Women and Gender Equality in Higher Education? by Miriam E. David

“…I look at the changes in higher education (HE) and women’s lives over the last 50 years, drawing on my recent book Feminism, Gender & Universities: Politics, Passion & Pedagogies which is a life history of feminism entering academe. The Robbins Report (cmnd 2154 1963) on HE was published in the same year that I went to university. …”
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Has the expansion of higher education led to greater economic growth? by Holmes, C

“…There is an enduring belief by UK policymakers that a large higher education sector is an important driver of long-run economic growth, which has been part of the narrative since the Robbins Report. Back then, there was plenty of conjecture and assumption, but strikingly little concrete evidence to support such a belief. …”

Working-class women's experiences of higher education in post-war Britain by White, BA

“…A very small proportion of working- class women completed courses of higher education in this period, despite educational reforms such as the Education Act of 1944 and the Robbins Report of 1963. As a result, historical studies of working-class women in the post-war period have not focused on those who pursued higher education, while studies of higher education rarely pay attention to the experiences of working-class women. …”

Report on the Committee of European Social Science Data Archives by Alice Robbin

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Report on the First IASSIST North American Conference, February 16-20, 1977 by Alice Robbin

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