The University of Leicester contributed to the identification of the money of King Richard III.
" In Britain, the move from Industrial Revolution to modernity saw the arrival of new civic universities with an emphasis on science and engineering, a movement initiated in 1960 by Sir Keith Murray (chairman of the University Grants Committee) and Sir Samuel Curran, with the formation of the University of Strathclyde
 The British also established universities worldwide, and higher education became available to the masses not only in Europe

