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- Title
THE REGIONAL ORGANISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.
- Abstract
The article focuses on issues related to regional organization of higher education in England. Any satisfactory alternative system to the one at present in existence for the local control of state-aided elementary and higher education would run counter to many ancient boundaries and local prejudices, in as much as the local areas governed by publicly elected bodies and charged with the duty of administering the Education Acts are Counties and County Boroughs for the purposes both of Elementary and of Higher Education, and Urban Districts and Municipal Boroughs for Elementary Education only; but co-ordination, particularly in Higher Education, would be more easily achieved if local, authorities and the Board of Education were to view their problems from a regional as well as from a local aspect. Sociologist C.B. Fawcett has indicated certain definite principles for guidance in dividing the country into natural regions; boundaries should be chosen so as to interfere as little as possible with the ordinary movements and activities of the people; each province should have a capital or twin capitals which should be in a real sense the focus of its life; the least province should be sufficiently populated to justify some measure of self-government, but no province should be so populous as to dominate the federation of provinces which forms the nation.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; HIGHER education &; state; REGIONALISM &; education; MUNICIPAL government; ORGANIZATION; EDUCATIONAL law &; legislation
- Publication
Sociological Review (1908-1952), 1923, Vol a15, Issue 4, p326
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954x.1923.tb01471.x