Universities and the Public Purse: an Update

This paper examines the arguments put forward by the author in an article published in Minerva in 1967 about what he saw as the demonstration of the incompatibility between the state-funding of higher education and university autonomy, in their relation to developments since that time. It deali with the increased intmentionism of the DES and the Treasuy during the period between that date and the Education Reform Act of 1988 and the likely impact of the new finding system upon what survives of university autonmny. The paper argues that the increased pressure upon universities - unnecessary and damaging as it is - does not flow merely from the policies of individual governments or the ambitions of civil semants but reflects the indqference of the general public to university values. Given that other democracies have in various ways seen something of the same, the paper concludes that we may be witnessing the end of the university as an autotumous community of scholars.     

A Re-Examination of Personality Structure in Late Childhood,and Development of the High School Personality Questionnaire

This study was designed to assess the ability to sustain visual attention and its relationship to reading retardation. Vigilance performance of twenty fourth-grade retarded readers was compared with that of twenty normal readers matched for age, sex, grade, and intelligence. It was hypothesized that the retarded readers would perform more poorly on detection of visual stimuli and that they would exhibit a faster rate of performance decrement. Results revealed that retarded readers did make significantly more errors in detection. While both groups demonstrated a decrease in correct stimulus detection over time, no significant difference in rate of performance decrement was revealed between groups.