§ Sir Fergus Montgomeryasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which polytechnics and colleges currently maintained or assisted by local education authorities will be covered by the forthcoming Education Bill.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe following maintained institutions were listed in "Higher Education: Meeting the Challenge" (Cm. 114), to be re-established as free-standing corporate bodies, coming within the ambit of a new Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council:
- Bath College of Higher Education
- Bolton Institute of Higher Education
- Bretton Hall College of Higher Education
- Brighton Polytechnic
- Bristol Polytechnic
- Bulmershe College of Higher Education
- Charlotte Mason College of Education
- City of Birmingham Polytechnic
- Coventry Polytechnic
- Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education
- Dorset Institute of Higher Education
- Ealing College of Higher Education
- Edge Hill College of Higher Education
- Essex Institute of Higher Education
- Garnett College (this will now instead merge with Thames Polytechnic in August 1987)
- Hatfield Polytechnic (includes Harfordshire College of Higher Education, merged in April 1987)
- The Polytechnic, Huddersfield
- Humberside College of Higher Education
- Kent Institute of Art and Design (to be established in September 1987 from the Canterbury College of Art, Maidstone College of Art and Medway College of Design)
- Kingston Polytechnic
- Lancashire Polytechnic
- Leeds Polytechnic
196 - Leicester Polytechnic
- Liverpool Polytechnic
- Loughborough College of Art and Design
- Manchester Polytechnic
- Middlesex Polytechnic
- Nene College
- Newcastle Polytechnic
- North East London Polytechnic
- North Riding College
- North Staffordshire Polytechnic
- Oxford Polytechnic
- Plymouth Polytechnic
- Portsmouth Polytechnic
- Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
- Rolle College
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Sheffield City Polytechnic
- Slough College of Higher Education
- Southampton Institute of Higher Education
- South West London College
- Sunderland Polytechnic
- Teesside Polytechnic
- Trent Polytechnic
- West Midlands College of Higher Education
- West Surrey College of Art and Design
- The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton
- Worcester College of Higher Education
The following assisted institutions will also come within the ambit of the PCF:
- Polytechnic of Central London
- City of London Polytechnic
- Derbyshire College of Higher Education
- Polytechnic of North London
- Polytechnic of the South Bank
- Thames Polytechnic (including Garnett College)
- West London Institute of Higher Education
- West Sussex Institute of Higher Education
In addition, in the case of 11 institutions with fewer than 350 full-time equivalent higher education students, there is a choice as to whether to opt in to the new arrangements. The legislation will cover those which exercise this choice.