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I don’t think that there are any bona-fide polytechnics left in the UK (but I could be wrong).
All were offered the option to become universities, with the need to provide places for 50% of school leavers. And no doubt the government offered a financial incentive, such that it was a proposition they could not refuse.
Now we have further education establishments that are either colleges, teaching what you should have learnt at school, or universities - with nothing in between.
I wonder how many students at Woolwich Polytechnic School, will mention in a job interview, or to peers, that they attended a polytechnic.