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British Labour and Higher Education, 1945 To 2000 : Ideologies, Policies and Practice.

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Higher education provision is an essential component (socially as well as economically) of modern social structures. British Labour and Higher Education focuses on the development of Labour policy on higher education from 1945 to 2000. It analyses the rapid expansion and series of fundamental transf...

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Author / Creator: Steele, Tom.
Other Authors / Creators:Haynes, Anthony.
Haynes, Anthony.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012.
Series:Continuum Studies in Educational Research Ser.
Subjects:
Labour Party (Great Britain) - Platforms.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter One
  • Introduction: From Tawney to New Labour
  • Chapter Two
  • Labour Ideology and the Context for Higher Education Policy
  • Chapter Three
  • R. H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities
  • Tawney's political ideology1
  • The centrality of education to Tawney's social theory
  • Tawney and schools policy: 'secondary education for all!'
  • Tawney and higher education: a national, accessible university system
  • Tawney's role on the University Grants Committee (UGC)
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Four
  • The Only Place for a Socialist: Lindsay, Keele University and its Legacy
  • Lindsay, moral philosophy and social action
  • The local campaign for a University College of North Staffordshire
  • Keele's legacy and the 'New Universities'
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Five
  • Labour Party Intellectuals and the New Sociology
  • America: 'land of opportunity'
  • Labour's education study groups and policy making
  • Chapter Six
  • More Robinson than Robbins: the Evolution of the Polytechnics under Labour
  • Toby Weaver and philosophical pragmatism
  • The creation of the polytechnics
  • The polytechnic era: 1966--92
  • The polytechnics: success or failure?
  • Chapter Seven
  • Wilson's Baby: Michael Young, Jennie Lee and the Open University
  • 'The University of the Air' and the antecedents of the Open University.
  • Michael Young
  • Jennie Lee
  • Critics of the Open University idea
  • The foundation and early years of the Open University
  • Walter Perry, the first Vice-Chancellor
  • Conclusions: the Open University - a socialist success story?
  • Chapter Eight
  • The 'Old' and 'New' Lefts, and the Radical Student Voice in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • The 'old' left- the Communist Party and comprehensivization
  • The CPGB submission to the Robbins Committee
  • Industrial education
  • The New Left.
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Nine
  • A Postscript: New Labour and Higher Education1
  • Chapter Ten
  • Conclusion
  • What is to be done?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Abbreviations
  • Unpublished sources
  • Published sources
  • Glossary
  • Index.

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