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Dream, Myth and Reality: New Universities in England, 1960–1990
Author(s) -
Perkin Harold
Publication year - 1991
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.1468-2273.1991.tb01574.x
Subject(s) - dream , unrest , mythology , higher education , sociology , field (mathematics) , political science , pedagogy , media studies , psychology , art , law , literature , politics , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics
The New Universities of the 1960s began as a dream and degenerated into a myth before waking up to reality. The dream was to reform English higher education by example: to recover advanced general education, restore small‐group teaching, renew interest in research, introduce cross‐disciplinary subjects, and rebuild community in green‐field, residential sites. Early euphoria turned to disillusionment, born of unrealistic expectations and student unrest. Finally, they achieved solid institutional success but failed to transform national higher education.