Overview
- Shows how the UK has functioned as an experimental laboratory of innovations for Europe
- Offers an original view and an authoritative account of the UK HE system and its development
- Presents a rich narrative of the development of the new 1960s universities
- Clarifies the conditions defining the emergence of a national UK HE system and the implementation of market-line mechanisms
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The University Grants Committee and the Founding of the New Universities
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State and Market Pressures to Create a Different Model of the University
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Towards the Emergence of a State-Regulated Market in Higher Education
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Keywords
- university governance
- Anglo-American university model
- marketisation of higher education
- institutional autonomy
- new public management
- quasi-state aparatus
- student tuition fees
- office for students
- state-regulated market
- funding councils
- university mission groups
- mission groups within British higher education
- quality control / teaching excellence framework
About this book
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 Universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Lancaster, Sussex, Warwick and York. It explores the creation of these universities and investigates how they each responded to a number of centrally-imposed initiatives for change in UK higher education that have emerged since their foundation. It discusses changes in system governance and how the Higher Education policies it generated have impacted upon a particular segment of the English university model. Divided into three parts, the book first deals with such topics as the control the University Grants’ Committee exercised in its heyday and how they initiated the launch of new universities. It then examines policy initiatives on governmentcuts on grants, research assessment exercises, quality assurance procedures and student tuition fees. The last part takes a broader approach to change by studying the significance and demise of Mission Groups, a changing system of Higher Education and more general changes regarding the state, the market and governance.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creating the Future? The 1960s New English Universities
Authors: Ourania Filippakou, Ted Tapper
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06091-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06090-9Published: 18 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-06091-6Published: 08 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 126
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, History of Education, International and Comparative Education