Contradiction and Changes in British Higher Education
Украинская Баннерная Сеть
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Contradiction and Change in British Higher Education. British Higher education covers a complex diversity of institutions, courses and qualifications. This is because its development has been full of contradiction, haphazard changes and half-measures. It can be best understood by considering the conflicting pressures of elitist traditions on the one hand and, on the other, the increasing popular demand for education and the need of the economy for properly qualified manpower. Background to the Present Contradictions. Well into the 1950s, there was only one major route to academic studies: from public and grammar schools to university, for a small privileged group of young people. One is struck by the contradiction between the restricted character of British higher education and the fact that it was in Britain that a high level of industrial advance was a first achieved...
