Redbrick and these vital days / by Bruce Truscot
1945, First Edition. London : Faber and Faber Limited. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #436422
Physical description; 216 pages 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Preface -- Introduction: These vital days -- 1. Redbrick in transition (Redbrick in war-time ; War and the arts faculties ; Redbrick after the war ; Staffing and salaries) -- 2. Redbrick looks ahead (The problem of residence ; The problem of narrowed outlook ; The problem of representation ; The problem of autonomy) -- 3. Problems of the future (Inter-university co-ordination ; Professorial freedom ; Redbrick and women) -- 4. The leisured professor at bay (Research essential to the idea of a university ; Why so little research is done in arts faculties ; Criticisms of the proposed remedies considered ; The A.U.T. and the problem) -- 5. The university and its region (First things first ; Regional life in the universities ; The university in its city ; The university in its region) -- 6. The Norwood Report and the universities (General characteristcs ; The universities ; The university student ; From school to university ; The influence of university on school) -- 7. The McNair Report and the universities (General characteristics ; Area training: the rival schemes ; Other relevant problems) -- 8. The public school problem (I): synthesis (The independent tradition ; The claims of the public schools examined ; Boarding schools and day schools ; The economic question) -- 9. The public school problem (II): some solutions (Left versus right ; A better way ; The Fleming Report ; Criticism of the Fleming Plan ; Prospects of the Fleming Plan ; Conclusion). Appendix 1: The aims of higher education -- Appendix 2: The responsibility of the university toward the public -- Appendix 3: University teaching: contact with the student mind. Subjects; Universities and colleges Great Britain. Education, Higher. Endowed public schools (Great Britain). higher education. Great Britain.
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