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BBC NEWS | Education | University fears over Tory plans
Professor Ebdon, vice chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire, is warning that Conservative plans to restrict public spending would mean cutting the number of places available to students.
University of Bedfordshire was created by the merger of the University of Luton and the Bedford campus of De Montfort University on 1 August 2006.... The institution was founded as the Modern School in the 1890s. It became Luton College of Higher Education with the merger of Luton College of Technology and Putteridge Bury College of Education in the mid-seventies.
Bedfordshire was ranked 84th of 113 British universities in The Times Good University Guide league table,..The Guardian's national league tables for 2008 rates the University of Bedfordshire third in the country for Media-related courses with a score of 96.90 out of 100 and 13th for Sport. However the same rankings list the university as 106 out of 110 in Computer Science and IT....The Bedford Campus of the University has been selected as an official training site for the London 2012 Olympics. The campus is hoping to attract a major national team to train there for the event.
Notable alumni (Complete List)
* Becky Jago - Presenter of BBC's Newsround - Media Performance.
* Gemma Hunt - Presenter of CBBC - Media Performance.
* Rickie Haywood Williams - Presenter of Kiss 100's breakfast show, Presenter on MTV News.
* Charlie George - Presenter on MAX TV - Media Performance.
* Matt Fisher - Station Sound Imaging Producer BBC Radio 1 - Media Performance with Radio.
* Debbie Randle - Senior Broadcast Journalist BBC Radio 1 - Modern English Studies.
* Marie Kemp - Presenter on BBC Radio Berkshire - Media Performance and Radio.
* Paul Woloszyn - BBC Digital Text - Modern English Studies.
* Abdul Ahad - Author, astronomer
* Leah O'Mahoney - Chelsea TV - Media Performance.
Shocking! How could the Tories think of crippling this country by slightly restricting the cash flowing to an institution that has nurtured such talent....