And a wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_university …
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Replying to @o_guest @ctitusbrown and
It's meant to be a way of segregating UK unis into blue and red bricks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_brick_university …
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Replying to @o_guest @ctitusbrown and
It's now customary to refer to Ox & Cam (and others!) as blue and Russel group as red, so both carry prestige — but obv the blues more so.
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Replying to @o_guest @blahah404 and
ahh kind of "ivy league" but with a few extra hundred years added on :)
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Replying to @ctitusbrown @o_guest and
Ivy league is like someone forked the oxbridge repo on Brithub in the 1600s
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Replying to @blahah404 @ctitusbrown and
Cambridge was a fork of Oxford: "The university grew out of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople"
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