The State of Uk Higher Education: Managing Change and Diversity

by Warner, David; Palfreyman, David

• ISBN13: 9780335208333
• ISBN10: 0335208339
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

In The State of UK Higher Education a team of experienced university managers explores the strengths and weaknesses of the various elements and sectors of the UK higher education system. Their chapters illustrate the rich diversity of responses within different institutions to similar drivers of change. The contributions are personal and punchy but also enjoy a shared perspective as all but one of the authors have spent part of their careers at the University of Warwick. The exception, Peter Scott, draws together a number of important threads in an overarching and powerful final chapter. Overall, this book examines the changing concept and nature of higher education; provides a comprehensive analysis of UK higher education today; and points to how it might develop in the early years of the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Selected Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction: Setting the Scene	1	(6)
David Warner
David Palfreyman
Part 1: The Institutions	7	(96)
The Ancient Collegiate Universities: Oxford and Cambridge	9	(20)
David Palfreyman
The Big Civics	29	(8)
David Holmes
Exeter University: Going Back to the Future?	37	(12)
Philip Harvey
The 1960s New Universities	49	(8)
Tony Rich
Old and New: Durham and Stockton	57	(10)
John Hogan
Higher Education in Scotland: Diversity, Distinctiveness and Devolution	67	(9)
David Caldwell
Higher Education in Wales	76	(19)
David Warner
The Modern English Universities	95	(8)
John Gledhill
Part 2: Outsiders and Insiders	103	(64)
The Funding Councils: Governance and Accountability	105	(10)
Steve Cannon
The Admissions System: Expansion, Inclusion and the Demands of Diversity	115	(12)
Anthony McLaren
The Cuckoo in the Nest? The Business School in a University	127	(11)
Allan Bolton
The Changing Fortunes of Continuing Education: From Margins to Mainstream to...?	138	(10)
Russell Moseley
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman?	148	(10)
Suzanne Alexander
A View from the Market Place	158	(9)
Rosemary Stamp
Part 3: The Warwick Way	167	(38)
Managing Transformation	169	(9)
Jim Rushton
Academic Development	178	(8)
Robert Burgess
Conclusion: Triumph and Retreat	186	(19)
Peter Scott
Appendix: M.L. Shattock: A Bibliography of Major Published Works and Unpublished Reports 1969--2000	205	(6)
Jonathan Nicholls
Bibliography	211	(12)
Index	223	(14)
The Society for Research into Higher Education	237