The future of higher education in Britain: an introductory note to this special issue
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-1560
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✦ Synopsis
This special issue of Higher Education is devoted to a review of a major study of the strategic options likely to be available to higher education institutions and policy-making bodies in Britain in what remains of the 1980s and in the 1990s. The programme of study carried out between 1980 and 1983, was made possible by a generous grant from the Leverhulme Trust to the Society of Research into Higher Education and was directed by Professor Gareth L. Williams, Professor of Educational Planning at the University of Lancaster, and one of the editors of this journal. Dr. Tessa Blackstone was the Deputy Director. Though government officials took part in the work of the programme it has to be stressed that this inquiry was entirely independent of governmental or indeed other organisational pressure. The article by Oliver Fulton provides the wider context within which the SRHE-Leverhulme study has to be placed.
This special issue of Higher Education is intended as a review by well-informed scholars, not directly concerned with the enquiry, of the major findings. We are grateful to Dr. Gary Rhoades of the Department of Education of the University of California, Los Angeles for undertaking the onerous task of being the guest editor of this special issue. The list of publications to which the authors refer are listed below.