Research Catalog

Title

The universities we need : higher education after Dearing / Nigel Blake, Richard Smith, Paul Standish.

Author

Blake, Nigel.

Publication

London ; Sterling, VA : Kogan Page, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Richard (Richard D.)
• Standish, Paul, 1949-

Description

v, 176 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In a context of international debate on Higher Education and lifelong learning, focused in the UK by the Dearing Report, this book examines the nature and purpose of university education today, and challenges many of the assumptions behind recent thinking. The authors explore the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community. Taking the reader through a range of practices characteristic of the university, the book reconsiders the demand for efficiency, effectiveness and accountability, especially with regard to their effects on curriculum and on the quality of teaching and learning. The salience of questions of funding and access is carefully reviewed." "It will be important reading for all lecturers and researchers concerned with current trends and developments, and for policy-makers, educational administrators and students of education policy and HE."--Jacket

Alternative Title

Higher education after Dearing

Subject

• Universities and colleges > Great Britain
• Education, Higher > Great Britain
• Higher education and state > Great Britain
• Universities and colleges > Government policy > Great Britain
• Education, Higher
• Higher education and state
• Universities and colleges
• Universities and colleges > Government policy
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Hochschuldidaktik
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (p. 171-173) and index.

Contents

Higher education after Dearin.

ISBN

• 0749427256
• 9780749427252

OCLC

• ocm40699076
• 40699076
• SCSB-1131019

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library