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Paul Trowler takes a closer look inside one British university to explore how academic staff at the ground level respond to changes in higher education. During the period of this study, there was considerable expansion in student numbers as well as the implementation of several new systems and structures, particularly those associated with the "credit framework": the constellation of features associated with the assignment of credit value to assessed learning, including modularity, franchising and the accreditation of prior learning. The text explores the nature and effects of academics' responses to these changes and develops a framework for explaining these responses. It seeks to offer insight into change in higher education and highlight some of the processes which lead to policy outcomes being rather different from the intention of the policy-makers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1119140 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 197 pages

About the Author
Paul Trowler is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Central Lancashire. His background is in sociology and teacher education in the post-compulsory sector, and he is course leader of an MA in Strategic Leadership in Education.