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Oxford, the Collegiate University

Conflict, Consensus and Continuity

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Ted Tapper

    1. Otterbourne, United Kingdom

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  2. David Palfreyman

    1. , New College, Oxford Centre for Higher Education Polic, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  • Presents a considered, in-depth analysis of the contemporary history of one of the world’s great universities
  • Is multi-disciplinary in its approach with a balance of intellectual inputs
  • Has a normative dimension but overall it presents a critically supportive analysis of the University of Oxford

Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 34)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Setting the Context: Oxford’s Changing Academic and Social Demography

    • Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman
    Pages 1-18

  3. Collegiality Debated

    • Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman
    Pages 19-40

  4. Continuity and Change in the Collegiate Tradition

    • Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman
    Pages 41-60

  5. Commensality: Time and Space, Port and Sport, Code and Dress

    • Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman
    Pages 61-75

  6. The Elusive Search for the Best and the Brightest

    • Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman
    Pages 77-94

  7. The Tutorial System: The Jewel in the Crown

    • Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman
    Pages 95-115

  8. Governance: A Community of Self-Governing Scholars?

    • Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman
    Pages 117-141

  9. Finance: The Well-Endowed Corporation?

    • Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman
    Pages 143-163

  10. The Collegiate University in Retreat?

    • Ted Tapper, David Palfreyman
    Pages 165-184

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 185-209
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Oxford is one of the world’s great universities but this has not meant that it is exempt from pressures for change. On various fronts it has been required to meet the challenges that universities almost worldwide have to face. Given the retrenchment of public funding, especially to support undergraduate teaching, it has been required to augment its financial base, while at the same time deciding how to respond to pressure from successive governments determined to use higher education to achieve their own policy goals. While still consistently ranked as a world-class university, it has to decide how it is to acquire the funding to continue in this league, or whether this goal is worth pursuing. Oxford is a collegiate university, which means its colleges share with the University responsibility for the delivery of its central goals. Is this balance of authority shifting over time? If so, how is this to be accounted for, and what are the likely outcomes for the collegiate university? This book sets out to address these questions and arrives at an essentially positive conclusion. Oxford will continue to remain an effective collegiate university and, while its identity will change, its central character will persist.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Otterbourne, United Kingdom

    Ted Tapper

  • , New College, Oxford Centre for Higher Education Polic, Oxford, United Kingdom

    David Palfreyman

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