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As stated in the report, the University has established a working group to prepare a strategic plan for the development of Information Technology across the University. This working group is considering the use of IT in teaching, research and as support for its administrative services. In the case of the latter, the major thrust of the working groups' proposals will be the need to develop systems which address more directly the needs of the end users, e.g. the academic departments, and to provide a common user interface to all administrative systems. The "vision" for the administrative systems proposed by the working group is "to provide integrated services at the desktop". This can only be achieved if the degree of integration and coordination envisaged in the Panel's report is achieved.