(British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University
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redbrick university::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | university |
Examples of redbrick university
redbrick university
I needed to get ABB grades to get into the redbrick university I had my heart set on.
From the guardian.co.uk
The person in question is 21 years old and holds a degree from a respected redbrick university.
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In the UK a redbrick university is one founded and built in the Victorian era, often as a technical college.
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A Manxman, of working-class background, he attended a redbrick university, Liverpool, when it was less fashionable to do so than today.
From the guardian.co.uk
When I was at a redbrick university in the 1970s, there were only one or two firsts a year from my course, out of a class of around 50 students.
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In the 1980s to get into a good redbrick university to read physics the level of conceptual understanding required was an intuitive grasp of angular momentum.
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