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The 1979 Conservative government was committed to five main objectives; to bring down inflation, to assert leadership and not ‘followership’, to repudiate welfare state collectivism, to correct the malign influence of the Labour left and to establish a new pride and self-sufficiency in the country. Higher education can be seen as a significant cost centre and the relationship between the government and the UGC from 1979 onwards changed from being, according to the Robbins proposals, based on a demand from candidates appropriately qualified, to being cash-led on annual aggregate Treasury allocations to the UGC as cash limits without later supplementation.
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Issues of freedom and monetarism are treated in such books as R. J. Orr: Inflation and the Theory of Money, London, 1973;
M. Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom, Chicago, 1962;
Sir Friedrich Hayek: Individualism and the Economic Order, London, 1949 and The Road to Serfdom, London, 1944.
See also K. Joseph: Reversing the Trend, London, 1975.
H. Miller and G. Walford: ‘University Cut and Thrust’, Chapter X in Schooling in Turmoil, London, 1985, pp. 244–68. I am indebted to this chapter and to information from Professor (now Sir Frederick) Crawford for most of the material in this section. A special article was also published in the Guardian, 5 March 1985, p. 8 on Aston and its programme of recovery.
G. Lockwood: ‘Efficiency Measures’, THES, 28 February 1986, p. 15. Dr Lockwood is Registrar and Secretary of the University of Sussex.
G. Williams and Tessa Blackstone: Response to Adversity, Vol. 10, SRHE, 1983. Also the parallel volume, Excellence in Diversity, Chapter VI, SRHE, 1983.
ACARD/ABRC report Improving Research Links between Higher Education and Industry, HMSO, June 1983.
M. Tight: Part-time Degree Level Study in the United Kingdom, Leicester, 1982.
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Stewart, W.A.C. (1989). The Universities. In: Higher Education in Postwar Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07064-0_17
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