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Reforming Higher Education

Reforming Higher Education

Stephen Hanney

(1999)

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Abstract

This is an important book. It is the most successful attempt so far to conceptualise the post-war development of higher education.'

- Times Higher Education Supplement

Examining the relationship between higher education policy and the state, Reforming Higher Education focuses on the ways in which the changing concepts of the nature of the state and its role have had an impact on the development of higher education policy in the last thirty years. The authors study the dynamics behind the shift from state-subsidised independence to ambiguous but increased dependence on and deference to the state's policies. Employing the latest extensive research and interview material, the book looks at:

* the major changes in higher education policy

* the changes in the nature of the state

* the changes in state's machinery for policy implementation

* how policies emerge, and how continuous they are

* the influence of interest groups and elites on policy-making and implementation

* the changes in institutional government.


The late Maurice Kogan was Director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Public Policy and Practice and Professor Emeritus of Government at Brunel University.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Reforming Higher Education 2
Preface 6
PART I Themes, Methods and Theories 8
1 Our Main Themes and Methods 10
2 Our Project and Theoretical Position 20
PART II Changing Nature of Higher Education: Main Policy Movements 43
3 The Reform Movement: Contexts and Massification 44
4 The Reform Movement: Objectives and Policies 83
5 The Ending of the Binary System 126
6 The Changing State Apparatus 143
7 The Impact of Policy Changes on Institutional Government 180
PART III Theoretical Perspectives, the Exercise of Influence and the Role of the State 201
8 The Exercise of Influence 202
9 Reflections and Some Emerging Conclusions 232
Glossary 246
Bibliography 248
Subject Index 263
Author Index 271