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‘To help the colleges to make their full contribution to higher education by providing a range of degrees of unimpeachable standards of quality which reflect the diverse needs of the colleges and the distinctive character of their work.’ This was how the Secretary of State for Education and Science described the task of the Council for National Academic Awards, when, at its first formal meeting, he handed to the Chairman, Sir Harold Roxbee Cox, the Royal Charter establishing the Council. It was, he said, ‘the first time that comprehensive powers to award degrees have been entrusted to a body other than a university or the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the establishment of the Council marks a turning point in the development of higher education in regional and other colleges of further education engaged in advanced work’.