The term plate glass university or plateglass university refers to a group of universities in the United Kingdom established or promoted to university status in the 1960s. The original plate glass universities were established following decisions by the University Grants Committee (UGC) in the late 1950s and early 1960s, prior to the Robbins Report in 1963. However, the term has since expanded to encompass the institutions that became universities as a result of Robbins' recommendations. Origin of terminology The term plateglass was coined by Michael Beloff for a book he wrote about these universities, to reflect their modern architectural design which often contains wide expanses of plate glass in steel or concrete frames. This contrasted with the (largely Victorian) red brick universities and the very much older ancient universities. Beloff applied the term specifically to the new creations of the 1960s, not including the institutions promoted from university colleges or colleges of advanced technology, or created by division of existing universities "as Durham shed Newcastle". All of the original plateglass universities were created de novo as universities. Beloff's plateglass universities Beloff listed seven universities in his book. These were the seven universities approved by the UGC prior to the Robbins Report. University of East Anglia (1963) University of Essex (1964/5) University of Kent (1965) University of Lancaster (now known as Lancaster University) (1964) University of Sussex (1961) University of Warwick (1965) University of York (1963) Naming Unlike previous universities in the United Kingdom which were usually named after the city they were located in (for example the University of Cambridge in Cambridge), several of the new universities were named after the county or wider area they served. The universities founded in Colchester, Canterbury and Brighton were named after the counties they are located in (Essex, Kent and Sussex respectively) and the university in Coventry, Warwickshire was named after the county town of Warwick. The university in Norwich, which is in the county of Norfolk, was instead named for the wider area of East Anglia which also includes Suffolk and Essex. The universities built in Lancashire and Yorkshire were located in the county towns of Lancaster and York respectively. There were universities within those counties (Manchester and Liverpool in Lancashire; Sheffield, Leeds and Hull in Yorkshire). Since the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 several new universities and university colleges have been created within the same city as