The article explores historical issues concerning the relationships between higher education and institutions and their local and regional communities. The primary focus is on the ways in which institutions are influenced by social change and have partnership roles in economic and social development. Their role from the nineteenth century and in…

This is an analytical survey of the history of higher education--primarily but not exclusively in England--as written in the last quarter of the twentieth century. It examines the history of liberal education, of the rewriting of the history of Oxford and Cambridge, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century institutions. It addresses new…

Examines the work of Eric Ashby, a missionary of the technology age in Great Britain, an analyst of status quo and change proponents of higher education,; and an implementer of technology curricula. He warned in the 1950s that if Western academies did not adapt to/with technology, they would not survive. (KDR)

Discusses "Redbrick University," the first book about British higher education to have a popular appeal, written by E. Allison Peers under the pseudonym 'Bruce Truscot.' Focuses on issues such as Peers' reasons for using a pseudonym, the reception of the book, the "redbrick" universities, and four categories of Peers' comments on the redbrick…