Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In the United Kingdom, a New University is either: One of the universities founded under the Robbins Report on higher education in the 1960s; These include the universities of Kent, York and Lancaster; or Any of the former polytechnics that were given the status of universities by John Major's government in the early 1990s. These include the universities of Greenwich, Kingston and Derby. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.