Education

D. P. O’Brien
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D. P. O’Brien: University of Durham

Chapter 6 in Lionel Robbins, 1988, pp 73-86 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Robbins is indissolubly associated in the British public’s mind with the 1963 Robbins Report.1 Although he was, throughout his professional career, engaged in and passionately committed to education, it is this report which accounts for much of Robbins’s fame with the wider public, and it is probably better to take his involvement with it as a starting point for the discussion in this chapter. In his Autobiography,Robbins gives an account of how he was, to his surprise, summoned by R. A. Butler and asked to chair the Committee on Higher Education.2 He relates how he was determined to refuse the job because, in particular, he was already launched upon what he was convinced was his last chance to write a major work on economics. Indeed there were ‘dozens of things I wanted to do before the decline of my mental and physical powers set in, rather than spend all my time on the conduct of a government committee’.3

Keywords: High Education; Academic Freedom; High Education System; Open Provision; Teacher Training College (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-09683-1_6

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