Oxford, the Collegiate University
Conflict, Consensus and Continuity
Authors: Tapper, Ted, Palfreyman, David
Free Preview- Presents a considered, in-depth analysis of the contemporary history of one of the world’s great universities
- Takes a multi-disciplinary approach with a balance of intellectual inputs
- Has a normative dimension but overall it presents a critically supportive analysis of the University of Oxford
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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 undergraduate teaching, it has been required to augment its financial base, while at the same time deciding how to respond to pressure from successive governments determined to use higher education to achieve their own policy goals. While still consistently ranked as a world-class university, it has to decide how it is to acquire the funding to continue in this league, or whether this goal is worth pursuing. Oxford is a collegiate university, which means its colleges share with the University responsibility for the delivery of its central goals. Is this balance of authority shifting over time? If so, how is this to be accounted for, and what are the likely outcomes for the collegiate university? This book sets out to address these questions and arrives at an essentially positive conclusion. Oxford will continue to remain an effective collegiate university and, while its identity will change, its central character will persist.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Setting the Context: Oxford’s Changing Academic and Social Demography
Pages 1-18
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Collegiality Debated
Pages 19-40
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Continuity and Change in the Collegiate Tradition
Pages 41-60
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Commensality: Time and Space, Port and Sport, Code and Dress
Pages 61-75
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The Elusive Search for the Best and the Brightest
Pages 77-94
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Oxford, the Collegiate University
- Book Subtitle
- Conflict, Consensus and Continuity
- Authors
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- Ted Tapper
- David Palfreyman
- Series Title
- Higher Education Dynamics
- Series Volume
- 34
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-0047-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-0047-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-0046-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-3414-2
- Series ISSN
- 1571-0378
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 209
- Topics
