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plate-glass university

noun

Etymology

Modelled on red brick university, from the use of plate glass in modern architecture. Coined by British barrister Michael Beloff in 1970.

Definitions

  1. Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the…

    Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.

    • The new “red-bricks” of Hull, Exeter and Leicester were followed in the 60s by mass expansion as the “plate-glass universities”, such as Warwick, York and Sussex, came into being.

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