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This book examines the relationship between collegiality and the collegial tradition in the context of the development of mass higher education, offering a fuller picture of present-day character of
British (especially English) higher education.

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Much of our writing re?ects a long-term commitment to the analysis of the col- gial tradition in higher education. This commitment is re?ected most strongly in Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition (2000), which we are pleased to say will re-appear as a considerably revised second edition (Oxford, The Collegiate University: Con?ict, Consensus and Continuity) to be published by Springer in the near future. To some extent this volume, The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education, is a reaction to the charge that our work has been too narrowly focussed upon the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (Oxbridge). Not surpr- ingly, you would expect us to reject that critique, while responding constructively to it. The focus may be narrow, and although the relative presence and, more arguably, the in?uence of Oxford and Cambridge may have declined in English higher e- cation, they remain important national universities. Moreover, as the plethora of so-called world-class higher education league tables would have us believe, they also have a powerful international status. This, however, is essentially a defensive response dependent upon the alleged reputations of the two universities. This book is intent on making a more substantial argument. To examine the c- legial tradition in higher education means much more than presenting a nostalgic look at the past.

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Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Part One: Collegiality: Definitions and Challenges.- 1. Collegiality: Setting the Agenda.- 2. The Collegial Tradition in Higher Education.- 3. Collegiality: The Contemporary Challenges.- Part Two: Collegiality in Action.- 4. Collegiality as Colleges.- 5. The Slippery Slope Known as Federalism.- 6. Managerialism as Collegiality: The Impossible Conjuring Trick?.- Part Three: Cross-National Perspectives on Collegiality.- 7. Lessons from America: A Comparative Perspective on the Collegial Tradition.- 8. Lessons from Continental Europe: The Collegial Tradition as Academic Power.- Part Four: Whither Collegiality? 9. Collegiality Revisited: Continuity, Rejuvenation or Demise?.- Index.

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