ABSTRACT

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 and administrators, politicians and other policy makers, staff and students on higher degree and professional programmes. It should be read by anyone who cares about English Universities and their future.

part I|53 pages

System Making

chapter 1|10 pages

Preludes

chapter 2|21 pages

Early Decades

‘Unequal and Inadequate'

chapter 3|21 pages

1940s

‘A New Crispness'

part II|119 pages

Values

chapter 4|22 pages

‘Truscot'

‘The Universities' Speaking Conscience’

chapter 5|22 pages

Postwar

‘A Ferment of Thought'

chapter 6|27 pages

Moberly

‘The Status Quo and its Defects'

chapter 7|24 pages

1950s

‘Modern Needs'

chapter 8|23 pages

Ashby

‘The Age of Technology'

part III|91 pages

A National Purpose

chapter 9|35 pages

1960s

‘Expansionism'

chapter 10|41 pages

Final Decades

‘Painful Transformation'

chapter 11|14 pages

Pressures and Silences