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Reply 1
Technically it means:

Birmingham
Bristol
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Sheffield

Some people include other ones too, but they are the 'official' ones.
Reply 2
Red bricks unis? :confused: Meaning they are built with...red..bricks..? :biggrin:
Reply 3
Bdarnell
Red bricks unis? :confused: Meaning they are built with...red..bricks..? :biggrin:


Well yes actually. As opposed to stone like the ancient universities (Oxbridge), and not built out of glass and breeze blocks like the old polytechnics. Obviously it's not like a strict rule, just a way of grouping them in terms of when they were founded. Redbricks were founded around 1900, polytechnics were built around the 1960s. It used to be that the redbricks were the next best thing to oxbridge and especially good for engineering/science but now its less clear cut as the old polytechnics have improved in standards.
Reply 4
Joe_87
Well yes actually. As opposed to stone like the ancient universities (Oxbridge), and not built out of glass and breeze blocks like the old polytechnics. Obviously it's not like a strict rule, just a way of grouping them in terms of when they were founded. Redbricks were founded around 1900, polytechnics were built around the 1960s. It used to be that the redbricks were the next best thing to oxbridge and especially good for engineering/science but now its less clear cut as the old polytechnics have improved in standards.

ah ok,Thanks. I thought "red brick" unis was some sort of classification for unis, wasn't sure.
Reply 5
I think it's often used in the more sense that if a uni is "red brick" then it is a decent one, but no collegiate (sp?). However it's official use is the universitys build out of red bricks rather than stone.
Reply 6
So what are places like UCL (or Kings) called? If anyone knows?
Reply 7
Nysh
So what are places like UCL (or Kings) called? If anyone knows?

I'm not sure that KCL would be categorized into some group.
Nysh
So what are places like UCL (or Kings) called? If anyone knows?
Better? :smile:
Reply 9
ThePenguinMafia
Better? :smile:

:rofl:

However, you'll find that almost all, if not all, of the red-brick unis are well-respected and of a very high standard.....
Reply 10
ucl at the moment could be deemed a scaffolding university.
Reply 11
I guess my university wouldn't count as a red brick university then? hehe

http://www.research.plymouth.ac.uk/marine-policy/images/portland2.jpg

btw, that rather nice looking church in the picture isn't actually a church but one of our lecture theatres! :biggrin:
Reply 12
silence
ucl at the moment could be deemed a scaffolding university.


This would be true.
Reply 13
silence
ucl at the moment could be deemed a scaffolding university.
And Manchester a university of cranes.

They seem to have decided that the merger is a jolly good excuse to start constructing new buildings wherever they can be fitted in.
peel building at salford uni's made out of red bricks, guess it doesnt count though? :frown:
Reply 15
Leeds
Warick
Liverpool
Loughborough
Nottingham
Manchester
Bath
Durham
Lancaster
York
dhutch
Leeds
Warick
Liverpool
Loughborough
Nottingham
Manchester
Bath
Durham
Lancaster
York


Read the wikipedia entry. Manchester is the only red brick out of that lot.
Birmingham is a red brick uni.
Reply 18
Royal Holloway is, surely!
Reply 19
Nottingham? can't see any red brick on any buildings lol