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Universities and the State in England, 1850-1939 by Keith Vernon

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By Keith Vernon

The query of the relationships among universities and the nation is one among significant present obstacle and debate. This e-book reviews the improvement of the fashionable collage process in England from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the second one global struggle, targeting the function of the kingdom. during this formidabe examine, the writer covers a variety of key components, together with: * a overview of the reforms of the traditional universities, the production of civic universities and the formation of the federal London college* an exam of the co-ordinated approach within the early years of the 20th century and the inter-war interval* an research of universities as modenising firms of the nation* a dialogue of such matters as technical as opposed to literary curricula, the conflict among vital and native professionals, and the output of universities when it comes to the desires of the country and the economic climate. scholars of historical past and schooling, educational historians will locate this an informative and significant textual content.

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If the terms of the Acts suggested something less than optimism about the prospects of extensive and rapid reform, however, it was not misplaced. 60 Regional restrictions on the appointment of fellows were removed and fellows had to resign if they were preferred to a Church living above £300, acquired a private income above a certain level, or married. 1800–1900 Orders within two years of appointment. Fellows who had college responsibilities had to reside during term-time. These statutes were approved by the commissioners, confirming the essentially clerical, Anglican and celibate character of the college, the principal change being some opening of the fellowship.

60 Regional restrictions on the appointment of fellows were removed and fellows had to resign if they were preferred to a Church living above £300, acquired a private income above a certain level, or married. 1800–1900 Orders within two years of appointment. Fellows who had college responsibilities had to reside during term-time. These statutes were approved by the commissioners, confirming the essentially clerical, Anglican and celibate character of the college, the principal change being some opening of the fellowship.

As a belated acknowledgement of the need for reform, new subjects and degrees had been introduced into both universities in the early 1850s, but their impact was minimal because students were still required to complete the existing, predominantly classical or mathematical, degree before taking up the new areas. Traditionalists maintained that specialisation undermined the essential unity of mind and character-forming university education and, through the elision from liberal education to Anglicanism, threatened the Christian basis of the universities.

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