A red brick university was originally one of the nine civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England in the 19th century.
The Victoria Building of the University of Liverpool was the inspiration for the term "red brick university" which was coined by Professor Edgar Allison Peers.
The Aston Webb building, University of Birmingham
University of Manchester
Image: Former County Court, Quay Street, Manchester 3
A plate glass university or plateglass university is one of a group of universities in the United Kingdom established or promoted to university status in the 1960s. The original plate glass universities were established following decisions by the University Grants Committee (UGC) in the late 1950s and early 1960s, prior to the Robbins Report in 1963. However, the term has since expanded to encompass the institutions that became universities as a result of Robbins' recommendations.
The University of York's Central Hall.
The University of Sussex, the first of the plateglass generation