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Managerialism and the Academic Profession: Quality and Control:QSC HE Report Number 2 - QSC02In this report Professor Martin Trow presents a critique of the new arrangements for the external assessment of teaching and research established following the publication of the 1991 White Paper Higher Education: A New Framework.
Professor Trow argues that the new arrangements are deeply flawed, that they seriously misunderstand the nature of teaching and learning in higher education, and that they are potentially damaging to the future maintenance and enhancement of quality in British higher education. The report makes proposals for alternative approaches to the maintenance and enhancement of quality in higher education.
The report also contains a response to Professor Trow's argument by Paul Clark, at the time Director of the Quality Assessment Division at the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
Martin Trow is Professor of Public Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.