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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author PATERSON, Lindsay
Title The survival of the democratic intellect : academic values in Scotland and England
Publication year 2003
Source/Footnote In: Higher education quarterly. - 57 (2003) 1, S. 67 - 93
Inventory number 17101
Keywords Ausland : Großbritannien : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Hochschule und Gesellschaft ; Hochschule und Region
Abstract Using the results of a sample survey of academics in higher education institutions in Scotland and England, the paper assesses attitudes to the civic role of higher education. It places these in the context of debates about core academic values, about the public accountability of higher education institutions, and about the devolution of political power in the United Kingdom. It finds that there is widespread attachment to a civic role for higher education, alongside strong attachment to traditional academic values. These values are not significantly influenced by individual academics? gender, age or social class of origin, and differences by academic discipline are not as strong as might be expected. Academics in Scotland tend to hold a somewhat more civic view than academics in England. This national difference seems to be a product of distinctive national systems, since academics of English origin in Scotland share in the majority Scottish views. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)