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With the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, this era ended when polytechnics became "new universities", broadening their educational scope and conferring degrees in their own right. The University of Ulster was formed in 1984 from a merger between the New University of Ulster and the Ulster Polytechnic — the only such "trans binary merger ...
In the United Kingdom (UK), a post-1992 university, synonymous with new university or modern university, is a former polytechnic or central institution that was given university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, or an institution that has been granted university status since 1992 without receiving a royal charter. [1]
Jun 9, 2013 · So in 1992 the government turned the polytechnics into 'new universities'. Now almost half of school leavers go to university.
The most visible result was to allow thirty-five polytechnics to become universities (often referred to as the "new universities" or "post-1992 universities"). A goal of the act was to end the distinction – known as the "binary divide" – between colleges and universities.
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Antony Crosland, who announced the binary policy in 1965, later said he regretted being bounced into making the ‘Woolwich speech‘, that he was led by his officials and advisers to make it. The announcement was less a radical departure from existing higher education policy than an attempt by government to hold-back ‘academic drift’, whereby institut...
Before 1988 the public sector was loosely defined. Higher education happened in hundreds of regional and local colleges, colleges of education, and art schools. An initial consolidation at the point of designation of the polytechnics (not all colleges which applied were given the status) and subsequently resulted in complex mergers across local aut...
The mid-1980s saw central government ranged against local government, especially the ‘looney left’. Polytechnics were widening their focus, and students were applying from further afield. The issues of funding constraints, bureaucracy, and political interference vexed the polytechnic directors which lobbied central government. This struck the right...
The ‘former polytechnic’ tag is hard to shake. For some this is still a painful struggle: even though we now have whole cohorts of graduates which were born after 1992, even though the ‘post-1992’ universities have now all been universities for longer than they were polytechnics. The 1990s systems of teaching and research assessment exercises demon...
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Jan 25, 2022 · The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 eliminated the divide between polytechnics and universities, and in 1992, polytechnics acquired the university title and the power to award their own degrees, thus joining pre-1992 universities in a unified system.
