Recognising this, in 1963 the Robbins Report recommended that it should be awarded university status.

Until the implementation of the Robbins Report in the 1960s, children from public and grammar schools effectively monopolised access to university.

It later came to be used to refer to any of the universities founded in the 1960s after the Robbins Report on higher education.

The report was however overshadowed by the Robbins Report on higher education which was published one week later and given more time for public debate.

In 1963, the Robbins Report recommended expansion of the British university system.

It was, however, the Robbins Report in 1963 on higher education that made the strongest case for investment in education to aid economic growth.

Then, in 1963, the Robbins Report on higher education appeared.

The Robbins Report wisely suggested that the aims of a higher education sector couldn't (and shouldn't) be met in one university alone.

The era of the 1963 Robbins Report had truly come to an end.

The wheel had come full circle since the heady days of expansion after the Robbins Report in 1963.