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Can Universities Survive? The Great Expansion
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Episode Can Universities Survive? The Great Expansion
In today’s episode for our series about the plight facing universities David talks to political theorist Alan Finlayson about what’s happened to higher education in the UK since 1945. It is a story of massive expansion in the number of universities and numbers of students. What was the original rationale for this rapid growth? How did it change the social and class structure of Britain? Who were the winners and who were the losers? And what happened when this new university system collided with Thatcherism?
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