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First Class?
Challenges and opportunities for the UK’s university sector
ISBN: 9781860303272
Author: Kay Withers (ed)
Contributors: Robert Anderson, University of Edinburgh; Ronald Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London; Meghan Benton, Constitution Unit; Claire Callender, Birkbeck, University of London; Ewart Keep, SKOPE (the ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance); Alix Green, University of Hertfordshire; Donald E. Heller, Pennsylvania State University; Luke Hildyard, ippr; Kay Withers, HM Treasury.
Price: £12.95
Publication Date: 26 August 2009
Over the past few decades, higher education in the United Kingdom has been transformed, expanding to a mass, bordering on universal, system. There are now almost 2.4 million higher education students. In this position of relative strength we are left with two broad options: to accept the status quo, or to ask ourselves some difficult questions about what we really want higher education to achieve, and what sacrifices we may have to make to get there.
The contributors to this collection reflect on different aspects of higher education policy and purpose, around the key questions of:
- What are universities for?
- Who are universities for?
- How should the sector be organised?
Capable Communities
Public Service Reform: The next chapter
In this paper we turn our attention to the role citizens and communities can play in directly producing services, setting out the challenges that lie ahead, and identifying the questions our research will seek to answer over the coming months.
The English Question
ippr surveys MPs
ippr has conducted a survey of MPs to find out if they think that England is losing out as a result of these changes, as many people have claimed.
You Can’t Put Me In A Box
Super-diversity and the end of identity politics in Britain
This paper attempts to map out just how diverse Britain is, both in terms of who lives in Britain and how they identify themselves.