The Governance of British Higher Education

How has the system of governance changed? Do British higher education institutions still exercise autonomous control over their development? In this book, these questions are pursued through a three-pronged strategy. This book will have lessons for those examining higher education on a comparative/international basis. It is a serious piece of analysis i.e. it is purposefully non-polemical, and it is well-written, non-jargonised and accessible.

ISBN 1402055528   Pages 265 ISBN13 9781402055522 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.   Weight (grammes) 553 Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.   Published in New York, NY Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 15 Jan 2007   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2007425737   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 379.12140941   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Setting the scene		3
2		The state and the governance of higher education : contextualising the changing relationship		9
3		From the UGC and NAB to the funding council model of governance		27
4		State power : convergence and fragmentation		49
5		Devolution and the governance of British higher education		69
6		The role of the political parties		93
7		Parliament as a marginal player?		111
8		The policy community and policy networks in British higher education		129
9		Continuity and change in the funding of British higher education		147
10		The politics of quality assurance		167
11		The RAE : the elusive search for selectivity and consensus		187
12		The politics of access : higher education and social engineering		207
13		Who has the power?		225

From the reviews: "This volume on policy control in UK higher education will interest scholars, higher education executives and policy analysts from many countries. ! Thus, this important volume by Ted Tapper adds to a considerable amount of literature on British higher education policy and management by a line of distinguished scholars ! . Tapper, a long-time student of British higher education, sets out to place the recent transformation of British higher education within the context of the key issue of governance." (Grant Harman, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, Vol. 30 (2), 2008) "Higher education in Britain ! has been subject to rather a lot of policy in the last few decades. Ted Tapper has long been a commentator on this ! . This book attempts to update the earlier one 'by now inevitably dated' ! . But it covers the ground comprehensively, and it is a pleasure to have a text which records evidence in detail ! . Tapper divides the book into three parts ! . Tapper's analysis offers some useful insights ! ." (John Pratt, Higher Education Review, Vol. 40 (3), 2008)

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