| Description | The Vice-Chancellor's Planning committee was established by University Council in 1984 to determine priorities within the university and to ensure that they were attained within the limitations of available finance, in response to the recommendations of the Jarratt Report to universities. The committee reported to Council but also consulted the Committee of Principals and Deans, the Academic Executive, and the Senate, which all debated its reports.
The committee's origins as an ad hoc advisory group to the Vice-Chancellor may explain why no minutes survive before September 1985. Papers filed after minutes of the most recent meeting, in January 1987, seem to suggest that the intention was for the work of the committee to continue, but no further records appear to survive. The Strategy, Planning and Resources Committee was established in 1987 to relace the Vice-Chancellor's Planning Committee and it is likely that the work of this committee is what the papers refer to (see UB/COM/7) |