The King’s College of our Lady and Saint Nicolas in Cambridge means there are colleges ‘named after’ the Virgin Mary in both universities.
I stand by my claim there are only two people who have OfS registered providers named after them.
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You’re short of a few saints there - St Mary Magdalen, St Catherine, St Edmund and St Peter. The legal names make this worse as both New and Oriel are actually named after St Mary (but not sure if any Cambridge college is).

These regulations are a good example. Written in 1605, 12 years after Marischal College opened, so Principal Gray had a good idea about student behaviour. Examples include wearing their gowns, but he had views on other parts of their behaviour, including towards the students at King’s College.

Here’s something on ‘The’ and ‘of’ in university names that @dkernohan.bsky.social prepared earlier.

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The operative word is university, the place it’s in is secondary, descriptive. But, marketing has fashions - the University of Lancaster happily trades as Lancaster University. It’s not clear to me why Staffordshire went to the trouble earlier this year of changing its legal name from SU to UoS.

OfS have a backlog of explanations to write on their site. In 2022 the amendment order removed the time limit on Blackpool’s foundation degree powers. Does this 2022 order stay in force for those powers, or has the 2025 order put a time limit on them?

Later on it says OfS will correct for different start dates - but I think that works for Jan starts, but unsure about 12 month masters that start in Sept/Oct.

I may have got the wrong end of the stick, but it looks like you pay the levy if a student is registered in any one academic year. So if a student starts in Jan, do you pay twice? Plus if a one year masters’ student is still registered in the following August, you pay twice?

Minister emphasises that the LLE is not only a way of modernising the student finance system, but also to drive change in the flexibility of undergraduate study through modularisation and transfers.

A bear, nonchalant.

Fantastic. Although unlikely to be material to the outcome, in their re-branding exercise a certain university has had the bear let go of the ragged staff.

Meanwhile, the press release on the ASU website makes clear that ASU London is not a branch campus of ASU. TEDI was jointly owned by three universities, one here in the UK. Does this change in ownership have an impact on the DAP award?

The OfS register now has ‘ASU London Centre for Advanced Learning’ as a registered provider, trading as ASU London. At Companies House the change of name form is ticked for inclusion of sensitive words - which can only be the ‘U’. Why would DfE allow ‘University’ for a time limited DAP holder?