Board of Governors

The main records of the Governors are the meeting papers which comprise minutes, agendas and reports. There are also files of correspondence both to the Governors themselves and to the Clerk of the Governors, which are mainly to and from Kent County Council and the Education Department. There is a general file, an expenses file and governance files. The governance files contain copies of the Instruments and Articles of Government, annual reports and reports on how the college was to be run.

While the minutes and reports of some of the individual sub-committees exist separately the records of the rest of the sub-committees can be found only as reports to the Governors. This affects the curriculum sub-committee, the academic board, the search committee and the discipline sub-committee. The academic board minutes contain reports from the library, the bursar and the administration.

The Board of Governors was responsible for the general and financial direction of the College. It provided the link between institutions outside the College such as the Local Education Authority and local industry etc and between bodies within the College. All the committees, the directors, the Principal and the student union reported to the governors.

The College Articles of Government allowed the Governors to delegate their functions to established committees. These were mainly the finance sub-committee, the academic committee, the discipline committee, the curriculum sub-committee, the audit sub-committee, the personnel sub-committee and the search committee. Other sub-committees were established as and when they were needed. For example the search committee was established when a vacancy arose on the Board of Governors. Another temporary sub-committee was the Governors' Sub-group. The terms committee and sub-committee are used interchangeably within the documents.