Recording of interview with Geoffrey Copland, Deputy Rector from 1987 and Vice Chancellor from 1996.
Interviewer: Elaine Penn, University Archivist
Discusses: role as Deputy Rector; Impressions of PCL; Role of ILEA and organisation post-ILEA - funding, building management; Mergers with Harrow and Paddington; Student Union - relationship with, level of power; Overseas ventures by PCL - Africa, Middle East, Sri Lanka; University status - benefits, disadvantages, opinions, differences between PCL and UoW; Polytechnic Institute - its role, opinions of it.