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Martin Rich · January 17th 05, 07:53 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 16 Jan 2005 14:03:26 -0800, wrote:

My point exactly - it was renamed as a university when labour devalued
degrees by converting polys into universities and giving them degree
awarding powers.

Wrong on rather a lot of counts. The former polys were renamed as
universities in 1992, so that was a Conservative, not Labour, move.
The renaming had nothing to do with devaluing degrees, since the polys
had been degree-awarding institutions for a very long time before
that. And the 1992 changes had nothing at all to do with Roehampton.
It used to be an institute of higher education, then became part of
the University of Surrey, and recently because a University in its own
right.

Martin