ABSTRACT
The claim of the large cities and centres of population for further facilities for higher education was, as Robbins suggested, taken seriously. So seriously that a new institution of higher education has taken root as the 'polytechnic'. This was also helped by another Robbins recommendation, that equal performance merited equal academic awards. So it was decided to make degrees available to those doing work of degree standard in institutions with no degreeawarding powers. A 'new examination' was instituted after Robbins, which had strangely Taylorian undertones. The Robbins Committee wanted a grants commission to be created with responsibility for the whole field of higher education. So the matching recommendations of the Trend Committee of enquiry into the organization of civil science led to the U.G.C. being placed under the Minister of State for Civil Science and the Universities. The erection and expansion of a statistical service has been the greatest contribution of the Robbins Report.
