The State Of U.K. Higher Education - Softcover

9780335208333: The State Of U.K. Higher Education

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335208339 ISBN 13: 9780335208333

Publisher: Open University Press, 2001

In The State of UK Higher Education a team of experienced university managers explores the strengths and weaknesses of the various elements and sectors of the UK higher education system. Their chapters illustrate the rich diversity of responses within different institutions to similar drivers of change. The contributions are personal and punchy but also enjoy a shared perspective as all but one of the authors have spent part of their careers at the University of Warwick. The exception, Peter Scott, draws together a number of important threads in an overarching and powerful final chapter. Overall, this book 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 twenty-first century.

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About the Author:

Professor David Warner is the Principal and Chief Executive of Swansea Institute of Higher Education. He has previously worked at the Universities of Warwick, East Anglia and Central England in Birmingham. David has written and edited extensively on higher education management issues. David Palfreyman is the Bursar and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. He previously worked at the Universities of Liverpool and Warwick and is also a prolific writer on higher education topics. David Warner and David Palfreyman edit the Managing Universities and Colleges series for Open University Press; and they are the founding Directors of OXCHEPS (Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies).

Synopsis:

In "The State of UK Higher Education" a team of experienced university managers explore the strengths and weaknesses of the various elements and sectors of the UK higher education system. Their chapters illustrate the rich diversity of responses within different institutions to similar drivers of change. It provides a comprehensive analysis of UK higher education today; and points to how it might develop in the early years of the twenty-first century.

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