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Ten smaller higher education colleges in England, including three specialist arts institutions and the venerable Royal Agricultural College, are to become full universities, the government has announced in the biggest shakeup to the sector in 20 years.
David Willetts, the universities minister, will recommend the move to the Privy Council, the body that grants university status, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills said.
The move, which had been anticipated, is the largest one-off creation of universities since the then-polytechnics were awarded university status in 1992. It came after Willetts's department reduced the minimum student intake of 4,000 for a university to 1,000.
Along with the Cotswolds-based Royal Agricultural College, founded almost 170 years ago, the other institutions being recommended are the Arts University College at Bournemouth – in Poole – Lincoln's Bishop Grosseteste University College, Harper Adams University College in Shropshire, Leeds Trinity University College, Newman University College, Birmingham, Norwich University College of the Arts, University College Birmingham, University College Falmouth and University College Plymouth St Mark and St John.
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