Cloth caps and dee dah accents

No

It's always been a uni I think. Actually, it may have been a college of engineering pre 1960.

 

RE: I agree that those rankings are more appropriate

The ARWU rankings that are used within the HE sector and based on Nobel prize winning staff, citations in journals etc have Cambridge even better than Oxford, but dropping down a few ranks to evil US uni's.

ARWU rankings

 

grrrr *shakes fist at screen* nt

 

Oi!

Leave it.

 

Just looked it up

It became a university in 1966, before that it was a technical college.

 

RE: Just looked it up

It's a quality establishment then.

 

Hee Hee

I knew it wouldn't be long before you were looking down your nose.

 

I was just thinking these 2 must be the only oxford and cambridge graduates in Barnsley nt

 

Who said anything about graduating?

Some of us did our thinking in the pub.

 

RE: Hee Hee

Oxbridge graduates, 'gargantuan' salaries, Dreamboy, there's all the top people on here.

 

RE: Hee Hee

Oy, I'll have you know I pissed my time at Oxford right up the wall. Only place I graduated from in that city was the Kings Arms.

 

cant beat the student life for cheap drink

I still remember the pints of vodka and ornage at £1 and this was at a time when beer was over £2 a pint

 

Mdlands establishment near leicester? nt

 

No

University of Bradford

 

RE: Hee Hee

Don't be modest, bet tha wa' chucking aif setters at the punting lot while plotting the downfall of Capitalism over tea & scones. Bloody upper classes.

 

RE: No

Nowt wrong with Bradford, fine institution, some of the best curry houses in the world are there.

Used to have excellent links with Bradford Computing Dept, when our regional supercomputing meetings were over there we always had a good night out and an excellent Mumtaz curry.

 

RE: Hee Hee

First time I came back home to Hoyland in the Christmas holidays I went out to meet up with my old mates in the pub wearing my college scarf. They put me back on the straight and narrow pretty sharpish and from that moment on I was mining the Cherwell and Isis and showing the rugby set that League players were harder than Union.

I got a house with two lads who were at Rugby School, they were pretty good lads actually but no connection with the real world at all. Twinkles and Psycho we called em, Twinkles was usually high on dope, dropped out of his maths degree, then used the old school tie to get a job in the City. Psycho was a rugger bugger who drank excessively and only got into Uni on the back of his fathers money, he dropped out when the sums got too hard and went to Portsmouth Poly instead.

 

lol sounds like my uni experience

I lived with a girl so posh she had enough clothes to last the whole term, 2 outfits at least a day, then got them cleaned by her parents domestic staff

Filthy as anything in bed though. Just a little too noisy at times

 

RE: Hee Hee

Class (money) system alive and well. </p>

Spent a fruitless year at a provincial Poly before being kicked out, some of the best blokes I met were ex public school who'd flunked out of a more illustrious establishment. </p>

Inverted snobbery worse than proper snobbery imho.</p>

 

Neither of us live there nt