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There are plans to open 20 new universities in England, providing places for an extra 10,000 students. The government is to invite proposals for a wave of new universities to be created in the next six years.
It wants to use an expansion of the higher education sector as a way of regenerating local communities and creating employment.

The new campuses since 2003 have been at Barnsley, Cornwall, Cumbria, Folkestone, Hastings, Medway, Oldham, Peterborough, Southend, Suffolk, Darlington. There are projects planned for Blackpool, Blackburn, Burnley, Everton, Grimsby and North and South Devon.