Higher Education in Postwar Britain

Trajectories of higher education system differentiation: structural policy‐making and the impact of tuition fees in England and Australia

“…The latter report recommended the doubling of output among scientists, though not at the expense of the humanities (Allen, 1988). In response to these and other reports successive government's expanded places from 50,000 in 1938-39 to 100,000 in 1958-9 (Allen 1988, 41 (Stewart 1979).…”

Markers of ‘Authentic Place’? The Significance of Degrees, Awards and Qualifications in the Analysis of Higher Education Systems

“…6 Typically, discussion of awards occurs as an ancillary or incidental part of the investigation of some other topic, not in the context of their analysis as phenomena in their own right. The fullest and most conspicuous discussion of HE awards is generally to be found in historical accounts of aspects of HE (such as Silver, 1990or Stewart, 1989, in studies of graduate employment (Brown and Scase, 1994) or in studies of the introduction or development of a particular award (Simpson, 1983). A number of relatively isolated papers are to be found that deal with some aspect of degrees, but they do not seem to form part of a continuing research discourse (e.g., Rustin, 1986) which further emphasises the weak development and integration of work on the topic in this field.…”

Why Marxism Still Does Not Need Normative Theory

“…Whatever criticisms one might make of Habermas, his work could not fall within the scope of the 1956 decision declaring communism unconstitutional. 47 The second crucial factor involved both the massive expansion of the higher education sectors in both Europe and the Anglophone world after World War II (Stewart 1989;Trow 1973), and the concurrent rise of the new rigorism in the human sciences as the historian Carl Schorske aptly dubbed it (1997,309). The huge increase in faculty positions, especially in America (Trow 1972, 62), but also in Britain and Germany (Kehm 2010, 731;Greenaway/Haynes 2003, 150), coincided not only with state repression of anti-capitalist views, but also with the rise of Schorske's`new rigorism', a demand for well-de ned methods of inquiry that would secure the epistemic validity of its results.…”