First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

NATFHE Journal - "an exhaustively researched and elegantly written, non-partisan account of the history of the relationship between the state and higher education which will doubtless become seminal in the field."
Journal of Educational Administration and History- "This is a substantial study of the way in which the central government has steadily built up a system of close control over all major - and many minor - aspects of the affairs of individual universities...It is the most extensive work in this field since the publication in 1939 of R.D. Berdahl"s classic, British Universities and the State.

Authored by Salter, Dr Brian; Salter, Brian; Tapper, Ted