Chapter 1 Donnish Dominion Supreme? The University Grants Committee and the Governance of the English Universities

Chapter 2 Founding the New Universities of the 1960s: Interpreting the UGC’s Strategy

Chapter 3 The UGC and Selective Cuts in Public Funding: Moving Towards a More Nuanced Model of the University and Beyond Institutional Autonomy

Chapter 4 Making the Research Dynamic Dominant in the Idea of the University

Chapter 5 The New Universities and Quality Control: The Long Search for a Policy Consensus

Chapter 6 Moving from the Public to the Private Funding of English Higher Education: The Imposition of Student Tuition Fees

Chapter 8 Whatever Happened to the New? Absorbed into a Changing System of Higher Education?

Chapter 9 The State, the Market and the Changing Governance of Higher Education in England: From the University Grants Committee to the Office for Students