Universities in the United Kingdom have generally been instituted by royal charter, papal bull, Act of Parliament, or an instrument of government under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 or the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. Degree awarding powers and the 'university' title are protected by law, although the precise arrangements for gaining these vary between the constituent countries of the United Kingdom.
Trinity College, Cambridge
University of Birmingham, the first of the red-brick generation
University of Sussex, the first of the plate-glass generation
Almost all universities by law require staff and student representation in the governing body. Lack of transparency means many rules, like under the King's College London Act 1997, have not yet been put into practice.
University of Dundee
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The University of Dundee is a public research university based in Dundee, Scotland. It was founded as a university college in 1881 with a donation from the prominent Baxter family of textile manufacturers. The institution was, for most of its early existence, a constituent college of the University of St Andrews alongside United College and St Mary's College located in the town of St Andrews itself. Following significant expansion, the University of Dundee gained independent university status by royal charter in 1967 while retaining elements of its ancient heritage and governance structure.
Ellenbank: the former Students' Union, now the School of Business is one of the longest-used buildings of the university.
The Harris Building on the Geddes Quadrangle
The Old Medical School, an example of expansion into the professions and purpose-built university structures from the turn of the century
The Old Medical School and the Carnelley Building on City Campus.