The End of Expansion and the Consolidation of Differentiation in English Higher Education

Abstract

Following systems theory to distinguish between cultural and occupational information, this paper reviews the history of English higher education to show the predominance of cultural over occupational transmission in the messages communicated to its students. Despite its formal commitment to vocational purposes, recent expansion of further and higher continuing education (F&HCE) is suggested to have had more to do with cultural than occupational transmission. For a process of class recomposition potentiated by new technology has eroded traditional social divisions between manual and non‐manual labour. Together with mass un‐and under‐employment, this posed a legitimacy crisis for the state to which it responded with new forms of ‘selectivity’ (Offe, 1974) based upon educational credentials (Broadfoot, 1996). In conclusion however, it is suggested that with the consolidation of the new class formation this expansion of F&HCE has halted and will not be restarted by Dearing's 1997 contradictory attempt to do so.     

图书馆人文环境与读者工作的互动性

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试论电视谈话节目主持人的言语互动

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Computer visualizations: factors that influence spatial anatomy comprehension

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学习游戏的交互性在大学英语词汇习得中的效果研究

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提高多媒体辅助教学交互性的实用技术方案

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网络学习过程中交互质量分析方法的比较研究

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A Review of “Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0”

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动态交互技术在《信息检索与利用》课网络课件开发中的应用

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关于公共图书馆网站结构和交互性的探讨

本文对网站建设中的内容结构、目录结构、链接结构作了具体的分析，并提出了实现公共图书馆网站交互性的具体方案。