ABSTRACT
Although, under Alexander's influence, the Association of Education Committees (AEC) accepted and commended the whole Report, the Association of Metropolitan Authorities and County Councils Association (CCA) expressed reservations about the composition of the governing body, the clerkship to the governors, the methods of appointing staff and the financial arrangements. The government of polytechnics was seen as of 'great importance in their full development as major institutions of higher education complementary to the universities'. By the mid-1960s there was considerable feeling in the further education colleges that their governing bodies should be given more freedom from local authority control. Some local authorities continued to have serious doubts about certain recommendations in the Weaver Report. The discussions about college government were significant not only because they reflected increased concern in society as a whole about matters such as participation and democracy, but also because they were concerned with the prestige and status of the institutions involved.
