The higher national diploma in business studies: a critical analysis part 1

In 1962 nine sandwich course students were awarded the Higher National Diploma in Business Studies. They were the first graduates to be awarded the diploma and had been trained at the Liverpool College of Commerce (now part of the Liverpool Polytechnic). In 1967, 768 students passed the final examinations for the diploma. In the same year there were 4 364 students reading for this diploma. These are spectacular developments by any standards. They prompt the question — why? The Haslegrave Committee (1969) suggest a partial answer in para. 116.