The State of UK Higher Education

Managing change and diversity
Edited by: David Warner ,  David Palfreyman (Bursar and Fellow, New College, Oxford)

A team of experienced university managers explores the strengths and weaknesses of the various elements and sectors of the UK higher education system. This text examines the changing concept and nature of higher education, provides a comprehensive analysis of UK higher education today, and points to how it might develop in the early years of the 21st century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part one: The institutions - the ancient collegiate universities: Oxford and Cambridge
- the big civics
- Exeter University: going back to the future?
- the 1960s new universities
- old and new: Durham and Stockton
- higher education in Scotland: diversity, distinctiveness and devolution
- higher education in Wales
- the modern English universities.

Part two: Outsiders and insiders - the funding councils: governance and accountability
- the admissions system: expansion, inclusion and the demands of diversity
- the cuckoo in the nest?: the business school in a university
- the changing fortunes of continuing education: from margins to mainstream to..?
- an unsuitable job for a woman?
- a view from the market place.

Part three: The Warwick way - managing transformation
- academic development
- conclusion: triumph and retreat

Open University Press
Hardback ISBN: 033520659X
Paperback ISBN: 0335208339This