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Visions of post-compulsory education

Title
Visions of post-compulsory education / edited by Ian McNay.
Publication
Buckingham ; Bristol, PA, USA : Society for Research into Higher Education : Open University Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors
McNay, Ian.
Description
xi, 180 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Reviewing changes in post-compulsory education in the past ten years, this text poses questions about the future balance between change and continuity. The need to balance competition with cooperation to preserve the availability of diverse provision and enhance service quality is emphasized.
Series Statement
SRHE and Open University Press imprint.
Subject
  • Post-compulsory education > Great Britain
  • Post-compulsory education
  • Tertiärbereich
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- (A). Retrospective -- 1. The 1980s: change, contradiction, confusion and their legacy -- (B). Perspective: views from interested parties -- 2. Universities: responsibility and motivation -- 3. The exploding community? The university idea and the smashing of the academic atom -- 4. The polytechnics -- 5. Other colleges -- 6. Further education: navigating the 1990s -- 7. Policy for vocational education and training: tail to wag, where's the dog?' -- 8. Adult education and european communities -- 9. Enabling learning: raising the profile of staff development. A trainer's view -- 10. Competition, collaboration, communities: the involvement of LEAs in post-compulsory education -- (C). Prospective: views on key issues -- 11. Access: growth, outreach and openness -- 12. Quality: the search for quality -- 13. Technology: technological utopias in post-compulsory education -- 14. Structure: restructuring and resourcing -- 15. Management: under new management? -- 16. The world: post-compulsory education and the international community -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0335097790
  • 9780335097791
  • 0335097782
  • 9780335097784
LCCN
91045503
OCLC
  • ocm25049186
  • 25049186
  • SCSB-1952219
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library