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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779022303321

Autore

Moodie Graeme C.

Titolo

Power and authority in British universities / / Graeme C. Moodie and Rowland Eustace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-62856-8

1-283-57815-8

9786613890603

0-203-80269-1

1-136-62857-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions: education ; ; 81

Altri autori (Persone)

EustaceRowland

Disciplina

372.72

378.1010941

Soggetti

Higher education and state - Great Britain

Universities and colleges - Great Britain - Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: London : George Allen & Unwin, 1974.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes biblographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Power and Authority in British Universities; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; I. Universities as political systems; II. The development of modern university government; The Birth of the System; The Growth of Academic Rule 1900-70; III. The contemporary system in outline; Autonomy; Types of University; Government in the Unitary Group; Note on Terminology; IV. Taking academic decisions; The traditional Department and Faculty; School, Board of Study, and the 'new' Department; Senate; V. Court, council, and laymen; Court; Council

Note on a Committee at the University of BirminghamVI. The vice-chancellor; VII. The bureaucracy; VIII. Budgeting and the allocation of resources; IX. Challenges to authority; The Student Challenge; The Challenge by Non-Professorial Staff; X. What kind of government?; Appendix: The university of warwick; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In facing the question 'who runs the universities', the authors have carried out over a period of years an extensive programme of interviews, both formal and informal, as well as a detailed study of



documents. Their findings are written up in the language of politics - in terms of power, authority, influence, regulation and decision making. The result is thus of value both to those with a practical interest in universities and to those with a more theoretical interest in politics or organisational behaviour.