Which elite? Whose university? Britain’s civic university tradition and the importance of place
By any accepted measure, Britain’s universities have been the universities of an elite. But Britain did not have one elite; nor a single university system. In this essay, I attempt to go beyond a narrow focus on Oxford and Cambridge and to examine how the civic – or ‘redbrick’ – universities operate...
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Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
2017
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