the words, including the generic terms, that are part of the official name of public institutions, organisations, societies, associations and movements should be capitalised. the Faculty of Chemistry the Department of Business Management the Language Service the Board of Trustees the General Directorate of Universities When the names of organisations are in the plural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":323,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}