Title:
Anthony Seldon: From Policy-Takers to Policy-Makers
Authors:
Anthony Seldon
Published:
Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), 22 February 2021
[Today’s blog is an extract from this year’s Annual Lecture of the National Conference of University Professors (NCUP), which has just been delivered by Sir Anthony Seldon (the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham).]
From the article:
Progressively, since the Robbins Report in 1963 and the Wilson Government from 1964, universities have ceded autonomy and control over their affairs to central government. It was not what Robbins himself visualised or thought desirable.