Educating the Nation
Ii. Universities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11005577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Mandler (0000-0003-0619-171X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Pages | 1-26 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0080440115000079 |
| OpenAlex | W2257417447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper continues the argument made in ‘Educating the Nation: I. Schools’, that democratic demand for ever widening access to education was the principal driver for expansion in the second half of the twentieth century. Demand for higher education was not as universalistic or egalitarian as demand for secondary schooling; nevertheless, it was pressing, especially from the late 1950s, and ultimately irresistible, enshrined in the ‘Robbins principle’ that higher education should be available to all qualified by ability and attainment. The paper tracks the fortunes of the Robbins principle from an initial period of rapid growth, through a mysterious period of sagging demand in the 1970s and 1980s, to the resumption of very rapid growth from the late 1980s. It remains the guiding light of higher-education policy today, though in very altered circumstances where the price is paid ultimately more by beneficiaries than from the public purse
Argument (complex analysis · Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Principal (computer security · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Philosophy · School Choice and Performance
Inventing the Working Parent
Historicising the “Crisis” in Undergraduate Mental Health
The Making of the Neoliberal University in Britain
Rebuilding the Universities after the Great War
Between life course research and social history
Research excellence and the origins of the managerial university in Thatcher's Britain
Educating the Nation
Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?
Learning to Labour
Decline of Donnish Dominion
Learning to Labor
Education under New Labour, 1997-2010
Continuity of Ideas and the Politics of Higher Education Expansion in Britain from Robbins to Dearing
Framing higher education
Educational achievement in selective and comprehensive local education authorities
American Influence on British Higher Education
Staying-on at School in England and Wales
Staying on in Full-Time Education
From School to University
The Impact of Robbins
Do comprehensive schools reduce social mobility?1
| Citations per year | 0.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |