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Website. leedsbeckett .ac .uk. 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 ...
University of Leeds. / 53.80722°N 1.55167°W / 53.80722; -1.55167. The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science.
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History 1862 – 2000. The university was originally founded as the Plymouth School of Navigation in 1862, before becoming a university college in 1920 and a polytechnic institute in 1970, with its constituent bodies being Plymouth Polytechnic, Rolle College in Exmouth, the Exeter College of Art and Design (which were, before April 1989, run by Devon County Council) and Seale-Hayne College ...
As a polytechnic, Sunderland created the first part-time, in-service BEd (Bachelor of Education) programme in the country. University status Steve Cram at Freshers Week, 2018. After the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, the polytechnic gained university status. Lord Puttnam became the university's first Chancellor in 1998.
Founded as the Lady Byron School in 1860, it became the Polytechnic of West London in 1991 and Thames Valley University in 1993. It was granted permission by the Privy Council to change its name to University of West London in 2010 and the new name and logo were officially launched in April 2011.
Polytechnic (United Kingdom) A polytechnic was a tertiary education teaching institution in England, Wales ( Welsh: coleg polytechnig) [1] and Northern Ireland offering higher diplomas, undergraduate degree and postgraduate education (masters and PhD) that was governed and administered at the national level by the Council for National Academic ...
Website. bcu .ac .uk. Birmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a university in Birmingham, England. Initially established as the Birmingham College of Art with roots dating back to 1843, [3] it was designated as a polytechnic in 1971 and gained university status in 1992.