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The Dearing Report (1997) Higher Education in the learning society Main Report Ref: NCIHE/97/850
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1997
Notes on the text Background
He chaired committees which produced two other reports on education: 1994 The National Curriculum and its Assessment
The 1997 report In May 1996 Secretary of State for Education and Employment Gillian Shephard - together with the Secretaries of State for Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and with bipartisan support - appointed a committee to make recommendations on how the purposes, shape, structure, size and funding of higher education, including support for students, should develop to meet the needs of the United Kingdom over the next 20 years (Dearing 1997:1).The Committee's report was published in July 1997. The report online The Commitee's Main Report was published as a 466-page A4-size paperback, and it is this document which is presented here. I have corrected twenty or so typing errors. Blank pages have been omitted. The Committee also produced (or commissioned) a summary of the Main Report and 14 other associated reports. All these can be found here.
Summary of the report's main recommendations The Committee made 93 recommendations which can be found printed in bold type throughout the text. They are also collected together as Annex A to the report. Among the Committee's main recommendations were that:
Other reports on higher education include: Robbins (1963) Higher Education Oakes (1978) The Management of Higher Education in the Maintained Sector Browne (2010) Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education
The 1997 Dearing Report and the above notes were prepared for the web by Derek Gillard and uploaded on 3 March 2014. |