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Ten higher education colleges in England are set to become full universities, in the government's biggest reshuffle to higher education in 20 years. 28/11/2012

Universities and science minister David Willetts has suggested the changes, and the Privy Council, a body of advisors that can grant university status, is likely to approve them.

The institutions achieving university status are:

• Arts University College at Bournemouth
• Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln
• Harper Adams University College
• Leeds Trinity University College
• Newman University College, Birmingham
• Norwich University College of Arts
• Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
• University College Birmingham
• University College Falmouth
• University College Plymouth St. Mark & St. John

Previously, to be a university, an institution needed 4,000 full-time students, but that number has now been lowered to 1,000.

Mr Willetts said, 'These well-known and highly regarded university colleges represent over 1,200 years of history between them.

'It is right to remove the barriers preventing high-quality, higher education providers like these calling themselves universities simply because of their size.

'I am delighted they have taken up the opportunity offered by our reforms. This will lead to the biggest creation of universities since 1992 and will enable more people to realise their aspiration of going to a university.'