DETERMINANTS OF A UNIVERSITY'S CURRICULUM.

The article presents information on the new determinants of Keele University in Staffordshire, England curriculum which paved the way for new University curriculum. From the first, demands for a University in North Staffordshire were made with an eye to the local industries. This early activity bore fruit not in a University College, but in a North Staffordshire Technical College. Yet subsequent demands for a University continued to have a peculiarly local flavour although from 1914 the Technical College was providing educational facilities related to the industries of North Staffordshire. There was a renewed and again unsuccessful demand for a local university in 1919 when the idea was canvassed in the local press by Tutorial Class Students, who emphasized that ones needs are peculiar to oneself and cannot adequately be met by facilities provided by other centers. It is hardly surprising therefore that when the idea of a North Staffordshire University was again broached in 1945 it represented a direct continuation of earlier demands for a North Staffordshire University. The 1943 Report of the Association of University Teachers emphasized on technology and social studies as two fields in which regional attachment' would provide a valuable stimulus. The Report also called for more active extension work by the Universities.