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  • Fee-paying Schools and Educational Change in Britain

    Between the State and the Marketplace

    by Ted Tapper ...
    Examining the history of access to private education this work sheds light on the interaction of state, society and schooling. Organized historically, much of the analysis concentrates on contemporary political struggles, and evaluates the possibility of a unified educational system. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The State and Higher Education

    State & Higher Educ.

    Much has been written about higher education but very little about the organisations of the state which increasingly determine its destiny. Employing the theory of educational change developed in the authors' previous work, this book analyses the contribution each part of the state structure has made to the present condition of higher education. Beginning with the political parties and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education

    Ideological and Political Struggles

    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    An almost universal driving force for contemporary change in universities is the shifting view of higher education as more of a private than a public good. Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education presents a contemporary global picture of this move towards the privatisation of higher education, and examines how these shifts in ideology and funding priorities have significant policy ... Read more

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  • Creating the Future? The 1960s New English Universities

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the developments of the UK Higher Education system, from a time of donnish dominion, progressive decline and the increasing role of the market via the introduction of tuition fees. It offers a protracted empirical analysis of the seven new English universities of the 1960s: the Universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Lancaster, Sussex, Warwick and York. It explores the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition

    For centuries, the idea of collegiality has been integral to the British understanding of higher education. This book examines how its values are being restructured in response to the 21st-century pressures of massification and managerialism. ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education

    Series series Education (R0)
    Much of our writing re?ects a long-term commitment to the analysis of the col- gial tradition in higher education. This commitment is re?ected most strongly in Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition (2000), which we are pleased to say will re-appear as a considerably revised second edition (Oxford, The Collegiate University: Con?ict, Consensus and Continuity) to be published by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Understanding Mass Higher Education

    Comparative Perspectives on Access

    Edited by David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper ...
    In recent years most western democracies have experienced a shift from elite to mass higher education, with the United States leading the way. This text compares the experience of this very important social change within different nation states. Whilst recognising the critical global economic forces that appear to explain the international nature of the change, it sees the issues as rooted within ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Oxford, the Collegiate University

    Conflict, Consensus and Continuity

    Series series Education (R0)
    Oxford is one of the world’s great universities but this has not meant that it is exempt from pressures for change. On various fronts it has been required to meet the challenges that universities almost worldwide have to face. Given the retrenchment of public funding, especially to support undergraduate teaching, it has been required to augment its financial base, while at the same time deciding ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Structuring Mass Higher Education

    The Role of Elite Institutions

    Edited by David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    Undoubtedly the most important development in higher education in recent years has been the seemingly inexorable expansion of national systems. In a comparatively short time period many countries have moved from an elite to a mass model. Furthermore, expansion has invariably changed the whole experience of higher education for all the interested parties from, presidents, rectors and vice ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Academia Inc.

    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

    Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two ... Read more

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  • Business and Society

    A Critical Introduction

    Corporations dominate our societies. They employ us, sell to us and influence how we think and who we vote for, while their economic interests dictate local, national and global agendas.Written in clear and accessible terms, this much-needed textbook provides critical perspectives on all aspects of the relationship between business and society: from an historical analysis of the spread of ... Read more

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