Documentation relating to the DES Pooling Committee - established to consider and keep under review the arrangements for pooling educational expenditure with particular reference to teacher training and advanced further education and to make recommendations to the Secretary of State or to the local authority associations.

Includes: correspondence relating to Pooling Committee questionnaire, research project on costs in Polytechnics; questionnaire responses from civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry and biology, maths and physics, photography, commerce, management studies, architecture surveying and town planning, languages and general studies; general background information on the Pooling Committee; blank sample questionnaires.

Documents relating to issuing diplomas and certificates.

Includes: correspondence; regulations for PCL certificates and diplomas; PCL certificate of continuing education -further details; statement in respect of the issuing of duplicate diplomas; guidelines for the review of PCL diploma and certificate courses; regulations governing courses leading to PCL diplomas and certificates; press cuttings; polytechnic certificates in modern languages.

March 1981, Cambridge diploma in English literature

Student studying BA Russian

Students studying Persian