Anglia Polytechnic retains name

Anglia Polytechnic University has abandoned its attempts to lose its "polytechnic" label - which it said left the community confused about its post-1992 status as a fully fledged university.

Plans to call itself the University of Eastern England were dropped after the University of East Anglia objected. Now it has also dropped plans to call itself Anglia Prior University, after founding chancellor Lord Prior.