Diversifying Higher Education into Sixth Forms: Another Divide to Be Breached? Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Hall, David; Thomas, Harold
Titel	Diversifying Higher Education into Sixth Forms: Another Divide to Be Breached? Perspective
Quelle	In: Perspectives London policy and practice in higher education, 8 (2004) 3, S.81-85 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3108
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Diversity (Institutional); Partnerships in Education; Secondary Education; College School Cooperation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Sekundarbereich
Abstract	One of the themes running through a number of recent papers in perspectives has been a questioning of the current state of perceived boundaries within post-compulsory education in the UK. Temple (2001: 81), for instance, questioned the appropriateness of continuing with the historic conceptual difference between the "knowing what" of higher education and the "knowing how" of further education, suggesting that "the essential uniformity of the British HE system has not been conducive to bold institutional diversification." This theme of diversification, and the need for its encouragement, also found expression in Brown (2000) who stated the case for creating a more favourable environment for diversity, raising questions about the current funding and quality assurance systems that tend to treat all institutions as though they are basically similar. Newby (1999: 108) saw "coming to terms with this diversity (as) one of the major challenges for UK higher education in the twenty-first century." Arguably, however, little attention has been given to the changing relationship between HE and sixth form institutions. The purpose of this article is to comment on some of the findings from a recent study undertaken by the University of Manchester's Post-16 Studies Unit, which investigated the feasibility of university modules being taught in the sixth forms of English and Welsh schools/colleges. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10