The former site of the Humberside University
Humberside College of Education then Humberside Polytechnic and latterly Humberside University before relocating to Lincoln to become the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside and finally Lincoln University.
Further information: www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/about/history.htm
Humberside College of Higher Education became an independent higher education corporation in 1989 and won polytechnic status a year later - the first to be created in the UK for over twenty years.
Two short years later Humberside Polytechnic became Humberside University.
For centuries the people of Lincoln, 50 miles to the south, had been calling for a university of their own. In 1993 a project company was set up and charged with realising this dream. The city and county raised £32 million to pay for the first stages of the new Lincoln University Campus, which was opened on what had been derelict former railway land by HM the Queen in October 1996.
The new campus was transferred to the University of Humberside, which in turn changed its name to the University of Lincolnshire & Humberside.
In 2001 the decision was taken to relocate the university’s corporate headquarters from Hull to Lincoln, transfer the Cottingham Road campus in Hull to the University of Hull and consolidate all Hull-based activities in Hull city centre.
To reflect these changes, on 8th October 2001 the university was renamed the University of Lincoln.
The former site of the Humberside University
Humberside College of Education then Humberside Polytechnic and latterly Humberside University before relocating to Lincoln to become the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside and finally Lincoln University.
Further information: www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/about/history.htm
Humberside College of Higher Education became an independent higher education corporation in 1989 and won polytechnic status a year later - the first to be created in the UK for over twenty years.
Two short years later Humberside Polytechnic became Humberside University.
For centuries the people of Lincoln, 50 miles to the south, had been calling for a university of their own. In 1993 a project company was set up and charged with realising this dream. The city and county raised £32 million to pay for the first stages of the new Lincoln University Campus, which was opened on what had been derelict former railway land by HM the Queen in October 1996.
The new campus was transferred to the University of Humberside, which in turn changed its name to the University of Lincolnshire & Humberside.
In 2001 the decision was taken to relocate the university’s corporate headquarters from Hull to Lincoln, transfer the Cottingham Road campus in Hull to the University of Hull and consolidate all Hull-based activities in Hull city centre.
To reflect these changes, on 8th October 2001 the university was renamed the University of Lincoln.