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Report of the Remembrancer.

Governors considered a report of the Remembrancer regarding the Higher Education and Research Act and developments during its parliamentary passage. These included the receipt of a Ministerial assurance that new provisions on governance would not affect the constitutional position of the School.  The following points were made.

·         A Governor noted that the result of the General Election may come to affect the Government’s position on student migration, which had been much debated during the passage of the Act. The Governor further noted that the designated chairman of ‘Research England’, a new body created by the Act, was thought to be sympathetic to the arts.

·         Thanks were extended to Lord Carrington of Fulham for tabling an amendment in the House of Lords addressing the position of the School in relation to the new legislation.

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