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01-10-2019, 12:38 AM
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To add to the complication… in the UK, in the 1980s when I went, there was a distinction between Universities, of which there were only about 90–100 in the whole country, and Polytechnic Colleges and other colleges of higher/further education.

In general, these traditional universities had more stringent entry requirements than "polys", despite many important exceptions (e.g. Hatfield Poly for Engineering), and a certain snobbery, and indeed anti-snobbery developed (or continued) between those who went to university and those who went to poly. Many people of my age, in an attempt to mask things (in either direction) would instead say they went to college.

This has more or less disappeared nowadays, with most of those polys now being universities in their own right.

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math / maths - EugeneNine - 01-09-2019, 12:48 PM
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