Yes / This report presents a detailed account of a major educational initiative in the British health
service, the organisation with the largest workforce in Europe. The initiative was to set up a
`university for the National Health Service¿, an aspiration that gave birth to `NHSU¿. Work
began in 2001, but the project ended abruptly in 2005. This paper is based on the analysis
of a series of in-depth interviews with senior managerial staff and a review of policy
documents. Our analysis explores both the political and the organisational aspects of
NHSU. We conclude that two aspects of the initiative are key to understanding its demise:
its politically-led nature and its challenge to the idea of a `university¿. Finally, we attempt to
draw conclusions from the experience of NHSU to inform other state-sponsored education
and training interventions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/2225 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Taylor, S., Bell, E., Grugulis, C. Irena, Storey, J. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, December 2007 |
| Relation | http://www.obhe.ac.uk |
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