ABSTRACT
The definition which Pimlott mentioned in 1968, and which was the same as the one used by the Robbins Committee, was narrower than the one employed in earlier discussions. The Committee's terms of reference were 'to consider and keep under review the arrangements for pooling educational expenditure with particular reference to teacher training and advanced further education and to make recommendations to the Secretary of State or to the local authority associations, as may be appropriate'. During 1967 the Department also became concerned about the practice of certain local education authorities (LEAs) which charged expenditure on research studentships to the advanced further education pool. A theme which ran through Crosland's Woolwich and Lancaster speeches and which was present in the 1966 White Paper was that the local authority sector would cater for both full and part-time students who were attending courses at both degree and sub-degree levels.
