College of Advanced Technology (United Kingdom)

The Colleges of Advanced Technology (CATs) were a type of Higher Education Institution established in 1956 in England and Wales following the publication of a Government White Paper on Technical Education which listed 24 technical colleges in receipt of 75% grant for parts of their advanced work. The government confirmed that the proportion of advanced work at these colleges should be increased so that they could develop as quickly as possible into Colleges of Advanced Technology. Eventually ten of the 24 were confirmed as CATs. Following the Robbins Report of 1963 the Colleges of Advanced Technology were expanded and awarded university status in 1966. The ten CATs and the universities they became are as follows:-

• Loughborough CAT became Loughborough University

• Northampton CAT (London) became City University London

• Chelsea CAT became Chelsea College of Science and Technology as part of the University of London then later subsumed into King's College London

• Battersea CAT became the University of Surrey

• Brunel CAT became Brunel University

• Bristol CAT became University of Bath

• Cardiff CAT became part of the University of Wales, then Cardiff University

• Birmingham CAT became Aston University

• Salford CAT (the Royal College of Advanced Technology) became the University of Salford

• Bradford Institute of Technology became University of Bradford