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Universities and Colleges in Great Britain considered

one of the best in the world. High Colleges and

Universities, where the choice of courses is almost

unlimited. From Mathematics to Medicine. There are

over 90 universities in GB.

UNIVERSITY

date of foundation

size

history

traditiongeneral

organization

methods of instruction

way of student life

Ancient

Red brick

New

Glass Universities

Post-1992 Universities

Open

Since no universities were founded in the United Kingdom and Ireland between the 16th and

19th century, the term "ancient university" generally refers to institutions of higher education that

were established before the 19th century.

Oxford

Cambridge

Red Brick Universities - named after the buildings they were housed in which

were usually built with red brick - were founded in the industrial parts of the

cities during the Victorian era (1837-1901) and before the Second World War.

Victoria Building, University of Liverpool

University of Birmingham

Glass Universities Post-1992 Universities

Due to their modern architecture and the predominant use of large stretches of plate

glass in steel or concrete frames, the institutions founded in the 1960s are often called

"Plate Glass Universities".

The second group are the so called Post-1992 Universities. The term refers to former

polytechnics that were given university status by John Major's government in 1992.

Post-1992 Univesities

Founded in 1986, the Open University is Britain's single distance-learning institution. In

2005 a total of 180,000 students, most of them based in the UK, were enrolled, which

made it the largest institution of higher education in the UK by student numbers.