Higher Education
Birmingham is home to three universities; the University of Birmingham (founded 1900), Aston University (founded 1966), and Birmingham City University (formerly Birmingham Polytechnic, awarded university status in 1992). It also has two university colleges: Newman University College, which specialises in teacher training, and University College Birmingham. Both of these also receive funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
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Famous quotes by higher education:
“I never feel so conscious of my race as I do when I stand before a class of twenty-five young men and women eager to learn about what it is to be black in America.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American college professor. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B3 (July 27, 1994)