(UK) Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.
The new “red-bricks” of Hull, Exeter and Leicester were followed in the 60s by mass expansion as the “plate-glass universities”, such as Warwick, York and Sussex, came into being.
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