Who Decides Higher Education Policy? MPS, VCS, STEM and HASS

Autor/in	Tight, Malcolm
Titel	Who Decides Higher Education Policy? MPS, VCS, STEM and HASS
Quelle	In: Higher Education Review, 44 (2012) 3, S.41-53 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1609
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Social Sciences; Biographies; Humanities; Educational Policy; STEM Education; Foreign Countries; Public Officials; College Presidents; Educational Philosophy; Majors (Students); Educational Trends; Trend Analysis; Educational Attitudes; Politics of Education; Art Education; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; STEM; Ausland; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungsentwicklung; Trendanalyse; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Educational policy; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Großbritannien
Abstract	In the UK, and in many other countries, policy makers and funding bodies emphasise the importance of the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), as opposed to the HASS disciplines (humanities, arts and social sciences), in higher education. Yet an examination of the biographies of UK members of parliament (MPs) indicates that, while they are on the whole highly educated as a group, very few of them studied STEM disciplines themselves. By comparison, UK vice-chancellors (VCs) are much more likely to have studied STEM disciplines. The possible reasons for this state of affairs are explored, and it is suggested that MPs are analogous to the philosopher rulers in Plato's "The Republic." (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10