160 x 235mm
360 pages
Published 1998

Higher education in Britain is undergoing a rapid transformation from 'elite' to 'mass' forms. for some, including Dearing, the new higher education will support economic growth and widen adademic and cultural opportunities. Other, more sceptical observors see only a lowering of standards, increased managerial and state control over teaching and research, and anm increasing stratification of institutions, all of them seriously damaging to HE.

in this important new volume more than thirty contributors drawn from all secors of UK higher education as well as from abroad examinre the issues and dilemmas facing a Post-Dearing HE.

The volume deals with many of the issues that Dearing ignored and searches for the basis of a new compact between HE staff and the managers of the 'new HE' and between the 'new HE' and its constituencies - students, the state and the economy, and wider civil society.

The Editors:

David Jary is Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Sociology at Staffordshire University.

Martin Parker is a Senior Lecturer in Social and Organisational Theory at the University of Keele.

Their previous collaborative writing on HE include 'The McUniversity: Organisation, Management and Academic Subjectivity', which appeared in the journal, 'Organisation' in 1995.