This article offers a ma12 contribution towards writing the history of higher education in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Its mphasis is on what the Government dzd in that period and the effects of this, and on how relations stood and developed between the Government and the higher education community. Three main topics are identified: resourcing, quality, smture. Across all these the general message is that a pragmatic approach was taken to the evolution and pursuit of policy.
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