University Buildings and Equipment (Intensity of Use)

HC Deb 23 June 1966 vol 730 cc125-6W

Mr. Hooley

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what investigations are in progress into the intensiveness of use of university laboratories and teaching facilities; and whether he will ask the University Grants Committee to institute such investigations.

Mr. Crosland

As I informed the House on 26th January, my Department's economic adviser is engaged, in collaboration with the University Grants Committee, on a background study of the implications of a number of different organisational and procedural patterns. Arising out of this, the University Grants Committee have been discussing with the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals the possibility of undertaking in the universities a number of detailed studies of particular problems relating to the intensity of use of university buildings and equipment. These studies are now being put in hand.