Robert Anderson

British Universities Past and Present (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is both a concise history of British universities and their place in society over eight centuries, and a penetrating analysis of current university problems and policies as seen in the light of that history. It explains how the modern university system has developed since the Victorian era, and gives special attention to changes in policy since the Second World War, including the effects of the Robbins report, the rise and fall of the binary system, the impact of the Thatcher era, and the financial crises which have beset universities in recent years. A final chapter on the past and the present shows the continuing relevance of the ideals inherited from the past, and makes an important contribution to current controversies by identifying a distinctively British university model and discussing the historical relationship of state and market.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826409904
• Artikelnr.: 38231610

Autorenporträt

Robert Anderson is professor of modern history at the University of Edinburgh. He has written extensively on the history of universities and of Scottish education. He published Universities and Elites in Britain since 1800 in 1992, and his most recent book is European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914 (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Introduction
1 Serving Church and State
2 Currents of Change
3 Oxbridge Reformed
4 Effortless Superiority
5 Province and Metropolis
6 National Identities
7 Ideas of the University
8 Interwar Conservatism
9 Postwar Revolution
10 The Robbins Era
11 State or Market?
12 Past and Present
Fuide to Further Reading
Index

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