University Grants Committee

The University Grants Committee (UGC) was established to oversee the small grant which the British government was now making to some institutions of higher education.

British universities underwent their first Research Assessment Exercise, a process devised by Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer , then Chairman of the University Grants Committee .

The Education Act (properly the Education Reform Act) began to come into force. This Act established a compulsory national curriculum for all pupils in state-maintained schools in Britain, abolished the University Grants Committee ...