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With the passage of the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act the British system of higher education formally moved from a binary to a unitary structure. However, ever since successive governments have argued for a diversified model of higher education within which institutions should pursue contrasting goals. This article offers an interpretation of the key ingredients of institutional diversification and constructs alternative structural models of higher education. It proceeds by exploring the changing structure of British higher education since the creation of the unitary model. The argument is that there has been a steady emergence of flexible sectors, which both converge and diversify. However, there is a danger that the 2011 White Paper, rather than sustaining flexible sectors, could intensify the nascent shift in the direction of stratification marked by increasing differentiation between sectors as they converge internally.
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This study examines the proposition that mass higher education is, in practice, less a network of more or less homogeneous
activities than a series of concentric circles in which elite institutions remain at the centre, but are surrounded by increasingly
wide bands of universities and colleges, that are less and less likely to set graduates on the road to elite status the further
they are from the centre. After a brief review of the classical and subsequent literature on elites and elite formation, the
empirical study uses data from the very long established annual publication Who’s Who to make a quantitative analysis of the higher education background of all 120,000 Who’s Who entries born in the twentieth century. It finds that Oxford and Cambridge remained the dominant route to elite status throughout
the century, though their share fell from about a third to about a quarter of the total. There were big rises in the contribution
of other leading universities that have come to be known as the ‘Russell Group’. An analysis by main occupational categories
shows that the political elite broadened its educational catchment area more than other groups. The so-called ‘public’ (i.e.
independent) secondary schools also continued to make contributions much larger than their numbers warrant. The main conclusions
are that Bourdieu’s notion of ‘symbolic capital’ offers a useful contribution to the interpretation of the continued dominance
of well-known high status universities, and that while there was considerable change throughout the century, in general it
followed the British tradition of being evolutionary and slow. In policy terms it concluded that the present government is
justified in seeking both to widen participation generally and simultaneously to increase the number of people from modest
economic and social backgrounds who attend the high prestige universities. 相似文献
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The paper suggests that the idea of quality in higher education is ideologically constructed and conducted. In a spiral of mutual reinforcements, quality regimes naturalise experience, while the theories of that practice legitimise the naturalness of ‘quality’. I shall suggest that quality regimes provide too narrow readings of higher education. The central concepts, which I propose to use – discourse and power – emphasise the connectedness of ideology and quality in higher education. In particular, I suggest that the ideological character of the idea of quality in higher education is evident in discourses – which themselves are interlinked in networks. These discourses and networks are backed up by power and this helps to sustain their ideological character. Thus, this paper attempts two things: to outline a conceptual framework concerning the ideological character of the idea of quality in higher education and to draw attention to the organisation of that ideological formation. 相似文献
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With the passage of the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act the British system of higher education formally moved from a binary to a unitary structure. However, ever since successive governments have argued for a diversified model of higher education within which institutions should pursue contrasting goals. This article offers an interpretation of the key ingredients of institutional diversification and constructs alternative structural models of higher education. It proceeds by exploring the changing structure of British higher education since the creation of the unitary model. The argument is that there has been a steady emergence of flexible sectors, which both converge and diversify. However, there is a danger that the 2011 White Paper, rather than sustaining flexible sectors, could intensify the nascent shift in the direction of stratification marked by increasing differentiation between sectors as they converge internally. 相似文献
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With particular, although not exclusive, reference to England, this article explores the appropriateness of describing higher education as a system. It has two main purposes: to explore the grounds for labelling English higher education as a system and to argue that, because this is no longer an appropriate label, a different conceptualisation is required. The central argument is that the structure of higher education is formed through the interaction of the state, market and higher education institutions and is, therefore, a shifting political construct. Furthermore, it will be hypothesised that the English (indeed, the British) model of higher education is better described as an increasingly internally differentiated network of sectors rather than as a system. 相似文献
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Formally the new public management model of governance was introduced into British higher education with the passage of the
1988 Education Reform Act, which abolished the existing University Grants Committee (UGC) and instigated the funding councils.
This article explores the relationship between the state, the funding councils and the universities with respect to the contemporary
development of the English system of higher education. The analysis is based on an exploration of four key policy issues:
the quality assurance regime, the research assessment exercises, the widening participation agenda and the introduction of
student fees. The goal is to explore how the quasi-state organisations—in particular the Higher Education Funding Council
for England (HEFCE)—have mediated the relationship between the state and the universities. The evidence suggests that the
coupling of the state to the universities follows one of three tracks: compliance, resistance and seduction. The article explores
what factors determine why one relationship (or combination of relationships) prevails, and explains patterns of change over
time. The overall conclusion is that institutional interaction is very complex, and it is inaccurate—as is sometimes claimed—to
view the funding council as little more than a compliant channel of government policy. 相似文献
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This article explores the emergence and impact of the mission groups in British higher education. The central argument is that given the development of a mass and diversified model of higher education it was inevitable that the higher education institutions would form pressure groups, while increased marketisation and growing inter‐institutional competition have helped to sustain their presence. With particular reference to their input into the policy making process, it analyses how they contribute to a new politics of policy‐making and concludes by considering the future of the mission groups in the light of the recent demise of the 1994 Group. 相似文献
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