Quality and access in higher education : comparing Britain and the United States
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Bibliographic Information
Quality and access in higher education : comparing Britain and the United States
Society for Reseach into Higher Education : Open University Press, 1991
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Outcome of the Second Anglo-American Seminar on Quality in Higher Education organised on behalf of the British Society for Research into Higher Education and the Council of Liberal Learning of the Association of American Colleges ... held at Princeton, NJ, in September 1987"--Pref
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The British system of higher education is often said to be highly selective and to emphasize high and uniform standards of academic quality. The American one, by contrast, is seen as remarkably accessible and consequentially diverse in its standards and provision. These basic differences are linked with other differences: in curriculum, in funding, in institutional governance, and popular affection. Nevertheless individual students and teachers move between the systems with apparent ease and the systems share an attractiveness to students from other countries and high reputations for research and scholarship. In this book a group of American and British observers and participants examine important aspects of higher education in the two countries, with quality and access as the continuing and connecting themes.
Table of Contents
- Setting the scene, Graeme C. Moddie
- comparative perspectives on policy, Martin Trow
- gold, silver, copper - standards of first degress, Rowland B. Eustace
- quality, access and financial pressures on higher education institutions and students, W. Lee Hansen and Jacob O. Stampen
- governance, quality and equity in the US, Richard Millard
- institutional government, quality and access in Britain, Graeme C. Moddie
- the campus economics of stringency in the US, Michael J. Dooris and Kenneth P. Mortimer
- financial pressure and quality in British universities, Michael L. Shattock
- the British binary system and its "missing link", Robert E. Cuthbert
- the American modular system, Sheldon Rothblatt
- modular systems in Britain, Oliver Fulton
- the disciplinary contexts for quality judgements, Tony Becher
- quality and access as interrelated policy issues, Robert O. Berdahl and Irving J. Spitzberg.
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