File: Manchester Business School

Scope and Content

A description of the MBS's early history is given in VCA/7/581. This file covers the period of the School's consolidation. it includes criticisms made by some business members of the School's Council of the curriculum, and discussions of whether links with industry were adequate. There are also papers relating to the Ford Foundation's grant to support the School's doctoral programme, professorial salaried and relations with the Foundation for Management Education, which had raised money from business to support the School; plans to develop an Industrial Relations Research Unit at the School.

Former reference: 333

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Access restrictions apply to some documents in this file. The documents have been removed form the main file and are closed to public inspection.

Related Material

See also VCA/7/581 and VCA/7/771.