§ Mr. Lomasasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when the Huddersfield College of Technology will become operative as a polytechnic; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsI informed the local education authority last July that, subject to some amendment of its proposals, I would be prepared to designate a polytechnic in Huddersfield to be formed from the College of Technology and the Oastler College of Education.
Representatives of the authority have since had discussions with officials of the Department and I await a revised draft of the instrument and articles of Government for the polytechnic.
When approved, the instrument and articles will be made by order of the authority, the governing body set up, and the director of the polytechnic appointed. At that stage I shall be able to settle a formal date for the establishment and designation of the polytechnic.