1. Confusion, Concentration and Clarification in Higher Education.
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Venables, Peter
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HIGHER education ,EDUCATION policy ,EDUCATION ,SOCIAL policy ,COLLEGE students ,LEARNING communities ,PUBLIC institutions ,SCHOOLS - Abstract
The article explores the situation in higher education in Great Britain as of November 1965. It highlights the results of the report of the Committee on Higher Education chaired by Lord Robbins. The report proposed that the numbers in full-time higher education should grow from 216,000 in 1962/63 to 392,000 by 1973/74, and further to 558,000, by 1980/81. The article argues that the situation in higher education is very confused, full of uncertainty and charged with underlying ambivalent attitudes of the government, education and industry towards each other. It also discusses the establishment of cooperative schemes between industry and universities and the influence of the Science Research Council in developing relationships between industry and the universities. The article also suggests that need to fully utilize scarce resources is bound to become increasingly important as the number of students to be educated increases in the technical college as well as in universities and colleges.
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- 1965
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