The State and Higher Education: State & Higher Educ.

by Dr Brian Salter, Brian Salter, Ted Tapper

Overview

Much has been written about higher education but very little about the organisations of the state which increasingly determine its destiny. Employing the theory of educational change developed in the authors' previous work, this book analyses the contribution each part of the state structure has made to the present condition of higher education. Beginning with the political parties and parliamentary committees, it shows how there has been a steady decline in support for the traditional values of autonomous university education and a growing belief in the accountability of higher education to the needs of the economy. It then proceeds to show how this ideological change was fostered by the DES and used to justify the development of bureaucratic mechanisms of management and control.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780713040210
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/1994
Series:	Woburn Education Series
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Authored by Salter, Dr Brian; Salter, Brian; Tapper, Ted

Table of Contents

NATFHE Journal - "an exhaustively researched and elegantly written, non-partisan account of the history of the relationship between the state and higher education which will doubtless become seminal in the field."



Journal of Educational Administration and History- "This is a substantial study of the way in which the central government has steadily built up a system of close control over all major - and many minor - aspects of the affairs of individual universities...It is the most extensive work in this field since the publication in 1939 of R.D. Berdahl"s classic, British Universities and the State.