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19th century. The term is now used more broadly to refer to British universities founded in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries in major cities.[1] All of the six original redbrick institutions, or
their predecessor institutes, gained university status before World War I and were initially
established as civic science or engineering colleges.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Plate-glass universities = campus universities The term plate glass
university (or plateglass university or plate-glass university) refers to a group of universities
established or expanded in the United Kingdom during the mid-twentieth century. In 1963,
the Robbins Report on higher education recommended a major expansion of the British
university system, which was realised through the establishment of nine completely new
universities and the conversion of the ten existing Colleges of Advanced Technology into full
universities