Creating the Future? The 1960s New English Universities

• Main Authors: Filippakou, Ourania (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tapper, Ted (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Higher education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Education-History.; International education .; Comparative education.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; History of Education.; International and Comparative Education.

This book examines the developments of the UK Higher Education system, from a time of donnish dominion, progressive decline and the increasing role of the market via the introduction of tuition fees. It offers a protracted empirical analysis of the seven new English universities of the 1960s: the Un...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: The University Grants Committee and the Founding of the New Universities
• 1. Donnish Dominion Supreme? The University Grants Committee and the Governance of the English Universities
• 2. Founding the New Universities of the 1960s: Interpreting the UGC's Strategy
• Part II: State and Market Pressures to create a Different Model of the University
• 1. The UGC and Selective Cuts in Public Funding: Moving towards a more nuanced Model of the University and beyond Institutional Autonomy
• 2. Making the Research Dynamic Dominant in the Idea of the University
• 3. The New Universities and Quality Control: The Long Search for a Policy Consensus
• 4. Moving from the Public to the Private Funding of English Higher Education: The Imposition of Student Tuition Fees
• Part III: Towards the Emergence of a State-Regulated Market in Higher Education
• 1. The Significance of Mission Groups for the Structure of English Higher Education and the Demise of the 1994 Group
• 2. Whatever happened to the New? Absorbed into a Changing System of Higher Education?
• 3. The State, the Market and the Changing Governance of Higher Education in England
• Coda: A Comparative Note on the New Universities: Reconsidering the Changing Structure and Character of Higher Education. .