Title Understanding higher education : an introduction for parents, staff, employers, and students / Donald Bligh, Harold Thomas & Ian McNay ; [foreword by Baroness Blackstone].

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Description	1 online resource (x, 150 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Chapter 1 Some Misconceptions 1 -- Chapter 2 What is Higher Education For? 7 -- Chapter 3 How the System Developed 16 -- Chapter 4 Understanding the New Higher Education System 33 -- Chapter 5 Is it Worth Entering Higher Education? 39 -- Chapter 6 Students in the System: access and participation 46 -- Chapter 7 Ways of Learning 61 -- Chapter 8 Assessment of Students 78 -- Chapter 9 Projects and Research 90 -- Chapter 10 What Academic Freedom is, Why it Matters 104 -- Chapter 11 Pressures for Accountability 110 -- Chapter 12 Government and Finance of Institutions 117 -- Chapter 13 What are Academics Really Like? 126 -- Chapter 14 Shape of Things to Come 138.
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Subject	Education, Higher -- Great Britain.
	Education, Higher.
	Great Britain.
	Education, Higher -- Great Britain -- History.
	History.
	Higher education and state -- Great Britain.
	Higher education and state.
	College students -- Great Britain.
	College students.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	McNay, Ian.
	Thomas, H. G. (Harold G.)
Other Form:	Print version: Bligh, Donald A. Understanding higher education. Exeter, England : Intellect, 1999 1871516749 (DLC) 00502057 (OCoLC)41659214
ISBN	0585210977 (electronic book)
	9780585210971 (electronic book)
	1871516749