![]() ![]() These include: Old Broadcasting House, the former home of the BBC in Leeds Electric Press, a building on Millennium Square and Old School Board, the birthplace of school education in Leeds. In addition to the former Polytechnic site, several other buildings have recently been acquired. This comprises a number of locations on the northern side of Leeds city centre, largely between the Inner Ring Road and the University of Leeds campus. The name change took place in September 2014. The Privy Council approved Leeds Metropolitan University's application to change its name to Leeds Beckett University in November 2013. ![]() The proposed change resulted in a backlash among students. In 2013, it was announced that the Board of Governors had applied to the Privy Council to change the name to Leeds Beckett University, after one of the university's founding colleges, Beckett Park, which in turn was named after Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe. In 1987, the Polytechnic became one of the founding members of the Northern Consortium. 1907 as part of City of Leeds Training College) joined Leeds Polytechnic. In 1976, James Graham College and the City of Leeds College of Education (f. 1846) and Yorkshire College of Education and Home Economics (f. In 1970, the college merged with Leeds College of Commerce (founded 1845), part of Leeds College of Art (f. The institute later became the Leeds Institute of Science, Art and Literature and in 1927 was renamed Leeds College of Technology. The university traces its roots to 1824 when the Leeds Mechanics Institute was founded. ![]() Logos used by Leeds Polytechnic in the 1980s and Leeds Metropolitan University in the 1990s and early 2000s
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