KEELE
SIR,—The University College of North Staf- fordshire has recently launched an appeal for £500,000 for building funds. May we draw the attention of your readers to the College's urgent needs for undergraduate accommoda- tion, facilities for scientific research, and for a library? The College is wholly residential, but nearly 400 of the 600 students are still housed in fifteen-year-old army huts. The College plans to expand to a total of 800 students in the next five years, so that new hostels are required not only as replacements for the huts, but to accommodate the increased numbers: hostels for 600 students in all. The scientific laboratories are badly in need of extensions in order that research programmes can be carried forward without competing for space with the teaching of undergraduates. The College has as yet no separate library building and more than half its books are still in store.
In the words of The Times, the `University College of North Staffordshire is unique among English university institutions in four ways. It is fully residential, for staff as well as students. It is the only residential college empowered to grant degrees. It has a four- year course leading to the first degree. It requires all its undergraduates to begin with a "foundation year" of broadly cultural studies, and thereafter to read alongside the subjects in which they arc specialising, others comple- mentary to them.' We hope that these features have now become widely enough known and appreciated for the response to this appeal to be generous. Contributions should he sent to the Registrar, University College of North Staffordshire, Keele, Staffs, who will be glad to supply further information. — Yours
GEORGE BARNES
University College of North Staffordshire
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