1st Edition
Universities and the Purpose of Higher Education Expansion and Development in Post-War Britain
1. Post-War Higher Education: From Social Democracy to Neoliberalism?
2. The Puzzle of Lionel Robbins: How a Neoliberal Economist Expanded Public University Education in Post-War Britain
3. The Purpose of Higher Education in the Robbins Report, 1960–63
4. The Binary Divide and Liberal Education
5. Employers And Universities: Making the Graduate Work for Industry
6. Building Breadth at the New Universities of York, Warwick, and Stirling, 1959–72
7. After Social Democracy: Higher Education and The Future
Appendix: Archival and Manuscript Sources
Biography
Josh Patel is a senior education and policy researcher at the Edge Foundation, where he conducts research on tertiary education, with a focus on the relationship between further and higher education, general, liberal and vocational education, and historical policy development.
"An excellent history of university expansion in the UK in the early post-war period. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the intellectual influences on those who led these changes and what it meant for university staff and students."
Huw Morris, IoE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, UK
"Universities and the Purpose of Higher Education represents an ambitious reinterpretation of the value systems which underpinned British higher education in the post-Robbins period. It makes a significant contribution to the historiography of higher education and to our understanding of how liberal democratic values have been overtaken by an illiberal economic and market-based philosophy."
Michael Shattock, author of Making Policy in British Higher Education 1945-2011 and The Governance of British Higher Education (with Aniko Horvath)
