ABSTRACT
The administrative machinery required for planning and coordinating the expansion of the local authority sector of higher education was considered briefly in the White Paper. The Report also proposed that Local Authority Higher Education Committee (LAHEC's) main committee should continue to be composed entirely of local authority representatives, but a new advisory board, a new financial resources committee and new academic boards would contain substantial representation from other interest groups. The tensions surrounding the creation and early work of LAHEC showed that even at its inception there was no agreement about how the local authority sector of higher education should be controlled and administered. The target figures for student numbers in higher education were revised downwards, and Council for Local Education Authorities invited local education authorities ('LEAs) maintaining polytechnics to have special regard to the requirement of "no growth in real terms" being applied equally to pooled expenditure as to expenditure borne on their own rates'.
