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CONFIDENTIAL ##
For discussion
on 3rd August 1976
ANNEX B TO XCC(77)46
XCC(76)51 Copy No
MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
INTERIM REPORT OF THE WORKING PARTY
ON HIGHER EDUCATION
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Annexed is the interim report of the Working Party on Higher Education, which makes recommendations for student number targets at the two universities and the Polytechnic for the next planning period.
Background
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As is explained in the open paragraph of the report, the Working Party has a broad remit to advise on the facilities across the whole range of post-secondary and tertiary education. This will be the subject of the final report, which the Working Party hopes to prepare by early next year, and which will be submitted to Honourable Members thereafter. The interim report deals with the more immediate task of advising the Government on the student number targets to be set for the two universities and the Polytechnic by the end of the next planning period. At the time when the Working Party submitted its report it was uncertain whether the next planning period would be a triennium or a quadrennium, and so the Working Party has provided targets both for 1980-81 and 1981-82. It has been proposed subsequently to the UPGC that a triennium should be adopted, and accordingly student number targets will be approved only up to 1980-81. Student number targets for the period up to the academic year 1977-78 have been approved already.
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It has been the practice in recent years for Government to determine the growth to be achieved by each of the three higher educa- tion institutions during the planning period. The UPGC, together with the appropriate authorities at each institution, considers the facilities that will be required to sustain the approved growth and calculates the costs involved. The UFGC then submits to Government recommenda- tions for capital and recurrent expenditure during the next financial settlement period. Tables 1 and 2 of the report illustrate the growth which was planned for each period and the actual growth in student numbers which has occurred. Overall growth rates for the university student population have varied between 5% and 10% per annum, though in particular periods one or other of the two universities may have had a higher or a lower rate of growth.
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