Red brick university

The Aston Webb building. A building in the University of Birmingham

A red brick university (or redbrick university) was one of the nine civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England. They are founded in the 19th century.[1][2] These universities were different from other universities as they accepted students regardless of religion or background. They concentrated on imparting to their students "real-world" skills such as engineering and medicine.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bruce Truscot (1951). Red Brick University (2nd ed.). Pelican. pp. 24–25.
  2. ↑ "A history of the HE environment". University of St Andrews. Archived from the original on 26 May 2007.
  3. ↑ Egiins, Heather (2010). Access and Equity, Comparative Perspectives (PDF). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense. p. 12. ISBN 978-94-6091-184-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.

Further reading

  • Whyte, William. Redbrick: A Social and Architectural History of Britain's Civic Universities (2015).
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