The Economist (US), October 3rd, 1992
De Montfort University plans to grow to a campus of some 30,000 students by 2000. Administrators of the former Leicester Polytechnic took advantage of a new higher education law to attain the status of a university, which they named for a 13th century nobleman.
LEICESTER is as gloomy as anywhere else in the autumnal drizzle of the recession; yet right in the centre of the city, among the scrapyards and empty textile mills, is the frantic building activity of a booming industry. The industry is De Montfort University, until two months ago Leicester Polytechnic. It has growth rates that any bus...
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