Full Description
The Report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (the Dearing Committee), Higher Education in the Learning Society, is widely recognised as a major landmark in the modern history of UK higher education. Although its most immediate outcome was the decision to introduce tuition fees, it has had considerable influence across a broad spectrum of issues, with a very large number of its 93 recommendations having been implemented. In this volume three main themes are examined: the impact over ten years of the Dearing Report; the process representing by the work of the National Committee of Inquiry, including in an international context; current issues and future prospects for UK higher education policy and practice in the light of this history. Designed to look both backwards and forwards, this wide-ranging, research-based study offers an evaluation of the issues facing the higher education system in the future.
Contents
Foreword by Baroness Tessa Blackstone Editors' introduction by David Watson and Michael Amoah 1 The fate of the Dearing recommendations: policy and performance in UK HE, 1997-2007 by David Watson and Rachel Bowden 2 Examining higher education: a comparative view of national inquiries by Gareth Parry 3 Higher education, research and the knowledge economy: from Robbins to 'the Gathering Storm' by Jonathan Adams and David Smith 4 '100 Voices': the state of the HE nation by Michael Amoah 5 Shifting sands: UK higher education in the mid-twenty-first century by Ronald Barnett 6 Looking back: reflections of the Dearing Committee by Members of the NCIHE: Judith Evans, David Weatherall, Simon Wright, George Quigley, Pamela Morris, David Watson, Shirley Trundle 7 Looking forward: unfinished business in UK HE in 2007 by David Watson Afterword by Lord Ron Dearing Appendix I: members of the Dearing Committee Appendix II: the recommendations of the Dearing Committee Appendix III: the Dearing 'compact'
