Re-Writing History: The University of London as a Global Institution in the Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Abstract

For nearly two centuries, the University of London has operated in a variety of ways as a national, imperial and international university. It has provided syllabuses and examinations in a wide range of disciplines and subjects for institutions in Britain and overseas to teach to. It has allowed individual students to register for its qualifications, and put together their own programmes of study, using whatever means they could. As well as enabling the development of distance study, the University has also offered an increasing amount and range of provision of this kind itself. This chapter provides a summary and analysis of the University of London's role as an archetypal global institution.

Citation

Tight, M. (2005), "Re-Writing History: The University of London as a Global Institution in the Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries", Tight, M. (Ed.) International Relations (International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, Vol. 3), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3628(05)03012-1