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:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)