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.[1] 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.[2] However, the term has since expanded to encompass the institutions that became universities as a result of Robbins' recommendations.[1]
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- ^ Higher Education – Report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister under the Chairmanship of Lord Robbins. 1963. p. 24. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
Despite the expansion that had been achieved in the existing universities it became evident by 1958 that more universities were going to be needed. In that year the government, on the advice of the University Grants Committee, approved the establishment of the University of Sussex and, in the following years, of six more universities at Norwich, York, Canterbury, Colchester, Coventry and Lancaster.