 In 2004 it became the Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education.Its connection (associate college status) with the former University of Lincolnshire and Humberside (formed in 1996) finished when this changed its name to the University of Lincoln in 2002, which rapidly closed most of its main Hull site down (now occupied by the Hull York Medical School), concentrating it all in Lincoln.Grimsby Institute was now separate from any partner university.