How do universities annoy each other? well here's one way:
The University of Central Lancashire (a Post-92 university based in Preston) has just been granted permission to change its name to...
The University of Lancashire.
Perhaps unsurprisingly the 'elite' (top ten) Lancaster University, a mere twenty miles up the M6 is not best pleased and tried to stop it.... oh dear.
Student confusion beckons? We shall see....
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h4890
In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 And here I thought that university staff were the most selfless, empathetic and kind people there are on the plante!
Was I wrong? ;)
@h4890
[Laughing & about to fall off my chair].... indeed you were wrong!
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The Penguin of Evil
In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 Swansea University is still incredibly upset about University of Wales Trinity St David all merging together including what was Swansea Met. By convention the founding date of a university is the founding date of the oldest member. That means that Swansea University is no longer the oldest University in Swansea
@etchedpixels
I love the post-92's games with how old their university is... on the first day I arrived to start my first proper academic job at University of West of England, pat of the first session of indiction was partly about how they were really older than the update University of Bristol down the road...
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magnetichuman
In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 For years I thought UCL meant University of Central Lancashire so in my case this change could have reduced confusion!
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Marc Rothera
In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 Definitely going to be confused. Given that, in my former life, I arranged school taster days and very definitely had a few groups on campus where the lead teacher thought they were going to UEA (University of East Anglia) but ended up with me at ARU (Anglia Ruskin University) - and they're only vaguely similar names!
On the topic of winding up the RG relative, one of the post-poly naming suggestions for us was 'Ruskin College Cambridge' but we're better standing on our own 2 feet.
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