The Financial History Of Cambridge University - Hardcover

Robert Neild

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857285157 ISBN 13: 9780857285157

Verlag: New Publisher, 2021

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 ‘A fascinating and highly readable account of the twists and turns of university funding in Britain, seen with wit and insight through the experiences of Cambridge.’ —William Brown, Master of Darwin College, Cambridge

‘Robert Neild brings the eye of a distinguished economist and economic historian to the complex story of the financial development of the University of Cambridge since the mid-nineteenth century. Drawing on original research in the archives and official publications of the university, and using figures compiled from sometimes recondite or opaque sources, he brings out very clearly how the decades between 1945 and the late 1970s represented the high point of the direct public funding of Cambridge, and he itemizes in unsparing detail how the policies of successive governments since the 1980s have resulted in disproportionate increases in the scale of administrative costs even as the share of income from public sources has been reduced. In prose that is always readable and accessible to the general reader, this book provides a valuable, detailed, and notably tough-minded, account of the recent financial history of one of the world’s major universities.’ —Stefan Collini, author of ‘What Are Universities For?’ (2012)

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The University of Cambridge, having suffered hard times before and after the First World War, prospered during the post-war years up until the 1970s. During that period British governments were generous to universities, and respected their independence. As this attitude dissolved, Cambridge obtained a surge in non-government research grants and contracts, and became world famous. But it is now suffering from a financial squeeze caused by repeated cuts in government funding, accompanied by a tide of political intervention. Using the university’s financial records and other statistics, Robert Neild traces the nature and scale of these changes and how they have affected the character of the university, plotting its financial history from 1850 to the present day.

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• Verlag: New Publisher
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0857285157
• ISBN 13: 9780857285157
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142