The Decline of Donnish Dominion
The Decline of Donnish Dominion
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唐尼什统治的衰落
DOI：
10.1080/0305498820080301
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发表时间：
1982
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
A. Halsey
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作者：
A. Halsey
20世纪70年代末，当逆境降临英国大学时，它之所以引人注目，既是因为它不受欢迎，也是因为它不受欢迎。也许可以原谅老头子没有注意到，没有必要的法律永久大学扩张。在过去的100年里，甚至在20世纪30年代的经济萧条时期，也没有任何相反的证据。在整个世纪，其他重要的国家，特别是盎格鲁-撒克逊世界，一直习惯于以更快的速度扩大高等教育。机构对严峻的研究预算和学生供给与学生需求之间的小而不确定的等式的记忆已经褪色，几乎失忆了。在20世纪60年代，不断增长的数字成为永久性的假设。在1971年的一次高等教育研讨会上，当时的教育和科学部常务秘书威廉·皮尔爵士说：“我们正在接近大规模高等教育真正到来的世界末日时刻。现在必须做出某些决定...“[1]。但在20世纪70年代末，扩张的潮流转向了。牛津大学，至少在最初，面临着怀疑紧缩。任何可能衰落的想法都有很强的障碍。一个既定的“第一选择”的立场支持默认的假设，财政浮力，吸引本科生和研究生，连接到大都市的权力，并与国际科学和奖学金。1982年春天在牛津举行的研讨会的目的是超越对牛津在不断变化的英国高等教育体系中的地位的怀疑。
When adversity came to the British universities at the end of the 1970s, it was remarkable as much because it was unfamiliar as because it was unwelcome. Dons could perhaps be forgiven for failing to notice that there is no necessary law of permanent university expansion. No evidence to the contrary had been imposed in the previous 100 years, not even in the slump years of the 1930s: and significant other countries, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world, had been in the habit of expanding their higher education at a faster rate throughout the present century. Institutional memory of austere research budgets and of a small and uncertain equation between student supply and student demand had faded to virtual amnesia. During the 1960s rising numbers became perennially assumed. At a seminar on higher education as late as 1971, the then Permanent Secretary of the Department of Education and Science, Sir William Pile, remarked: "We are approaching the apocalyptic moment when mass higher education will really be upon us... Certain decisions must now be taken..." [1]. But towards the end of the 1970s the expansionary tide turned. Oxford, at least initially, faced retrenchment with incredulity. There were strong barriers to any contemplation of possible decline. An established 'first-choice' position supported tacit assumptions of financial buoyancy, attractiveness to undergraduates and graduates, connections to the metropolitan powers, and to international science and scholarship. The purpose of the seminars held in Oxford in the spring of 1982 and reported in this issue was to go beyond incredulity towards thought about the place of Oxford within the changing system of British higher education.