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urn:uuid:fe8f3881-0bc2-4e88-bfc5-f36049aefd70 03 15 9781911534983 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Educating for Professional Life Twenty-five Years of the University of Westminster 1 A01 Elaine Penn 01 eng 00 148 03 23 History of Education 04 LF449.W47P46 23 Polytechnic of Central London 23 Local History: London - Westminster 23 Polytechnic movement 23 Social History 23 University of Westminster 23 PCL 23 Sociology of Education 23 higher education 01 06 03 00 <p>The story of the <ext-link xlink:href="https://www.westminster.ac.uk/">University of Westminster</ext-link> is the fifth volume in a <ext-link xlink:href="https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/history-university-westminster/">series</ext-link> of titles exploring the University's long and diverse history. This book celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution gaining university status, the right to award its own degrees and to participate in publicly funded research. Drawing on extensive research conducted in the University of Westminster Archive this volume investigates the evolution from Polytechnic to University within the broader context of the transformation of UK higher education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.</p> University of Westminster Press 01 University of Westminster Press 04 01 20170926 02 WORLD 06 15 9781911534983 WORLD 09 University of Westminster Press 20 01