Higher education and opinion making in twentieth-century England

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This book explores the changing patterns of higher education in England in the twentieth century, the types of institutions and the emergence of a 'system' of education. At the same time it traces the relationship between the writer-advocates of higher education and the changing world of higher education and its contexts. There is therefore an interrelated story of higher education, the writers, their messages, their backgrounds and ideologies, the audiences they intend to address, and the impacts of the state and other external forces.It is likely to appeal to higher education academics a

Title Higher education and opinion making in twentieth-century England / Harold Silver.
Publisher London
Portland, OR : Woburn Press
Creation Date 2003
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Cover
Higher Education and Opinion Making in Twentieth-Century England
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Foreword
Part I: System Making
1. Preludes
2. Early Decades: 'Unequal and Inadequate'
3. 1940s: 'A New Crispness'
Part II: Values
4. Truscot: 'The Universities' Speaking Conscience'
5. Postwar: 'A Ferment of Thought'
6. Moberly: 'The Status Quo and Its Defects'
7. 1950s: 'Modern Needs'
8. Ashby: 'The Age of Technology'
Part III: A National Purpose
9. 1960s: 'Expansionism'
10. Final Decades: 'Painful Transformation'
11. Pressures and SilencesIndex
Series Woburn Education Series
Extent 1 online resource (291 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997012410466105171
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