Visions of post-compulsory education
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Visions of post-compulsory education
（SRHE and Open University Press imprint / general editor, Heather Eggins）
The Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1992
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-175) and index
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Description
Significant changes have occurred in the last ten years in post-compulsory education, and a new framework has been set for the next ten. This book reviews these changes and poses questions about the future balance between change and continuity. One major section is devoted to views from different sectors of activity and provision - universities, polytechnics, other colleges, further education, adult education, vocational education, staff development, and local education authorities. Two are written specifically from a European viewpoint and international comparisons are drawn upon by several other authors. The other main section examines key cross-sectoral issues: access, quality, technology, structure, management, and internationalism. A central argument of the book is that it is essential that the recent emphasis on competition be balanced by cooperation (or partnership) not just to preserve collective automony out of defensive self-interest, nor to allow economies through rationalization, but to preserve the availability of diverse provision and contribute positively to enhanced quality and service.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Retrospective: the 1980s - change, contradiction, confusion and their legacy. Part 2 Perspective - views from interested parties: universities - responsibility and motivation
- the exploding community?
- the university idea and the smashing of the academic atom
- the polytechnics
- other colleges
- further education - navigating the 1990s
- policy for vocational education and training
- adult education and European communities
- enabling learning - raising the profile of staff development
- competition, collaboration, communities - the involvement of local education authorities in post-compulsory education. Part 3 Prospective - views on key issues: growth, outreach, openness
- the search for quality
- technological utopias in post-compulsory education
- restructuring the resourcing
- under new management?
- post-compulsory education and the international community.
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