Universities in the United Kingdom | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/10/2019

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00:01:25 1 History
00:03:19 1.1 19th century expansion
00:15:29 1.2 20th century
00:17:15 1.3 Expansion after 1945
00:19:22 1.4 Since 1992
00:22:03 1.5 University funding from 1945
00:26:44 2 Governance
00:27:15 2.1 Degree awarding powers and university title
00:33:10 2.2 Staff and student voice
00:37:01 2.3 Funding
00:42:54 2.4 Other legal rights
00:44:44 2.5 Legal status
00:50:45 2.6 Mergers
00:53:21 3 Categorisation
00:55:10 3.1 Categorisation by age and location
01:00:20 3.2 Mission groups
01:01:14 3.3 Categorisation by structure
01:03:16 3.4 Statistical categorisation
01:04:42 4 Admission
01:06:55 5 Reputation
01:10:28 6 Peculiarities
01:13:46 7 Post-nominal abbreviations
01:16:21 8 Value of academic degrees
01:21:04 9 Academic standards



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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 university title are protected by law, although the precise arrangements for gaining these vary between the constituent countries of the United Kingdom.
Institutions that hold degree awarding powers are termed recognised bodies, this list includes all universities, university colleges and colleges of the University of London, some higher education colleges, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Degree courses may also be provided at listed bodies, leading to degrees validated by a recognised body. Undergraduate applications to almost all UK universities are managed by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).
While legally, 'university' refers to an institution that has been granted the right to use the title, in common usage it now normally includes colleges of the University of London, including in official documents such as the Dearing Report.The representative bodies for higher education providers  in the United Kingdom are Universities UK and GuildHE.