This paper explores one practitioner's learning development work with PhD students in a changing university context in which managerialism and financial stringency have combined. It questions how learning development practitioners can maintain their professional goals while negotiating issues arising from managerialism, financial stringency,…

The evolution of academic government and its intersection with the corporate form in England during the late medieval through the early modern periods are reviewed. The following topics are considered: the English universities, transition to university control by the national state, transition to collegiate dominance of the universities, admission…