Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: From Tawney to New Labour
2. Labour Ideology and the Context for Higher Education Policy
3. R. H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities
4. The Only Place for a Socialist: Lindsay, Keele University and its Legacy
5. Labour Party Intellectuals and the New Sociology
6. More Robinson than Robbins: the Evolution of the Polytechnics under Labour
7. Wilson's Baby: Michael Young, Jennie Lee and the Open University
8. The 'Old' and 'New' Lefts, and the Radical Student Voice in the 1960s and 1970s
9. A Postscript: New Labour and Higher Education
10. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

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Explores the development of the Labour Party's policy on higher education from 1945 to 2000.

About the Author

Richard Taylor is Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, where he was Professor and Director of the Institute of Continuing Education until 2009. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA), and has been Chair of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), and Secretary of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL).

Tom Steele is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK

Reviews

Richard Taylor and Tom Steele's detailed and informative study of higher education in the United Kingdom between 1945 and 2000 documents its development against a background of recurring economic crises and neo-conservative traditionalist and new labour pragmatist agendas. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of current debates about the role of the state in higher education and its ultimate purpose and function.
*David Scott, Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment and Faculty Director of Teaching and Learning, Institute of Education, University of London, UK*