Hoping for some help from the UK

[ER]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" <timregan at m...> 
wrote:

> Also, it's a trite thing to say but do try to attend the university 
> with the best reputation you can (e.g. Oxford and Cambridge first, 
> then the red brick universities or the best at your subject choice 
> second) as that will always look impressive on your resume.

Yup, avoid the New Universities (formerly Polytechnics) if you can. 
No doubt there are good ones, but some of them offer courses not 
considered to be too academically challenging. And if one can believe 
what one reads in Private Eye (UK satirical magazine with a serious 
side to it), then others are having difficulties making ends meet. 

The broad-minded among you may wish to check out 

http://www.cynicalbastards.com/ubs/index.html

for what seems like a fairly accurate picture of one of the New 
Universities :) Warning - Viz-style (sort of a very rude version of 
Mad) humour.

> 
> York (where I read maths) has a good English department and is on 
> the outskirts of really really beautiful city.

It is a lovely city. Fairly high pub/head-of-population ratio too :) 

ER