Educating for Professional Life: Twenty-five Years of the University of Westminster

Elaine Penn
University of Westminster Press
2017-09-26

<p>The story of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.westminster.ac.uk/">University of Westminster</a> is the fifth volume in a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/history-university-westminster/">series</a> of titles exploring the University's long and diverse history. This book celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution gaining university status, the right to award its own degrees and to participate in publicly funded research. Drawing on extensive research conducted in the University of Westminster Archive this volume investigates the evolution from Polytechnic to University within the broader context of the transformation of UK higher education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.</p>

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  • LF449.W47P46
  • History of Education
  • Local History: London - Westminster
  • Social History
  • Sociology of Education
  • higher education
  • PCL
  • Polytechnic movement
  • Polytechnic of Central London
  • University of Westminster

Educating for Professional Life: Twenty-five Years of the University of Westminster

Elaine Penn

University of Westminster Press

2017-09-26

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<p>The story of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.westminster.ac.uk/">University of Westminster</a> is the fifth volume in a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/history-university-westminster/">series</a> of titles exploring the University's long and diverse history. This book celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution gaining university status, the right to award its own degrees and to participate in publicly funded research. Drawing on extensive research conducted in the University of Westminster Archive this volume investigates the evolution from Polytechnic to University within the broader context of the transformation of UK higher education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.</p>

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  • LF449.W47P46
  • History of Education
  • Local History: London - Westminster
  • Social History
  • Sociology of Education
  • higher education
  • PCL
  • Polytechnic movement
  • Polytechnic of Central London
  • University of Westminster