Entity titleCommission on University AffairsEntity identifier71Entity typeAgencyDate range1968 - 1970DescriptionThe Commission on University Affairs was set up by the Vice-Chancellor in 1968. Its terms of reference, agreed on at the Commission’s third meeting were: to investigate the nature, function and governance of the University, and to examine how decisions are reached and implemented, with particular reference to the involvement of students and staff ...[and] in the first instance to consider existing courses and subjects, their aims and how they are developed, presented and examined and consider possible improvements and recommendations.
The Commission was made up of five student and five staff members with the Vice-Chancellor acting as Chairman. It held its first meeting in October 1968 and met weekly thereafter. Student working parties were set up in each faculty, and oral and written submissions were invited from interested parties throughout the University. An Interim Statement was issued by the Commission in February 1969, recommendations were published in October 1969, and a further explanatory document issued in February 1970. Since the student members of the Commission had dissociated themselves from the recommendations by that time however, the final report could no longer be regarded as representative of the Commission as a whole. In view of this Council subsequently appointed a small sub-committee to meet with the dissenting members of the Commission to discuss their concerns.
