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Higher Education in the United Kingdom since 1945 : An Oral History

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ISBN: 9780335216420 | 0335216420
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Open University Press
Pub. Date: 6/1/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This book provides an accessible, up-to-date, comprehensive, single volume guide to the development of higher education in the United Kingdom since 1945.
  • How have the issues facing universities changed since 1945?
  • What has the expansion of higher education meant for universities in the UK?
  • What has changed and what has remained familiar over the period?
Essential reading for all higher education policy makers, managers, administrators and academics, this book provides an authoritative ... MORE
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Introduction
Higher education before 1945
A tabular summary of post-war developments
Policy and funding: from elite to mass participation
Institutions: continuing diversity?
Institutional management and relationships
Course design
Research and knowledge
The student experience I: full-time undergraduate students
The student experience II: postgraduate students, international students and widening participation
The staff experience
The (changing?) idea of the university
References
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Malcolm Tight is Professor in Higher Education at the University of Lancaster, UK, where he directs the doctoral programme for professionals working in higher and further education. His research interests include the development of higher education research, the history and meaning of higher education and patterns of participation in higher education. Two of his other books for Open University Press are How to Research 3e (with Loraine Blaxter and Christina Hughes, 2006) and Researching Higher Education (2003).


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