Cost effectiveness: the problem of higher education in the seventies Available to Purchase

Higher education is expanding explosively: such is the scale of the rising demand that it could require the creation of 400 000 additional places in the universities and polytechnics by 1980. High policy decisions on these matters will have to be taken by the Government during the next six months. Some guide to future policy was to be seen in the debate in the House of Commons on the White Paper on Government Expenditure: at the moment the Government does not propose to make available the financial support which such a massive expansion would call for. One question which now arises is this: can this expansion be provided within our present resources? A White Paper setting out the projections of student places for 1980 and the basis on which they were formulated is expected in April 1970. A Green Paper setting out the options for policy is expected in December 1970. In June the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions meets in Harrogate and will consider the topic of efficiency in higher education. It is against this background that Thomas Gore has set out the issues.