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The University of Buckingham after Ten Years ‐ A Tentative Evaluation
Author(s) -
Shaw G. K.,
Blaug M.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02115.x
Subject(s) - buckingham , judgement , graduation (instrument) , institution , sociology , political science , social science , law , media studies , engineering , mechanical engineering
The University of Buckingham is now more than 10 years old. This would seem an opportune moment to evaluate the achievements of the only privately financed university in Britain. One might evaluate Buckingham from a number of standpoints but we have decided in this essay to evaluate it in the light of the purposes for which it was founded as expressed in the objectives laid down by its ‘founding fathers’. We might instead have opted for such ‘performance indicators’ as admission standards, degrees conferred, wastage rates, post‐graduation employment records, research grants awarded, and the like, in comparison with results achieved elsewhere in British higher education. But we think that little purpose would be served by such comparisons since Buckingham is too young an institution to have settled down to a steady state. Nevertheless, we have supplied relevant data below, which will allow the reader to form some judgement on where Buckingham stands in respect of these matters.