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almafu_9961025900802883
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1 online resource (x, 478 pages) :
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ISBN:
1-281-94966-3
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9786611949662
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1-84615-239-9
Inhalt:
A history of London University in the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on political as well as academic developments. In 1858 the University - in reality an examining board - opened its non-medical examinations to candidates irrespective of how they prepared themselves. At the same time, graduates could join the newly established Convocation, forfour decades empowered to veto changes in the University's Charter, choose a quarter of the governing body the Senate, and, from 1868, elect the University's MP. This book analyses the delicate and often stressful relations of Senate and Convocation, covering the long struggle over admission of women to degrees; the contribution of the University to secondary education; the establishment of the University's seat in the House of Commons, and the subsequentelections of Members. Later chapters describe the extended campaign to change the institution into an orthodox university, and the political struggles and academic manoeuvring that attended the process. F.M.G. WILLSON has retired from an academic and administrative career in Zimbabwe, North America, London and Australia.
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CONTENTS; LIST OF PORTRAITS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SOURCES; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Part I: The Political Arena; 1 The Senate; 2 Convocation: membership and participation; 3 Convocation: the Annual Committee; 4 Personages, officers, and examiners; 5 The political community; Part II: An Uneasy Beginning; 6 Convocation's medical militants; 7 The ambitions of Charles James Foster; Part III: Degrees for Women; 8 The campaign and defeat of Elizabeth Garrett; 9 The General Examination for Women; 10 The consequences of Gurney's Act; 11 Constitutional complications: Parliament or Charter?
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12 The final hurdle Part IV: The Parliamentary Seat to 1886; 13 A trial run; 14 Choosing Robert Lowe; 15 Sir John Lubbock: Liberal into Liberal Unionist; Part V: The University and Secondary Education; 16 The schools lobby; 17 Matriculation: Greek or Chemistry?; 18 Inspection of schools; 19 Training the teachers: qualifications and registration; Part VI: Examining and Teaching - the Long and Crooked Road to Compromise; 20 The case for change; 21 Convocation's pursuit of power and reconstruction; 22 One, two, or three universities?; 23 Things falling apart; 24 The Selborne Commission
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25 Confusion worse confounded 26 A Charter rejected; 27 One or two universities?; 28 Neither Albert nor Gresham; 29 The Cowper Commission; 30 Anxiety and division in Convocation; 31 Lions, beaters, and the fall of the Rosebery Government; 32 The pre-emptive strike of Sir John Lubbock; 33 The doubts of the Duke of Devonshire; 34 The strength of bishops and provincials; 35 A compromise refused; 36 The insistence of Arthur Balfour; 37 New era - old divisions; APPENDIX; INDEX
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English
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ISBN 1-84383-065-5
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
DOI:
10.1515/9781846152399
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846152399/type/BOOK
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