Recording of interview with Geoffrey Copland, Deputy Rector from 1987 and Vice Chancellor from 1996.
Interviewer: Elaine Penn, University Archivist
Discusses: role as Deputy Rector; Impressions of PCL; Role of ILEA and organisation post-ILEA - funding, building management; Mergers with Harrow and Paddington; Student Union - relationship with, level of power; Overseas ventures by PCL - Africa, Middle East, Sri Lanka; University status - benefits, disadvantages, opinions, differences between PCL and UoW; Polytechnic Institute - its role, opinions of it.
Independent Newspaper of the Polytechnic produced fortnightly by the Public Relations Office.
Includes articles on: PCL's new Centre for Communication; editorial team; PCL law students at the International Client Counselling Competition in Toronto; appointments and awards; new deputy rector Geoffrey Copland; white paper on Higher Education; future of the Soho Poly Theatre; report from PCL's Transport Studies Centre; diary; Mr Stanley Martin's lecture.
Main articles include: Promise on Student Feedback; A Few Words - Dr Geoffrey Copland, Vice Chancellor; Publisher Picked For New University History; Goodbye - leaving staff; Keep it a Healthy New Year; Funds for Carer Study; Lecturer's Marking Video Gets Higher Coverage; Corporate Services Achieves liP Recognition; Maud [Tyler] Bids Farewell After 35 Years' Service; Architecture Students Sweep RIBA Awards Board; Mixed Housing Advice for Scottish Parliament.
Main articles include: Goodbye Geoffrey [Copland]; Goodbye - leaving staff; Wonder Drugs From Mould and Mushrooms; Royal Award for Next VC; Adviser to the Lords; Top in Teacher Training; Eco-Architecture Recognised by Student Awards; Degree Shows; Education Central to Final China Event.
Main articles include: Pioneering Wound Research; Introducing...Our New Rector Geoffrey Copland; Constructive Comments - Michael Romans; Noticeboard; Research Grants; Appointments; Queen's Birthday Honour for Peter Dowe, Building Services Manager; Minister's Praise - Baroness Chalker; Environment News: Read All About it in EG. A Worthy Winner.
Main articles include: A New Year, A New Rector and a New Deputy Rector - Geoffrey Copland and Tony Dart; School of Communication's Media Matters; Enzyme Research Could Aid Pakistan's Leather Workers; Noticeboard; Research; Staff Comings and Goings; Radiating Knowledge on X-Ray Boon to Mankind; Concern Rising Over Student Suicide Risk; Cowardly Government Slammed by CVCP; New Year, New Rector.
Main articles include: Student Consultants Sign Up for Europe; Building Alumni Links; Noticeboard; Lumiere Festival; Solitary Confinement by Gabin Sinclair-Constance - art installation at Harrow; Research; Obituary - Jerry Mahoney; New Centre Shows Some Initiative; Drop-Out Rate Worries CVCP; Staff Turn Out to Hear Rector Geoffrey Copland; Mechanical Engineers Come Close Again
Autumn 2007. Magazine for Alumni. Features Goodbye Geoffrey Copland; Geoffrey Petts - My Plans; Business as Usual After Fire - Harrow; Events - Will Self, Max Clifford; International news; profiles - Pat Daley, Vicky Patsalis, Laura Dziaszyk
Winter 1995 Magazine for Alumni. Features Where Are You Going?; Take Care - We Need You - Dr Geoffrey Copland; Tomorrow Today - Harrow campus; Westminster in the World; We'll Meet Again; Camera, Lights, Action - history of cinema; Investing in Scholarship.
