Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow | Council

Corporate Biography

Dates

1962-1964

Location of main offices

Glasgow, Scotland

Main function

Educational management

Alternative name(s)

Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow | Board of Governors 1956-1962

History

The Council was created in 1962 under the terms of the College scheme of that year. Before 1962, it was known as the Board of Governors.

Mandate

The Council was responsible for the whole management and direction of the affairs of the College.

Administrative structure

The membership of the Council was widened from that of the old Board of Governors to include for the first time academic members of staff as well as a student representative. The membership of the Council now stood at twenty. Of these, seventeen were lay members, comprising seven elected by public bodies, eight co-opted by the governors and one elected by the Graduates' Association. The remainder comprised the Principal and three academic members elected by the Academic Board with the requirement that one of the three should not be a member of that Board.

Reference codes of collections created by the corporate body

GB 0249 OE Governors

Rules or Conventions

Authority record created according to the National Council on ArchivesRules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names (NCA Rules)1997 and International Council on Archives: Ad Hoc Committee on Descriptive StandardsInternational Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families (ISAAR) CPF1995.

Date of Creation

Corporate name authority record compiled by Victoria Peters, research archivist, 12 March 2004.