ABSTRACT
The Committee appointed by the Prime Minister in 1961 to consider the pattern of higher education in Britain presented its report in the spring of 1964. The Robbins Report, so called after its Chairman, Lord Robbins, is an historic document: it comprises the first comprehensive survey of higher education in Britain; it makes a series! of recommendations for development and change which together constitute a blueprint for the future organization of a national system of higher education—a system in place of the largely unco-ordinated activities and initiatives of the past; it will in time come to be valued, not only for its own sake as an outstanding example of educational planning, but as a technical exercise which places the study of higher education upon a new footing.
