Documentation relating to the DES Pooling Committee - established to consider and keep under review the arrangements for pooling educational expenditure with particular reference to teacher training and advanced further education and to make recommendations to the Secretary of State or to the local authority associations.
Includes: correspondence relating to Pooling Committee questionnaire, research project on costs in Polytechnics; questionnaire responses from civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry and biology, maths and physics, photography, commerce, management studies, architecture surveying and town planning, languages and general studies; general background information on the Pooling Committee; blank sample questionnaires.
Documents relating to issuing diplomas and certificates.
Includes: correspondence; regulations for PCL certificates and diplomas; PCL certificate of continuing education -further details; statement in respect of the issuing of duplicate diplomas; guidelines for the review of PCL diploma and certificate courses; regulations governing courses leading to PCL diplomas and certificates; press cuttings; polytechnic certificates in modern languages.
Central Secretariat folder 229/4 containing records relating to the management of the School of Languages. Includes financial accounting, technical equipment and student numbers.
Correspondence and advertising copy for course advertisements in newspapers and other publications. Includes short courses, Diploma in Bengali, Linguistics and summer schools, as well as correspondence with the ICA regarding their Novostroika season.
Includes: correspondence between PCL and the DES and ILEA regarding submitting requirement forms, purchasing particular items, prioritising equipment needs, budgets,; Major Resources Sub-Committee notes on technical equipment under and over £200; Academic Council Meeting, 28 Mar 1979, Document C - Report of the Major Resources Sub-Committee: technical equipment; ILEA memo regarding Allocation of Major Technical Equipment 1978-1979; PCL Major Resources Sub-Committee: report from Class Materials Working Party 1978-1979; School of Engineering and Science - Teaching and Research Equipment: technical equipment (items over £200)1978-1979; School of Engineering and Science - Graphics Support System and Proposal for Acquisition of New Minicomputer Processor for Use as a Graphics System, 14 Jul 1977; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer proposal; School of the Environment - Technical Equipment; details of word processor for Management Studies, 1978; DES Approval of Equipment Purchases at Establishments of further Education; Cases for purchase of various items by School of Engineering and Science; Major Resources Sub-Committee - Technical Equipment Over £200: breakdown by department; Educational Development Unit, technical equipment over £200; technical equipment for School of Social Science and Business Studies; technical equipment for School of Management Studies; technical equipment for School of Languages; cases for the purchases of various equipment for the School of Languages; technical equipment for the School of Environment; Justification for items of equipment over £200 for School of Environment; technical equipment for School of Engineering and Science; technical equipment for the School of Communication; Major Resources Sub-Committee, Sep 1977 - technical equipment over £200; Equipment Requirements 1975-1976: Notes on Submission of Lists of Requirements; Technical Equipment (items under £200), 1977-1978 for School of Communication, Sidney Webb, School of Management Studies, School of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Recreation Unit, Computer Centre, School of Environment; collection receipts for various equipment.
Includes: correspondence between PCL and ILEA regarding grant for equipment for colourisation of television studio at Ridinghouse Street, 1979; List of technical equipment over £400 per department, 1979-1980; List of Major Technical Equipment (items over £200) requests for 1979-1980 for School of Communication, Sidney Webb, School of Engineering and Science; School of Environment, School of Languages, School of Management Studies, School of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Computer Centre, Recreation Unit; ILEA memorandum - requests for major technical equipment 1979-1980; Major Resources Sub-Committee - Equipment over £400 Discussion Document, 12 Sep 1978; Memorandum regarding Obsolete Technical Equipment; Memorandum regarding technical equipment; ILEA Technical Equipment Programme 1977-1978.
Leaflet with details of the development portfolio projects including a readership in Computational and Information Mechanics, Chair in Urban Regeneration, Legal Skills Unit and Simulated law office, Self-learning Centre for Languages, Chair in Business Enterprise, restoration of the facade and foyer of 309 regent Street, Business Information Technology Centre, Professorial Research Appointment in Biotechnology and the London Management Centre Skills Unit.
Independent Newspaper of the Polytechnic produced fortnightly by the Public Relations Office.
Includes articles on: fire at Marylebone Road; new head of London Management Centre Robert Wagstaff; application to CNAA to become an accredited institution; news; data protection explained; questions about teaching priorities; Media Studies trip to Hungary; Professor John Yarwood obituary; diary; Chinese exchange.
Independent Newspaper of the Polytechnic produced fortnightly by the Public Relations Office.
Includes articles on: Faculty of Languages gains Masters degree; new steps for equal opportunities; news; new Assistant Academic Registrar; NHS cuts affect chiropody; diplomatic guests; All in a Day's Work - Josie Conway in the Centre for Microelectronic Systems Applications; diary; vacancies.
