Editing University of Brighton (section)

=== 1900—2000: University status ===
There was a further merger in 1979, when the East Sussex College of Higher Education merged with the polytechnic, creating a campus in [[Eastbourne]]. That institution had opened in London in 1898 as an institution training women and girls in physical education and moved to Eastbourne in 1949.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

UK polytechnics were granted university status in 1992 and Brighton Polytechnic became the University of Brighton under the provisions of the [[Further and Higher Education Act, 1992]].

In 1994 the Sussex and Kent Institute of Nursing and Midwifery became part of the University, increasing the number of students based in [[Eastbourne]].