Review : Universal learning

The Creation of a University System, edited by Michael Shattock (Blackwell, £9.99/ $14.95, ISBN 0 631 20300 1), traces the development of British higher education from the 1940s to the 1990s. A series of writings drawn from the Universities Quarterly/Higher Education Quarterly, it provides useful background information which will help fuel vigorous, well-informed and open-minded debate on the future of higher education into the 21st century.