The General Nursing Council for England and Wales was disestablished under Section 21 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979.
The Joint Board of Clinical Nursing Studies was set up in 1970. It became the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting in 1983, which then became the Nursing and Midwifery Council in 2002.
The Joint Battersea/Sidney Webb Committee was setup to consider the transfer of the Sidney Webb Home Economics department to Battersea College of Education.
The Constitutional Sub-Committee covered constitutional aspects, the position of teaching and non-teaching staff, administrative procedures and finance.
The Report of the Committee on Higher Education (the Robbins' Report) was commissioned by the British Government and published in 1963. The report recommended the immediate expansion of universities and the granting of university status to all Colleges of Advanced Technology. The conclusions were accepted by the Government in October 1963.