question for our British members

[Joywitch M. Curmudgeon]

Hello, friends across the pond.  I need some help.  (Well, everyone 
knows that already, but I mean it in a different way.)  I am working 
on an HP-related crossword puzzle for this week's contest, and there 
is one clue that is driving me nuts.

I wound up with one word in the puzzle which doesn't really mean 
anything.  Actually, I wound up with several words that don't mean 
anything, but I managed to phony up a clue for most of them.  The 
word is "UE."  I did come up with a clue for it, but it's not great.  
Then, someone pointed out to me that UE could possibly be an 
abbreviation for University of Exeter, which JK Rowling attended.  
The question is, would anyone in Britian ever refer to the University 
of Exeter as "UE"?  If I give as a clue "JKR's alma mater" will 
anyone be able to figure out what I mean?

(Here in the US we almost always refer to schools by "particular" 
nicknames.  For example, the University of California is always 
called UCLA, but the University of California at Berkeley is NEVER 
called UCB -- for some reason it's always refered to as "Cal.")

--Joywitch