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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

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The latter source grew steadily more important and in 1919 the Treasury established a University Grants Committee (UGC) to rationalise government grants which in the 1920s and 1930s rose to around 30% of individual universities’ expenditure. Investment in human capital has been mostly ignored.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

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The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. In all this lay the beginnings of an academic ‘research culture’, though well into the twentieth century the Fellows of Colleges did not usually have – or seek – doctorates.