University of Bolton controversially drops town’s name and becomes University of Greater Manchester

Omg, imagine if it was mainly somewhere else such as Warwick University, Coventry.

Luckily Bolton is as much part of Gtr Manchester as City of Manchester is

Can’t polish a turd! This university’s been at the very bottom of the gutter in the rankings for as long as I can remember, it’s no surprise they’re trying a rebrand.

I have to doff my hat off to Andy Burnham for making every surrounding Manchester town want to be associated with the city.

It’s on par with London’s orbital zones wanting to be associated with London at any cost. Take airports for example. London Luton airport, London Gatwick Airport, London Stansted Airport and London Southend-on-sea airport, all as far away from London as you can imagine but they love the badge of association.

Now if only Leeds could get it’s act together and stop the fighting with its neighbouring towns and create a Greater Leeds area which would include all the neighbouring Yorkshire towns. Maybe then they might even get their much lusted for team system.

Maybe Liverpool could also follow suit.

Claps to Andy Burnham for all this work for Manchester great and hopefully the other northern big cities and towns could put petty little party politics aside and look out their city, surrounding towns and people first and have some balls to rival London to be the nation’s second, third or fourth major metropolitan region tied down to a primary city.

Ah, that old trick.

See also Oxford Brookes and the University of the City of Birmingham. Both of whom presumably brand themselves to get students who think they’re going somewhere more prestigious.

I feel for the poor kids that fall for this, I was sat at the traffic lights outside of it, it was dirty and grimy, people spitting everywhere. Right next door to the college , a sixth form and a casino. The prefect thing to put right next door to impressional young adults.

Well, that’s awkward for the University of Bolton Arena

Has a similar email from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) today. They’re changing their name to the University of Lancashire.

Kind of makes sense as they now have campuses across the county. But Lancaster also has a uni and they’re in Lancs, so might be confusing.

Tbh, all feels like a lot of money wasted on marketing and related changes that would be better spent on uni facilities 🤷‍♂️

I feel sorry for the people who get duped by the name change. Imagine getting excited to go Uni just to realise it’s in bloody Bolton

Absolute horrible shit hole… but I got my undergrad there and it completely changed the trajectory of my life for the better.

Not unlike Luton and Stansted being ‘London’ airports.

But, Bolton is not and never will be, part of greater Manchester

They should have gone with “Greater University of Manchester”. The problem with these ex-polys is they don’t have the confidence to properly sell themselves.

Herriot-Watt Edinburgh named their business school “Edinburgh Business School” before the main Uni caught on.

Well pissed off Edinburgh Uni.

The larger an area in a university’s name the shitter that university is.

Reminds me of when UCE, one of the lowest performing universities in the country changed it’s name to Birmingham City University to confuse people with University of Birmingham, a genuinely good top 10 red brick uni.