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Book SynopsisThis is the final volume in a four-part series covering the development of the university in Europe. Dealing with the epoch-making reconstruction and expansion of higher education after 1945, it traces the development of relationships between universities and national states, teachers and students, their ambitions and political activities.
Table of ContentsForeword Walter Rüegg; Part I. Themes and Patterns: 1. Themes Walter Rüegg; 2. Patterns Guy Neave; Part II. Structures: 3. Relations with authority Walter Rüegg and Jan Sadlack; 4. Management and resources Geoffrey Lockwood; 5. Teachers Thomas Finkenstaedt; Part III. Students: 6. Admission A. H. Halsey; 7. Curriculum, students, education Sheldon Rothblatt; 8. Student movements and political activism Louis Vos; 9. Graduation and careers Ulrich Teichler; Part IV. Learning: 10. Social sciences, history and law Notker Hammerstein and Dirk Heirbaut; 11. The mathematical, exact sciences John Ziman; 12. The biological sciences Herbert Macgregor; 13. Earth sciences Gordon Craig and S. K. Monro; 14. Medicine John Ellis; 15. Technology Christopher Watson; Epilogue: prospects for the universities: a personal view Andris Barblan; Appendix: universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995 Walter Rüegg.
