A brief history of credit in UK higher education : laying siege to the ivory tower /

Although credit is a well-established feature of the higher education sector in the USA, it is a relatively recent and radical phenomenon in the UK. Credit is a vehicle for widening access and student choice, for curricular flexibility and mobility of learning. Credit provides a transparent, enablin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turnbull, Wayne (Author)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
Series:Great debates in higher education.
Subjects:
School credits > Great Britain.
Universities and colleges > Great Britain > Administration.
Education > Administration > Higher.
Universities.
Online Access:Full-text access
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Chapter 1 : Credit, by way of introduction
  • Chapter 2 : The Robbins report and the credit pioneers
  • Chapter 3 : Educational credit transfer
  • Chapter 4 : The introduction of credit schemes in UK higher education case study : The Liverpool Polytechnic's integrated credit scheme
  • Chapter 5 : Choosing to change?
  • Chapter 6 : Autodidacts in Anorkas : the emergence of the Higher Education Credit Consortia
  • Chapter 7 : Are we there yet? Dearing, Burgess and the Credit Issues Development Group
  • Chapter 8: The chimera of a national credit framework and related observations.

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