The Creation of the British University System / Michael Shattock -- 1. The Universities and the Government / Ernest Simon -- 2. A Historical Document: Statement by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals 1946 - Editorial -- 3. Student Numbers 1911 to 1971 / Ernest Simon -- 4. Universities Admissions: Report of an Enquiry / R. K. Kelsall -- 5. British Universities and Intellectual Life / A. H. Halsey -- 6. The Growth of Higher Education / Solly Zuckerman -- 7. Too Few Academic Eggs / Vivian Bowden -- 8. Observations on the American University / Edward Shils -- 9. First Reactions to the Robbins Report / Charles Morris -- 10. Robbins: A Question of Size and Shape / Martin Trow -- 11. The Academic Hierarchy: Robbins, Appendix Three / A. H. Halsey -- 12. Review of The Uses of the University / Charles Morris -- 13. Notes on New Universities: British and American / David Riesman -- 14. Dualism in Higher Education / Peter Venables
15. The Education of Ministers of State / Alec Merrison -- 16. University Financing 1979-86 / Peter Moore -- 17. Academic Standards and Mass Higher Education / Martin Trow -- 18. Policy on Higher Education and Research / Peter Swinnerton-Dyer -- 19. Elegant and Democratic Values: How Will the New English Universities Gel? / Christopher Price -- 20. Reflections on the British Government and Higher Education in the 1980s / Richard Bird -- 21. The White Paper - Higher Education: A New Framework - Editorial / Michael Shattock
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Selection of articles from Universities quarterly and its successor, Higher education quarterly, in celebration of the periodical's fiftieth anniversary
