Reporter 12/12/01: Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on continuing education and lifelong learning, and the Cambridge Programme for Industry: Notice

Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on continuing education and lifelong learning, and the Cambridge Programme for Industry: Notice

10 December 2001

The Council have considered the remarks made at the Discussion on 16 October 2001 (Reporter, p. 126). The Council have noted that the Director of Continuing Education, speaking for the Board of Continuing Education, welcomed the proposals contained in the Report.

Dr Evans, in her remarks about the Report, suggested that new activities were to be permitted by the Report. The Joint Report only proposes changes of institutional management and that responsibility for continuing education should be discharged by the General Board. In relation to educational activities conducted by the University, this is self-evidently appropriate. In particular, the category of qualifications referred to by Dr Evans already exists, and the only change proposed is that approval should be by the General Board, rather than by the Council.

Dr Evans commented in some detail on the conclusions and recommendations of the review committee, which were reproduced in the Joint Report. The report of the review committee has been widely circulated to responsible bodies within the University and the Colleges, and, indeed, was seen and considered by the University Council when Dr Evans was a member. Neither the Council nor the General Board have agreed to propose to the University that the individual propositions to which Dr Evans refers should be approved. They intend that the Council for Lifelong Learning, when established, should review the present position and itself recommend to the central bodies what next steps should be taken having regard to the conclusions of the review committee.

The Council are therefore submitting a Grace to the Regent House for the approval of the recommendations of the Report (Grace 10, p. 381).

The Council deprecate the action of Dr Evans in making personal remarks about various individuals. The Council believe that such remarks are inappropriate to public occasions such as Discussions.

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