The word "universities" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to educational institutions that provide higher education and research opportunities. For example, "My sister is studying at one of the top universities in the United States."
Their talk was of rival software packages and camera types, and the scholarships to western universities they always just seemed to miss.
He noted "that once hollowed-out city centres are thriving again, with growing universities, iconic museums and cultural events, and with huge improvements to the quality of life".
There are such totems of postmodern urbanism as a Chinatown, a gay village and a bohemian Northern Quarter, fed by two leading universities and two successful football teams.
Those from the richest fifth of neighbourhoods are still nine times more likely to go to the top universities than those from the poorest fifth, according to the Sutton Trust, a charity established to improve social mobility.
The move was condemned by the UN's refugee body and described by a group of 53 legal scholars from 17 Australian universities as in violation of international law.
Now the Home Office is once again increasing the number of local authorities involved, alongside controversial plans to place a duty on universities, schools and local authorities to "prevent people from being drawn into terrorism", through an amendment to the counter-terror and security bill, which is at the Lords report stage.
Other institutions that performed well in the table include the universities of Surrey, Sussex and Falmouth.
Green shoot rating 3 out of 5 Colleges and universities are seeing strong interest from overseas students who pay large fees.
Student protests in Amsterdam and other Dutch universities in 1969 gave rise to the 1970 University Governance Reorganisation Act which established a much stronger level of student and staff representation in university governance as well as greater democratic oversight and control of university finances.
Several universities have recently revised their watch policy.
Although universities would be free to weight marks how they wished and also decide on whether to include marks for first-year students, the report stressed the importance of establishing a universal approach to GPA.
