| Description | Agenda, reports of meetings, supporting papers, and correspondence of a committee appointed by the Senate Executive Committee to formulate conditions attached to the University's willingness to increase student numbers to a figure of around 7,000 by 1970, and to devise a development programme, taking into account suggestions from the Faculties and non-Faculty departments, on which estimates of costs for capital and recurrent expenditure could be based, and to facilitate discussions with the University Grants Committee about building programmes necessary to accommodate increased numbers of students
Papers include copies of reports of the Senate Development Committee; submissions from Faculties and non-Faculty Departments to the committee made in 1960 containing estimates of student numbers 1960-1970; estimates of additional staff needed; estimates of additional apparatus and equipment; details of new Chairs and new departments required; estimates of additional teaching space; and any non-Faculty or inter-Faculty proposals for development
The papers also contain discussion of requirements for student residences, refectory and staff house, library, and general amenities, and assessments of the building expansion required. They include copies of a proposal for a theatre for the University, primarily for the Drama Department, but which other departments could use, and a copy of an interim report of the Committee of the Birmingham Association of University Teachers on the Expansion of Birmingham University
The majority of papers date from 1960, but there is a copy of the interim report of Sir Hugh Casson and Neville Conder, the University architects, on the Birmingham University Development Plan 1961, and a document setting out costs associated with the alternative building programme for the University, discussed with the University Grants Committee, dated March 1961
Surviving records are not the authorised versions but were probably papers kept by the Registrar |