| Level | File |
| Ref No | BPS/001/4/02/05/05 |
| Title | BPS Scientific Affairs Board Correspondence concerning University Funding Cuts 1985-1989 |
| Date | 1985-1989 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Physical Description | Some rust marks |
| Description | Correspondence between the British Psychological Society Scientific Affairs Board and Universities, University Grants Committee concerning closures and cuts in funding for psychology teaching and research. The annual report of the Scientifc Affairs Board of 1987 began 'Scientific Research in the United Kingdom throughout the last year has continued to be threatened by shortages of funds and external pressures to conform to requirements set by government agencies that seem undesirable or misguided to the majority of scientists themselves. Morale against teachers and research workers in further and higher education has been low. It is against this background that the Scientific Affairs Board has accepted that one of its key roles is advocacy for the psychological sciences in the United Kingdom.
Includes Department of Education at University College, Cardiff; staff numbers in the Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne; move of psychology into Social Sciences by the SED Scottish Education and registration of lecturers in Colleges of Education; Department; empty Chair of Psychology at Durham University; review of University of Strathclyde Department of Psychology; Plymouth Polytechnic psychology degrees; MSc Clinical Psychology University of Newcastle Upon Tyne; Oxford Polytechnic.
Includes also agenda and attendance sheet of meeting of the Scientific Affairs Board and Heads of Departments of Psychology 18 December 1985
An article was published in the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 'Cuts in Universities and Polytechnics: A Call for Action by the Scientific Affairs Board'.
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| Format | File |
| Notes | The History of Psychology Centre is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our users. Be aware that our catalogue contains historic terminology relating to mental health which could be considered offensive. The terminology exists within the original record and has been retained to inform users on viewpoints at the time. It in no way reflects the attitudes of the cataloguers or the British Psychological Society. |
| File of Colin Newman British Psychological Society Scientific and Professional Secretary |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | BPS/001/4/02/02 BPS Scientific Affairs Board Papers
BPS/001/11/04/03/04/25 Response to proposed UGC Research Selectivity Exercise 1988
BPS/001/11/04/03/04/82 Department of Education Shifting the Balance of Public Funding of Higher Education to Fees
BPS/001/11/04/03/05/83 NAB [National Advisory Board for Local Authority Higher Education] Technical and Data Group Classification of Psychology 1983-1985
BPS/001/4/02/05/01 BPS Scientific Affairs Board Correspondence concerning UGC (University Grants Committee) and later UFC University Funding Council 1985-1993
BPS/001/11/04/02/04 BPS Lobby, Statements Briefings 1980-1989
BPS/001/4/02/05/06 BPS Scientific Affairs Board Meetings with AGREF [Ad Hoc Group on Research Funding)
BPS/001/4/02/05/08 BPS Scientific Affairs Board and British Scientists Abroad Petition against the 'Brain Drain' 1989 |
| RelatedRecord | BPS/001/11/04/03/04/25 |
| BPS/001/11/04/03/04/82 |
| BPS/001/4/02/05/01 |
| BPS/001/11/04/03/04/82 |
| BPS/001/4/02/05/05 |
| BPS/001/4/02/05/05 |
| BPS/001/11/04/02/04 |
| BPS/001/4/02/05/05 |
| BPS/001/4/02/05/06 |
| BPS/001/4/02/05/08 |
| BPS/001/11/04/03/04/83 |
| BPS/001/4/02/02 |
| AccessConditions | Registered Users by Appointment Only. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 13: BPS History of Psychology Centre, London |
| Term | University Funding |
| Research Funding |
| AdminHistory | The University Grants Committee UGC was an advisory committee of the British government, which advised on the distribution of grant funding amongst the British universities. It was in existence from 1919 until 1989 which it was replaced by the University Funding Council UFC and then in 1992 by National Higher Education Funding Councils for each country. The UFC brought in a Research Assessment Exercise upon which levels of funding was determined. |
| Copyright | Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of the History of Psychology Centre and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material |
| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following: ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description MAD3 Third Edition 2000 |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Claire Jackson BPS Archivist History of Psychology Centre. |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| BPS/GB/260 | The British Psychological Society; Scientific Affairs Board; 1973-2002; SAB | 1973-2002 |