Overview
- Strong relevance to those with a general interest in British higher education
- Will have lessons for those examining higher education on a comparative/international basis
- A serious piece of analysis i.e. it is purposefully non-polemical
- It is well-written, non-jargonised and accessible
- Goes beyond higher education by locating the material in the broader public policy context
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding Change and Interpreting Modes of Governance
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The Politics of Higher Education in Action
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Institutional Autonomy in the Age of Mass Higher Education
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About this book
How has the system of governance changed? Do British higher education institutions still exercise autonomous control over their development as was widely believed to be the case but a few years ago? These questions are pursued through a three-pronged strategy. Firstly, to examine the institutional changes which have occurred since the 1988 Education Reform and the emergence of the funding council model of governance. In particular, we want to know how the various institutional actors – the higher education institutions, the government departments and the funding councils – interact with one another to shape policy outcomes. Secondly, to explore the political context within which these institutional actors have to work. This means examining the role of the political parties, policy networks and the parliamentary forces all of which have a major stake in influencing the direction of higher education policy. This section of the book incorporates the move towards political devolution in the United Kingdom and examines what is different, and what is similar, about higher education policy-making in Scotland and Wales in comparison to England. Thirdly, the book observes the process of policy-making and change in relation to critical issues: the funding of higher education, the research assessment exercises, the quality assurance regime, and the widening participation agenda. In effect it examines policy-making in action.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This volume on policy control in UK higher education will interest scholars, higher education executives and policy analysts from many countries. … Thus, this important volume by Ted Tapper adds to a considerable amount of literature on British higher education policy and management by a line of distinguished scholars … . Tapper, a long-time student of British higher education, sets out to place the recent transformation of British higher education within the context of the key issue of governance." (Grant Harman, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, Vol. 30 (2), 2008)
"Higher education in Britain … has been subject to rather a lot of policy in the last few decades. Ted Tapper has long been a commentator on this … . This book attempts to update the earlier one ‘by now inevitably dated’ … . But it covers the ground comprehensively, and it is a pleasure to have a text which records evidence in detail … . Tapper divides the book into three parts … . Tapper’s analysis offers some useful insights … ." (John Pratt, Higher Education Review, Vol. 40 (3), 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Governance of British Higher Education
Book Subtitle: The Struggle for Policy Control
Authors: Ted Tapper
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5553-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5552-2Published: 15 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7391-4Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5553-9Published: 05 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 257
Topics: Higher Education, Political Science, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education