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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Main Author Turnbull, Wayne (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
SeriesGreat debates in higher education.
Subjects
School credits > Great Britain.
Universities and colleges > Great Britain > Administration.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781839821707
9781839821684
DOI10.1108/9781839821684
Physical Description1 online resource (168 pages).

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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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