Oxford, the Collegiate University Conflict, Consensus and Continuity /
Oxford is one of the world’s great universities but this has not meant that it is exempt from pressures for change. On various fronts it has been required to meet the challenges that universities almost worldwide have to face. Given the retrenchment of public funding, especially to support undergrad...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2011.
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Σειρά: | Higher Education Dynamics,
34 |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Setting the Context: Oxford’s Changing Academic and Social Demography
- 2. Collegiality Debated
- 3. Continuity and Change in the Collegiate Tradition
- 4. Commensality: Time and Space, Port and Sport, Code and Dress
- 5. The Elusive Search for the Best and the Brightest
- 6. The Tutorial System: The Jewel in the Crown
- 7. Governance: A Community of Self-Governing Scholars?
- 8. Finance: The Well-Endowed Corporation?
- 9. The Collegiate University in Retreat?
- Postscript: What Future for the Collegiate University?
- Appendix: Interviewees
- References
- Index.