page_title: Plate glass university
section_title: Beloff's plateglass universities
hierarchical_section_title: Plate glass university / Beloff's plateglass universities
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture of Meeting House and Library Square
context_page_description: The term plate glass university or plateglass university refers to 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 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.
context_section_description: Beloff listed seven universities in his book. These were the seven universities approved by the UGC prior to the Robbins Report.
  University of East Anglia (1963)
  University of Essex (1964/5)
  University of Kent (1965)
  University of Lancaster (1964)
  University of Sussex (1961)
  University of Warwick (1965)
  University of York (1963)
caption: The University of Sussex, the first of the plateglass generation
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