The Governance of British Higher Education The Struggle for Policy Control /

Higher education in Britain has changed out of all recognition in recent years. We have moved from an elite to a mass system with more students, broader and more complex curricula, huge variations in what it means to be a student, and with institutions forging different relations to both the wider s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tapper, Ted (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Temas:
Education, Higher.
Political science.
Education and state.
Educational sociology.
Higher Education.
Political Science.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Sociology of Education.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Understanding Change and Interpreting Modes of Governance
  • Setting the Scene
  • The State and The Governance of Higher Education: Contextualising The Changing Relationship
  • From the UGC and NAB to the Funding Council Model of Governance
  • State Power: Convergence and Fragmentation
  • Devolution and the Governance of British Higher Education
  • Shaping Policy
  • The Role of the Political Parties
  • Parliament as a Marginal Player?
  • The Policy Community and Policy Networks in British Higher Education
  • The Politics of Higher Education in Action
  • Continuity and Change in the Funding of British Higher Education
  • The Politics of Quality Assurance
  • The Rae: The Elusive search for Selectivity and Consensus
  • The Politics of Access: Higher Education and Social Engineering
  • Institutional Autonomy in the Age of Mass Higher Education
  • Who Has the Power?.

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