| A Higher Education: The Council for National Academic Awards and British Higher Education 1964-1989 Subjects: Education; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Curriculum Studies; Educational Research; Education Studies; Higher Education; Post-Compulsory Education; School Leadership Management & Administration; Sociology of Education; Education; Sociology; Higher Education Management; Study of Higher Education; Educational Change & School Reform; Leadership Strategy; School Effectiveness & Improvement; Post 16 Education; Social Inequality; Originally published in 1990, A Higher Education was commissioned by the Council for National Academic Awards to commemorate its silver jubilee. The book covers the history of a period of rapid expansion in higher education outside the universities, mirrored in the growth and development of the CNAA. The Council was established with the role of awarding degree courses in polytechnics and colleges, and so its successes and strengths - as well as its problems and difficulties - reflect very closely the preoccupations and events of higher education since 1964. The book describes how the CNAA helped to broaden the range of degree courses beyond the traditional subjects, the way it maintained and enhanced standards in a swiftly changing academic world, and its part in widening access to higher education. The book draws on interviews as well as extensive records of the CNAA and some of its institutions. |