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Reflections on the British Government and Higher Education
Author(s) -
Bird Richard
Publication year - 1994
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.1468-2273.1994.tb01643.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , higher education , period (music) , public administration , political science , quality (philosophy) , kingdom , sociology , public relations , law , epistemology , linguistics , aesthetics , philosophy , paleontology , biology
This article offers a small contribution towards writing the history of higher education in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Its emphasis is on what the Government did in that period and the effects of this, and on how relations stood and developed between the Government and the higher education community. Three main topics are identified: resourcing, quality, structure. Across all these the general message is that a pragmatic approach was taken to the evolution and pursuit of policy.