ABSTRACT
This chapter confines to the problems of a particular group of universities in England which, in recent years, have come to be known collectively as 'the new universities'. How successful a new university will be in attracting graduate students will depend upon a number of different factors. The difficulties of the graduate students who come to a new university are probably fewer than those of the undergraduate students. The graduate student has a better idea of what he is doing and why he has made his choice of university. The relations between the new university and its local neighbours turn to quite an extent on the image of the new university that becomes established. In addition to the internal problems that have so far been outlined, there are external problems, some of which give rise to yet further internal problems. It considers its relations with other universities and it must deal with central bodies, and with the University Grants Committee.
