ABSTRACT
A Plan for Polytechnics and Other Colleges justified the binary policy and the creation of the polytechnics in more administrative and less ideological terms. There are several objectives of the binary policy. The first objective of the binary policy was to prevent the total domination of the higher education system by the universities. The second objective of the binary policy was to encourage the development of vocational or 'relevant' courses within higher education, a task which it was felt the universities were not well equipped to undertake or alternatively with which they should not be expected to bother. The third objective of the binary policy was more closely defined and is much more straightforward. The fourth objective of the binary policy was to keep a substantial part of higher education 'under social control and directly responsive to social needs', to borrow the phrase used by Mr Anthony Crosland at Woolwich.
