The Governance of British Higher Education The Struggle for Policy Control
Firstly, to examine the institutional changes which have occurred since the 1988 Education Reform and the emergence of the funding council model of governance. In particular, we want to know how the various institutional actors – the higher education institutions, the government departments and the...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2007, 2007
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Understanding Change and Interpreting Modes of Governance
- Setting the Scene
- The State and The Governance of Higher Education: Contextualising The Changing Relationship
- From the UGC and NAB to the Funding Council Model of Governance
- State Power: Convergence and Fragmentation
- Devolution and the Governance of British Higher Education
- Shaping Policy
- The Role of the Political Parties
- Parliament as a Marginal Player?
- The Policy Community and Policy Networks in British Higher Education
- The Politics of Higher Education in Action
- Continuity and Change in the Funding of British Higher Education
- The Politics of Quality Assurance
- The Rae: The Elusive search for Selectivity and Consensus
- The Politics of Access: Higher Education and Social Engineering
- Institutional Autonomy in the Age of Mass Higher Education
- Who Has the Power?