Universities and Colleges: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

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Palfreyman, David; Temple, Paul

 
9780198766131: Universities and Colleges: A Very Short Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0198766130 ISBN 13: 9780198766131
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2017

Synopsis

Looks at the role of the university in a social and economic context, as a repository of knowledge and a site for instruction.

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About the Author

David Palfreyman is the Bursar and a Fellow of New College, University of Oxford. He is also the Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies. David serves as the Honorary Treasurer of and as a Trustee of the Society for Research in Higher Education. He is a co-editor of the Routledge 25-volume series International Studies in Higher Education; and a Member of the Editorial Board of The World of Learning (Routledge). His publications include: Reshaping the University: The Rise of the Regulated Market in Higher Education (with T. Tapper, OUP, 2014); and The Law of Higher Education (with D. Farrington, OUP, 2012).


Paul Temple is Reader Emeritus in Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education, London, where he was until recently Co-Director of its Centre for Higher Education. His research centres around issues of efficiency and effectiveness in higher education institutions, which has led him to study the physical form of universities and colleges, and how these may affect the academic work of the institutions. Before entering academic life, he worked in university and college planning and finance.


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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198766130
ISBN 13 
9780198766131
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
176