Research Catalog

Title

Repositioning higher education / edited by Frank Coffield and Bill Williamson.

Publication

Buckingham [England] ; Bristol, PA : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Coffield, Frank.
• Williamson, Bill, 1944-

Description

viii, 136 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The writers in this book envisage a system of higher education fit for the new millennium. They challenge the fatalism of much current thinking about mass higher education and identify the ways universities must take the initiative in defining radically different models of their futures. They look to universities which are accessible, accountable and growing steadily with adequate resources. They envisage institutions which promote democratic values, offer high quality lifelong learning opportunities and are based on a new contract with, and vision for, the society they serve. Repositioning Higher Education develops a powerful critique of current orthodoxies in higher education and will provoke further open debate about the role of higher education in modern society.

Subject

• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > Great Britain
• Education, Higher > Social aspects > Great Britain
• Education, Higher > Economic aspects > Great Britain
• Education, Higher > Great Britain > Administration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. The Challenges Facing Higher Education -- 2. Beyond Competence -- 3. Enhancing Quality -- 4. Towards a Lifelong Curriculum -- 5. Social Justice in a Learning Market -- 6. Changing Frameworks and Qualifications -- 7. Repositioning Higher Education -- Index -- The Society for Research into Higher Education.

ISBN

• 0335197159 (hardcover)
• 0335197167 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96047781^

OCLC

35830515

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library