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This programme focuses on two types of institution found in Higher Education, the larger, dispersed, urban polytechnic and the small, communitarian Oxbridge-type College. A short film "fleshes... out"" the experience of students at those institutions and a studio discussion sets that experience into a context of organizational structure, course orientation, and the possibilities for course innovation.
This programme focuses on two types of institution found in Higher Education, the larger, dispersed, urban polytechnic and the small, communitarian Oxbridge-type College. A short film "fleshes... out"" the experience of students at those institutions and a studio discussion sets that experience into a context of organizational structure, course orientation, and the possibilities for course innovation.
| Module code and title: | E222, The control of education in Britain |
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| Item code: | E222; 07 |
| First transmission date: | 07-09-1979 |
| Published: | 1979 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:12 |
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| Producer: | Suzanne Campbell-Jones |
| Contributors: | Tyrrell Burgess; Gerry Fowler; Graeme C Moodie |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Birmingham Polytechnic; Collegiate; Polytechnic |
| Footage description: | Opening shots show typical scenes in Cambridge and Birmingham. From the studio Gerry Fowler, formerly Minister of State at D.E.S., compares the physical arrangement of Birmingham Polytechnic and the University of Cambridge. Shots of first year students arriving at Cambridge and Birmingham. Comparative shots of their respective accommodation and immediate environment. Commentary in voice - over from Fowler. Over shots of themselves two Polytechnic students explain why they applied for a course in speech therapy. Shots of them meeting their tutor. Film of a Cambridge tutor addressing a group of first year students. Interviews with Polytechnic and University students about what they learnt from their tutors. Film of Cambridge academic life, over which Fowler describes the courses studied there. Shots of a lecture in speech therapy at Birmingham Polytechnic. Shots of a speech therapist working with a child. In interview the head of the sport therapy unit explains what qualities she looks for in her students. Shots of Birmingham and Cambridge students in their accommodation and out shopping. The remainder of the programme comprises a studio discussion between Fowler, Tyrrell Burgess Reader in the Philosophy of Social Institution at North East London Polytechnic, and Graeme Moodie, Professor of Politics at York University. They compare universities and polytechnics on many subjects, such as courses offered, structure of administration and physical layout. Shots of Birmingham. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73230 |
| Production number: | 00525_6214 |
| Videofinder number: | 957 |
| Available to public: | no |
