bricks

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Now full-scale national universities, redbricks are so besieged that they can accept only one out of seven applicants.

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Sprouting between steel mills and shipyards, in grimy Liverpool, Manchester or Nottingham, redbricks* were originally founded to nurture local talents.

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Thistlethwaite happily envisions the new universities as "a third force to break down the antithesis between Oxbridge and the redbricks."

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Livelier students are on the way: Oxbridge refuses to expand, and redbricks are beginning to get graduates of Britain's top private schools.

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