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RESOLVED:

1.     
This Council, while noting that it is entirely a matter for the OU,
regrets the University's reported decision not to give further consideration to the possibility of a
city-centre campus for face-to-face teaching.

2.      The Council requests the
Cabinet review any impact this might have on the reinvigoration of
CMK; and the implications for city-centre in-person undergraduate
education, as referenced in the recent New Towns task force
report.

3.      While recognising that
projected enrolments nationally will fall sharply after 2030 the
Council remains committed to the provision of face-to-face
education at Levels 4 and above, having regard to the city's own
demographic profile, the increased number of students studying
where they live, and the move towards accelerated two year degrees.

4.      The Council notes the
existing provision within the city, which includes the Open
University, Cranfield University offering degree apprenticeships,
Milton Keynes College offering foundation degrees, the University
of Buckingham providing the clinical element of its MBBS degree
through the University Hospital and the Milton Keynes campus of the
University of Bedfordshire.

5.      The Council requests the
Cabinet to discuss inviting these universities and college to a
conference at which the city's future post-secondary educational
provision might be considered.  Representatives of the city's
secondary schools might also be invited as well as of the Oxford
Cambridge Arc Universities Group, and of the Government.