And a metamorphosis for an existing university awaits, if John Randall, Tory MP for Uxbridge, gets his way. He complained in the Commons last Friday that nobody knows where Brunel University is. "I would prefer it to have been called Uxbridge University, if for no other reason than when large donors in America wrote out cheques they might think that they were donating to Oxbridge rather than Uxbridge."
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