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Urgent, radical and prescriptive this polemic provides a radical manifesto for Higher Education in the era of the millennials. In the wake of student debt, a lack of social mobility and excess at the top it breaks open the sterile complacency that has for too long gone unchallenged. David Lammy, MP This powerful, accessible and passionate book highlights the way current HE excludes and disadvantages, and proposes an inclusive system design fit for part-time as well as full time study. Fascinating and persuasive. Professor Sir Alan Tuckett, University of Wolverhampton

Urgent, radical and prescriptive, this polemic provides a radical manifesto for Higher Education in the era of the millennials. In the wake of student debt, a lack of social mobility and excess at the top, it breaks open the sterile complacency that has for too long gone unchallenged. David Lammy, MP This powerful, accessible and passionate book highlights the way current HE excludes and disadvantages, and proposes an inclusive system design fit for part-time as well as full-time study. Fascinating and persuasive. Professor Sir Alan Tuckett, University of Wolverhampton An important book that brims with ideas for transforming HE for a diverse, inclusive, post-disciplinary world. Refreshingly radical. Tim Blackman, VC, Middlesex University A groundbreaking plan for overhauling the universities system... [a] radical blueprint-making even the dreaming spires of Oxbridge [into] Open Universities. Social Review A groundbreaking plan for overhauling the universities system... [a] radical blueprint-making even the dreaming spires of Oxbridge [into] Open Universities , The Social Review

Urgent, radical and prescriptive, this polemic provides a radical manifesto for Higher Education in the era of the millennials. In the wake of student debt, a lack of social mobility and excess at the top it breaks open the sterile complacency that has for too long gone unchallenged. David Lammy, MP This powerful, accessible and passionate book highlights the way current HE excludes and disadvantages, and proposes an inclusive system design fit for part-time as well as full-time study. Fascinating and persuasive. Professor Sir Alan Tuckett, University of Wolverhampton

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Josie McLellan is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. She is a social and cultural historian, with particular research interests in public history and the co-production of research with people outside the university. She was a course director for the Foundation Year in Arts and Humanities, an alternative route into higher education from when the programme started in 2013 to 2017. Richard Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, with particular interests in formal epistemology and the philosophy of mathematics. He set up the Foundation Year in Arts and Humanities. He has worked, outside the university, on projects addressing literacy in prisons and supporting adults with learning disabilities. Tom Sperlinger is Professor of Literature and Engaged Pedagogy at the University of Bristol, where he is currently working with the Widening Participation team to introduce flexible opportunities for adult learners across the arts, sciences and social sciences. He set up the part-time BA in English Literature and Community Engagement and the Foundation Year in Arts and Humanities.

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