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OHP/16
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Interview with Geoffrey Copland
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- 26 May 2011 (Creation)
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1 MP3 file, audio visual (102 mins)
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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.
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Status: Partially Closed. Access is subject to signing the Regulations for Access form, unless the records are restricted under the Data Protection Act 2018 or under exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The interview available to researchers is an edited version.
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- Copland, Dr Geoffrey, Vice-Chancellor (Subject)