Robbins revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4096676 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Roy Niblett |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-12 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075078112331379479 |
| OpenAlex | W4243779690 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The recommendations of the Robbins Report, invaluable in their guidance to the development of British higher education for two decades, now seem somewhat dated. In part this is due to changed national economic conditions, in part to the development of the binary system in ways not envisaged by Robbins. But the greatest divergence of the higher education we are providing lies in the different emphasis of its ideology—it is more utilitarian and less humane if also less elitist. Some of this changed temper is due to our lessened confidence in what higher education can accomplish. Maybe, however, the Report could have thought out its own philosophy of higher education more compellingly, leaving it less implicit
Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Education, Philosophy, and Society · Higher Education Governance and Development · Psychology · University Challenges and Reforms
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |