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Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the city centre and Headingley. The university's origins can be traced to 1824, with the foundation of the Leeds Mechanics Institute.
Changed its name from Leeds Metropolitan University in September 2014; formerly Leeds Polytechnic, founded in 1970, and traces its history back to the Leeds Mechanics Institute, founded in 1824. [83] University of Lincoln: 1992 Excellence through study Formerly Humberside Polytechnic (located in Kingston upon Hull); moved to Lincoln in 2001
The college was partly responsible for the creation of the Bristol College of Science and Technology (BCST) in 1960, which later gained a royal charter to form the University of Bath in 1965. [9] The technical college in turn became Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; the then-main campus was at Ashley Down, now a campus of the City of Bristol College ...
A list of universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, educational institutions with university status by the Office for Students (formerly the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)and mainly based in England's Yorkshire and the Humber region, are institutions running courses at both undergraduate (operated by UCAS) and postgraduate levels.
Woolwich Polytechnic (later Thames Polytechnic, now the University of Greenwich) in south-east London, emerged in the 1890s and is considered the second-oldest polytechnic in the UK. [citation needed] The South-Western Polytechnic Institute (1895–1922) was founded for 'the provision of education for the poorer inhabitants of London'.
This following is a current list of the chancellors, vice-chancellors and visitors of universities in the United Kingdom. The chancellor is the ceremonial head of a university, while the vice-chancellor is the chief academic officer and chief executive; [1] some universities have only a vice-chancellor but no chancellor.
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The City of Leeds College changed its name to the City of Leeds College of Education in 1964. [14] It merged with the physical education college in 1968 to form the City of Leeds and Carnegie College and in 1976 merged into Leeds Polytechnic which in 1992 became Leeds Metropolitan University. [1]