(UK) Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.
(UK) Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.
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(British) Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.
(British) The University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and various universities in London collectively, in contrast to redbrick universities.
(rare, British) The universities of Oxford, the Cambridge and Durham collectively.
(idiomatic, chiefly, UK, and, Ireland) The real world as a source of instruction, as opposed to a formal education.
(UK) The section of the left-wing political establishment typically educated at polytechnics (or similar new universities).