Category talk:Universities in the United Kingdom

This category is within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject United KingdomUnited Kingdom articles

Higher education

This category is within the scope of WikiProject Higher education, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of higher education, universities, and colleges on Wikipedia. Please visit the project page to join the discussion, and see the project's article guideline for useful advice.Higher educationWikipedia:WikiProject Higher educationTemplate:WikiProject Higher educationHigher education articles

Untitled[edit]

Does this category really need to be subdivided into four? There are so few universities outside of England (Scotland has just 13, Wales 3 and Northern Ireland 2) that it seems silly bother subdividing them. Furthermore, there's no need to make such artifical distinctions between the UK's four nations. They're all in the same country, all applied to through UCAS and some cross borders (the OU, for example). Put them all into British (which means relating to the United Kingdom, by the way) universities, I say.

There are some very clear distinctions between the education systems - for example the Scottish tradition of the four year undergraduate degree and granting of "Masters" for instance. I say keep the list as it is. Timrollpickering 09:01, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)