Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: From Tawney to New Labour; 2 Labour Ideology and the Context for Higher Education Policy; 3 R.H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities; 4 The Only Place for a Socialist: Lindsay, Keele University and its Legacy; 5 Labour Party Intellectuals and the New Sociology; 6 More Robinson than Robbins: the Evolution of the Polytechnics under Labour; 7 Wilson's Baby: Michael Young, Jennie Lee and the Open University; 8 The 'Old' and 'New' Lefts, and the Radical Student Voice in the 1960s and 1970s
9 A Postscript: New Labour and Higher Education10 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
Summary
Higher education provision is an essential component (socially as well as economically) of modern social structures. The British Labour Party and Higher Education focuses on the development of 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 alway
