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Jun 12, 2012 · The London Polytechnic movement was created at the end of the 19 th century to address and tackle some of those deficiencies in the educational and training opportunities for young people who had left school and were working during the day.
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Oct 12, 2007 · F. Johnson; The London polytechnic movement, with special reference to Quintin Hogg, Historical Research, Volume 8, Issue 24, 1 February 1931, Pages 185–18
The London Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) emerged from the Royal Polytechnic Institution which was founded at Regent Street, London in 1838. The establishment of the polytechnic was a reaction to the rise of industrial power and technical education in France, Germany and the US. [3]
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Some things have got better. Universities have been enabled to cite metrics that are intended to reflect the quality of learning and teaching. These have become an important, albeit inevitably imperfect, means for students to make informed choices about where to study. We’re all suspicious of metrics, in particular when they result in league tables...
The story is less satisfactory on the inside. Creating a good learning and teaching environment for students is a time-consuming, resource-hungry, expert task. Every department has a set of academics who focus their time and effort in that direction. Some devote whole careers to doing so. But as a rule those are the workers who end up being valued ...
There is also an unchallenged, implicit reasoning that goes something like this. Academics should be experts in a field. To be an expert in a field you must have done empirical research in that field. Therefore, as a rule, being research active is more or less an essential feature of the best academic careers. The problem is, it’s simply not the ca...
A more capacious view of academic careers would be welcome and would benefit the sector. The ideas on “scholarship” set out by Boyer in 1990become relevant in this matter. “Discovery” (research) is one aspect of the kind of scholarship that we should be valuing in higher education. But there is a much wider range of activities that need doing acros...
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Feb 27, 2018 · The massive expansion in student numbers seen from the late 1980s was led by the polytechnics as they agreed to increase enrolments at marginal rather than average costs. In the next decade, FTE students went from roughly 650 000 to over 1 million, while the number of 18 year olds declined markedly.
Jan 25, 2022 · The polytechnic model, introduced in the late 1960s, blurred the lines between traditional academic and vocational study. With many thanks to Gareth Parry for his original ‘ Polytechnics review ’, we highlight here the key lessons we can take from the polytechnics model.
Mar 17, 2022 · The creation of officially designated polytechnics was heralded in a 1965 speech by Labour education secretary Anthony Crosland, who firmed up the existing “dual system” split – between “autonomous” universities and “public sector” technical colleges and colleges of education – to carve out from the latter a separate sector meeting demand for “v...
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