redbrick university

Birmingham was the first redbrick university to get university status.

Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus university status.

Having graduated from a established RedBrick university last summer, I was actually surprised to read these stats.

Jim Dixon is a medieval history lecturer at a redbrick university in the English Midlands.

Red brick university (or redbrick university) is an informal term used to refer to six particular universities founded in the major industrial cities of England.

In the UK a redbrick university is one founded and built in the Victorian era, often as a technical college.

Powell attributes to Widmerpool a Life Peerage and chancellorship of a redbrick university.

In the English provincial cities, some medical schools developed separately from the new Redbrick universities, so the Conjoint diplomas were at first usually taken.

Pavia The Lombards' first capital, before Milan, is now a sleepy, well-preserved, redbrick university town.

I needed to get ABB grades to get into the redbrick university I had my heart set on.

A tradesman's son from somewhere like Bradford, a redbrick university dropout, the sort of fellow who in Manchester or Liverpool sells used cars to Pakis.

In 1943 he published a (first part) rhetorical work, Redbrick University, a controversial and influential book, which argued in favour of the primacy of research over teaching in universities.

Redbrick University was followed by two sequels, Redbrick and these Vital Days (1945), and First Year at the University (1946), which continued the theme.

Redbrick University 1943 [first part, second part in 1945 and the whole work was published in Pelican Books 1951 (A 230); Note by Robert Barron 1.

The fictional Redbrick University of the title is a cipher for the modern, civic universities (like his own institution, Liverpool), whose buildings were Victorian-built and often of red brick.

Though classed as a "redbrick university", its expansion in recent decades has seen the addition of a variety of building styles from the traditional main buildings, 1960s teaching blocks to modern additions.

In 1944 a provincial barrister educated at a redbrick university with little exposure to the London bar or specialist practice, no matter how successful, was an unusual appointment for a High Court judge.

The novel satirizes the high-brow academic set of a redbrick university, seen through the eyes of its protagonist, Jim Dixon, as he tries to make his way as a young lecturer of history.

In Britain, apart from the grand complex of which Scott's building for Glasgow is the core there are several comparable groups to Otago's built for the Redbrick Universities (Red brick university).

The University of Leeds (informally Leeds University, or simply Leeds) is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

The last's Victoria Building at Liverpool University, described by Sir Charles Reilly as "the colour of mud and blood", was the inspiration for the term "redbrick university" (as opposed to Oxbridge).

Currell College, completed in 1919, is an historic two-story redbrick university building on the campus of the University of South Carolina (USC) in Columbia, South Carolina in the United States.

Redbrick University revisited: the autobiography of Bruce Truscot (30 November 1996, Liverpool University Press, ISBN 0-85323-259-8; edited by Ann L. Mackenzie and Adrian R. Allan.)

His teachers at his Plymouth school threw scorn on the idea of going to a redbrick university when he could have chosen Oxford, but he felt a strong pull towards oil engineering and displayed the stubborn streak that was later to characterise his industrial career.

Described as "a top redbrick university and one of the giants of the British higher education system" by The Guardian newspaper, the university is ranked nationally between 16th (QS World University Rankings) and 27th (The Independent).