Talk:Polytechnic University of Catalonia

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[edit] English translation

Does anyone know why the institute's name is not translated more directly as "Polytechnical University of Catalonia" or the like, preserving the polytechnic[al] usage? ~ Dpr 02:43, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

As far as I know, a polytechnic is closer in Spain to "Formación Profesional". --surueña 11:42:37, 2005-08-27 (UTC)
Depends on The country I think Polythecnic University is better (Poly from greek πολυς- Many)--Zape82 12:23, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Looking in the dictionary, the word "polytechnic" has only one meaning and it's opposed to university, so it shouldn't be translated this way. 62.87.61.158 04:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

The english webpage of the University [1] says its name is 'Technical University of Catalonia', so this article should be moved back. 85.50.2.219 23:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

As long as it isn't an English institution and it has a copyrighted name it should be mantained in Catalan and if translated it should be named "Technical University of Catalonia" as it appears in their english webpage SCP-UPC 14:25, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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