Minutes and committee papers of the Finance and General Purposes Committee for the meetings held on 21/11/1983, 27/02/1984, 21/05/1984.

Matters arising 21/11/1983: report from the Academic Council; overseas students - Law Lord's Judgement; report of the Governors and statement of account; report on Microcomputer Unit; provision for reprographic equipment; consultation document - ILEA Budget 1984/1985; International Services - formation of company; Polymedia; National Advisory Body; review of advanced further education; revised non-student members subscriptions/fees; posts of pro-rectors; personnel offices; FE Smith bequest; compassionate fund.

Matters arising 27/02/1984: International Services - formation of company; student enrolment , fee collection and related materials; Joint Unions Committee; financial report; funding of the committee of directors of Polytechnics; review of advanced further education; Faculty of Engineering and Science; appointment of court committees; Board of Architectural Education; research grants.

Matters arising 21/05/1984: Conditions of employment - Inner London Polytechnics teaching staff; Individual Grievance Procedure - Inner London Polytechnics teaching and research staff; future of the swimming pool; report from chairman; report from the Acting Rector; negotiations with the Students' Union; Students' Union financial statement; research grant; deed to seal.

Minutes and committee papers of the Finance and General Purposes Committee for the meetings held on 18/06/1984, 26/11/1984, 28/01/1984.

Matters arising 18/06/1984: report from the Academic Council; overseas students - Law Lords' Judgement; tuition fees; statement of anti-racist policy; equal opportunities policy statement; report on the microcomputer unit; financial report; student hostel charges; report from the Long-Term Strategy Group; post of Academic Registrar.

Matters arising 26/11/1984: Institutional review; PCL International; report of the Governors and statement of accounts; student accommodation; heads of school; financial report; application for maintenance grant; future of swimming pool; compassionate fund; the Philip Bagnell Prize; research grants; deputy finance officer; PCL signatory.

Matters arising 28/01/1985: review of the Academic Structure; hardship committee; financial report; recommendation from the rector on budget redistribution; Quintin Kynaston School; re-development of Regent Street and Great Portland Street Buildings; post of senior pro-rector; board of architectural education; research grants; Chiswick grants.

Documents relating to PCL's Long Term Strategy Group.

Includes: minutes of Long Term Strategy Group meetings on 3 Feb 1986, 5 Apr 1984 (includes strategy for accommodation, developments in paramedical studies, proposal to transfer the medical laboratory sciences at Padding College to PCL, Moxon Street student housing proposal by Avanti Architects Ltd, accommodation of the Faculty of Engineering and Science), 25 Nov 1982; minutes and agenda of the Recreation and Recreation Technology Committee meeting on 14 Feb 1984; agenda for Long Term Strategy Group meeting, 17 Jun 1985; utilisation of Regent Street Building report by T Burlin; memorandum from David Billing to M Miller regarding staffing and finance in the recreation unit, 30 Mar 1984; updating of information of refurbishing of swimming pool, 1984; further appraisal of the fitness project at PCL, 1984.

Documentation relating to development proposals for PCL properties. Proposals include changing the front portion of 309 Regent Street from education to office user, class 2, and lease of that section; Poly Theatre made into entrance for use by staff and students; rear portion of Regent Street changed into a library; short course residential centre on the waterfront site of playing fields at Chiswick; refurbishment of 70-74 Great Portland Street.

File includes: 2 copies of a development proposals document [1 with photocopied photographs of 309 Regent Street exterior]; correspondence; summary of recommendations; preliminary appraisal; proposal for a feasibility study; report by Bartlett and Gluckstein Solicitors.

File containing documents relating to the Estates and Accommodation Sub-Committee.

Includes: minutes and agendas of meetings on 10 Oct 1985, 9 Jan 1986, 6 Mar 1986, 18 Apr 1986, 15 May 1986, 9 Oct 1986, 14 May 1987
internal memorandum; estimated building costs for summer 1987; report on withdrawing from Elsley Court, by D Billing 9 Mar 1987; Joint ILEA/PCL Accommodation Working Party report to AFE Strategy Section on resolving the accommodation problems of the PCL, 14 May 1987; proposal for a large vertically integrated public sector business school in central London, Feb 1987; proposal for unsubsidised use of Centre Point [tower block] maisonettes as student residential accommodation, 14 May 1987; report on PCL security, 14 May 1987; paper on the swimming pool's future and history, 14 May 1987; chapter on buildings [possibly from management consultant's report on accommodation]; paper on 235 High Holborn expansion; annual report for 1985-1986; plan of work 1986-1987 - items for discussion; accommodation at PCL - report by Professor Peter J Thompson; accommodating SSBS and MS faculties in Regent Street and Wells Street - student numbers; accommodation in the High Holborn building: London Centre for Information and Communication Policy Studies, 24 Sep 1986; progress report on student residential accommodation, Oct 1986; proposed building programme for the summer of 1986; Marylebone Road Site Accommodation Task Force - Interim Report, 15 May 1986; correspondence - hostel charges; swimming pool - history of funding arrangements;accommodation adaptations and associated issues for medical laboratory sciences, 16 Feb 1986; accommodating Paddington MLS courses into lecture rooms allocated to the faculty of engineering and science; lab feasibility exercise for the PCL/Paddington merger, Feb 1986; office accommodation available at the engineering science faculty to facilitate the transfer of medical laboratory science staff from Paddington college, Feb 1986; report on PCL and Macready House, Feb 1986; Marylebone road site accommodation task force, Jan 1986; progress report on student residential accommodation, Dec 1985; report on the effects of accommodation on academic standards, Oct 1985; accommodation for combined communicatons/ SSBS registry, Jan 1986; paper - formation of a housing association by PCL; annual report 1984-1985; plan of work 1985-1986; accommodation changes; adaptations of building in New Cavendish Street and associated adaptations elsewhere; building costs and sources of funds; ILEA report - AFE review: transfer of MLS course from Paddington College to PCL.