Higginson worked briefly for the Ministry of Supply and was then appointed Lecturer at University of Leeds in 1956.
[6] He came to wider prominence when he chaired a committee set up to advise on the reform of the A Level system, producing the "Higginson Report" into the use of technology to support learning in colleges.
[1] Despite gaining widespread approval, the report was curtly rejected by the government, but many of the detailed proposals still enjoy some currency.
Known universally across English FE as the "Higginson Report", it made a number of recommendations for how the FEFC should go about supporting colleges' use of IT.
It set a framework for Information & Learning Technology (ILT) development across the FE sector over following years.