Intro; Preface; Contents; The University Grants Committee and the Founding of the New Universities; 1 Donnish Dominion Supreme? The University Grants Committee and the Governance of the English Universities; Introduction; The Mode of University Governance in the UGC Years; The System of Governance Under Pressure; Conclusion; References; 2 Founding the New Universities of the 1960s: Interpreting the UGC's Strategy; Introduction; The Unfolding of the Foundation Process: Policy-Making in Action; The Foundation Process: Policy-Implementation in Action; The Politics of the Foundation Process
The Foundation Process: What Was 'New' About the 'New Universities'?Conclusion: Interpreting Change in Higher Education; References; State and Market Pressures to Create a Different Model of the University; 3 The UGC and Selective Cuts in Public Funding: Moving Towards a More Nuanced Model of the University and Beyond Institutional Autonomy; Contextual Considerations; The Cuts; The Financial Pattern of the Cuts: Some Consequences for the New Universities and Beyond*; The Emergence of the Managed University; Reshaping the University System: The Fate of the Seven New Universities; Conclusion
The Most Recent Higher Education Reviews: The New Universities and the Auditing Regime of the Quality Assurance AgencyUniversity of East Anglia (UEA); University of Essex; University of Kent; Lancaster University; University of Sussex; University of Warwick; University of York; The Auditing of Quality in Higher Education Degree Programmes; A Concluding Note; References; 6 Moving from the Public to the Private Funding of English Higher Education: The Imposition of Student Tuition Fees; Introduction; The Making and Unmaking of a Policy Consensus
The New Universities and the Imposition of Student Tuition FeesReferences; Towards the Emergence of a State-Regulated Market in Higher Education; 7 The Significance of Mission Groups for the Structure of English Higher Education and the Demise of the 1994 Group; Introduction; Representative Bodies and the Mission Groups; Defining the Mission Groups: Continuity and Instability; The 1994 Group and the New Universities; What Future for the English System of Higher Education and the New Universities Without the 1994 Group?; References
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This book examines the developments of the UK Higher Education system, from a time of donnish dominion, progressive decline and the increasing role of the market via the introduction of tuition fees. It offers a protracted empirical analysis of the seven new English universities of the 1960s: the Universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Lancaster, Sussex, Warwick and York. It explores the creation of these universities and investigates how they each responded to a number of centrally-imposed initiatives for change in UK higher education that have emerged since their foundation. It discusses changes in system governance and how the Higher Education policies it generated have impacted upon a particular segment of the English university model. Divided into three parts, the book first deals with such topics as the control the University Grants' Committee exercised in its heyday and how they initiated the launch of new universities. It then examines policy initiatives on government cuts on grants, research assessment exercises, quality assurance procedures and student tuition fees. The last part takes a broader approach to change by studying the significance and demise of Mission Groups, a changing system of Higher Education and more general changes regarding the state, the market and governance.