Universities and the Purpose of Higher Education: Expansion and Development in Post-War Britain - Paperback

by Josh Patel (Author)

This thought-provoking book addresses the persistent anxieties surrounding the purpose and direction of higher education, offering a nuanced historical perspective on its transformation. Using Cold War Britain as a lens, the book challenges the prevailing narrative that marketisation was an external imposition.

Author Biography

Josh Patel is a senior education and policy researcher at the Edge Foundation, where he conducts research on tertiary education, with a focus on the relationship between further and higher education, general, liberal and vocational education, and historical policy development.