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[[英国]]大学的「公立」、「私立」性质不易区别，因为几个世纪以来，英国大学一直推崇高度自治，且直到20世纪初都仰赖政府资金经营。根据[[牛津大学]]的官方解释，他们既是公立大学，也是私立大学<ref name='OXCHEPS39'>{{cite web | url = http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/MainSite%20pages/Resources/OxCHEPS_OP39.pdf | title = OFFA and £6000-9000 tuition fees | accessdate =20 March 2011 | last = Dennis | first = Farrington |first2 = David|last2= Palfreyman | date = 21 February 2011 | format = PDF | work = OxCHEPS Occasional Paper No. 39 | publisher = Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies | quote = Note, however, that any university which does not want funding from HEFCE can, as a private corporation, charge whatever tuition fees it likes (exactly as does, say, the University of Buckingham or BPP University College). Under existing legislation and outside of the influence of the HEFCE-funding mechanism upon universities, Government can no more control university tuition fees than it can dictate the price of socks in Marks & Spencer. Universities are not part of the State and they are not part of the public sector; Government has no reserve powers of intervention even in a failing institution. }}</ref>。

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