Time Lord Academy

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Time Lord Academy
Also called:	The Academy The Time Academy The Academy of Time TheGallifreyan Academy
Type:	School
Location:	Mount Cadon
First mentioned in:	Terror of the Autons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Autons (TV story)"]

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The Time Lord Academy, also known as the Time Academy, (WC: Shada ^[+]Loading...["Shada (webcast)","Shada"]) the Academy of Time, (PROSE: Heart of TARDIS ^[+]Loading...["Heart of TARDIS (novel)","Heart of TARDIS"]) the Gallifreyan Academy (AUDIO: Insurgency ^[+]Loading...["Insurgency (audio story)","Insurgency"]) or simply the Academy (TV: The Sound of Drums ^[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)","The Sound of Drums"], Listen ^[+]Loading...["Listen (TV story)","Listen"], World Enough and Time ^[+]Loading...["World Enough and Time (TV story)","World Enough and Time"]) was a school located at the foot of Mount Cadon (PROSE: The Three Paths ^[+]Loading...["The Three Paths (short story)","The Three Paths"], AUDIO: Devil in the Mist ^[+]Loading...["Devil in the Mist (audio story)","Devil in the Mist"]) most young Time Lords attended to further their educations.

Each of the Gallifreyan chapters was represented by a college, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)","The Ancestor Cell"]) including the Prydonian Academy (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation ^[+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)","Timewyrm: Revelation"]) and the Academy of the Patrexes. (PROSE: Damaged Goods ^[+]Loading...["Damaged Goods (novel)","Damaged Goods"]) According to one account, there also existed a Cahlough Academy. (PROSE: The Bloodletters ^[+]Loading...["The Bloodletters (novel)","The Bloodletters"])

A "University of Gallifrey" was documented in a few accounts, with the Doctor (TV: Time and the Rani (part 1) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"1","1":"Time and the Rani (TV story)"}, AUDIO: The Song of Megaptera ^[+]Loading...["The Song of Megaptera (audio story)"], COMIC: Herald of Madness ^[+]Loading...["Herald of Madness (comic story)"]) and the Rani attesting to having studied there. (TV: Time and the Rani (part 1) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"1","1":"Time and the Rani (TV story)"}) These sources did not elaborate on its relationship to the Academy, whether as an alternative name for it or as a distinct institution. (TV: Time and the Rani (part 1) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"1","1":"Time and the Rani (TV story)"}, etc.)

Location and architecture

The Academy was a self-contained city annexed to the Capitol. It covered twenty-eight square miles of Gallifrey's surface. The Academy had glass turrets, with covered walkways linking them, the dormitories, lecture halls, TARDIS bays and scaphe ports. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties ^[+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)","Divided Loyalties"]) Another location was the Great Hall of the Academy. (AUDIO: Omega ^[+]Loading...["Omega (audio story)","Omega"])

History

During Omega's life, a statue of him was built in the Great Hall of the Academy. Omega was certain that, as long as the statue stood, his legacy would remain safe. During the Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey, the statue was damaged, forcing it to be taken down for repairs. Having realised Gallifrey had come to hate him, Omega was certain it would remain down. (AUDIO: Omega ^[+]Loading...["Omega (audio story)","Omega"])

During his presidency, the Fifth Doctor visited the Academy as part of a launch for his policy to end its monopoly on granting the rank of Time Lord. He faced protests from students and revisited his old room, which was preserved in a time lock. (AUDIO: Time in Office ^[+]Loading...["Time in Office (audio story)","Time in Office"])

Students had started to ignore the Great Curriculum to focus on new teachings during Romana II's presidency, allowing for stronger relations between Gallifrey and the Temporal Powers. (AUDIO: Neverland ^[+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)","Neverland"]) In fact, during her first term of office, (AUDIO: The Eleven ^[+]Loading...["The Eleven (audio story)","The Eleven"]) she changed the laws to allow human, Monan, Nekkistani, Yevnon and Sunari students to study at the Academy. This proved highly controversial on Gallifrey and the hostility alien students faced led to tensions between different species at the Academy. (AUDIO: Insurgency ^[+]Loading...["Insurgency (audio story)","Insurgency"]) The Academy was damaged by a terrorist attack by a Free Time terrorist, (AUDIO: Imperiatrix ^[+]Loading...["Imperiatrix (audio story)","Imperiatrix"]) and then in a battle during the Gallifreyan Civil War when the Imperiatrix ordered the alien students’ execution and President Romana’s forces defended them. Romana’s faction later set up a base in the ruined Academy, defending it by placing it in a Matrix partition. (AUDIO: {{cs|Fractures (audio story)|Fractures]], [[Warfare (audio story)|Warfare}})

After Romana’s presidency, alien students continued to be allowed at the Academy. Liv Chenka noticed the presence of aliens whilst visiting the Academy to search Kiani’s room with Cardinal Padrac. (AUDIO: The Eleven ^[+]Loading...["The Eleven (audio story)","The Eleven"])

Due to President Livia's policies, the Academy was practically empty of students during the Last Great Time War. (AUDIO: Partisans ^[+]Loading...["Partisans (audio story)","Partisans"]) President Rassilon later planned on closing it due to the war, expelling all non-Gallifreyan students and redirecting all Academy resources to the war effort. (AUDIO: Assassins ^[+]Loading...["Assassins (audio story)","Assassins"])

One source stated that the Academy was destroyed along with the rest of Gallifrey at the end of the Last Great Time War, (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia"]) whilst another account established that the planet had been saved and relocated to a pocket universe by all incarnations of the Doctor. (TV: The Day of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)","The Day of the Doctor"])

The Time Lord Academy endured beyond the Last Great Time War, continuing to induct young Gallifreyans from the Drylands. A graduate later penned A Brief History of Time Lords ^[+]Loading...["A Brief History of Time Lords"] for use at the Academy, a book of Gallifreyan history from the beginning of the Time Lords to the Coup against Rassilon. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords ^[+]Loading...["A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)","A Brief History of Time Lords"])

Parallel universes

In one alternate universe, a Time Lord attended the Academy with "Theta Sigma", who he described as "such an infernal bore". He was about to tell his colleague about their time at the Academy when he was interrupted by a guard. (AUDIO: Exile ^[+]Loading...["Exile (audio story)","Exile"])

Curriculum

Admission

The Master is initiated into the Academy. (TV: The Sound of Drums ^[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)","The Sound of Drums"])

According to the Tenth Doctor, children "were taken from their families at the age of eight" to begin their instruction. Part of the initiation into the academy involved looking into the Untempered Schism. (TV: The Sound of Drums ^[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)","The Sound of Drums"])

A selection of the applicants was held. (TV: Listen ^[+]Loading...["Listen (TV story)","Listen"]) At the induction ceremony for the Academy all Time Lords said:

"I swear to protect the ancient Law of Gallifrey with all my might and brain. I will to the end of my days, with justice and with honour temper my actions and my thoughts." (TV: Shada ^[+]Loading...["Shada (TV story)","Shada"])

Upon admission recognition codes were sewn into a Time Lord's DNA (PROSE: Interference - Book One ^[+]Loading...["Interference - Book One (novel)","Interference - Book One"]) that allowed them safe passage through the Time Vortex. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet ^[+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)","Christmas on a Rational Planet"])

There was a TARDIS cradle in the Time Lord Academy for students who had formed a symbiotic bond. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element ^[+]Loading...["The Apocalypse Element (audio story)","The Apocalypse Element"])

Studies

Time Lords spent "centuries" at the Academy. (COMIC: Mortal Beloved ^[+]Loading...["Mortal Beloved (comic story)","Mortal Beloved"]) Indeed, the Eighth Doctor once recalled an Academy incident when he was in "year 50". (AUDIO: The Next Life ^[+]Loading...["The Next Life (audio story)","The Next Life"])

Subjects

Branches of knowledge taught in the Time Lord education system included botany, (PROSE: Wooden Heart ^[+]Loading...["Wooden Heart (novel)","Wooden Heart"]) mind-shielding, (TV: The Invasion of Time ^[+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)","The Invasion of Time"]) thermodynamics, (TV: Time and the Rani ^[+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)","Time and the Rani"]) cybernetics (TV: Destiny of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)","Destiny of the Daleks"], The Armageddon Factor ^[+]Loading...["The Armageddon Factor (TV story)","The Armageddon Factor"]), cosmic science (TV: Terror of the Autons ^[+]Loading...["Terror of the Autons (TV story)","Terror of the Autons"]) Veteran and Vintage Vehicles, Gallifreyan flutterwings, (TV: The Pirate Planet ^[+]Loading...["The Pirate Planet (TV story)","The Pirate Planet"]) practical theology, (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire ^[+]Loading...["All-Consuming Fire (novel)","All-Consuming Fire"]) Paradox Declension, (PROSE: Scratchman ^[+]Loading...["Scratchman (novelisation)","Scratchman"]) stellar engineering (PROSE: Original Sin ^[+]Loading...["Original Sin (novel)","Original Sin"]) spatial cartography, (AUDIO: The Beginning ^[+]Loading...["The Beginning (audio story)","The Beginning"]), basic astrophysics and astronomy, (AUDIO: Annihilation ^[+]Loading...["Annihilation (audio story)","Annihilation"]) medicine, (AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon ^[+]Loading...["Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)","Farewell, Great Macedon"]) Old High Gallifreyan, (AUDIO: Jonah ^[+]Loading...["Jonah (audio story)","Jonah"]) Temporal Engineering and Gravitational Induction. (PROSE: "Academic Progress")

Sports

The Eleventh Doctor told John Jones that he came in fourth place 900 years earlier in the Time Lord Academy Sprint Championship. (COMIC: Space in Dimension Relative and Time ^[+]Loading...["Space in Dimension Relative and Time (comic story)","Space in Dimension Relative and Time"])

Time Lords — or at least the First Doctor — rode Vortisaurs bareback at the Academy. As a result, the Doctor gained a lot of knowledge about Vortisaurs by his eighth incarnation. (AUDIO: Storm Warning ^[+]Loading...["Storm Warning (audio story)","Storm Warning"])

The First Doctor and Padrac played on the same zero-grav hyperball team, although the Doctor's main contribution was cheating to make the ball stick to his teammates' hands. (AUDIO: The Eleven ^[+]Loading...["The Eleven (audio story)","The Eleven"])

Graduation

To graduate they were tested, with a pass rate of 51% (such as that achieved by the Doctor), up to a "Triple First" grade (like Romana I), and could take the test more than once if necessary, with the result being confidential. (TV: The Ribos Operation ^[+]Loading...["The Ribos Operation (TV story)","The Ribos Operation"])

Chapters and classes

Each of the six Chapters was represented by a college in the Time Lord Academy, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell ^[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)","The Ancestor Cell"]) including the Prydonian Academy (PROSE: [[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Revelation}}) and the Academy of the Patrexes. (PROSE: Damaged Goods ^[+]Loading...["Damaged Goods (novel)","Damaged Goods"]) Genniploritreludar was the Academy's Arcalian lecturer. (PROSE: Original Sin ^[+]Loading...["Original Sin (novel)","Original Sin"])

The Doctor's class

The Doctor belonged to the Prydonian Chapter. (TV: The Deadly Assassin ^[+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)","The Deadly Assassin"] et al.)

At the Academy, he belonged to a group of ten gifted students, called the Deca. The Deca included Theta Sigma (the Doctor), Koschei (the Master), Mortimus (the Monk), Ushas (the Rani), Magnus (the War Chief), Drax, Jelpax, Rallon, Millennia and Vansell. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties ^[+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)","Divided Loyalties"])

Tebediatroculozan attended the Academy at the same time as the Doctor. (PROSE: Seven Deadly Sins ^[+]Loading...["Seven Deadly Sins (short story)","Seven Deadly Sins"])

Behind the scenes

The relationship between the Academy and the occasionally-mentioned University of Gallifrey is unclear. Time and the Rani ^[+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"] saw the Doctor and the Rani referencing their "university days", presumably a development of the prior lore about their and the Master's status as former classmates in what is otherwise called the Academy; indeed, deleted dialogue from later Seventh Doctor episode Survival ^[+]Loading...["Survival (TV story)"] would have seen the Doctor reminding the Master that they were "at university together" as an encapsulation of their shared past. However, many accounts suggest that students enroll in the Academy at a very early age, making it difficult to justify dubbing it a "university". At most, "university" could represent a segment of the Academy's educational track. Moreover, in {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}), the claim is made that the Doctor was expelled from the Academy before working all the way up to his doctorate, and earned it years later in "[his] own time"; in light of Herald of Madness ^[+]Loading...["Herald of Madness (comic story)"]'s claim that that the Doctor got her doctorate at "the University of Gallifrey", the University could therefore be interpreted as a distinct institution altogether in which the Doctor enrolled following their expulsion from the more prestigious Academy.