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Thompson, Carol; Wolstencroft, Peter – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
This article examines the important but under-researched role of the curriculum manager within further education. It reviews managers' perceptions of the role through the lens of the professional-managerial paradigm, with a particular emphasis on the conflict in values experienced by managers trying to implement processes driven by the financial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Administrators
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Barkas, Linda Anne – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2011
After the 1992 Further and Higher Education Reform Act enabled polytechnics and the qualifying franchised colleges to be renamed universities or higher education institutions, the dominance of the rhetoric of skill development aggravated long-standing schisms between further and higher education about whether or not degree-level courses should be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Adult Education