Word: redbricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winchester, in Hampshire, a stronghold of Conservatism and site of one of Britain's best public schools, Rear Admiral Morgan Giles, 50, won as expected from Laborite Patrick Seyd, 23, a teacher at Southampton's redbrick university. Though he lost, Seyd had a good time proclaiming the injustice of the British public school system, which heavily favors the rich and socially prominent, advocated more scholarships to schools like Winchester...
...class feeling remains stronger in Britain than anywhere else in Western Europe. The very fact that a new "aristocracy of achievement" has risen up, through scholarships and redbrick universities, to breach the Establishment has made many Tories more class-conscious than before. This in turn produces resentment among newcomers, who feel that they are not really welcomed by the old crowd. The game of "class spotting," a charade around the infinite variety of right or wrong in speech or dress, is being played in Britain more cruelly than ever. It is against this background of class distinction, paradoxically both keener...
...Snow. "There is too little of it. It is too narrow both in spread and concept." Under fire is the sheltered snobbery of Oxford and Cambridge, whose 18,000 students so easily inherit British power and glory. Equally resented is the impersonal lecture system at the 19th century urban redbrick universities, whose 46,000 students often feel like social second-raters. Higher education has become a major British political issue. The Conservative gov ernment is about to produce a report, three years in the making, that is expected to recommend even further expansion, and the Labor Party cries that "Britain...
Sargent's suggestion is to group students and dons of a given field of study in the same college, in which they are then better able to specialize. This decision by faculty is already in effect at most of the "Redbrick" British universities, and at many American ones...
...glaringly evident in its educational system, which produces only 1,780 university students per million citizens-roughly Turkey's rate-v. 16,670 in the U.S. At that, the social chasm between the elite undergraduates of quasi-aristocratic Oxbridge and the more numerous plebeians who attend the provincial redbrick universities is such, in the words of Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders. former director of the London School of Economics, that "four-fifths of our undergraduates feel inferior for life." This snobbishness Sampson wryly labels the Pox Britannica...