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It highlights the report’s ambition, statistics, international benchmarking through committee visits, and parallels between national higher education policy developments. 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As the West Review enters its concluding stages, it maybe useful to look at the Dearing Report and its reception in the UK.  \nThe Dearing Report on higher education in the United Kingdom, “Higher Education in the Learning Society”, published in July 1997, is as ambitious in scope as the title suggests. The Report’s vital statistics, 1700 pages, weighing in at 6 kilos and with 93 recommendations, add to this sense of comprehensiveness and authority. Although the Chairman of the Review Committee, Sir Ron Dearing, favours regular reviews of this kind, this is the first major review of higher education since Robbins (1963), and it is hard to envisage another such thoroughgoing review process for at least another twenty years.  \nDearing was very conscious of the international context in which it was working, and referred to the need to keep up with international competitors’ higher education participation levels, specifically the USA and Japan. Committee members visited Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the USA to collect comparative evidence.  \nBritish and Australian governments’ higher education policies have continued to develop in a number of respects in parallel, although arguably Australian policy is open to a wider range of external influences (from the USA and the Pacific region, for example) than the UK. There is an ironic twist to these parallel policy developments, in that the national governments in the two countries have usually been of opposite political persuasions - which, in the late twentieth century political climate, has proved no obstacle to learning from one another. The Australian Labor Government’s student loans policy informed the British Conservatives’ thinking in this field. With a ‘New Labour’ government now in the UK, and a conservative minister in Canberra awaiting delivery of the West Review, it may be that the education unions in Australia can use aspects of the Dearing Report to protect and develop higher education and promote  \nlifelong learning in an inimical political climate. In this context, it is worth noting that the Dearing Review was set up by the Major Government with the support of the other two main parties, and the Report has received a wide degree of support in principle, if not always on key details, from across the political spectrum.  \nDearing in context  \nDearing was set up to help bring order to a higher education system which has achieved phenomenal and accelerating growth over a thirty year period, largely in response to ‘market forces’ and, in spite of two major pieces of legislation in the last ten years, without a clear perception of what this growth meant for the system. However, it was clear that growth without fundamental change was unsustainable in terms of finance, capacity, quality, the character of the offer made to potential students, and relations with other sectors of education. Dearing has addressed all these questions more or less successfully.  \nIn Dearing, as in the West Review, questions are posed about the relationship between higher education and vocational or further education (and, explicitly in Dearing, lifelong learning) . The dynamic between further and higher education will be of still greater significance in future-but also, the dynamics within higher education, between‘elite’ or ‘research’ universities and primarily teaching institutions, are potentially explosive, and Dearing’s attempt to meet everyone’s wishes may prove overop","cbCaisTx0mUNwSv8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisTx0mUNwSv8","pdf",203746,"English","# Introduction\n## Dearing in context\n# The Report’s key recommendations","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of the Dearing Report as discussed in the text?\",\"answer\":\"The text presents the Dearing Report as a major review of higher education in the UK, centered on “Higher Education in the Learning Society,” with recommendations intended to reshape the system for the learning society.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the text describe the report’s international context as important?\",\"answer\":\"The report team is described as working with an international perspective, comparing higher education participation levels and gathering evidence through visits to countries including the USA and Japan.\"},{\"question\":\"What tension does the text identify within the report’s proposals?\",\"answer\":\"It notes internal contradictions between planned greater equity and access and the committee’s and government’s financial proposals, especially compared with another report advocating equity in further education.\"}]","The Dearing Report - paving the way for a learning society | PDF"]