Oakes (1978) 1978 Oakes Report (text) |
The Oakes Report (1978) The Management of Higher Education in the Maintained Sector (1978) Report of the Working Group appointed by Shirley Williams London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1978
Background notes Historical context The working group was appointed by Labour education secretary Shirley Williams in February 1977 with the following terms of reference: To consider measures to improve the system of management and control of higher education in the maintained sector in England and Wales and its better coordination with higher education in the universities and, in the light of developments in relation to devolution and local authority finance, what regional and national machinery might be established for these purposes (Oakes 1978:iii).The report was presented to Williams in March 1978. At the time of the report, Gordon Oakes (1931-2005), a solicitor by profession, was the Labour MP for Widnes and an education minister in Jim Callaghan's government.
Summary of the report's main recommendations The committee's recommendations can be found in Chapter XIII. The key points are:
The report online The full text of the report is presented in a single web page. I have corrected a handful of typing errors.
Other reports on higher education include: Robbins (1963) Higher Education
The above notes were prepared by Derek Gillard and uploaded on 13 August 2017. |