Öneri Dergisi 1300-0845 2147-5377 Marmara Üniversitesi 10.14783/maruoneri.727415 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Green Howard Chair UK Councilfor Graduate Educatiotı 01 13 2001 4 16 55 60 01 13 2001 Copyright © 1994, Öneri Dergisi 1994 Öneri Dergisi

The past 10 or so years have seen signifıcant changes in higher education in the United Kingdom. The growth in the number of undergraduate students and the move towards a mass higher education system supported by the promotion of the polytechnics to university status frequently dominates the analysis of this change. For those who have been involved in the postgraduate side of the sector, change has been equally if not more dramatic and rapid, overshadowed only by the sheer volüme of undergraduate student numbers. This paper will consider three broad themes. It will review where we have come from over the last 10 years and identify some of the key elements of change before addressing some of the challenges for the next years. Finally, it will describe the role of the UK Council for Graduate Education in this period.

The past 10 or so years have seen signifıcant changes in higher education in the United Kingdom. The growth in the number of undergraduate students and the move towards a mass higher education system supported by the promotion of the polytechnics to university status frequently dominates the analysis of this change. For those who have been involved in the postgraduate side of the sector, change has been equally if not more dramatic and rapid, overshadowed only by the sheer volüme of undergraduate student numbers. This paper will consider three broad themes. It will review where we have come from over the last 10 years and identify some of the key elements of change before addressing some of the challenges for the next years. Finally, it will describe the role of the UK Council for Graduate Education in this period.

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