The Governance of British Higher Education The Struggle for Policy Control /

• Main Author: Tapper, Ted (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Education.; Political science.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; Political Science.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.

Higher education in Britain has changed out of all recognition in recent years. We have moved from an elite to a mass system with more students, broader and more complex curricula, huge variations in what it means to be a student, and with institutions forging different relations to both the wider s...

Table of Contents:

• Understanding Change and Interpreting Modes of Governance
• Setting the Scene
• The State and The Governance of Higher Education: Contextualising The Changing Relationship
• From the UGC and NAB to the Funding Council Model of Governance
• State Power: Convergence and Fragmentation
• Devolution and the Governance of British Higher Education
• Shaping Policy
• The Role of the Political Parties
• Parliament as a Marginal Player?
• The Policy Community and Policy Networks in British Higher Education
• The Politics of Higher Education in Action
• Continuity and Change in the Funding of British Higher Education
• The Politics of Quality Assurance
• The Rae: The Elusive search for Selectivity and Consensus
• The Politics of Access: Higher Education and Social Engineering
• Institutional Autonomy in the Age of Mass Higher Education
• Who Has the Power?.