British Labour and higher education, 1945 to 2000 : ideologies, policies and practice / Richard Taylor and Tom Steele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, R. K. S. (Richard K. S.)

Contributor:

Steele, Tom, 1946-

Series:

Continuum studies in educational research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labour Party (Great Britain).

Education, Higher--Great Britain--History.

Education, Higher.

Labour Party (Great Britain)--Platforms.

Education and state--Great Britain--History.

Education and state.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

ix, 180 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]

Summary:

Higher education provision is an essential component (socially as well as economically) of modern social structures. British Labour and Higher Education focuses on the development of the Labour policy on higher education from 1945 to 2000. It analyses the rapid expansion and series of fundamental transformations in higher education and Labour's part in both shaping and reacting to them. The authors explore the historical evolution and Labour's varying policy initiatives in the period, and question the place higher education has occupied in the various strands of Labour ideology. As always with 'Labourism' perspectives are contentious and contested, spanning the centralist 'Fabians' the liberal moralists and the socialist left.

How far, if at all, have Labour's policy stances in this area confronted the elite social reproduction functions of universities or the instrumentalist needs of corporate capitalism? Has this policy evolution given concrete evidence to support Ralph Miliband's pessimistic assessment of Labourism as a political formation structurally unable to confront capitalist social structures or to see a viable Third Way as advocated by New Labour? Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: From Tawney to New Labour 1

2 Labour Ideology and the Context for Higher Education Policy 9

3 R. H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities 23

4 The Only Place for a Socialist: Lindsay, Keele University and its Legacy 43

5 Labour Party Intellectuals and the New Sociology 63

6 More Robinson than Robbins: the Evolution of the Polytechnics under Labour 79

7 Wilson's Baby: Michael Young, Jennie Lee and the Open University 99

8 The 'Old' and 'New' Lefts, and the Radical Student Voice in die 1960s and 1970s 113

9 A Postscript: New Labour and Higher Education 135

10 Conclusion 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826440945

0826440940

9781441169433

1441169431

9781441136060

1441136061

9780718512453

OCLC:

689858510