1st Edition
Higher Education and Policy-making in Twentieth-century England
By Harold Silver
Copyright 2004
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the changing patterns of higher education in England in the twentieth century, the types of institutions and the emergence of a 'system' of education. At the same time it traces the relationship between the writer-advocates of higher education and the changing world of higher education and its contexts. There is therefore an interrelated story of higher education, the writers,... Read more
Foreword PART I: SYSTEM MAKING 1. Preludes 2. Early decades: 'Unequal and inadequate' 3. 1940s: 'A new crispness' PART II: VALUES 4. Truscot: 'The universities' speaking conscience' 5. Postwar: 'A ferment of thought' 6. Moberly: 'The status quo and its defects' 7. 1950s: 'Modern needs' 8. Ashby: 'The age of technology' PART III: A NATIONAL PURPOSE 9. 1960s: 'Expansionism' 10. Final decades: 'Painful transformation' 11. Pressures and silences
Biography
Authored by Silver, Harold
'the most outstanding book in the history of education for the period 2002-4' - Wnner of the History of Education Society's Book Prize
