plateglass university
plate glass university

But I have chosen to call them the Plateglass Universities.

The term Plate glass university stems from the title of his book "The Plateglass Universities" (1970).

Campus revolves around the lives of the staff of Kirke University, a plateglass university under the control of vice chancellor Jonty de Wolfe (Nyman).

The term plate glass university (or plateglass university or plate-glass university) refers to any of the several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.

It is one of the first so-called "Plate glass universities" in the country.

Between 1958 and 1961 seven new plate glass universities were announced including Lancaster.

It is sometimes described as a "plate glass university".

These institutions are now known as "plate glass universities".

It was founded in 1965 and is recognised as a British "plate glass university".

It was this report that paved the way for the college (along with a Plate glass university) to assume university status.

The University of Salford, a plate glass university, is one of four in Greater Manchester.

The term Plate glass university stems from the title of his book "The Plateglass Universities" (1970).

Due to its particular form of architecture involving the use of prefabricated concrete and glass, the university is referred to as a Plate Glass University.

The University of East Anglia on the outskirts of Norwich is, contrary to popular belief, not one of the so-called plate glass universities.

Plate Glass universities - the universities chartered after 1966 (formerly described as the 'new universities' or the 'Robbins expansion' universities).

This was the first, and as of 2010, only merger in UK higher education whereby what is now called a plate glass university merged with what would now be a post-1992 university.

Three of the "Plate glass universities", Lancaster, York and Kent, have a similar system, although their colleges operate on a different legal footing to those at Durham and Oxbridge.

The original buildings were designed by architect Andrew Derbyshire, and assembled using the CLASP system of prefabricated construction, hence York's inclusion among the so-called plate glass universities.

Stirling University is a Plate Glass University, along with Heriot-Watt University, the University of Dundee and the University of Strathclyde.

The Plate glass universities were formed between 1945 and 1970, and the Post-1992 university were formed from 1992 onwards, largely from the conversion of Polytechnics and Colleges of Higher Education.

The idea was revived in the 1950s and, in June 1958, the government approved the corporation's scheme for a university at Brighton, to be the first of a new generation of what came to be known as plate glass universities.

The term plate glass universities is used in the United Kingdom to describe a group - or generation - of universities (in an acknowledgement of the term red brick universities, used for an older generation of establishments).

Some new plate glass universities established in the 1960s, such as York and Lancaster originally followed the practice of Oxford and Cambridge by awarding B.A.s in all subjects, but have since changed to awarding B.Sc.

Buildings, as in many of the so-called plate glass universities, were constructed in a functional modernist style using concrete, although such designs were later derided for lacking the charm of the Victorian red-brick universities or the ancient and medieval ones.

In 1959, he was appointed principal of the University College of Sussex, the first of several new universities termed 'plate glass universities', which became the University of Sussex (and Fulton Vice-Chancellor) when students started in 1961.

The term plate glass university (or plateglass university or plate-glass university) refers to any of the several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.

After a period teaching at University College Dublin, in 1962 Kearney became one of the first academics (a lecturer of history) at the still-under-construction 'plate glass university', University of Sussex, where he taught at a temporary Nissen hut before the arts faculty buildings were completed.