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Higher education and opinion making in twentieth-century England / Harold Silver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silver, Harold, 1928-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--England--History--20th century.
- Education, Higher.
- Higher education and state--England.
- Higher education and state.
- Educational change--England.
- Educational change.
- Public opinion.
- History.
- England.
- Education, Higher--England--Public opinion.
- Public opinion--England.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Portland, OR : Woburn Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Part I System Making
- 2 Early decades: 'Unequal and inadequate' 13
- 3 1940s: 'A new crispness' 33
- Part II Values
- 4 Truscot: 'The universities' speaking conscience' 57
- 5 Postwar: 'A ferment of thought' 79
- 6 Moberly: 'The status quo and its defects' 100
- 7 1950s: 'Modern needs' 127
- 8 Ashby: 'The age of technology' 151
- Part III A National Purpose
- 9 1960s: 'Expansionism' 177
- 10 Final decades: 'Painful transformation' 211
- 11 Pressures and silences 252.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0713040491
- OCLC:
- 51942358
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